


Jersey Billliards Association Match Room, St Helier, Jersey Lounge Hall, Nottingham and Central Hall, Kettering

List of World Snooker Championship winners Year The record in the modern era, usually dated from the reintroduction in 1969 of a knock-out tournament format, rather than a challenge format, is held by Stephen Hendry, who won the title seven times between 19. The most successful player at the World Snooker Championship is Joe Davis, who won fifteen consecutive titles between 19. Prior to the WPBSA assuming control of the professional game in 1968, the world championship was organised by the Billiards Association and Control Council (BACC), except for between 19 when the Professional Billiards Players' Association (PBPA) staged their own event, the World Professional Match-play Championship, following a dispute with the BACC. Īs of 2021 the governing body that organises this event is the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA). The event was not held from 1941 to 1945 because of World War II or between 19 due to declining interest from players. The tournament is now played over seventeen days in late April and early May, and is chronologically the third of the three Triple Crown events of the season since the 1977–78 snooker season, when the UK Championship was first held. The World Snooker Championship is an annual snooker tournament founded in 1927 and since 1977 played at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England.
