2009–10 snooker season

The 2009–10 snooker season was a series of snooker tournaments played between 16 May 2009 and 8 May 2010. There were six ranking events, two less than in the previous season. The Bahrain Championship was not held again, and the Northern Ireland Trophy was removed from the calendar too. The Jiangsu Classic was held for the first time.

New professional players
Countries

Note: new means in these case, that these players were not on the 2008/2009 professional Main Tour.

1. IBSF World Snooker Championship winner: 🇹🇭 Thepchaiya Un-Nooh
 * International champions:

2. EBSA European Snooker Championships winner: 🇮🇪 David Hogan

3. EBSA International Play Off winner: 🇲🇹 Tony Drago

4. ACBS Asian Snooker Championship winner: 🇹🇭 James Wattana

5. ACBS Asian Under-21 Snooker Championship winner: 🇨🇳 Zhang Anda 1. English nomination 1: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Jimmy Roberson
 * NGB nominations

2. English nomination 2: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Sam Baird

3. Welsh nomination: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Michael White

4. Scottish nomination: Mark Boyle

5. Irish nomination: 🇮🇪 Brendan O'Donoghue

6. Northern Irish nomination: Jordan Brown

7. ACBS Asian Nomination: 🇨🇳 Mei Xiwen

1. 🇨🇳 Xiao Guodong
 * From PIOS Tour

2. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Lee Page

3. 🇧🇪 Bjorn Haneveer

4. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Stephen Rowlings

5. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Ben Woollaston

6. 🇹🇭 Noppadol Sangnil

7. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Craig Steadman

8. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Chris Norbury

1. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Joe Jogia
 * WPBSA Wildcard

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
2009/2010 Points distribution for world ranking events.