2008–09 snooker season

The 2008–09 snooker season was a series of snooker tournaments played between 4 June 2008 and 10 May 2009. Four players missed the fourth ranking event of the season, the Bahrain Championship, and therefore lost ranking points; this was due to a clash with some Premier League matches whose date had already been approved by the game's governing body.

New professional players
Countries

Note: new means in these case, that these players were not on the 2007/2008 professional Main Tour.

1. IBSF World Snooker Championship winner: 🇹🇭 Atthasit Mahitthi
 * International champions:

2. IBSF World Under-21 Snooker Championship winner: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Michael Georgiou

3. EBSA European Snooker Championships winner: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 David Grace

4. EBSA International Play Off winner: 🇳🇱 Stefan Mazrocis

5. EBSA European Under-19 Snooker Championships winner: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Stephen Craigie

6. ACBS Asian Snooker Championship winner: 🇨🇳 Jin Long

7. ACBS Asian Under-21 Snooker Championship winner: 🇨🇳 Li Hang

8. Oceania Championship runner-up: 🇳🇿 Chris McBreen 1. English nomination 1: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Wayne Cooper
 * NGB nominations

2. English nomination 2: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Andy Lee

3. Welsh nomination: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Andrew Pagett

4. Scottish nomination: Robert Stephen

5. Irish nomination: 🇮🇪 Vincent Muldoon

6. Northern Irish nomination: Declan Hughes

7. ACBS Asian Nomination: 🇮🇳 Aditya Mehta

1. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Kuldesh Johal
 * From PIOS Tour

2. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Peter Lines

3. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Jamie Jones

4. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Simon Bedford

5. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Daniel Wells

6. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Lewis Roberts

7. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Matthew Couch

8. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Paul Davison

Calendar
The following table outlines the results and dates for all the ranking and major invitational events.

Official rankings
The top 16 of the world rankings, these players automatically played in the final rounds of the world ranking events and were invited for the Masters.

Points distribution
2008/2009 Points distribution for world ranking events: