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.

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

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

[10] 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.

[58][59] [60][61][62] 2008/2009 Points distribution for world ranking events:[63]