List of PSA men's number 1 ranked players

This article is a list of PSA men's number 1 ranked players in the Official Men's Squash World Ranking.

The PSA Ranking are the Professional Squash Association's (PSA) merit-based method for determining the world rankings in men's squash. The top-ranked player is the player who, over the previous 12 months, has garnered the most PSA ranking points. Points are awarded based on how far a player advances in tournaments and the category of those tournaments. The PSA has used a computerized system for determining the rankings since January 1975.

An updated rankings list is released at the beginning of each month.

Number 1 ranked Professional Squash Association (PSA) players

The statistics are updated only when the PSA website revises its rankings (usually every first of each month).

Key
*	Current number 1 player as of February 2021^[1]
^↑	PSA Men's Ranking record

File:Jahangir Khan Image by Faizan Munawar Varya.jpg

Jahangir Khan has spent 72 consecutive months at the top of the PSA rankings, the most of any player.

No.	Country	Name	Start date	End date	Months	Accumulated total
1	PAK	Qamar Zaman	January 1975	January 1976	13	13
2	AUS	Geoff Hunt	February 1976	December 1980	59	59
	PAK	Qamar Zaman (2)	January 1981	December 1981	13	25
3	PAK	Jahangir Khan	January 1982	December 1987	72 ^↑	72
4	PAK	Jansher Khan	January 1988	October 1988	10	10
	PAK	Jahangir Khan (2)	November 1988	October 1989	12	84
	PAK	Jansher Khan (2)	November 1989	February 1990	4	14
	PAK	Jahangir Khan (3)	March 1990	April 1990	2	86
	PAK	Jansher Khan (3)	May 1990	June 1990	2	16
	PAK	Jahangir Khan (4)	July 1990	October 1990	4	90
	PAK	Jansher Khan (4)	November 1990	December 1991	14	30
	PAK	Jahangir Khan (5)	January 1992	April 1992	4	94
	PAK	Jansher Khan (5)	May 1992	June 1993	14	44
5	AUS	Chris Dittmar	July 1993	August 1993	2	2
	PAK	Jansher Khan (7)	September 1993	January 1998	53	97 ^↑
6	SCO	Peter Nicol	February 1998	April 1999	15	15
7	CAN	Jonathon Power	May 1999	September 1999	5	5
	SCO	Peter Nicol (2)	October 1999	October 1999	1	16
	CAN	Jonathon Power (2)	November 1999	January 2000	3	8
	SCO	Peter Nicol (3)	February 2000	March 2001	14	30
	CAN	Jonathon Power (3)	April 2001	July 2001	4	12
	ENG	Peter Nicol (4)	August 2001	August 2001	1	31
8	AUS	David Palmer	September 2001	December 2001	4	4
	ENG	Peter Nicol (5)	January 2002	December 2003	24	55
9	FRA	Thierry Lincou	January 2004	February 2004	2	2
10	SCO	John White	March 2004	April 2004	2	2
	ENG	Peter Nicol (6)	May 2004	September 2004	5	60
11	ENG	Lee Beachill	October 2004	December 2004	3	3
	FRA	Thierry Lincou (2)	January 2005	December 2005	12	14
	CAN	Jonathon Power (4)	January 2006	January 2006	1	13
	AUS	David Palmer (2)	February 2006	February 2006	1	5
	CAN	Jonathon Power (5)	March 2006	March 2006	1	14
12	EGY	Amr Shabana	April 2006	December 2008	33	33
13	EGY	Karim Darwish	January 2009	October 2009	10	10
14	FRA	Grégory Gaultier	November 2009	November 2009	1	1
	EGY	Karim Darwish (2)	December 2009	December 2009	1	11
15	EGY	Ramy Ashour	January 2010	May 2010	5	5
16	ENG	Nick Matthew	June 2010	August 2010	3	3
	EGY	Ramy Ashour (2)	September 2010	December 2010	4	9
	ENG	Nick Matthew (2)	January 2011	January 2012	12	15
17	ENG	James Willstrop	January 2012	January 2012	1	1
	ENG	Nick Matthew (3)	February 2012	February 2012	1	16
	ENG	James Willstrop (2)	March 2012	December 2012	10	11
	EGY	Ramy Ashour (3)	January 2013	December 2013	12	21
	ENG	Nick Matthew (4)	January 2014	January 2014	1	17
	ENG FRA	Nick Matthew (=) Grégory Gaultier (2)	February 2014	February 2014	1	18 2
	ENG	Nick Matthew (=)	March 2014	March 2014	1	19
	FRA	Grégory Gaultier (3)	April 2014	October 2014	7	9
18	EGY	Mohamed El Shorbagy	November 2014	November 2015	13	13
	FRA	Grégory Gaultier (4)	December 2015	December 2015	1	10
	EGY	Mohamed El Shorbagy (2)	January 2016	March 2017	15	28
	FRA	Grégory Gaultier (5)	April 2017	April 2017	1	11
19	EGY	Karim Abdel Gawad (1)	May 2017	May 2017	1	1
	FRA	Grégory Gaultier (6)	June 2017	February 2018	9	20
	EGY	Mohamed El Shorbagy (3)	March 2018	February 2019	12	40
20	EGY	Ali Farag (1)	March 2019	January 2020	11	11
	EGY	Mohamed El Shorbagy (4)	February 2020	October 2020	9	49
	EGY	Ali Farag (2)	November 2020	Present	4	15

