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This is a list of snooker ranking tournaments played by Ronnie O'Sullivan. Following the 2024 World Snooker Championship he has played in 257 ranking tournaments. He holds the record for the most career wins with 41. His first ranking title was the 1993 UK Championship which he won at the age of 17 years and 358 days, making him the youngest player ever to win a ranking tournament, a record he still holds. His most recent win was the 2024 World Grand Prix which he won at the age of 48 years and 47 days, over 30 years after his first ranking success.

Ranking tournaments are those that are used for the official system of ranking professional snooker players. The snooker world rankings are used to determine automatic qualification and seeding for tournaments on the World Snooker Tour.

Career summary
To be added: 38 consecutive wins at the start before losing to Sean Storey in the 6th (and final) round of qualifying for the 1993 British Open (28 Jul?-2 Aug). 34-38 Milner 36th 1992 Dubai Classic 5 matches total (25 to 27 Jul) 31-33 Clouden 31 1992 World Snooker Championship 5 matches (20 to 24 Jul) 26-30 Welsh (13 to 18 Jul) 6 matches 20-25 Asian (7 to 12 Jul) 6 matches 14-19 1992 Grand Prix (snooker) 6 matches (1 to 6 Jul) 8-13 Dubai perhaps 2 but Burnett 3 UK perhaps 5

O'Sullivan made his debut in the 1992/93 season. As an unranked player he had to play a number of pre-qualifying events even to reach the qualifying stages and then more matches to reach the main event. During the season he played a total of 76 pre-qualifying and qualifying matches of which he won 74, reaching the final stages at 7 of the 9 ranking events. His best finish was in the European Open where he reached the quarter-final. During his second season, 1993/94, O'Sullivan started at the last-96 stage. He had to play between 1 and 3 qualifying matches to reach the final stages, depending on the format of the event. He reached the final stages in 8 or the 9 events, winning 17 of his 18 qualifying matches. He reached three final and won two of the events, ending the season with a world ranking of 7.

From 1994/95 to the end of the 2009/10 season O'Sullivan was in the world top-16 and received direct entry into the later stages of all ranking events, generally the last-32 or last-64 stage. He played in nearly all ranking events over this period, missing just 5 events in these 16 seasons.

From the 2010/11 season the number of tournaments increased with the introduction of the Players Tour Championship (PTC) and an increase in the number of non-British ranking events. The PTC was a series of minor-ranking events (not regarded as ranking events) with an end-of-season PTC Finals which was a full ranking tournament. Over the six seasons of the PTC, O'Sullivan played in only 19 of these minor-ranking events and in only two seasons did he play enough events to qualify for the PTC Finals. He played 9 PTC events in 2011/12 and 7 in 2013/14.but withdrew from the 2011/12 PTC Final, so that he only played in one of the six PTC Finals. He also missed a number of the overseas ranking events during this period. O'Sullivan refused to sign a new contract at the start of the 2012/13 season and only played one event during the season, the 2013 World Snooker Championship.

From the 2013/14 season the leading players have, for most events, had to start at the last-128 stage. For events outside Britain and Ireland there has generally been one or two qualifying rounds in Britain.

Tournaments
R – Ranking tournament number. Missing numbers indicate that he missed one or more ranking tournaments. Date – The final date of the tournament, not when he played his last match. Res – W=Winner, F=Losing finalist, SF=Losing semi-finalist, QF=Losing quarter-finalist, L16=Lost at last-16 stage, R6=Lost in the 6th pre-qualifying round, WD=Withdrew. MW – Matches won. Walkovers are not counted. ML – Matches lost. Withdrawals are not counted. Notes – 1Q indicates he had to play in one qualifying round. Qualifying rounds are played at a different time and place to the main event. Because of this, matches are not necessarily played in the order given. From 1994/95 to 2012/13 he didn't have to qualify for any events. Generally the leading players started at the last-32 stage, although for a number of events it was the last-64 stage. In the 2006 and 2007 Grand Prix there was a round-robin stage with groups of 6. He won all his 5 round-robin matches each time. From 2013/14 the leading players have, for most events, had to start at the last-128 stage. For events outside Britain and Ireland there has generally been one or two qualifying rounds in Britain. Cy – Centuries. In the 1992/93 and 1993/94 seasons Q refers to the number of these made in qualifying or pre-qualifying matches. ^ – This total may be incomplete.

