A complete season-by-season archive of professional snooker, beginning with the 1976/77 campaign and the start of the ...

Elliot Slessor won Group 2 of the ranking event version of Championship League Snooker with victory over Gary Wilson in ...

Tom Ford got his 2026 calendar year off to a positive start by winning Group 1 of Championship League Snooker in Leicester.

Stephen Hendry turned professional in 1985 and quickly established himself as one of the most formidable talents the game had seen. At just 17 years old, he became the youngest qualifier for the World ...

The SHQ Star Rating is an internal career classification system used by SnookerHQ.com. It provides a simple, consistent overview of a player’s achievements and historical standing within the ...

Nigel Bond beat Barry Pinches to win the English Amateur Championship in 1989 and turned professional shortly after. By the end of his third season on the main tour, he was already ranked inside the ...

The snooker calendar heats up in January with the Masters, German Masters, Championship League, and major amateur tournaments ...

John Parrott made a name for himself in the early 1980s with back-to-back victories in Junior Pot Black as a teenager. The Liverpudlian subsequently turned professional in 1983, and by the end of his ...

Ray Reardon was already aged 35 when he turned professional back in 1967. It was an entirely different period of the game compared to what we’re used to now, a time when opportunities to compete at ...

Ken Doherty orchestrated a commendable career during an era that may go down as the best in terms of the standard at the very top. After landing a World Amateur Championship and World Under-21 Amateur ...

Cliff Thorburn first turned professional in 1972, a year after being recommended to the WPBSA selection committee by then world champion John Spencer. The Canadian went on to become the leading ...

Alex Higgins turned professional in 1971 and duly won the World Snooker Championship at his first attempt a year later, beating John Spencer. During this period, snooker was emerging as a more popular ...