Darts world rankings

The Darts World Rankings are systems designed to determine a list of the best darts players in the world based on their performances in past tournaments.

In 1993, a group of former world champions and other high-profile players separated from the British Darts Organisation, meaning there were several major governing bodies in the sport. Each organization has its own players, and each has its own ranking system.

After the British Darts Organisation folded in 2020, the two main rankings are now maintained by the World Darts Federation and the Professional Darts Corporation.

The ranking systems are used to arrange tournament seedings, which are so arranged, that the number one player in the world will not face the number two player until the final of a tournament, providing they both reach that final.

PDC World Rankings

Main article: PDC Order of Merit

The Professional Darts Corporation's Ranking is based on the amount of prize money won in ranking tournaments on a two year cycle.

PDC Order of Merit as of 12 January 2025.^[1]

Players ranked 1 - 32
Rank	Change	Player	Earnings
1		Luke Humphries	£1,804,250
2		Luke Littler	£1,118,500
3		Michael van Gerwen	£815,500
4		Rob Cross	£551,750
5		Stephen Bunting	£536,000
6		Dave Chisnall	£528,500
7		Jonny Clayton	£494,000
8		Damon Heta	£484,000
9		Gerwyn Price	£480,500
10		Chris Dobey	£480,250
11		Nathan Aspinall	£470,500
12		Peter Wright	£442,500
13		Danny Noppert	£431,750
14		Gary Anderson	£430,500
15		James Wade	£426,750
16		Josh Rock	£405,000
16		Michael Smith	£405,000
18		Dimitri Van den Bergh	£399,250
19		Ryan Searle	£398,250
20		Andrew Gilding	£395,500
21		Ross Smith	£395,000
22		Martin Schindler	£365,000
23		Joe Cullen	£357,250
24		Mike De Decker	£356,000
25		Daryl Gurney	£334,250
26		Dirk van Duijvenbode	£325,750
27		Gian van Veen	£299,000
28		Ritchie Edhouse	£289,250
29		Ryan Joyce	£282,000
30		Ricardo Pietreczko	£280,750
31		Brendan Dolan	£271,500
32		Krzysztof Ratajski	£267,750
*Change since 3 January 2025.

PDC Order of Merit as of 12 January 2025.^[1]

Players ranked 33 - 64
Rank	Change	Player	Earnings
33		Luke Woodhouse	£262,750
34		Raymond van Barneveld	£252,750
35		Jermaine Wattimena	£240,250
36		Scott Williams	£220,750
37		Gabriel Clemens	£219,750
38		Martin Lukeman	£202,500
39		Cameron Menzies	£178,000
40		Callan Rydz	£177,000
41		Kevin Doets	£146,500
42		Madars Razma	£144,750
43		Mickey Mansell	£143,250
44		Ricky Evans	£142,250
45		José de Sousa	£139,000
46		Kim Huybrechts	£136,000
47		Richard Veenstra	£122,750
48		Niels Zonneveld	£121,250
49		Ian White	£116,250
50		Keane Barry	£115,250
51		Jim Williams	£111,250
52		William O'Connor	£107,000
53		Florian Hempel	£103,000
53		Matt Campbell	£103,000
55		Wessel Nijman	£100,000
56	1	Alan Soutar	£85,500
57	1	Dylan Slevin	£80,500
58	1	Robert Owen	£80,250
59	1	Ryan Meikle	£78,500
60	1	Stephen Burton	£78,000
61	1	Connor Scutt	£77,000
62	1	Mensur Suljović	£75,250
63	1	Jeffrey de Graaf	£75,000
64	1	Nick Kenny	£71,750
*Change since 3 January 2025.

PDC Order of Merit as of 12 January 2025.^[1]

Players ranked 65th or lower
Rank	Change	Player	Earnings
65	9	Thibault Tricole	£57,250
66	13	James Hurrell	£45,750
67	15	Dom Taylor	£39,500
68	16	Chris Landman	£39,250
69	20	Mario Vandenbogaerde	£31,000
70	20	Rhys Griffin	£28,000
71	24	Andy Baetens	£24,500
72	24	Berry van Peer	£23,500
73	26	Nathan Rafferty	£22,250
74	26	Steve Lennon	£22,000
75	26	Radek Szagański	£21,750
76	26	Lukas Wenig	£21,500
77	31	Patrick Geeraets	£19,000
77	31	Matthew Dennant	£19,000
79	32	Darren Beveridge	£18,750
80	33	Jitse Van der Wal	£18,250
81	33	Benjamin Reus	£18,000
82	34	Danny Lauby	£17,000
83	35	Robert Grundy	£16,500
84	40	George Killington	£14,500
85	40	Owen Bates	£14,000
86	40	Brett Claydon	£13,750
87	40	Martijn Dragt	£13,500
87	40	Adam Hunt	£13,500
89	41	Haupai Puha	£12,500
90	45	Jelle Klaasen	£11,750
91	45	William Borland	£11,500
92	53	Tim Wolters	£7,500
92	53	Joshua Richardson	£7,500
94	69	Michele Turetta	£6,000
95	75	Jules van Dongen	£4,000
*Change since 3 January 2025.

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WDF World rankings

The rankings are based on a cumulative points system, calculated on a rolling one-year basis. When a tournament is played, the previous year's results are removed from the rankings and the new tournament scores are used. This list is used to determine seeds for some of the WDF Opens. The World Darts Federation ranking system is designed to provide a measure of the global activities of darts players in every WDF recognized darts event. It used to be very similar to the BDO system but was revised in January 2007 to include categories by country and by events, and the distribution of ranking points reflect the levels of prize money on offer and the numbers of entries in a tournament. Players gain points in six levels of categorized events and prize money and at the end of the season the leading players receive monetary bonus rewards from the WDF.^[2]

Current points distribution

Points are currently awarded as follows:^[3]

Current rankings

WDF Men's World Rankings as of 8 December 2024.^[4]

Rank	Change	Player	Points
1		Jimmy van Schie	826
2		Wesley Plaisier	689
3		Danny Porter	629
4		Brandon Weening	542
5	3	Peter Machin	485
6	1	Ben Robb	455
7	2	Alexander Merkx	446
8	1	Connor Scutt	445
9	4	Jason Brandon	432
10	4	Leonard Gates	424
11	1	Benjamin Pratnemer	395
12	1	Carl Wilkinson	378
13	1	Thomas Junghans	368
14		Jarno Bottenberg	362
15		Cliff Prior	338
16	2	Brian Raman	327
17		Howard Jones	317
18	2	Reece Colley	309
19	1	James Beeton	302
20	7	Sybren Gijbels	302
21	1	Ryan Hogarth	299
22	3	Edwin Torbjörnsson	292
23		Bradley Kirk	285
24		Neil Duff	284
25		Jeff Smith	283
26		Shane McGuirk	279
27	1	Kai Fan Leung	278
28	2	Corné Groeneveld	275
29	8	Darren Johnson	274
30	33	François Schweyen	268
31	3	Xanti van den Bergh	265
32	3	Liam Maendl-Lawrance	265

WDF Women's World Rankings as of 8 December 2024.^[5]

Rank	Change	Player	Points
1		Beau Greaves	1800
2		Aileen de Graaf	805
3		Rhian O'Sullivan	751
4	2	Lerena Rietbergen	729
5		Nicole Regnaud	722
6	1	Deta Hedman	691
7	3	Lorraine Hyde	684
8	2	Jitka Císařová	538
9		Irina Armstrong	525
10	2	Joanne Hadley	523
11	1	Desi Mercer	508
12	1	Wendy Harper	504
13	1	Amanda Loch	483
14	1	Anca Zijlstra	482
15	13	Sophie McKinlay	457
16	1	Gréta Tekauer	447
17	1	Kirsty Hutchinson	446
18	2	Paige Pauling	443
19	2	Fallon Sherrock	428
20	1	Priscilla Steenbergen	411
21	1	Paula Murphy	406
22	1	Aletta Wajer	406
23	2	Paula Jacklin	394
24	4	Kym Mitchell	389
25	1	Lisa Ashton	352
26	2	Tracy Feiertag	352
27	2	Vicky Pruim	348
28	1	Natalie Gilbert	316
29		Maud Jansson	305
30	4	Kirsi Viinikainen	286
31	1	Adriana van Wijgerden	278
32	1	Veronika Ihász	271

Previous World Number Ones (Men's, WDF)

The following is a list of players who ended the year ranked number one in the WDF.^[6]

• 1976 Harry Crane
• 1977 John Lowe
• 1978 Leighton Rees
• 1979 John Lowe (2)
• 1980 Eric Bristow
• 1981 Eric Bristow (2)
• 1982 Jocky Wilson
• 1983 Eric Bristow (3)
• 1984 Eric Bristow (4)
• 1985 Eric Bristow (5)
• 1986 John Lowe (3)
• 1987 Bob Anderson
• 1988 John Lowe (4)
• 1989 Bob Anderson (2)
• 1990 Eric Bristow (6)
• 1991 Phil Taylor
• 1992 Rod Harrington
• 1993 Leo Laurens
• 1994 Steve Beaton
• 1995 Richie Burnett
• 1996 Martin Adams
• 1997 Martin Adams (2)
• 1998 Ronnie Baxter
• 1999 Raymond van Barneveld
• 2000 Raymond van Barneveld (2)
• 2001 Mervyn King
• 2002 John Walton
• 2003 Martin Adams (3)
• 2004 Raymond van Barneveld (3)
• 2005 Raymond van Barneveld (4)
• 2006 Martin Adams (4)
• 2007 Gary Anderson
• 2008 Scott Waites
• 2009 Tony O'Shea
• 2010 Martin Adams (5)^[7]
• 2011 Scott Waites (2)^[8]
• 2012 Stephen Bunting^[9]
• 2013 James Wilson^[10]
• 2014 Alan Norris^[11]
• 2015 Darius Labanauskas^[12]
• 2016 Darius Labanauskas (2)^[13]
• 2017 Scott Mitchell^[14]
• 2018  Jim Williams
• 2019  Nick Kenny
• 2020  Wayne Warren
• 2021  Brian Raman
• 2022  Jelle Klaasen
• 2023  Andy Baetens

