2019/20 Season Foul Count
Following our analysis of the most shots played so far in the 2019/20 season, we’ve delved back into the WST database to find out which players have racked up the most fouls in the campaign.
It’s 2005 World Champion Shaun Murphy who tops the list, having amassed 275 fouls during a season which has seen him pick up silverware at the China Championship and the Welsh Open.
| Player | Matches | Fouls |
| Shaun Murphy | 65 | 275 |
| Neil Robertson | 66 | 230 |
| Mark Selby | 82 | 227 |
| Judd Trump | 84 | 223 |
| Kyren Wilson | 90 | 211 |
| John Higgins | 71 | 208 |
| Graeme Dott | 90 | 205 |
| Jack Lisowski | 56 | 197 |
| Mark Williams | 65 | 188 |
| Yan Bingtao | 54 | 179 |
| David Gilbert | 70 | 175 |
| Joe Perry | 76 | 174 |
| Mark Allen | 53 | 152 |
| Barry Hawkins | 57 | 150 |
| Stuart Bingham | 56 | 148 |
| Ali Carter | 47 | 147 |
| Gary Wilson | 66 | 147 |
| Tian Pengfei | 31 | 146 |
| Matthew Selt | 48 | 143 |
| Ding Junhui | 43 | 136 |
| Ben Woollaston | 41 | 133 |
| Thepchaiya Un-Nooh | 49 | 133 |
| Kurt Maflin | 33 | 129 |
| Tom Ford | 57 | 128 |
| Jimmy Robertson | 36 | 126 |
| Jak Jones | 28 | 122 |
| Elliot Slessor | 29 | 121 |
| Scott Donaldson | 52 | 120 |
| Anthony McGill | 48 | 118 |
| Daniel Wells | 26 | 118 |
| Xiao Guodong | 49 | 116 |
| Zhou Yuelong | 40 | 115 |
| Kacper Filipiak | 18 | 113 |
| Luca Brecel | 42 | 111 |
| Liang Wenbo | 35 | 108 |
| Martin O’Donnell | 27 | 107 |
| Yuan SiJun | 28 | 106 |
| Fergal O’Brien | 24 | 106 |
| Robert Milkins | 29 | 104 |
| Ricky Walden | 36 | 101 |
| Mark Joyce | 27 | 100 |
| Mark Davis | 24 | 97 |
| Ronnie O’Sullivan | 39 | 97 |
| Lyu Haotian | 36 | 96 |
| Anthony Hamilton | 28 | 95 |
| Zhao Xintong | 38 | 94 |
| Mitchell Mann | 21 | 92 |
| Fan Zhengyi | 17 | 92 |
| Mei Xi Wen | 31 | 91 |
| Matthew Stevens | 27 | 90 |
| Sunny Akani | 24 | 90 |
| Nigel Bond | 22 | 90 |
| Dominic Dale | 25 | 90 |
| Harvey Chandler | 19 | 87 |
| Lu Ning | 25 | 86 |
| Chen Zifan | 21 | 86 |
| Robbie Williams | 26 | 84 |
| Alan McManus | 20 | 84 |
| Louis Heathcote | 20 | 83 |
| Chris Wakelin | 24 | 83 |
| Mark King | 31 | 81 |
| Michael Holt | 39 | 80 |
| David Grace | 24 | 80 |
| Stephen Maguire | 44 | 80 |
| Jordan Brown | 22 | 80 |
| Ryan Day | 37 | 78 |
| Martin Gould | 23 | 77 |
| Barry Pinches | 16 | 77 |
| Zhang Anda | 24 | 75 |
| Craig Steadman | 21 | 75 |
| Jackson Page | 20 | 75 |
| Luo Honghao | 23 | 72 |
| Lee Walker | 20 | 71 |
| Joe O’Connor | 18 | 71 |
| Adam Stefanow | 15 | 70 |
| Ian Burns | 24 | 70 |
| Soheil Vahedi | 20 | 69 |
| Lei Peifan | 17 | 68 |
| Ashley Carty | 18 | 68 |
| Li Hang | 34 | 67 |
| Andrew Higginson | 24 | 67 |
| Sam Craigie | 19 | 67 |
| Hammad Miah | 16 | 67 |
| Gerard Greene | 20 | 66 |
| Brandon Sargeant | 18 | 65 |
| Andy Hicks | 14 | 64 |
| Eden Sharav | 16 | 64 |
| John J Astley | 16 | 63 |
| Michael Georgiou | 20 | 62 |
| Marco Fu | 21 | 62 |
| Bai Langning | 15 | 62 |
| David Lilley | 18 | 61 |
| Si Jiahui | 20 | 60 |
| Hossein Vafaei | 23 | 60 |
| Alfie Burden | 21 | 59 |
| Noppon Saengkham | 24 | 58 |
| Mike Dunn | 20 | 58 |
| Andy Lee | 17 | 57 |
| Alexander Ursenbacher | 23 | 56 |
| Jamie Clarke | 19 | 56 |
| Kishan H Hirani | 17 | 56 |
| Stuart Carrington | 24 | 55 |
| James Cahill | 17 | 55 |
| Peter Lines | 17 | 54 |
| Billy Joe Castle | 20 | 54 |
| Chang Bingyu | 18 | 54 |
| Thor Chuan Leong | 14 | 53 |
| Peter Ebdon | 15 | 52 |
| Xu Si | 17 | 52 |
| Fraser Patrick | 13 | 52 |
| Michael White | 20 | 51 |
| Zhang Jiankang | 14 | 48 |
| Ken Doherty | 20 | 48 |
| Rod Lawler | 17 | 48 |
| Simon Lichtenberg | 13 | 47 |
| Sam Baird | 15 | 45 |
| Chen Feilong | 16 | 44 |
| Oliver Lines | 17 | 44 |
| Jimmy White | 16 | 43 |
| Alex Borg | 13 | 43 |
| Liam Highfield | 23 | 42 |
| Jamie O’Neill | 15 | 42 |
| Igor Figueiredo | 17 | 37 |
| Riley Parsons | 13 | 36 |
| Duane Jones | 15 | 32 |
| Amine Amiri | 7 | 24 |
| James Wattana | 11 | 23 |
| Steve Mifsud | 1 | 2 |