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There were seven such challenge matches between 19, until knockout competition resumed with the 1969 Championship. In 1964, it was agreed between the Professional Billiard Players Association and the BACC that the championship would be contested by having the reigning champion play in challenge matches.
- ^ Due to a lack of interest there was no championship organised between 19.
- As a result, Lindrum's title win is sometimes ignored, with Cliff Thorburn (CAN), Ken Doherty (IRL) and Neil Robertson (AUS) usually regarded as the only non-United Kingdom winners.
- ^ Due to a disagreement with the Billiards Association and Control Club and the Professional Billiards Players' Association (PBPA), Lindrum and McConachy were the only players to compete, with most professional players playing in the World Professional Match-play Championship instead.
- World Professional Match-play Championship Nunawading Basketball Centre, Melbourne, Australia 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 shared by Stephen Hendry and Ronnie O'Sullivan, both having won the title seven times. 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 and 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.