Here is the announcement:

2025/26 World Snooker Tour Players

The current list of players for the 2025/26 World Snooker Tour season is below. Please note this is not the complete list as the winner of the All Africa Snooker Championship wll be added once that event is complete later in June. The season gets going this month with the Wuhan Open and British Open qualifiers. 

Top 64 on Johnstone’s Paint World Rankings 

1    Judd Trump
2    Kyren Wilson
3    Mark Williams
4    John Higgins
5    Ronnie O’Sullivan
6    Ding Junhui
7    Mark Selby
8    Neil Robertson
9    Barry Hawkins
10    Mark Allen
11    Zhao Xintong
12    Zhang Anda
13    Xiao Guodong
14    Shaun Murphy
15    Si Jiahui 
16    Chris Wakelin
17    Ali Carter
18    Gary Wilson
19    Tom Ford
20    Wu Yize
21    Jak Jones
22    Stuart Bingham
23    David Gilbert
24    Hossein Vafaei
25    Jack Lisowski
26    Pang Junxu
27    Stephen Maguire
28    Joe O’Connor
29    Elliot Slessor
30    Yuan Sijun
31    Lei Peifan
32    Zhou Yuelong
33    Noppon Saengkham
34    Matthew Selt
35    Jimmy Robertson
36    Jackson Page
37    Ryan Day
38    Lyu Haotian
39    Luca Brecel
40    Ricky Walden
41    Xu Si
42    Ben Woollaston
43    Martin O’Donnell
44    Daniel Wells
45    He Guoqiang
46    Thepchaiya Un-Nooh
47    Robbie Williams
48    Fan Zhengyi
49    Robert Milkins
50    Aaron Hill
51    Jamie Jones
52    Matthew Stevens
53    Jordan Brown
54    Mark Davis
55    Scott Donaldson
56    Liu Hongyu 
57    David Lilley
58    Long Zehuang
59    Anthony McGill
60    Sanderson Lam
61    Graeme Dott
62    Cao Yupeng
63    Ishpreet Singh Chadha
64    Stan Moody 

Two year tour card holders for 2024/25 and 2025/26

65    Zak Surety
66    Michael Holt 
67    Oliver Lines
68    Gong Chenzhi 
69    Duane Jones 
70    Sunny Akani 
71    Antoni Kowalski
72    Ben Mertens
73    Wang Yuchen 
74    Allan Taylor 
75    Amir Sarkhosh 
76    Liam Davies 
77    Julien Leclercq 
78    Artemijs Zizins 
79    Bulcsu Revesz
80    Ka Wai Cheung 
81    Haydon Pinhey 
82    Haris Tahir 
83    Chris Totten 
84    Robbie McGuigan 
85    Farakh Ajaib 
86    Mitchell Mann 
87    Huang Jiahao 
88    Bai Yulu 
89    Ken Doherty
90    Mink Nutcharut 
91    Kreishh Gurbaxani 
92    Jonas Luz 
93    Kok Leong Lim 
94    Mohamed Shehab 
95    Hatem Yassen 

Top four on 2024/25 Johnstone’s Paint One-Year list

96    Louis Heathcote
97    Ross Muir 
98    Jiang Jun 
99    Liam Graham 

Q School

100    Liam Pullen
101    Oliver Brown 
102    Alexander Ursenbacher 
103    Mateusz Baranowski 
104    David Grace 
105    Ian Burns 
106    Fergal Quinn 
107    Connor Benzey 

Asia-Oceania Q School

108    Chatchapong Nasa 
109    Liu Wenwei 
110    Xu Yichen 
111    Zhao Hanyang 

WPBSA Q Tour

112    Dylan Emery 
113    Steven Hallworth
114    Liam Highfield 
115    Florian Nuessle

WSF Champion    
116    Gao Yang

WSF Under-18 Champion    
117    Leone Crowley

World Women’s Snooker Qualifiers
118    Ng On Yee 
119    Reanne Evans

EBSA European Champions    
120    Iulian Boiko
121    Michal Szubarczyk

Asia Pacific Champion     
122    Chang Bingyu 

Pan-American Champion    
123    Sahil Nayyar 

African Champion    
124    TBC

CBSA China Tour    
125    Yao Pengcheng 
126    Lan Yuhao 

Invitational Tour Card    
127    Marco Fu
128    Jimmy White

Medical Exemption
129    Sam Craigie

And here is the explanation about Sam Graigie’s exemption

Sam Craigie Tour Card

WST and WPBSA have awarded a new two-year tour card to Sam Craigie on medical grounds. 