Summary by round
O'Sullivan has won 41 of the 257 ranking events he has played in and lost a match in 213 of them. He has withdrawn from three events. MP = Matches played, MW = Matches won, ML = Matches lost, WR = Win rate (fraction of matches won) Includes 1 tied match. O'Sullivan has played 156 times at the last-16 stage, although he has only won 150 times at the last-32 stage, The difference is accounted for by five events which only had a field of 16, two events which had a round-robin stage which reduced the field directly from 48 to 16 and one walkover at the last-32 stage.

Season-by-season summary
Tournaments: P=Played in, W=Winner, F=Losing finalist, SF=Losing semi-finalist, QF=Losing quarter-finalist, L16=Lost at last-16 stage, O=Other, lost/withdrew before last-32 stage, DNP=Tournaments he did not play in. Matches: MW – Matches won. ML – Matches lost. Withdrawals/walkovers are not included. Cy – Centuries. ^ – This total may be incomplete.

Players who have beaten O'Sullivan
The following players have beaten O'Sullivan more than once in a ranking event: John Higgins (21), Stephen Hendry (11), Mark Selby (9), Peter Ebdon (8), Judd Trump (8), Marco Fu (7), Neil Robertson (7), Mark Williams (7), Graeme Dott (5), Mark King (5), Stuart Bingham (4), Ding Junhui (4), Michael Holt (4), Paul Hunter (4), Alan McManus (4), Matthew Stevens (4), Mark Davis (3), Stephen Maguire (3), Alexander Ursenbacher (3), James Wattana (3), Kyren Wilson (3), Luca Brecel (2), Ryan Day (2), Ken Doherty (2), Dave Finbow (2), Anthony Hamilton (2), Barry Hawkins (2), Drew Henry (2), Andy Hicks (2), Mark Johnston-Allen (2), Lyu Haotian (2), Jimmy Michie (2), Darren Morgan (2), Terry Murphy (2), Fergal O'Brien (2), John Parrott (2), Elliot Slessor (2), Chris Small (2), Billy Snaddon (2), Joe Swail (2), Tian Pengfei (2), Hossein Vafaei (2), Ricky Walden (2), Yan Bingtao (2), Zhang Anda (2)

Minor-ranking tournaments
In 1992/93 and from 2010/11 to the 2015/16 season there were a number of tournaments which contributed to the world rankings but at a lower rate than standard ranking tournaments. These tournaments are referred to as "minor-ranking tournaments". All the minor-ranking tournaments from 2010 to 2016 were part of the Players Tour Championship (PTC).

O'Sullivan played in two of the 1992/93 events and 19 minor-ranking PTC events. He appeared in six finals, winning three of the events.

MR – Minor-ranking tournament number. Missing numbers indicate that he missed one or more minor-ranking tournaments. Date – The final date of the tournament, not when he played his last match. Res – W=Winner, F=Losing finalist, SF=Losing semi-finalist, QF=Losing quarter-finalist, L16=Lost at last-16 stage, WD=Withdrew. MW – Matches won. Walkovers are not counted. ML – Matches lost. Withdrawals are not counted. Notes – 4Q indicates he had to play in four qualifying rounds. Qualifying rounds are played at a different time and place to the main event. Because of this, matches are not necessarily played in the order given. Cy – Centuries. In the 1992/93 season Q refers to the number of these made in qualifying or pre-qualifying matches. ^ – This total may be incomplete.