BDO rankings

The BDO Invitational Table relates only to registered playing members of the BDO, who comply with BDO and World Darts Federation (WDF) eligibility rules, including terms and conditions of the 1997 Tomlin Order.

The BDO awards points depending on a player's performances within each of its events and other BDO-recognised qualifying events. Forty-nine points are awarded to the champion of each of its three Major Events – The Lakeside World Professional Championship, The Bavaria World Darts Trophy and the Winmau World Masters and A+ events. Lower points are awarded for each round of the tournament reached. Other events are placed into Category A, B, C, and D based on the prize pool and number of payouts, with points for placings slowly decreasing.^[15] Only the best 12 placings are added for a player's ranking.

Final rankings

Following a cease in tournaments due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the BDO stopped publishing rankings on 18 March 2020. The BDO having entered liquidation in September of that year, what follows are the final published rankings by the organisation.

Final BDO Men's World Rankings as of 18 March 2020.^[16]

Rank	Player	Points
1	Jim Williams	381
2	Wesley Harms	357
3	Wayne Warren	329
4	Nick Kenny	307
5	Michael Warburton	306
6	Richard Veenstra	261
7	Dave Parletti	259
8	Martijn Kleermaker	253
9	David Evans	250
10	Mario Vandenbogaerde	247

BDO Women's World Rankings as of 18 March 2020.^[17]

Rank	Player	Points
1	Lisa Ashton	431
2	Beau Greaves	415
3	Fallon Sherrock	406
4	Anastasia Dobromyslova	359
5	Lorraine Winstanley	348
6	Aileen de Graaf	336
7	Mikuru Suzuki	329
8	Deta Hedman	321
9	Laura Turner	307
10	Maria O'Brien	274

Notes and references

1. "PDC Order of Merit". PDPA. 12 January 2025. Retrieved 12 January 2025.
2. "WDF World Rankings Systems: 2013 Monetary Awards". WDF. 4 January 2014. Retrieved 12 January 2014.
3. "WDF Rules". WDF. Retrieved 22 October 2020.
4. "WDF Men's Rankings Table". WDF. 8 December 2024. Retrieved 8 December 2024.
5. "WDF Women's Rankings Table". WDF. 8 December 2024. Retrieved 8 December 2024.
6. WDF Roll of Honour (previous world number ones) Archived 10 July 2010 at the Wayback Machine
7. "WDF Monetary Awards: Wolfie & Deta top the 2010 rankings : World Darts Federation". Dartswdf.com. 22 December 2010. Retrieved 24 December 2015.
8. "WDF Monetary Awards: Scott & Deta Top The 2011 Rankings : World Darts Federation". Dartswdf.com. 22 December 2011. Retrieved 24 December 2015.
9. "WDF Awards 2012 : World Darts Federation". Dartswdf.com. 10 January 2013. Retrieved 24 December 2015.
10. "WDF World Rankings Systems: 2013 Monetary Awards : World Darts Federation". Dartswdf.com. 4 January 2014. Retrieved 24 December 2015.
11. "WDF World Rankings Systems: 2014 Monetary Awards : World Darts Federation". Dartswdf.com. 7 January 2015. Retrieved 24 December 2015.
12. "WDF World Rankings Systems: 2015 Monetary Awards". Dartswdf.com. 13 December 2015. Retrieved 3 January 2018.
13. "WDF World Rankings Systems 2016 – Monetary Awards". Dartswdf.com. 17 December 2016. Retrieved 3 January 2018.
14. "WDF World Rankings Systems 2017 – Monetary Awards". Dartswdf.com. 24 December 2016. Retrieved 3 January 2018.
15. "Handbook and BDO documentation: Section J – Invitation Tables Men's 2013/14" (PDF). BDO. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 January 2014. Retrieved 12 January 2014.
16. "BDO Men's Rankings Table". BDO. 18 March 2020. Retrieved 18 March 2020.
17. "BDO Women's Rankings Table". BDO. 18 March 2020. Retrieved 18 March 2020.

External links

• Tables : World Darts Federation
• https://web.archive.org/web/20160125183750/http://www.bdodarts.com/images/bdo-content/rules/gd/BDO_Invitation_Rules.pdf