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The World Snooker Championship Trophy

The World Snooker Championship snooker tournament founded in 1927 and since 1977 played at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England. The event is played over 17 days in late April and early May, and is chronologically the third of the three Triple Crown events of the season since 1977–78, when the UK Championship was first held. The event was not held from 1941 to 1945 because of World War II or between 1958 and 1963 due to declining interest.

The governing body that organises this event is the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. Prior to this in 1968, the world championship was organised by the Billiards Association and Control Council (BACC), except for a few years when the Professional Billiards Players' Association (PBPA) staged their own event, the World Professional Match-play Championship.

The best player at the World Snooker Championship was Joe Davis, who won 15 consecutive titles between 1927 and 1946. The record in the modern era, usually dated from 1969 of a knock-out tournament format, rather than a challenge format, is held by Stephen Hendry, who won the title 7 times between 1990 and 1999.

Champions

Format Organiser
Knockout tournament BACC
Challenge event with defending champion receiving a bye to the final † BACC
World Professional Match-play Championship ◊ PBPA
Challenge matches ‡ BACC
Knockout tournament (modern era) WPBSA

Statistics

Multiple champions

Snooker World Champions multiple times
Player Total Years Status
England Joe Davis 15 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1946 10/7/1978
England Fred Davis 8 16/4/1998
England John Pulman 8 1957*, 1964double-dagger, 1964double-dagger, 1965double-dagger, 1965double-dagger, 1965double-dagger, 1966double-dagger, 1968double-dagger 25/12/1998
Scotland Stephen Hendry 7 1990, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1999 retired
England Steve Davis 6 1981, 1983, 1984, 1987, 1988, 1989 retired
Wales Ray Reardon 6 1970, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1978 retired
England Ronnie O'Sullivan ¤ 6 2001, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2013 2020 active
Scotland John Higgins ¤ 4 1998, 2007, 2009, 2011 active
England Mark Selby ¤ 3 2014, 2016, 2017, 2021 active
Wales Mark Williams ¤ 3 2000, 2003, 2018 active
England John Spencer 3 1969, 1971, 1977 11/7/2006
Scotland Walter Donaldson 2 1947, 1950 24/5/1973
Northern Ireland Alex Higgins 2 1972, 1982 24/7/2010
Key
double-dagger Challenge match
World Professional Match-play Championship
¤ Player competed in 2019

Champions by country

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