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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 2 February 2025.[1]
Players ranked 1 - 32
Rank Change Player Earnings
1 Steady  Luke Humphries £1,904,250
2 Steady  Luke Littler £1,136,000
3 Steady  Michael van Gerwen £825,500
4 Steady  Rob Cross £556,750
5 Steady  Stephen Bunting £553,500
6 Increase 1  Jonny Clayton £544,000
7 Decrease 1  Dave Chisnall £533,500
8 Steady  Damon Heta £501,500
9 Steady  Gerwyn Price £490,500
10 Increase 1  Nathan Aspinall £488,000
11 Decrease 1  Chris Dobey £485,250
12 Increase 1  Danny Noppert £461,750
13 Decrease 1  Peter Wright £452,500
14 Increase 1  James Wade £436,750
15 Decrease 1  Gary Anderson £435,500
16 Increase 2  Dimitri Van den Bergh £429,250
17 Decrease 1  Josh Rock £415,000
18 Decrease 2  Michael Smith £410,000
19 Steady  Ryan Searle £408,250
20 Steady  Andrew Gilding £400,500
21 Steady  Ross Smith £400,000
22 Steady  Martin Schindler £370,000
23 Steady  Joe Cullen £362,250
24 Steady  Mike De Decker £361,000
25 Steady  Daryl Gurney £335,250
26 Steady  Dirk van Duijvenbode £326,500
27 Steady  Gian van Veen £301,500
28 Steady  Ritchie Edhouse £290,000
29 Steady  Ryan Joyce £283,000
30 Steady  Ricardo Pietreczko £281,500
31 Steady  Brendan Dolan £272,250
32 Steady  Krzysztof Ratajski £270,250
*Change since 12 January 2025.
PDC Order of Merit as of 2 February 2025.[1]
Players ranked 33 - 64
Rank Change Player Earnings
33 Steady  Luke Woodhouse £263,500
34 Steady  Raymond van Barneveld £252,750
35 Steady  Jermaine Wattimena £245,250
36 Increase 1  Gabriel Clemens £222,250
37 Decrease 1  Scott Williams £221,500
38 Steady  Martin Lukeman £203,500
39 Steady  Cameron Menzies £188,000
40 Steady  Callan Rydz £177,750
41 Steady  Kevin Doets £151,500
42 Increase 1  Mickey Mansell £145,750
43 Decrease 1  Madars Razma £145,500
44 Steady  Ricky Evans £143,250
45 Steady  José de Sousa £139,750
46 Steady  Kim Huybrechts £137,000
47 Steady  Richard Veenstra £125,250
48 Steady  Niels Zonneveld £122,250
49 Steady  Ian White £117,000
49 Increase 3  William O'Connor £117,000
51 Decrease 1  Keane Barry £116,250
52 Decrease 1  Jim Williams £112,250
53 Steady  Florian Hempel £108,000
54 Decrease 1  Matt Campbell £104,000
55 Steady  Wessel Nijman £101,000
56 Steady  Alan Soutar £86,500
57 Steady  Dylan Slevin £83,000
58 Steady  Robert Owen £80,250
59 Steady  Ryan Meikle £79,500
60 Steady  Stephen Burton £78,000
61 Steady  Connor Scutt £77,000
62 Increase 1  Jeffrey de Graaf £76,000
62 Steady  Mensur Suljović £76,000
64 Steady  Nick Kenny £74,250
*Change since 12 January 2025.


