Men's Squash World Rankings

For women's rankings, see Women's Squash World Rankings.

The Men's Squash World Rankings are the official world rankings for men's squash. The ranking is to rate the performance level of male professional squash players. It is also a merit-based method used for determining entry and seeding in men's squash tournaments. The rankings have been produced monthly then weekly since 29 August 2022.^[1] The current world number one is Ali Farag of Egypt.

Dunlop PSA World Ranking

PSA ranking policy

Players competing in PSA tournaments earn ranking points according to how far they get in the draw. The points available depend on the prize money and the draw size. The weekly rankings (issued on each Monday) are used in selecting entries to tournaments and in determining the seeds.

The total number of points a player has earned in the previous 52 weeks is divided by the number of tournaments played (a minimum divisor of ten is used) to give a ranking average. Where a player has played more than 11 tournaments the best scores are selected (i.e. the lowest are not included) according to the averaging formula (see table below).

For example, a player who has competed in 16 events will have his best 12 scores used. These will be accumulated and divided by 12.

Players competing in PSA World Tour Events earn ranking points according to the prize money, classification of the event, and the final position in the draw the player reaches.

PSA World Tour			Ranking Points
Rank	Prize Money US$	Ranking Points	Winner	Runner up	3/4	5/8	9/16	17/32	33/48
Platinum	$164,500–$180,500	19180 points	2750	1810	1100	675	410	250	152.5
Gold	$100,000–$120,500	9380 points	1750	1150	700	430	260	160
Silver	$70,000–$88,000	6570 points	1225	805	490	300	182.5	112.5
Bronze	$51,000–$53,000	4690 points	875	575	350	215	130	80
PSA World Tour Finals			Ranking Points
Rank	Prize Money US$	Ranking Points	Winner	Runner up	3/4	Round-Robin Match Win	Undefeated bonus
World Tour Finals	$165,000		1000	550	200	150	150
PSA Challenger Tour			Ranking Points
Rank	Prize Money US$	Ranking Points	Winner	Runner up	3/4	5/8	9/16	17/32	33/48
Challenger 30	$30,000	2814 points	525	345	210	130	78	47.5
Challenger 20	$20,000	1860 points	350	230	140	85	51	31.5
Challenger 15	$15,000	1343 points	250	162.5	100	62.5	37.5	22.5
Challenger 12	$12,000	1074 points	200	130	80	50	30	18
Challenger 9	$9,000	806 points	150	97.5	60	37.5	22.5	13.5
Challenger 6	$6,000	537 points	100	65	40	25	15	9
Challenger 3	$3,000	331 points	65	40	25	15	9	5.5
PSA World Championships			Ranking Points
Rank	Prize Money US$	Ranking Points	Winner	Runner up	3/4	5/8	9/16	17/32	33/64
PSA World Championships	$300,000 +	25045 points	3175	2090	1270	780	475	290	177.5

Divisor

A divisor is selected based on the number of tournaments played during the year as shown in the table below (the minimum divisor is eleven). The average is calculated from the highest points scored for this number of events over the past 52 weeks:

Events Played	Divisor
1-15	11
16	12
17	13
18	14
19	15
20	16
21	17

^[1]

Current world ranking

PSA Men's World Rankings, of the 28 July 2025[2]
Rank	Player	Points	Move†
1	Mostafa Asal (EGY)	2,338
2	Diego Elías (PER)	1,631
3	Paul Coll (NZL)	1,153
4	Joel Makin (WAL)	1,096
5	Marwan Elshorbagy (ENG)	847
6	Karim Gawad (EGY)	811
7	Mohamed Elshorbagy (ENG)	794
8	Youssef Soliman (EGY)	616
9	Aly Abou Eleinen (EGY)	580
10	Youssef Ibrahim (EGY)	572

Note: The weekly ranking for the men's squash (world ranking) is taken directly from the Professional Squash Association (PSA) official website.^[3]

World No. 1 since 1975

Number one ranked players

Main article: List of PSA men's number 1 ranked players

The following is a list of players who have achieved the world number one position since February 1975 (active players in green) :

