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The World Snooker Championship is an annual snooker tournament founded in 1927, and played at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England since 1977. The tournament is now played over seventeen days in late April and early May, and is chronologically the third of the three Triple Crown events of the season. The event was not held from 1941 to 1945 because of World War II and between 1958 and 1963 due to declining interest from players.

As of 2021 the governing body that organises this event is the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA). Prior to the WPBSA assuming control of the professional game in 1968, the world championship was organised by the Billiards Association and Control Council (BACC), except for between 1952 and 1957 when the Professional Billiards Players' Association (PBPA) staged their own event, the World Professional Match-play Championship, following a dispute with the BACC.

As of 2023, 27 players have won the World Snooker Championship. The most successful player at the World Snooker Championship is Joe Davis, who won fifteen consecutive titles between 1927 and 1946. The record in the modern era, usually dated from the reintroduction in 1969 of a knock-out tournament format, rather than a challenge format, is shared by Stephen Hendry and Ronnie O'Sullivan, both having won the title seven times.

Champions

Format
Format Organiser
Knockout tournament () BACC
Challenge event with defending champion receiving a bye to the final (*) BACC
World Professional Match-play Championship (◊) PBPA
Challenge matches (‡) BACC
Knockout tournament WPBSA

Multiple champions

Key
double-dagger Challenge match
* World Professional Match-play Championship
¤ Player competed in 2024
dagger Date of death
Multiple-time Snooker World Championship winners
Player Total Years Status Ref.
 Joe Davis (ENG) 15 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936,
1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1946
†10 July 1978
 Fred Davis (ENG) 8 1948, 1949, 1951, 1952*, 1953*, 1954*, 1955*, 1956* †16 April 1998
 John Pulman (ENG) 8 1957*, 1964double-dagger, 1964double-dagger, 1965double-dagger, 1965double-dagger, 1965double-dagger, 1966double-dagger, 1968double-dagger †25 December 1998
 Stephen Hendry (SCO) 7 1990, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1999 Active
 Ronnie O'Sullivan (ENG) 7 2001, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2013, 2020, 2022 ¤
 Ray Reardon (WAL) 6 1970, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1978 retired
 Steve Davis (ENG) 6 1981, 1983, 1984, 1987, 1988, 1989 retired
 John Higgins (SCO) 4 1998, 2007, 2009, 2011 ¤
 Mark Selby (ENG) 4 2014, 2016, 2017, 2021 ¤
 John Spencer (ENG) 3 1969, 1971, 1977 †11 July 2006
 Mark Williams (WAL) 3 2000, 2003, 2018 ¤
 Walter Donaldson (SCO) 2 1947, 1950 †24 May 1973
 Alex Higgins (NIR) 2 1972, 1982 †24 July 2010
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