Accumulated totals are bolded on each player's final streak.
As of February 2021.

Months at number 1

Key
Bold	The current World No. 1 player
*	Active streak as of February 2021
^‡	Active players

Rank	Player	Total
1.	Jansher Khan	97
2.	Jahangir Khan	94
3.	/ Peter Nicol	60
4.	Geoff Hunt	59
5.	Mohamed El Shorbagy ^‡	49
6.	Amr Shabana	33
7.	Qamar Zaman	25
8.	Ramy Ashour	21
9.	Grégory Gaultier ^‡	20
10.	Nick Matthew	19
11.	Ali Farag ^‡	15
12.	Thierry Lincou	14
=	Jonathon Power	14
14.	James Willstrop ^‡	11
=	Karim Darwish	11
16.	David Palmer	5
17.	Lee Beachill	3
18.	Chris Dittmar	2
=	John White	2
20.	Karim Abdel Gawad ^‡	1

Rank	Player	Consecutive
1.	Jahangir Khan	72 (6 years)
2.	Geoff Hunt	59 (4 years & 11 months)
3.	Jansher Khan	53 (4 years & 5 months)
4.	Amr Shabana	33 (2 years & 9 months)
5.	Peter Nicol	24 (2 years)
6.	Mohamed El Shorbagy ^‡	15 (1 year & 3 months)
7.	Qamar Zaman	13 (1 year & 1 month)
8.	Ramy Ashour	12 (1 year)
=	Nick Matthew	12 (1 year)
=	Thierry Lincou	12 (1 year)
11.	Ali Farag ^‡	11
12.	James Willstrop ^‡	10
=	Karim Darwish	10
14.	Grégory Gaultier ^‡	9
15.	Jonathon Power	5
16.	David Palmer	4
17.	Lee Beachill	3
18.	Chris Dittmar	2
=	John White	2
20.	Karim Abdel Gawad ^‡	1

As of February 2021

Months at No. 1 by country

	Country	No. of players	No. of months	Players
1.	Pakistan	3	216	Jansher Khan, Jahangir Khan, Qamar Zaman
2.	Egypt	6	130	Mohamed El Shorbagy, Amr Shabana, Ramy Ashour, Karim Darwish, Ali Farag, Karim Abdel Gawad
3.	England	4	66	Peter Nicol, Nick Matthew, James Willstrop, Lee Beachill
=	Australia	3	66	Geoff Hunt, David Palmer, Chris Dittmar
5.	France	2	34	Grégory Gaultier, Thierry Lincou
6.	Scotland	2	32	Peter Nicol, John White
7.	Canada	1	14	Jonathon Power

As of February 2021

Players who were ranked World No. 1 without having won a World Championship

Player	Date of first No. 1 position	Num. of months No. 1	First World Championship final	Number of finals
Qamar Zaman *	January 1975	25	1977 (vs. Geoff Hunt)	4
Chris Dittmar	July 1993	2	1983 (vs. Jahangir Khan)	5
John White	March 2004	2	2002 (vs. David Palmer)	1
Lee Beachill	October 2004	3	2004 (vs. Thierry Lincou)	1
Karim Darwish	January 2009	11	2008 (vs. Ramy Ashour)	1
James Willstrop	January 2012	11	2010 (vs. Nick Matthew)	1

Note:

Qamar Zaman won the British Open in 1975 (considered as the World Open on that year before its inception in 1976).

References

^ "PSA World Rankings". psaworldtour.com. Professional Squash Association (PSA). Retrieved 23 October 2014.

External links

PSA World Rankings

[1] "PSA World Rankings". psaworldtour.com. Professional Squash Association (PSA). Retrieved 23 October 2014.

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