2019–20 snooker season
The 2019–20 snooker season is an ongoing professional snooker season with tournaments played between 9 May 2019 and 16 August 2020. The season was originally planned for 46 tournaments, 18 of which carry ranking points. The season was heavily impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, with the 2020 China Open cancelled, the Tour Championship and the World Snooker Championship postponed, and the Gibraltar Open played with no audience.
The previous season's World Championship winner Judd Trump won the most ranking tournaments, six in total, a record for a season. Three other players, Neil Robertson, Mark Selby, and Shaun Murphy, all won more than one ranking tournament. Two players won their first ranking tournament, Yan Bingtao winning the Riga Masters, and Michael Holt winning the Snooker Shoot Out. The season featured events held in Austria for the first time.
In the first two Triple Crown events: Ding Junhui won the UK Championship for the third time, his first for ten years, defeating Stephen Maguire in the final; and Stuart Bingham won the Masters for the first time, defeating Ali Carter in the final. The third Triple Crown event, the 2020 World Championship, originally scheduled for 18 April to 4 May 2020, is now expected to take place between 31 July and 16 August 2020.
Players
The World Snooker Tour in the 2019–20 season consists of the standard field of 128 professional players, including an invitational tour card for Jimmy White. The top 64 players from the prize money rankings after the 2019 World Championship, and the 29 players earning a two-year card the previous year automatically qualified for the season. Next, eight places were allocated to the top 8 on the One Year Ranking List who have not already qualified for the Main Tour. Another three players came from the Challenge Tour, two players came from the CBSA China Tour, and a further 16 places were available through the Q School. The rest of the places on to the tour came from amateur events and national governing body nominations.New professional players
All players listed below received a tour card for two seasons.;International champions
- EBSA European winner:
- Oceania Championship winner:
- Pan-American Championship winner:
;One Year Ranking List
;CBSA China Tour
;Challenge Tour
;Q School
;Event 1
;Event 2
;Event 3
;Q School Order of Merit
;Invitational Tour Card
Calendar
The following table outlines the dates and results for all the ranking events of the World Snooker Tour, major invitational events, the Challenge Tour, and World Seniors Tour.| WR = World ranking event |
| NR = Non-ranking event |
| TE = Team event |
| P/A = Pro–am event |
| CT = Challenge Tour event |
| WST = World Seniors Tour |
World ranking points
The 2019–20 snooker season featured the following points distribution for world ranking events:| R144 | R128 | R112 | R80 | R64 | R48 | R32 | R16 | QF | SF | F | W | |
| Riga Masters | £0 | £2,000 | £3,000 | £4,000 | £6,000 | £15,000 | £25,000 | £50,000 | ||||
| International Championship | £0 | £4,750 | £8,500 | £13,500 | £21,500 | £32,000 | £75,000 | £175,000 | ||||
| China Championship | £0 | £4,750 | £7,500 | £13,000 | £20,000 | £32,000 | £75,000 | £150,000 | ||||
| English Open | £0 | £3,000 | £4,000 | £7,500 | £10,000 | £20,000 | £30,000 | £70,000 | ||||
| World Open | £0 | £5,000 | £8,000 | £13,500 | £20,000 | £32,500 | £75,000 | £150,000 | ||||
| Northern Ireland Open | £0 | £3,000 | £4,000 | £7,500 | £10,000 | £20,000 | £30,000 | £70,000 | ||||
| UK Championship | £0 | £6,500 | £12,000 | £17,000 | £24,500 | £40,000 | £80,000 | £200,000 | ||||
| Scottish Open | £0 | £3,000 | £4,000 | £7,500 | £10,000 | £20,000 | £30,000 | £70,000 | ||||
| European Masters | £0 | £3,000 | £4,000 | £6,000 | £11,000 | £17,500 | £35,000 | £80,000 | ||||
| German Masters | £0 | £3,000 | £4,000 | £5,000 | £10,000 | £20,000 | £35,000 | £80,000 | ||||
| World Grand Prix | £5,000 | £7,500 | £12,500 | £20,000 | £40,000 | £100,000 | ||||||
| Welsh Open | £0 | £3,000 | £4,000 | £7,500 | £10,000 | £20,000 | £30,000 | £70,000 | ||||
| Shoot Out | £250 | £500 | £1,000 | £2,000 | £4,000 | £8,000 | £20,000 | £50,000 | ||||
| Players Championship | £10,000 | £15,000 | £30,000 | £50,000 | £125,000 | |||||||
| Gibraltar Open | £0 | £2,000 | £3,000 | £4,000 | £5,000 | £6,000 | £20,000 | £50,000 | ||||
| Tour Championship | £20,000 | £40,000 | £60,000 | £150,000 | ||||||||
| World Championship | £0 | £5,000 | £10,000 | £15,000 | £20,000 | £30,000 | £50,000 | £100,000 | £200,000 | £500,000 |