#	Player	Date reached	Total months	Total weeks	Total days
1	Qamar Zaman	January 1975	25		761
2	Geoff Hunt	February 1976	59		1796
3	Jahangir Khan	January 1982	94		2861
4	Jansher Khan	January 1988	97		2952
5	Chris Dittmar	July 1993	2		62
6	/ Peter Nicol	February 1998	60		1825
7	Jonathon Power	May 1999	14		429
8	David Palmer	September 2001	5		150
9	Thierry Lincou	January 2004	14		425
10	John White	March 2004	2		61
11	Lee Beachill	October 2004	3		92
12	Amr Shabana	April 2006	33		1006
13	Karim Darwish	January 2009	11		335
14	Grégory Gaultier	November 2009	20		606
15	Ramy Ashour	January 2010	21		638
16	Nick Matthew	June 2010	19		576
17	James Willstrop	January 2012	11		337
18	Mohamed El Shorbagy	November 2014	50		1521
19	Karim Abdel Gawad	May 2017	1		31
20	Ali Farag	March 2019	29	113	1671
21	Paul Coll	March 2022	3	2	106
22	Mostafa Asal	Jan 16, 2023		31	217
23	Diego Elías	Apr 17, 2023		7	49

Last update: August 3 2025

Monthly World No 1 since 1975

2022-2025

Month	2022	2023	2024	2025
January	Ali Farag	A Farag then M Asal	Ali Farag	Ali Farag
February	Ali Farag	Mostafa Asal
March	Paul Coll			A Farag then M Asal
April		M Asal then D Elías		Mostafa Asal
May		Diego Elías
June	Ali Farag	D Elías then A Farag
July		Ali Farag
August
September
October	P Coll then A Farag
November	Ali Farag
December

2018-2021

Month	2018	2019	2020	2021
January	Grégory Gaultier	Mohd El Shorbagy	Ali Farag	Ali Farag
February			Mohd El Shorbagy
March	Mohd El Shorbagy	Ali Farag
April
May
June
July
August				Mohd El Shorbagy
September				Ali Farag
October
November			Ali Farag
December

2014–2017

Month	2014	2015	2016	2017
January	Nick Matthew	Mohd El Shorbagy	Mohd El Shorbagy	Mohd El Shorbagy
February	G Gaultier / N Matthew
March	Nick Matthew
April	Grégory Gaultier			Grégory Gaultier
May				Karim Abdel Gawad
June				Grégory Gaultier
July
August
September
October
November	Mohd El Shorbagy
December		Grégory Gaultier

2010–2013

Month	2010	2011	2012	2013
January	Ramy Ashour	Nick Matthew	James Willstrop	Ramy Ashour
February			Nick Matthew
March			James Willstrop
April
May
June	Nick Matthew
July
August
September	Ramy Ashour
October
November
December

2006–2009

Month	2006	2007	2008	2009
January	Jonathon Power	Amr Shabana	Amr Shabana	Karim Darwish
February	David Palmer
March	Jonathon Power
April	Amr Shabana
May
June
July
August
September
October
November				Grégory Gaultier
December				Karim Darwish

2002–2005

Month	2002	2003	2004	2005
January	Peter Nicol	Peter Nicol	Thierry Lincou	Thierry Lincou
February
March			John White
April
May			Peter Nicol
June
July
August
September
October			Lee Beachill
November
December

1998–2001

Month	1998	1999	2000	2001
January	Jansher Khan	Peter Nicol	Jonathon Power	Peter Nicol
February	Peter Nicol		Peter Nicol
March
April				Jonathon Power
May		Jonathon Power
June
July
August				Peter Nicol
September				David Palmer
October		Peter Nicol
November		Jonathon Power
December

1994–1997

Month	1994	1995	1996	1997
January	Jansher Khan	Jansher Khan	Jansher Khan	Jansher Khan
March
May
July
September
November

1990–1993

Month	1990	1991	1992	1993
January	Jansher Khan	Jansher Khan	Jahangir Khan	Jansher Khan
March	Jahangir Khan
May	Jansher Khan		Jansher Khan
July	Jahangir Khan			Chris Dittmar
September				Jansher Khan
November	Jansher Khan

1986–1989

Month	1986	1987	1988	1989
January	Jahangir Khan	Jahangir Khan	Jansher Khan	Jahangir Khan
March
May
July
September
November			Jahangir Khan	Jansher Khan

1982–1985

Month	1982	1983	1984	1985
January	Jahangir Khan	Jahangir Khan	Jahangir Khan	Jahangir Khan

1978–1981

Month	1978	1979	1980	1981
January	Geoff Hunt	Geoff Hunt	Geoff Hunt	Qamar Zaman

1975–1977

Month	1975	1976	1977
January	Qamar Zaman	Geoff Hunt	Geoff Hunt

Note:
1) Peter Nicol has represented England since 21 March 2001.^[4]

Year-end top 10

2023-2025

Rank	2023		2024		2025
1	Ali Farag	22120	Ali Farag	2266
2	Diego Elías	15610	Mostafa Asal	2160
3	Paul Coll	13810	Diego Elías	1582
4	Mostafa Asal	10305	Paul Coll	1181
5	Mohamed El Shorbagy	10180	Mazen Hesham	905
6	Karim Abdel Gawad	9550	Joel Makin	840
7	Mazen Hesham	8185	Karim Abdel Gawad	755
8	Marwan El Shorbagy	8020	Tarek Momen	748
9	Tarek Momen	7855	Mohamed El Shorbagy	743
10	Joel Makin	7535	Youssef Soliman	591

2020-2022

Rank	2020		2021		2022
1	Ali Farag	2121	Ali Farag	1911	Ali Farag	1722
2	Mohamed El Shorbagy	1849	Paul Coll	1558	Mostafa Asal	1567
3	Tarek Momen	1487	Mohamed El Shorbagy	1430	Paul Coll	1501
4	Paul Coll	1172	Tarek Momen	1131	Mohamed El Shorbagy	1467
5	Karim Abdel Gawad	1107	Diego Elías	1030	Diego Elías	1372
6	Marwan El Shorbagy	892	Mostafa Asal	914	Marwan El Shorbagy	851
7	Diego Elías	765	Marwan El Shorbagy	800	Tarek Momen	760
8	Simon Rösner	653	Joel Makin	696	Mazen Hesham	742
9	Joel Makin	552	Fares Dessouky	662	Fares Dessouky	713
10	Miguel Ángel Rodríguez	549	Karim Abdel Gawad	522	Victor Crouin	677

2017-2019

Rank	2017		2018		2019
1	Grégory Gaultier	1651	Mohamed El Shorbagy	1852	Ali Farag	2049
2	Mohamed El Shorbagy	1429	Ali Farag	1477	Mohamed El Shorbagy	1662
3	Ali Farag	1209	Simon Rösner	1120	Karim Abdel Gawad	1551
4	Karim Abdel Gawad	1040	Tarek Momen	1011	Tarek Momen	1484
5	Marwan El Shorbagy	761	Marwan El Shorbagy	905	Paul Coll	1133
6	Nick Matthew	756	Miguel Ángel Rodríguez	813	Simon Rösner	735
7	Tarek Momen	724	Paul Coll	704	Diego Elías	713
8	Paul Coll	608	Grégory Gaultier	681	Karim Abdel Gawad	678
9	Simon Rösner	571	Karim Abdel Gawad	595	Marwan El Shorbagy	660
10	James Willstrop	554	Mohamed Abouelghar	545	Miguel Ángel Rodríguez	575

2014-2016

Rank	2014		2015		2016
1	Mohamed El Shorbagy	1385.000	Grégory Gaultier	1554.500	Mohamed El Shorbagy	2213
2	Grégory Gaultier	1322.000	Mohamed El Shorbagy	1456.000	Karim Abdel Gawad	1380
3	Nick Matthew	970.500	Nick Matthew	1278.000	Grégory Gaultier	997
4	Amr Shabana	878.500	Omar Mosaad	783.500	Nick Matthew	941
5	Ramy Ashour	872.500	Miguel Ángel Rodríguez	709.500	Ramy Ashour	687
6	Peter Barker	573.500	Ramy Ashour	575.000	Marwan El Shorbagy	677
7	Borja Golán	570.909	Simon Rösner	525.500	Ali Farag	673
8	James Willstrop	532.500	Karim Abdel Gawad	489.500	Omar Mosaad	668
9	Tarek Momen	504.545	Mathieu Castagnet	471.500	Mathieu Castagnet	562
10	Simon Rösner	484.091	Tarek Momen	460.500	Simon Rösner	554

