The 2008–09 snooker season was a series of snooker tournaments played between 4 June 2008 and 10 May 2009. Four players missed the fourth ranking event of the season, the Bahrain Championship, and therefore lost ranking points; this was due to a clash with some Premier League matches whose date had already been approved by the game's governing body.

New professional players

Countries Note: new means in these case, that these players were not on the 2007/2008 professional Main Tour.

1. IBSF World Snooker Championship winner: 🇹🇭 Atthasit Mahitthi
2. IBSF World Under-21 Snooker Championship winner: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Michael Georgiou
3. EBSA European Snooker Championships winner: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 David Grace
4. EBSA International Play Off winner: 🇳🇱 Stefan Mazrocis
5. EBSA European Under-19 Snooker Championships winner: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Stephen Craigie
6. ACBS Asian Snooker Championship winner: 🇨🇳 Jin Long
7. ACBS Asian Under-21 Snooker Championship winner: 🇨🇳 Li Hang
8. Oceania Championship runner-up: 🇳🇿 Chris McBreen
9. English nomination 1: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Wayne Cooper
10. English nomination 2: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Andy Lee
11. Welsh nomination: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Andrew Pagett
12. Scottish nomination: Robert Stephen
13. Irish nomination: 🇮🇪 Vincent Muldoon
14. Northern Irish nomination: Declan Hughes
15. ACBS Asian Nomination: 🇮🇳 Aditya Mehta
16. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Kuldesh Johal
17. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Peter Lines
18. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Jamie Jones
19. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Simon Bedford
20. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Daniel Wells
21. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Lewis Roberts
22. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Matthew Couch
23. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Paul Davison

Calendar

The following table outlines the results and dates for all the ranking and major invitational events.

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

Points distribution

2008/2009 Points distribution for world ranking events: