2020/21 Season Foul Count
Following our analysis of the most pots made during the 2020/21 season, we’ve delved back into the database to find out which players have racked up the most fouls in the campaign.
It’s World Champion Mark Selby who tops the list, having amassed 253 fouls during a season which saw him pick up his fourth Crucible crown. Last year it was 2005 Crucible king Shaun Murphy who committed the most fouls.
| Player | Matches | Fouls |
| Mark Selby | 103 | 253 |
| Kyren Wilson | 115 | 249 |
| Mark Williams | 90 | 242 |
| Judd Trump | 107 | 221 |
| Jack Lisowski | 70 | 185 |
| Zhou Yuelong | 73 | 172 |
| Stuart Bingham | 77 | 165 |
| Barry Hawkins | 72 | 165 |
| Shaun Murphy | 56 | 163 |
| Lu Ning | 43 | 162 |
| Ronnie O’Sullivan | 59 | 152 |
| Neil Robertson | 46 | 147 |
| John Higgins | 77 | 138 |
| David Gilbert | 55 | 138 |
| Matthew Selt | 51 | 138 |
| Barry Pinches | 29 | 137 |
| Joe Perry | 70 | 134 |
| Lei Peifan | 36 | 126 |
| Anthony McGill | 51 | 124 |
| Jordan Brown | 39 | 123 |
| Jamie Jones | 38 | 121 |
| Sam Craigie | 42 | 119 |
| Tom Ford | 54 | 118 |
| Soheil Vahedi | 33 | 118 |
| Mark Allen | 41 | 117 |
| Pang Junxu | 33 | 117 |
| Ben Woollaston | 38 | 115 |
| Ian Burns | 34 | 115 |
| Sunny Akani | 36 | 112 |
| David Grace | 34 | 111 |
| Kurt Maflin | 27 | 110 |
| Yan Bingtao | 39 | 108 |
| Liam Highfield | 33 | 108 |
| Robbie Williams | 34 | 107 |
| Mark Joyce | 29 | 107 |
| Jamie O’Neill | 31 | 107 |
| Zhao Xintong | 53 | 106 |
| Scott Donaldson | 47 | 106 |
| Xiao Guodong | 53 | 105 |
| Si Jiahui | 31 | 105 |
| Ding Junhui | 36 | 104 |
| Luo Honghao | 39 | 104 |
| Graeme Dott | 51 | 103 |
| Ali Carter | 69 | 102 |
| Jamie Clarke | 36 | 101 |
| Luca Brecel | 40 | 99 |
| Mark Davis | 39 | 99 |
| Li Hang | 37 | 99 |
| Jak Jones | 37 | 99 |
| Chang Bingyu | 26 | 99 |
| Yuan SiJun | 29 | 99 |
| Ricky Walden | 44 | 98 |
| Duane Jones | 42 | 98 |
| Joe O’Connor | 34 | 97 |
| Billy Joe Castle | 29 | 95 |
| Gary Wilson | 38 | 94 |
| James Cahill | 39 | 94 |
| Zhao Jianbo | 27 | 93 |
| Eden Sharav | 31 | 93 |
| David Lilley | 34 | 92 |
| Martin O’Donnell | 39 | 91 |
| Nigel Bond | 28 | 91 |
| Daniel Wells | 21 | 91 |
| Robert Milkins | 45 | 90 |
| Chen Zifan | 25 | 90 |
| Brandon Sargeant | 29 | 89 |
| Anthony Hamilton | 21 | 89 |
| Hossein Vafaei | 36 | 88 |
| Tian Pengfei | 28 | 88 |
| Kacper Filipiak | 23 | 88 |
| Dominic Dale | 38 | 87 |
| Igor Figueiredo | 26 | 87 |
| Martin Gould | 44 | 82 |
| Chris Wakelin | 31 | 81 |
| Alexander Ursenbacher | 37 | 79 |
| Michael Holt | 39 | 79 |
| Liang Wenbo | 35 | 78 |
| Jackson Page | 31 | 78 |
| Fergal O’Brien | 31 | 78 |
| Ashley Carty | 28 | 78 |
| Lyu Haotian | 39 | 77 |
| Lee Walker | 22 | 77 |
| Fraser Patrick | 28 | 76 |
| Ken Doherty | 32 | 76 |
| Riley Parsons | 24 | 76 |
| Oliver Lines | 31 | 74 |
| Peter Devlin | 26 | 74 |
| Rod Lawler | 31 | 73 |
| Sean Maddocks | 20 | 73 |
| Elliot Slessor | 27 | 71 |
| Rory McLeod | 27 | 71 |
| Ben Hancorn | 31 | 71 |
| Farakh Ajaib | 21 | 71 |
| Thepchaiya Un-Nooh | 42 | 70 |
| Mitchell Mann | 36 | 70 |
| Ashley Hugill | 22 | 69 |
| Jamie Wilson | 24 | 68 |
| Simon Lichtenberg | 27 | 67 |
| Xu Si | 25 | 67 |
| Aaron Hill | 19 | 67 |
| Ryan Day | 45 | 64 |
| Allan Taylor | 29 | 64 |
| Mark King | 28 | 64 |
| Steven Hallworth | 27 | 63 |
| Gao Yang | 24 | 63 |
| Andrew Higginson | 29 | 62 |
| Louis Heathcote | 36 | 62 |
| Alan McManus | 26 | 62 |
| Lukas Kleckers | 24 | 62 |
| Iulian Boiko | 21 | 61 |
| Matthew Stevens | 30 | 60 |
| Jimmy Robertson | 26 | 60 |
| Fan Zhengyi | 22 | 60 |
| Stephen Maguire | 27 | 59 |
| Jimmy White | 28 | 58 |
| Peter Lines | 28 | 56 |
| Noppon Saengkham | 30 | 55 |
| Andy Hicks | 24 | 54 |
| Stuart Carrington | 38 | 50 |
| Gerard Greene | 26 | 49 |
| Zak Surety | 23 | 46 |
| Bai Langning | 13 | 44 |
| Amine Amiri | 9 | 34 |
| Alex Borg | 9 | 26 |
| Stephen Hendry | 3 | 10 |