2011- 2013

Rank	2011		2012		2013
1	Nick Matthew	1716.750	James Willstrop	1082.500	Ramy Ashour	1675.000
2	James Willstrop	1392.250	Nick Matthew	996.000	Grégory Gaultier	1262.500
3	Grégory Gaultier	1050.750	Grégory Gaultier	995.500	Nick Matthew	1252.000
4	Ramy Ashour	1028.250	Ramy Ashour	894.500	Mohamed El Shorbagy	1030.500
5	Karim Darwish	980.750	Peter Barker	539.000	James Willstrop	991.000
6	Amr Shabana	789.500	Mohamed El Shorbagy	531.000	Karim Darwish	763.000
7	Peter Barker	644.000	Karim Darwish	511.500	Borja Golán	572.500
8	Mohamed El Shorbagy	642.875	Omar Mosaad	440.000	Peter Barker	560.000
9	David Palmer	485.000	Amr Shabana	415.500	Amr Shabana	532.500
10	Mohd Azlan Iskandar	465.000	Daryl Selby	415.500	Daryl Selby	484.500

2008–2010

Rank	2008		2009		2010
1	Amr Shabana	1183.125	Karim Darwish	940.000	Ramy Ashour	1555.000
2	Karim Darwish	926.250	Grégory Gaultier	919.375	Nick Matthew	1224.375
3	Ramy Ashour	900.625	Amr Shabana	916.875	Karim Darwish	983.000
4	Grégory Gaultier	840.000	Nick Matthew	891.250	Grégory Gaultier	718.750
5	James Willstrop	834.375	Ramy Ashour	800.000	James Willstrop	715.000
6	David Palmer	653.500	James Willstrop	573.125	Amr Shabana	685.625
7	Thierry Lincou	611.875	Peter Barker	526.000	Thierry Lincou	570.455
8	Wael El Hindi	513.125	David Palmer	491.875	Peter Barker	513.000
9	Peter Barker	459.375	Thierry Lincou	443.750	Laurens Jan Anjema	406.375
10	Nick Matthew	453.750	Wael El Hindi	332.500	Mohamed El Shorbagy	406.250

2005–2007

Rank	2005		2006		2007
1	Thierry Lincou	872.656	Amr Shabana	1346.528	Amr Shabana	1418.125
2	James Willstrop	726.944	David Palmer	1124.306	Ramy Ashour	1039.375
3	Anthony Ricketts	702.778	Thierry Lincou	881.250	Grégory Gaultier	833.125
4	David Palmer	685.417	Grégory Gaultier	756.818	David Palmer	786.875
5	Lee Beachill	672.813	Nick Matthew	530.625	Nick Matthew	666.750
6	Jonathon Power	611.806	Anthony Ricketts	519.375	James Willstrop	661.250
7	Amr Shabana	587.222	Ramy Ashour	510.833	Thierry Lincou	542.500
8	Peter Nicol	535.417	James Willstrop	496.250	Karim Darwish	503.182
9	John White	376.875	Karim Darwish	437.500	Wael El Hindi	428.409
10	Nick Matthew	357.083	Lee Beachill	425.625	John White	415.000

2002–2004

Rank	2002		2003		2004
1	Peter Nicol	1253.125	Peter Nicol	791.875	Lee Beachill	858.333
2	Jonathon Power	1149.219	John White	760.938	Thierry Lincou	816.667
3	David Palmer	729.688	David Palmer	685.469	Peter Nicol	673.472
4	Stewart Boswell	592.969	Jonathon Power	589.375	David Palmer	642.969
5	John White	498.125	Thierry Lincou	562.813	Amr Shabana	579.167
6	Thierry Lincou	417.969	Anthony Ricketts	430.938	John White	505.625
7	Anthony Ricketts	357.031	Karim Darwish	323.438	Nick Matthew	497.750
8	Ong Beng Hee	323.750	Ong Beng Hee	287.500	Karim Darwish	462.222
9	Lee Beachill	319.531	Lee Beachill	277.344	Jonathon Power	380.750
10	Mark Chaloner	268.750	Grégory Gaultier	253.594	Grégory Gaultier	363.056

