2011–12 snooker season

The 2011–12 snooker season was a series of snooker tournaments played between 1 June 2011 and 7 May 2012. The Brazil Masters became the first major professional event held in South America, and the Australian Goldfields Open the first ranking event in Australia. The World Cup was held again after 1996. At the end of the season Ronnie O'Sullivan was named the World Snooker Player of the Year and the Snooker Writers Player of the Year, Judd Trump the Fans Player of the Year and Luca Brecel the Rookie of the Year. Stuart Bingham received the "Performance of the Year" for winning his first ranking event, the Australian Goldfields Open. Stephen Hendry's maximum break at the World Championship received "The Magic Moment" award. Walter Donaldson, Mark Williams, John Higgins and Ronnie O'Sullivan were inducted into the Hall of Fame.

New professional players
Countries

Note: new in this case means that these players were not on the 2010/2011 professional Main Tour.

1. IBSF World Snooker Championship winner: 🇹🇭 Dechawat Poomjaeng
 * International champions:

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

3. EBSA European Under-21 Snooker Championships winner: 🇵🇱 Kacper Filipiak

4. ACBS Asian Snooker Championship winner: 🇹🇭 Passakorn Suwannawat

5. ACBS Asian Under-21 Snooker Championship winner: 🇨🇳 Cao Yupeng

1. English nomination: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Sam Baird
 * NGB nominations

2. Welsh nomination: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Daniel Wells

3. Scottish nomination: Scott MacKenzie

4. Northern Irish nomination: Joe Meara

5. Irish nomination: 🇮🇪 David Hogan

6. ACBS Asian Nomination: 🇮🇳 Aditya Mehta

1. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Andrew Norman
 * Q School:

2. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 David Grace

3. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Adam Wicheard

4. 🇫🇮 Robin Hull

5. 🇨🇳 Li Yan

6. 🇮🇪 David Morris

7. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Simon Bedford

8. 🇨🇳 Tian Pengfei

9. 🇳🇴 Kurt Maflin

10. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Stuart Carrington

11. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Adam Duffy

12. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 David Gilbert

1. 🇨🇳 Yu Delu
 * WPBSA Wildcard

2. 🇮🇳 Lucky Vatnani

3. 🇧🇪 Luca Brecel

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

Points distribution
2011/2012 Points distribution for world ranking and minor-ranking events