Victory for Mostafa Dorgham in the 2023 African Snooker Championship means he becomes the last player to join the main tour for the upcoming season.
The 2023/24 campaign launches on Monday with the start of the ranking event version of the Championship League.
Egypt’s Dorgham won’t be involved in that competition but will have lucrative opportunities to participate in other events on the World Snooker Tour later this term.
The 27 year-old beat countryman Mohamed Khairy 5-2 to claim the African title this week in Morocco.
His reward is a two-year card, marking his first opportunity to compete as a professional alongside the likes of world number one Ronnie O’Sullivan and world champion Luca Brecel.
In total, there will be 130 professional players on the main tour during the 2023/24 snooker season.
The top 64 on the official world ranking list following the conclusion of the last campaign automatically kept their spots for another year.
Those below that cut-off point who are only entering the second year of their card will return, while the top four cueists on the one-year ranking list who failed to meet either criteria have received fresh two-year cards.
The remaining tickets have been mostly allocated through Q School and various international amateur events held across the world.
Main Tour (2023/24 snooker season)
Top 64
- Ronnie O’Sullivan
- Luca Brecel
- Mark Allen
- Judd Trump
- Mark Selby
- Neil Robertson
- Shaun Murphy
- Kyren Wilson
- John Higgins
- Mark Williams
- Ali Carter
- Robert Milkins
- Jack Lisowski
- Gary Wilson
- Ryan Day
- Ding Junhui
- Hossein Vafaei
- Anthony McGill
- Barry Hawkins
- David Gilbert
- Ricky Walden
- Tom Ford
- Stuart Bingham
- Jimmy Robertson
- Zhou Yuelong
- Joe Perry
- Noppon Saengkham
- Matthew Selt
- Chris Wakelin
- Stephen Maguire
- Joe O’Connor
- Fan Zhengyi
- Pang Junxu
- Si Jiahui
- Jak Jones
- Jordan Brown
- Anthony Hamilton
- Thepchaiya Un-Nooh
- Graeme Dott
- Cao Yupeng
- Xiao Guodong
- Matthew Stevens
- Jamie Jones
- Ben Woollaston
- Lyu Haotian
- Jackson Page
- Elliot Slessor
- Robbie Williams
- Wu Yize
- Yuan Sijun
- Sam Craigie
- Scott Donaldson
- Tian Pengfei
- David Grace
- Liam Highfield
- Jamie Clarke
- Andy Hicks
- Zhang Anda
- Oliver Lines
- Martin Gould
- Dominic Dale
- Mark King*
- Xu Si
- Mark Joyce
- Mark Davis
Two-year card (second year)
- Michael White
- Ashley Hugill
- Julien Leclercq
- David Lilley
- John Astley
- James Cahill
- Ben Mertens
- Aaron Hill
- Dylan Emery
- Sanderson Lam
- Ken Doherty
- Lukas Kleckers
- Zak Surety
- Andy Lee
- Sean O’Sullivan
- Allan Taylor
- Muhammad Asif
- Asjad Iqbal
- Rod Lawler
- Andres Petrov
- Dechawat Poomjaeng
- Peng Yisong
- Adam Duffy
- Ryan Thomerson
- Mohamed Ibrahim
- Oliver Brown
- Anton Kazakov
- Himanshu Jain
- Fergal O’Brien
- Mink Nutcharut
- Jenson Kendrick
- Victor Sarkis
- Stephen Hendry
- Rebecca Kenna
Top 4 in one-year rankings
- Daniel Wells
- Jimmy White
- Ian Burns
- Hammad Miah
Q School
- Alexander Ursenbacher
- Andrew Higginson
- Liam Pullen
- Andrew Pagett
- Alfie Burden
- Dean Young
- Stuart Carrington
- Louis Heathcote
- Thor Chuan Leong
- Manasawin Phetmalaikul
- Ishpreet Singh Chadha
- He Guoqiang
World Snooker Federation
- Ma Hai Long
- Stan Moody
Q Tour
- Martin O’Donnell
- Ashley Carty
World Women’s Tour
- Siripaporn Nuanthakhamjan
- Reanne Evans
CBSA qualifiers
- Jiang Jun
- Xing Zihao
- Long Zehuang
Regional champions
- Ross Muir (EBSA European champion)
- Liam Graham (EBSA European Under-21 champion)
- Liu Hongyu (Asia Pacific champion)
- Ahmed Aly Elsayed (Pan-American champion)
- Mostafa Dorgham (African champion)
Invitational Tour Card
- Marco Fu
*Mark King is currently suspended.
Featured image credit: WST