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PDC Order of Merit as of 2 February 2025.[1]
Players ranked 65th or lower
Rank Change Player Earnings
65 Steady  Thibault Tricole £58,000
66 Steady  James Hurrell £45,750
67 Steady  Dom Taylor £39,500
68 Steady  Chris Landman £39,250
69 Steady  Mario Vandenbogaerde £31,000
70 Increase 1  Andy Baetens £29,500
71 Decrease 1  Rhys Griffin £28,000
72 Steady  Berry van Peer £24,250
73 Increase 2  Radek Szagański £22,750
74 Decrease 1  Nathan Rafferty £22,250
75 Decrease 1  Steve Lennon £22,000
76 Steady  Lukas Wenig £21,500
77 Increase 3  Jitse Van der Wal £19,000
77 Steady  Patrick Geeraets £19,000
77 Steady  Matthew Dennant £19,000
80 Decrease 1  Darren Beveridge £18,750
81 Steady  Benjamin Reus £18,000
82 Steady  Danny Lauby £17,750
83 Increase 8  William Borland £16,500
83 Steady  Robert Grundy £16,500
85 Steady  Owen Bates £14,750
86 Steady  Brett Claydon £14,500
86 Decrease 2  George Killington £14,500
88 Decrease 1  Adam Hunt £14,250
89 Decrease 2  Martijn Dragt £13,500
90 Decrease 1  Haupai Puha £12,500
91 Decrease 1  Jelle Klaasen £11,750
92 Steady  Joshua Richardson £8,250
93 Decrease 1  Tim Wolters £7,500
94 Steady  Michele Turetta £6,000
95 New entry  Bradley Brooks £5,000
96 Decrease 1  Jules van Dongen £4,000
97 New entry  Darius Labanauskas £2,500
98 New entry  Cameron Crabtree £1,000
98 New entry  Jimmy van Schie £1,000
100 New entry  Adam Lipscombe £750
100 New entry  Aden Kirk £750
100 New entry  Andreas Harrysson £750
100 New entry  Andy Boulton £750
100 New entry  Henry Coates £750
100 New entry  Karel Sedláček £750
100 New entry  Marvin van Velzen £750
100 New entry  Nathan Girvan £750
100 New entry  Oskar Lukasiak £750
100 New entry  Pero Ljubić £750
100 New entry  Ryan Branley £750
100 New entry  Thomas Lovely £750
100 New entry  Tom Bissell £750
*Change since 12 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 28 January 2025.[4]
Rank Change Player Points
1 Steady  Jimmy van Schie 781
2 Increase 1  Danny Porter 629
3 Increase 1  Brandon Weening 542
4 Increase 1  Peter Machin 485
5 Increase 1  Ben Robb 455
6 Increase 10  Brian Raman 404
7 Increase 3  Leonard Gates 403
8 Increase 3  Benjamin Pratnemer 395
9 Steady  Jason Brandon 394
10 Increase 2  Carl Wilkinson 374
11 Increase 2  Thomas Junghans 368
12 Increase 2  Jarno Bottenberg 362
13 Increase 6  James Beeton 357
14 Increase 1  Cliff Prior 338
15 Decrease 8  Alexander Merkx 328
16 Increase 1  Howard Jones 317
17 Increase 7  Neil Duff 310
18 Increase 2  Sybren Gijbels 310
19 Decrease 1  Reece Colley 309
20 Increase 1  Ryan Hogarth 299
21 Increase 7  Corné Groeneveld 293
22 Increase 8  François Schweyen 293
23 Decrease 1  Edwin Torbjörnsson 292
24 Decrease 1  Bradley Kirk 285
25 Increase 1  Shane McGuirk 279
26 Increase 1  Kai Fan Leung 278
27 Increase 2  Darren Johnson 274
28 Increase 3  Xanti van den Bergh 265
29 Increase 3  Liam Maendl-Lawrance 265
30 Increase 3  Scott Walters 258
31 Increase 3  Andy Davidson 253
32 Increase 13  Marko Kantele 240
WDF Women's World Rankings as of 28 January 2025.[5]
Rank Change Player Points
1 Steady  Beau Greaves 1620
2 Increase 1  Rhian O'Sullivan 810
3 Increase 1  Lerena Rietbergen 776
4 Decrease 2  Aileen de Graaf 728
5 Steady  Nicole Regnaud 700
6 Steady  Deta Hedman 686
7 Steady  Lorraine Hyde 649
8 Steady  Jitka Císařová 538
9 Steady  Irina Armstrong 525
10 Steady  Joanne Hadley 523
11 Steady  Desi Mercer 508
12 Steady  Wendy Harper 493
13 Increase 2  Sophie McKinlay 492
14 Steady  Anca Zijlstra 468
15 Increase 1  Gréta Tekauer 447
16 Increase 2  Paige Pauling 443
17 Decrease 4  Amanda Loch 427
18 Increase 6  Kym Mitchell 397
19 Increase 1  Priscilla Steenbergen 393
20 Decrease 3  Kirsty Hutchinson 390
21 Increase 2  Paula Jacklin 389
22 Steady  Aletta Wajer 388
23 Increase 3  Tracy Feiertag 377
24 Increase 3  Vicky Pruim 348
25 Decrease 4  Paula Murphy 330
26 Increase 2  Natalie Gilbert 324
27 Increase 2  Maud Jansson 305
28 Increase 2  Kirsi Viinikainen 294
29 Increase 2  Adriana van Wijgerden 278
30 Increase 3  Noa-Lynn van Leuven 261
31 Decrease 6  Lisa Ashton 249
32 Steady  Veronika Ihász 245

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. 2 February 2025. Retrieved 2 February 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. 28 January 2025. Retrieved 28 January 2025.
  5. ^ "WDF Women's Rankings Table". WDF. 28 January 2025. Retrieved 28 January 2025.
  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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