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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

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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 Steady  Luke Humphries £1,804,250
2 Steady  Luke Littler £1,118,500
3 Steady  Michael van Gerwen £815,500
4 Steady  Rob Cross £551,750
5 Steady  Stephen Bunting £536,000
6 Steady  Dave Chisnall £528,500
7 Steady  Jonny Clayton £494,000
8 Steady  Damon Heta £484,000
9 Steady  Gerwyn Price £480,500
10 Steady  Chris Dobey £480,250
11 Steady  Nathan Aspinall £470,500
12 Steady  Peter Wright £442,500
13 Steady  Danny Noppert £431,750
14 Steady  Gary Anderson £430,500
15 Steady  James Wade £426,750
16 Steady  Josh Rock £405,000
16 Steady  Michael Smith £405,000
18 Steady  Dimitri Van den Bergh £399,250
19 Steady  Ryan Searle £398,250
20 Steady  Andrew Gilding £395,500
21 Steady  Ross Smith £395,000
22 Steady  Martin Schindler £365,000
23 Steady  Joe Cullen £357,250
24 Steady  Mike De Decker £356,000
25 Steady  Daryl Gurney £334,250
26 Steady  Dirk van Duijvenbode £325,750
27 Steady  Gian van Veen £299,000
28 Steady  Ritchie Edhouse £289,250
29 Steady  Ryan Joyce £282,000
30 Steady  Ricardo Pietreczko £280,750
31 Steady  Brendan Dolan £271,500
32 Steady  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 Steady  Luke Woodhouse £262,750
34 Steady  Raymond van Barneveld £252,750
35 Steady  Jermaine Wattimena £240,250
36 Steady  Scott Williams £220,750
37 Steady  Gabriel Clemens £219,750
38 Steady  Martin Lukeman £202,500
39 Steady  Cameron Menzies £178,000
40 Steady  Callan Rydz £177,000
41 Steady  Kevin Doets £146,500
42 Steady  Madars Razma £144,750
43 Steady  Mickey Mansell £143,250
44 Steady  Ricky Evans £142,250
45 Steady  José de Sousa £139,000
46 Steady  Kim Huybrechts £136,000
47 Steady  Richard Veenstra £122,750
48 Steady  Niels Zonneveld £121,250
49 Steady  Ian White £116,250
50 Steady  Keane Barry £115,250
51 Steady  Jim Williams £111,250
52 Steady  William O'Connor £107,000
53 Steady  Florian Hempel £103,000
53 Steady  Matt Campbell £103,000
55 Steady  Wessel Nijman £100,000
56 Increase 1  Alan Soutar £85,500
57 Increase 1  Dylan Slevin £80,500
58 Increase 1  Robert Owen £80,250
59 Increase 1  Ryan Meikle £78,500
60 Increase 1  Stephen Burton £78,000
61 Increase 1  Connor Scutt £77,000
62 Increase 1  Mensur Suljović £75,250
63 Increase 1  Jeffrey de Graaf £75,000
64 Increase 1  Nick Kenny £71,750
*Change since 3 January 2025.


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PDC Order of Merit as of 12 January 2025.[1]
Players ranked 65th or lower
Rank Change Player Earnings
65 Increase 9  Thibault Tricole £57,250
66 Increase 13  James Hurrell £45,750
67 Increase 15  Dom Taylor £39,500
68 Increase 16  Chris Landman £39,250
69 Increase 20  Mario Vandenbogaerde £31,000
70 Increase 20  Rhys Griffin £28,000
71 Increase 24  Andy Baetens £24,500
72 Increase 24  Berry van Peer £23,500
73 Increase 26  Nathan Rafferty £22,250
74 Increase 26  Steve Lennon £22,000
75 Increase 26  Radek Szagański £21,750
76 Increase 26  Lukas Wenig £21,500
77 Increase 31  Patrick Geeraets £19,000
77 Increase 31  Matthew Dennant £19,000
79 Increase 32  Darren Beveridge £18,750
80 Increase 33  Jitse Van der Wal £18,250
81 Increase 33  Benjamin Reus £18,000
82 Increase 34  Danny Lauby £17,000
83 Increase 35  Robert Grundy £16,500
84 Increase 40  George Killington £14,500
85 Increase 40  Owen Bates £14,000
86 Increase 40  Brett Claydon £13,750
87 Increase 40  Martijn Dragt £13,500
87 Increase 40  Adam Hunt £13,500
89 Increase 41  Haupai Puha £12,500
90 Increase 45  Jelle Klaasen £11,750
91 Increase 45  William Borland £11,500
92 Increase 53  Tim Wolters £7,500
92 Increase 53  Joshua Richardson £7,500
94 Increase 69  Michele Turetta £6,000
95 Increase 75  Jules van Dongen £4,000
*Change since 3 January 2025.

