2025-26 World snooker tour qualifiers

Here's my understanding so far:

Sahil NAYYAR
GAO Yang
Leone CROWLEY
Michal SZUBARCZYK
Iulian BOIKO
ZHAO Xintong
Steven HALLWORTH
Liam HIGHFIELD
Florian NUESSLE
CHANG Bingyu
Africa
CBSA China Tour - are these known?
CBSA China Tour - are these known
Ng ON YEE
Women World Champion
4 x one year
4 x one year
4 x one year
4 x one year
Q School
Q School
Q School
Q School
Q School
Q School
Q School
Q School
Q School - Asia
Q School - Asia
Q School - Asia
Q School - Asia

Any Wilkdcards? Dott? Craigie?

if no wildcards tour stands at 126 - also will they go down to 65 or 66 in rankings due to Dale and Cao Yupeng?

Don't know about Craigie. They gave Gould an extra for health reasons but I guess it depends if its long term or not.

snoopy2608 wrote:Here's my understanding so far:

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if no wildcards tour stands at 126 - also will they go down to 65 or 66 in rankings due to Dale and Cao Yupeng?

I have exactly what you have, but I got to 125 instead.

Hopefully they will decide sooner rather than later how to make the Tour up to 128.

I included Dale and Cao in my 126 - goodness knows what they'll decide.........

snoopy2608 wrote:I included Dale and Cao in my 126 - goodness knows what they'll decide.........

Cao could still technically fall off of his own accord, can't he, depending on results?

Dale says he will resign his place after his last match. Cao, obviously didn't do that unless he was keeping his options open for next season, if he remains in the 64

Fu and White "awarded" Tour Cards:

https://www.wst.tv/news/2025/april/24/j ... our-cards/

to my mind that makes the tour 128 players for next season including Cao and Dale.

If Dom resigns his membership Surety moves into 64 but he's on a one year card anyway - if both resigned then Jamie Clarke doesn't get relegated.

Unless Craigie or Gould get given medical exemptions I would assume there will be top ups every event (even before those who rarely play don't enter)

fridge46 wrote:Fu and White "awarded" Tour Cards:

https://www.wst.tv/news/2025/april/24/j ... our-cards/

Please for Fu. He only just missed out so has the quality.

snoopy2608 wrote:to my mind that makes the tour 128 players for next season including Cao and Dale.

If Dom resigns his membership Surety moves into 64 but he's on a one year card anyway - if both resigned then Jamie Clarke doesn't get relegated.

Unless Craigie or Gould get given medical exemptions I would assume there will be top ups every event (even before those who rarely play don't enter)

Dom has officially retired. It was on the World Snooker news page. So 65th is save which turns out is Surety who was in first year of card anyway!

Cao nobody is sure about. He quit to play pool but didn't resign his tour card so who knows if Jamie Clarke will be OK but I guess they need to know either way soon so Clarke doesn't start Q School.

Dott will remain on the tour I expect and a decision made after the investigations.

Gould has already been given an additional year so not sure they will do that again. Craigie might get an extension possibly.

The_Abbott wrote:

snoopy2608 wrote:to my mind that makes the tour 128 players for next season including Cao and Dale.

If Dom resigns his membership Surety moves into 64 but he's on a one year card anyway - if both resigned then Jamie Clarke doesn't get relegated.

Unless Craigie or Gould get given medical exemptions I would assume there will be top ups every event (even before those who rarely play don't enter)

Dom has officially retired. It was on the World Snooker news page. So 65th is save which turns out is Surety who was in first year of card anyway!

Cao nobody is sure about. He quit to play pool but didn't resign his tour card so who knows if Jamie Clarke will be OK but I guess they need to know either way soon so Clarke doesn't start Q School.

Dott will remain on the tour I expect and a decision made after the investigations.

Gould has already been given an additional year so not sure they will do that again. Craigie might get an extension possibly.

Aparantly Cao Yupeng has payed his membership for 2025/26 season Too

as Dom has been removed from live rankings and Yupeng hasn't that was my conclusion

no Jamie Clarke in Q school - does that mean Cao has resigned?

When will WST confirm the full diary for next season

snoopy2608 wrote:no Jamie Clarke in Q school - does that mean Cao has resigned?

Either that, or WST are covering their backside incase Dott is suspended further.

(I believe they did the same a few seasons ago when the Chinese players were provisionally suspended. The 4 or so players just outside the Top 64 were allowed to remain on tour).

mick745 wrote:When will WST confirm the full diary for next season

I'm wondering this too. Last year they released the calendar on March 6th!

All the UK based tournaments seem to have their dates confirmed however:

15-21 SEP: English Open
22-28 SEP: British Open
19-26 OCT: Northern Ireland Open
10-16 NOV: Champion of Champions
29 NOV-07 DEC: UK Championship
10-13 DEC: Shoot Out
15-21 DEC: Scottish Open
11-18 JAN: The Masters
23 FEB-01 MAR: Welsh Open
30 MAR-05 APR: Tour Championship
18 APR - 04 MAY: World Championship

fridge46 wrote:

mick745 wrote:When will WST confirm the full diary for next season

I'm wondering this too. Last year they released the calendar on March 6th!

All the UK based tournaments seem to have their dates confirmed however:

15-21 SEP: English Open
22-28 SEP: British Open
19-26 OCT: Northern Ireland Open
10-16 NOV: Champion of Champions
29 NOV-07 DEC: UK Championship
10-13 DEC: Shoot Out
15-21 DEC: Scottish Open
11-18 JAN: The Masters
23 FEB-01 MAR: Welsh Open
30 MAR-05 APR: Tour Championship
18 APR - 04 MAY: World Championship

Players champ not been confirmed?

So when Zhao wins later he will be provisionally ranked 57 - per WST article - presumably at some point it'll be made clear who is keeping tour places etc.

What is actually going on with the calendar next season?

I can't imagine it's 4 months until the next pro tournament?

I assume dates for China and Saudi just need confirming - with Championship League will happen is the other question.
Of course that is apart from adding Zhao to the rankings, and finding out is Jamie Clarke keeping his tour place or not bothered with Q school

Zhao has finally been added to the live rankings on WST site

It's been confirmed that Dylan Emery gets a tour spot

excellent

Can Dylan make inroads on his second bite at the Tour cherry?

Lan Yuhao and Yao Pengcheng are the two CBSA nominations

chengdufan wrote:Lan Yuhao and Yao Pengcheng are the two CBSA nominations

A little surprised that neither player appeared as a wildcard in any of the four Chinese ranking events during 2024-25. Know that teenager Lan Yuhao topped QSchool Asia 2024 order of merit suggesting a bright future ahead, but nothing at all about Yao Pengcheng.

Would be great if you could provide some background.

From the source, it shows points were scored from 4 events. Yao and Lan did best overall. Seems Yao won the events in Haining and Shijiazhuang.
Yao turned 28 in January this year. He played as a wildcard in the 2015 Shanghai Masters, losing 5-2 to Alan McManus

They could be anything, Lan and Yao.

They Might Be Giants

chengdufan wrote:Lan Yuhao and Yao Pengcheng are the two CBSA nominations

thanks

Lan's a bit raw, but he's very talented. I believe he's only 16.
I've never seen Yao play.