Which players are competing on the World Snooker Tour in the 2025/26 season as Zhao Xintong leads record-breaking Chinese contingent?

China is set to be represented by a record 28 players on the main professional World Snooker Tour, including world champion Zhao Xintong, for the new 2025/26 season, which is set to get underway in Leicester next week.

Zhao's landmark 18-12 victory over Mark Williams as his country's first Crucible winner in the final of the World Championship last month came after a record 10 players qualified for the last 32 at the Crucible.

Zhao was one of four major ranking event winners from China last season, with Xiao Guodong claiming the Wuhan Open, Ding Junhui lifting the International Championship, and Lei Peifan successful at the Scottish Open.

China had 24 players on the main circuit last season, with England continuing to enjoy the biggest representation on the main circuit, but provisionally dropping from 49 to 43 on this year's tour.

The oldest player on the main circuit is six-time world finalist Jimmy White at 63, with the youngest 14-year-old Polish hopeful Michal Szubarczyk.

Qualifying for the Wuhan Open marks the start of the new campaign between June 22-24 at the Mattioli Arena, before qualifying for the British Open is staged between June 25-28 in Leicester.

1. Judd Trump (Eng)
2. Kyren Wilson (Eng)
3. Mark Williams (Wal)
4. John Higgins (Sco)
5. Ronnie O'Sullivan (Eng)
6. Ding Junhui (Chn)
7. Mark Selby (Eng)
8. Neil Robertson (Aus)
9. Barry Hawkins (Eng)
10. Mark Allen (Nir)
11. Zhao Xintong (Chn)
12. Zhang Anda (Chn)
13. Xiao Guodong (Chn)
14. Shaun Murphy (Eng)
15. Si Jiahui (Chn)
16. Chris Wakelin (Eng)

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17. Ali Carter (Eng)
18. Gary Wilson (Eng)
19. Tom Ford (Eng)
20. Wu Yize (Chn)
21. Jak Jones (Wal)
22. Stuart Bingham (Eng)
23. David Gilbert (Eng)
24. Hossein Vafaei (Ira)
25. Jack Lisowski (Eng)

26. Pang Junxu (Chn)
27. Stephen Maguire (Sco)
28. Joe O'Connor (Eng)
29. Elliot Slessor (Eng)
30. Yuan Sijun (Chn)
31. Lei Peifan (Chn)
32. Zhou Yuelong (Chn)
33. Noppon Saengkham (Tha)
34. Matthew Selt (Eng)
35. Jimmy Robertson (Eng)
36. Jackson Page (Wal)

37. Ryan Day (Wal)
38. Lyu Haotian (Chn)
39. Luca Brecel (Bel)
40. Ricky Walden (Eng)
41. Xu Si (Chn)
42. Ben Woollaston (Eng)
43. Martin O'Donnell (Eng)
44. Daniel Wells (Wal)
45. He Guoqiang (Chn)
46. Thepchaiya Un-Nooh (Tha)
47. Robbie Williams (Eng)
48. Fan Zhengyi (Chn)
49. Robert Milkins (Eng)
50. Aaron Hill (Irl)
51. Jamie Jones (Wal)
52. Matthew Stevens (Wal)
53. Jordan Brown (Nir)
54. Mark Davis (Eng)
55. Scott Donaldson (Sco)
56. Liu Hongyu (Chn)
57. David Lilley (Eng)
58. Long Zehuang (Chn)
59. Anthony McGill (Sco)
60. Sanderson Lam (Eng)
61. Graeme Dott (Sco)
62. Cao Yupeng (Chn)
63. Ishpreet Singh Chadha (Ind)
64. Stan Moody (Eng)

65. Zak Surety (Eng)
66. Michael Holt (Eng)
67. Oliver Lines (Eng)
68. Gong Chenzhi (Chn)
69. Duane Jones (Wal)
70. Sunny Akani (Tha)
71. Antoni Kowalski (Pol)
72. Ben Mertens (Bel)
73. Wang Yuchen (HK)
74. Allan Taylor (Eng)
75. Amir Sarkhosh (Irn)
76. Liam Davies (Wal)
77. Julien Leclercq (Bel)
78. Artemijs Zizins (Lat)
79. Bulcsu Revesz (Hun)
80. Ka Wai Cheung (HK)
81. Haydon Pinhey (Eng)
82. Haris Tahir (Pak)
83. Chris Totten (Sco)
84. Robbie McGuigan (Nir)
85. Farakh Ajaib (Pak)
86. Mitchell Mann (Eng)
87. Huang Jiahao (Chn)
88. Bai Yulu (Chn)
89. Ken Doherty (Irl)
90. Mink Nutcharut (Tha)
91. Kreishh Gurbaxani (In)
92. Jonas Luz (Bra)
93. Kok Leong Lim (Mys)
94. Mohamed Shehab (UAE)
95. Hatem Yassen (Egy)

96. Louis Heathcote (Eng)
97. Ross Muir (Sco)
98. Jiang Jun (Chn) 
99. Liam Graham (Sco) 

100. Liam Pullen (Eng)
101. Oliver Brown (Eng)
102. Alexander Ursenbacher (Sui)
103. Mateusz Baranowski (Pol)
104. David Grace (Eng)
105. Ian Burns (Eng)
106. Fergal Quinn (Nir)
107. Connor Benzey (Eng)

108. Chatchapong Nasa (Tha)
109. Liu Wenwei (Chn)
110. Xu Yichen (Chn)
111. Zhao Hanyang (Chn)

112. Dylan Emery (Eng)
113. Steven Hallworth (Eng)
114. Liam Highfield (Eng)
115. Florian Nuessle (Aut)

116. Gao Yang (Chn)

117. Leone Crowley (Irl)

118. Ng On Yee (HK)
119. Reanne Evans (Eng)

120. Iulian Boiko (Ukr)
121. Michal Szubarczyk (Pol)

122. Chang Bingyu (Chn)

123. Sahil Nayyar (Can)

124. TBC

125. Yao Pengcheng (Chn)
126. Lan Yuhao (Chn)

127. Marco Fu (HK)
128. Jimmy White ((Eng)

129. Sam Craigie (Eng)

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