The 2009–10 snooker season was a series of snooker tournaments played between 16 May 2009 and 8 May 2010. There were six ranking events, two less than in the previous season. The Bahrain Championship was not held again, and the Northern Ireland Trophy was removed from the calendar too. The Jiangsu Classic was held for the first time.

New professional players

Countries Note: new means in these case, that these players were not on the 2008/2009 professional Main Tour.

1. IBSF World Snooker Championship winner: 🇹🇭 Thepchaiya Un-Nooh
2. EBSA European Snooker Championships winner: 🇮🇪 David Hogan
3. EBSA International Play Off winner: 🇲🇹 Tony Drago
4. ACBS Asian Snooker Championship winner: 🇹🇭 James Wattana
5. ACBS Asian Under-21 Snooker Championship winner: 🇨🇳 Zhang Anda
6. English nomination 1: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Jimmy Roberson
7. English nomination 2: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Sam Baird
8. Welsh nomination: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Michael White
9. Scottish nomination: Mark Boyle
10. Irish nomination: 🇮🇪 Brendan O'Donoghue
11. Northern Irish nomination: Jordan Brown
12. ACBS Asian Nomination: 🇨🇳 Mei Xiwen
13. 🇨🇳 Xiao Guodong
14. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Lee Page
15. 🇧🇪 Bjorn Haneveer
16. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Stephen Rowlings
17. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Ben Woollaston
18. 🇹🇭 Noppadol Sangnil
19. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Craig Steadman
20. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Chris Norbury
21. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Joe Jogia

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

2009/2010 Points distribution for world ranking events.