The 2005–06 snooker season was a series of snooker tournaments played between 17 May 2005 and 10 May 2006. There were six ranking tournaments, and the British Open and Irish Masters tournaments were removed from calendar. The Northern Ireland Trophy was held for the first time as non-ranking tournament, and the Pot Black was held again after a 12-year hiatus.

New professional players

Countries Note: new in this case means that these players were not on the 2004/2005 professional Main Tour.

1. IBSF World Snooker Championship winner: Mark Allen
2. IBSF World Under-21 Snooker Championship winner: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Gary Wilson
3. EBSA European Snooker Championships winner: 🇲🇹 Alex Borg
4. EBSA European Under-19 Snooker Championships winner: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Chris Norbury
5. ACBS Asian Snooker Championship winner: 🇨🇳 Jin Long
6. ACBS Asian Under-21 Snooker Championship winner: 🇲🇾 Moh Keen Ho 1. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Judd Trump
7. 🇧🇭 Habib Subah
8. 🇨🇳 Liang Wenbo
9. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Jamie Cope
10. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Lee Spick
11. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Justin Astley
12. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Matthew Couch
13. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Chris Norbury
14. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 James Tatton
15. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Stuart Mann
16. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 David Gilbert
17. James McBain

Calendar

The following table outlines the results and dates for the ranking and major invitational events that took place.

World Snooker Tour

World Ladies Billiards and Snooker Association

Pontin's International Open Series

Other events

Official rankings

The top 16 of the world rankings, these players automatically played in the final rounds of the world ranking events and were invited for the Masters.

World ranking points

The rankings for the 2006–07 season were based on the total points from the 2004–05 and 2005–06 seasons. There were 6 ranking events during the 2005–06 season.

Points distribution

2005/2006 Points distribution for world ranking events: