Victory for Mostafa Dorgham within the 2023 African Snooker Championship means he turns into the final participant to hitch the primary tour for the upcoming season.

The 2023/24 marketing campaign launches on Monday with the beginning of the rating occasion model of the Championship League.

Egypt’s Dorgham received’t be concerned in that competitors however may have profitable alternatives to take part in different occasions on the World Snooker Tour later this time period.

The 27 year-old beat countryman Mohamed Khairy 5-2 to assert the African title this week in Morocco.

His reward is a two-year card, marking his first alternative to compete as an expert alongside the likes of world primary Ronnie O’Sullivan and world champion Luca Brecel.

In complete, there will likely be 130 skilled gamers on the primary tour throughout the 2023/24 snooker season.

The highest 64 on the official world rating listing following the conclusion of the final marketing campaign robotically stored their spots for an additional yr.

These under that cut-off level who’re solely getting into the second yr of their card will return, whereas the highest 4 cueists on the one-year rating listing who failed to fulfill both standards have obtained contemporary two-year playing cards.

The remaining tickets have been largely allotted by way of Q Faculty and varied worldwide newbie occasions held internationally.

Essential Tour (2023/24 snooker season)

Prime 64

• Ronnie O’Sullivan
• Luca Brecel
• Mark Allen
• Judd Trump
• Mark Selby
• Neil Robertson
• Shaun Murphy
• Kyren Wilson
• John Higgins
• Mark Williams
• Ali Carter
• Robert Milkins
• Jack Lisowski
• Gary Wilson
• Ryan Day
• Ding Junhui
• Hossein Vafaei
• Anthony McGill
• Barry Hawkins
• David Gilbert
• Ricky Walden
• Tom Ford
• Stuart Bingham
• Jimmy Robertson
• Zhou Yuelong
• Joe Perry
• Noppon Saengkham
• Matthew Selt
• Chris Wakelin
• Stephen Maguire
• Joe O’Connor
• Fan Zhengyi
• Pang Junxu
• Si Jiahui
• Jak Jones
• Jordan Brown
• Anthony Hamilton
• Thepchaiya Un-Nooh
• Graeme Dott
• Cao Yupeng
• Xiao Guodong
• Matthew Stevens
• Jamie Jones
• Ben Woollaston
• Lyu Haotian
• Jackson Web page
• Elliot Slessor
• Robbie Williams
• Wu Yize
• Yuan Sijun
• Sam Craigie
• Scott Donaldson
• Tian Pengfei
• David Grace
• Liam Highfield
• Jamie Clarke
• Andy Hicks
• Zhang Anda
• Oliver Traces
• Martin Gould
• Dominic Dale
• Mark King*
• Xu Si
• Mark Joyce
• Mark Davis

Two-year card (second yr)

• Michael White
• Ashley Hugill
• Julien Leclercq
• David Lilley
• John Astley
• James Cahill
• Ben Mertens
• Aaron Hill
• Dylan Emery
• Sanderson Lam
• Ken Doherty
• Lukas Kleckers
• Zak Surety
• Andy Lee
• Sean O’Sullivan
• Allan Taylor
• Muhammad Asif
• Asjad Iqbal
• Rod Lawler
• Andres Petrov
• Dechawat Poomjaeng
• Peng Yisong
• Adam Duffy
• Ryan Thomerson
• Mohamed Ibrahim
• Oliver Brown
• Anton Kazakov
• Himanshu Jain
• Fergal O’Brien
• Mink Nutcharut
• Jenson Kendrick
• Victor Sarkis
• Stephen Hendry
• Rebecca Kenna

Prime 4 in one-year rankings

• Daniel Wells
• Jimmy White
• Ian Burns
• Hammad Miah

Q Faculty

• Alexander Ursenbacher
• Andrew Higginson
• Liam Pullen
• Andrew Pagett
• Alfie Burden
• Dean Younger
• Stuart Carrington
• Louis Heathcote
• Thor Chuan Leong
• Manasawin Phetmalaikul
• Ishpreet Singh Chadha
• He Guoqiang

World Snooker Federation

• Ma Hai Lengthy
• Stan Moody

Q Tour

• Martin O’Donnell
• Ashley Carty

World Girls’s Tour

• Siripaporn Nuanthakhamjan
• Reanne Evans

CBSA qualifiers

• Jiang Jun
• Xing Zihao
• Lengthy Zehuang

Regional champions

• Ross Muir (EBSA European champion)
• Liam Graham (EBSA European Below-21 champion)
• Liu Hongyu (Asia Pacific champion)
• Ahmed Aly Elsayed (Pan-American champion)
• Mostafa Dorgham (African champion)

Invitational Tour Card

• Marco Fu

*Mark King is at the moment suspended.

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