Craigie was not able to compete at all during the 2024/25 season due to injury and dropped out of the world’s top 64. 

Having considered all of the facts, WST and WPBSA have offered Craigie a two-year card. He will start the 2025/26 season with zero ranking points, consistent with other players with a new two-year card. 

WST and WPBSA wish Sam all the best and look forward to seeing him back competing next season.

The draw for the 2025 Wuhan Open has been published:

2025 Wuhan Open Draw

Xiao Guodong will face Mink Nutcharut when he begins the defence of his Wuhan Open title in China in August. 

Last season, Xiao won his first ranking title when he beat Si Jiahui 10-7 in the final. This time the main event runs from August 24-30. Matches held over to the venue are:

Xiao Guodong v Mink Nutcharut

Ding Junhui v wild card

Judd Trump v Farakh Ajaib

Ronnie O’Sullivan v Allan Taylor

Mark Allen v wild card

Hossein Vafaei v wild card

Robbie Williams v wild card

Zhao Xintong v Iulian Boiko

Click here for the 2025 Wuhan Open Draw

Ronnie has entered the event and is due to play Allan Taylor in his first match (match 49). Matches 1, 16, 33, 49 53, 55, 61, 64 are heldover so, provided he commits to playing this season, his first match in this event will be played in China.

Update …

The information about the first round draw for the 2025 British Open is also available

Selby To Meet Grace In Cheltenham

Snooker’s all-time greats are heading for Cheltenham in September and the draw is out now. Tickets are on sale for just £18 and many sessions are close to selling out, so book fast now that the draw has been announced.

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The main event runs from September 22 to 28, 2025, at the superb Centaur Arena at Cheltenham Racecourse. The British Open is a historic ranking event first staged in 1985. In all, 128 players will compete for the Clive Everton Trophy, and the event has a random draw which means the biggest stars can clash from the opening round.

Mark Selby beat John Higgins 10-5 in the final last year and will start his title defence against former UK Championship semi-finalist David Grace. In the pick of the first round ties, Mark Williams will take on Si Jiahui, a repeat of their 2024 Crucible clash which Si won 10-9. World number one Judd Trump will meet Aaron Hill, while world number two Kyren Wilson will be up against fellow top-16 player Chris Wakelin. 

All matches involving the top 16 seeds (plus two more as there are two matches where top 16 seeds have drawn each other) have been held over to Cheltenham and these ties will take place on the opening day on Monday September 22. They are:

Mark Selby v David Grace

Judd Trump v Aaron Hill

Mark Williams v Si Jiahui

Zhao Xintong v top-up player

Ronnie O’Sullivan v Sanderson Lam

Kyren Wilson v Chris Wakelin

John Higgins v Mark Davis

Shaun Murphy v Ross Muir

Neil Robertson v Tom Ford

Mark Allen v Jiang Jun

Barry Hawkins v Daniel Wells

Xiao Guodong v Haydon Pinhey

Zhang Anda v Duane Jones

Wu Yize v Pang Junxu

Ali Carter v top up player

Gary Wilson v Hossein Vafaei

The match schedule for Cheltenham will be announced soon. All other first round ties will take place at the qualifying event at the Mattioli Arena in Leicester from June 25-28 – for the match schedule click here. Notable fixtures include…

Stephen Maguire v Marco Fu

Luca Brecel v Alexander Ursenbacher

Jack Lisowski v Liam Highfield

Ryan Day v Stuart Bingham

Stan Moody v Zhou Yuelong

David Gilbert v Matthew Selt

Ronnie has entered it. He’s due to play Allan Taylor. Remember that in this event, a new draw is made in each round.