1999–2001

Rank	1999		2000		2001
1	Jonathon Power	888.750	Peter Nicol	927.500	David Palmer	1009.375
2	Peter Nicol	821.250	Jonathon Power	825.278	Peter Nicol	995.833
3	Ahmed Barada	465.156	Simon Parke	488.194	Jonathon Power	630.500
4	Paul Johnson	294.688	David Evans	374.861	John White	547.656
5	Anthony Hill	284.313	Ahmed Barada	368.889	Thierry Lincou	481.250
6	Martin Heath	258.406	Martin Heath	337.778	Stewart Boswell	440.972
7	Stefan Casteleyn	244.328	Paul Johnson	322.500	Ong Beng Hee	396.528
8	Simon Parke	241.094	David Palmer	315.139	Mark Chaloner	335.417
9	Alex Gough	236.344	Alex Gough	235.278	Paul Price	327.083
10	John White	195.688	Paul Price	232.188	David Evans	322.222

1996–1998

Rank	1996	1997	1998
1	Jansher Khan	Jansher Khan	Peter Nicol
2	Rodney Eyles	Peter Nicol	Ahmed Barada
3	Peter Nicol	Jonathon Power	Jonathon Power
4	Chris Walker	Rodney Eyles	Paul Johnson
5	Brett Martin	Simon Parke	Martin Heath
6	Del Harris	Del Harris	Dan Jenson
7	Craig Rowland	Ahmed Barada	Rodney Eyles
8	Mark Chaloner	Anthony Hill	Jansher Khan
9	Anthony Hill	Brett Martin	Simon Parke
10	Simon Parke	Chris Walker	Derek Ryan

Year-end number 1

	Years ended No. 1
1.	Jansher Khan	9
2.	Jahangir Khan	7
3.	Ali Farag	6
4.	Geoff Hunt	5
5.	Peter Nicol	4
6.	Amr Shabana	3
	Mohamed El Shorbagy	3
8.	Ramy Ashour	2
	Qamar Zaman	2
	Grégory Gaultier	2
11.	Lee Beachill	1
	Karim Darwish	1
	Thierry Lincou	1
	Nick Matthew	1
	David Palmer	1
	Jonathon Power	1
	James Willstrop	1

• 1975: Qamar Zaman
• 1976: Geoff Hunt
• 1977: Geoff Hunt (2)
• 1978: Geoff Hunt (3)
• 1979: Geoff Hunt (4)
• 1980: Geoff Hunt (5)
• 1981: Qamar Zaman
• 1982: Jahangir Khan
• 1983: Jahangir Khan (2)
• 1984: Jahangir Khan (3)
• 1985: Jahangir Khan (4)
• 1986: Jahangir Khan (5)
• 1987: Jahangir Khan (6)
• 1988: Jahangir Khan (7)
• 1989: Jansher Khan
• 1990: Jansher Khan(2)
• 1991: Jansher Khan (3)
• 1992: Jansher Khan (4)
• 1993: Jansher Khan (5)
• 1994: Jansher Khan (6)
• 1995: Jansher Khan (7)
• 1996: Jansher Khan (8)
• 1997: Jansher Khan (9)
• 1998: Peter Nicol
• 1999: Jonathon Power
• 2000: Peter Nicol
• 2001: David Palmer
• 2002: Peter Nicol
• 2003: Peter Nicol (2)
• 2004: Lee Beachill
• 2005: Thierry Lincou
• 2006: Amr Shabana
• 2007: Amr Shabana (2)
• 2008: Amr Shabana (3)
• 2009: Karim Darwish
• 2010: Ramy Ashour
• 2011: Nick Matthew
• 2012: James Willstrop
• 2013: Ramy Ashour (2)
• 2014: Mohamed El Shorbagy
• 2015: Grégory Gaultier
• 2016: Mohamed El Shorbagy (2)
• 2017: Grégory Gaultier (2)
• 2018: Mohamed El Shorbagy (3)
• 2019: Ali Farag
• 2020: Ali Farag (2)
• 2021: Ali Farag (3)
• 2022: Ali Farag (4)
• 2023: Ali Farag (5)
• 2024: Ali Farag (6)

See also

• PSA Awards
• List of PSA men's number 1 ranked players
• PSA World Tour
• Official Women's Squash World Ranking
• List of PSA women's number 1 ranked players