WDF World rankings

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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

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Points are currently awarded as follows:[3]

Current rankings

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WDF Men's World Rankings as of 8 December 2024.[4]
Rank Change Player Points
1 Steady  Jimmy van Schie 826
2 Steady  Wesley Plaisier 689
3 Steady  Danny Porter 629
4 Steady  Brandon Weening 542
5 Increase 3  Peter Machin 485
6 Increase 1  Ben Robb 455
7 Decrease 2  Alexander Merkx 446
8 Increase 1  Connor Scutt 445
9 Increase 4  Jason Brandon 432
10 Decrease 4  Leonard Gates 424
11 Decrease 1  Benjamin Pratnemer 395
12 Decrease 1  Carl Wilkinson 378
13 Decrease 1  Thomas Junghans 368
14 Steady  Jarno Bottenberg 362
15 Steady  Cliff Prior 338
16 Increase 2  Brian Raman 327
17 Steady  Howard Jones 317
18 Decrease 2  Reece Colley 309
19 Increase 1  James Beeton 302
20 Increase 7  Sybren Gijbels 302
21 Increase 1  Ryan Hogarth 299
22 Decrease 3  Edwin Torbjörnsson 292
23 Steady  Bradley Kirk 285
24 Steady  Neil Duff 284
25 Steady  Jeff Smith 283
26 New entry  Shane McGuirk 279
27 Decrease 1  Kai Fan Leung 278
28 Increase 2  Corné Groeneveld 275
29 Decrease 8  Darren Johnson 274
30 Increase 33  François Schweyen 268
31 Decrease 3  Xanti van den Bergh 265
32 Decrease 3  Liam Maendl-Lawrance 265
WDF Women's World Rankings as of 8 December 2024.[5]
Rank Change Player Points
1 Steady  Beau Greaves 1800
2 Steady  Aileen de Graaf 805
3 Steady  Rhian O'Sullivan 751
4 Increase 2  Lerena Rietbergen 729
5 Steady  Nicole Regnaud 722
6 Increase 1  Deta Hedman 691
7 Decrease 3  Lorraine Hyde 684
8 Increase 2  Jitka Císařová 538
9 Steady  Irina Armstrong 525
10 Decrease 2  Joanne Hadley 523
11 Increase 1  Desi Mercer 508
12 Decrease 1  Wendy Harper 504
13 Increase 1  Amanda Loch 483
14 Decrease 1  Anca Zijlstra 482
15 Increase 13  Sophie McKinlay 457
16 Decrease 1  Gréta Tekauer 447
17 Increase 1  Kirsty Hutchinson 446
18 Decrease 2  Paige Pauling 443
19 Decrease 2  Fallon Sherrock 428
20 Decrease 1  Priscilla Steenbergen 411
21 Increase 1  Paula Murphy 406
22 Increase 1  Aletta Wajer 406
23 Decrease 2  Paula Jacklin 394
24 Decrease 4  Kym Mitchell 389
25 Increase 1  Lisa Ashton 352
26 Decrease 2  Tracy Feiertag 352
27 Decrease 2  Vicky Pruim 348
28 Decrease 1  Natalie Gilbert 316
29 Steady  Maud Jansson 305
30 Increase 4  Kirsi Viinikainen 286
31 Decrease 1  Adriana van Wijgerden 278
32 Decrease 1  Veronika Ihász 271

Previous World Number Ones (Men's, WDF)

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

BDO rankings

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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

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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

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i "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.
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