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PDC Order of Merit

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The PDC Order of Merit is a world ranking system used by one of the darts organisations, the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC). Following the 2007 PDC World Darts Championship it superseded a world ranking system based on points being awarded for performances in ranking tournaments.[1]

Methodology

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The Professional Darts Corporation adopted an Order of Merit system in 2007, which is based on prize money won over two years for the main Order of Merit and separate one-year rankings for other PDC Pro Tour events.

PDC Order of Merit

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PDC Order of Merit as of 25 May 2025.[2]
Players ranked 1 - 32
Rank Change Player Earnings
1 Steady  Luke Humphries £1,873,750
2 Steady  Luke Littler £1,300,500
3 Steady  Michael van Gerwen £734,750
4 Steady  Stephen Bunting £573,750
5 Increase 1  Jonny Clayton £545,250
6 Decrease 1  Rob Cross £506,250
7 Steady  Chris Dobey £504,500
8 Increase 1  James Wade £500,500
9 Increase 1  Nathan Aspinall £496,000
10 Decrease 2  Damon Heta £495,750
11 Steady  Gerwyn Price £476,000
12 Increase 1  Gary Anderson £471,750
13 Decrease 1  Dave Chisnall £469,250
14 Steady  Ross Smith £445,750
15 Increase 2  Danny Noppert £445,000
16 Steady  Peter Wright £440,750
17 Decrease 2  Josh Rock £434,750
18 Steady  Martin Schindler £415,750
19 Steady  Ryan Searle £408,750
20 Steady  Michael Smith £396,250
21 Steady  Mike De Decker £382,000
22 Steady  Dimitri Van den Bergh £379,500
23 Steady  Gian van Veen £371,000
24 Steady  Joe Cullen £364,500
25 Steady  Daryl Gurney £325,500
26 Steady  Ryan Joyce £322,500
27 Steady  Ritchie Edhouse £312,500
28 Steady  Andrew Gilding £299,750
29 Steady  Ricardo Pietreczko £299,500
30 Steady  Luke Woodhouse £291,250
31 Steady  Dirk van Duijvenbode £281,250
32 Decrease 1  Krzysztof Ratajski £271,250
*Change since 13 May 2025.
PDC Order of Merit as of 25 May 2025.[2]
Players ranked 33 - 64
Rank Change Player Earnings
33 Steady  Jermaine Wattimena £270,750
34 Steady  Brendan Dolan £261,750
35 Steady  Raymond van Barneveld £258,500
36 Steady  Cameron Menzies £249,000
37 Steady  Scott Williams £236,750
38 Steady  Martin Lukeman £224,000
39 Steady  Gabriel Clemens £206,500
40 Steady  Callan Rydz £179,250
41 Steady  Kevin Doets £176,000
42 Steady  Mickey Mansell £158,000
43 Increase 3  Wessel Nijman £153,500
44 Decrease 1  Ricky Evans £149,750
45 Decrease 1  Madars Razma £146,750
46 Decrease 1  Niels Zonneveld £143,000
47 Steady  William O'Connor £137,500
48 Steady  Kim Huybrechts £121,000
49 Steady  Ian White £116,500
49 Steady  Richard Veenstra £116,500
51 Steady  José de Sousa £113,000
52 Steady  Florian Hempel £107,500
53 Steady  Keane Barry £100,500
54 Steady  Matt Campbell £98,750
55 Steady  Jim Williams £96,750
56 Steady  Connor Scutt £95,250
57 Increase 1  Robert Owen £93,250
58 Decrease 1  Alan Soutar £93,000
59 Steady  Jeffrey de Graaf £92,500
60 Steady  Nick Kenny £90,000
61 Steady  Stephen Burton £89,750
62 Steady  Mensur Suljović £84,000
63 Increase 1  Ryan Meikle £80,000
64 Decrease 1  Dylan Slevin £79,000
*Change since 13 May 2025.
Click "show" to view players ranked outside top 64
PDC Order of Merit as of 25 May 2025.[2]
Players ranked 65th or lower
Rank Change Player Earnings
65 Steady  Thibault Tricole £72,750
66 Steady  Dom Taylor £63,000
67 Steady  James Hurrell £59,000
68 Steady  Mario Vandenbogaerde £53,250
69 Decrease 1  Chris Landman £50,750
70 Steady  Matthew Dennant £37,250
71 Steady  Andy Baetens £36,500
72 Steady  Berry van Peer £36,250
73 Steady  Patrick Geeraets £34,250
74 Steady  Rhys Griffin £34,000
75 Steady  Nathan Rafferty £33,750
76 Increase 17  Niko Springer £33,250
77 Decrease 1  Steve Lennon £33,000
78 Decrease 1  Lukas Wenig £32,000
79 Decrease 2  Darren Beveridge £30,750
80 Decrease 1  Radek Szagański £30,500
81 Decrease 1  Adam Hunt £28,500
81 Decrease 1  Jitse Van der Wal £28,500
83 Decrease 1  Jelle Klaasen £28,250
84 Decrease 1  Owen Bates £27,500
85 Decrease 1  Danny Lauby £26,750
86 Decrease 1  Karel Sedláček £26,500
87 Decrease 1  William Borland £24,500
87 Decrease 1  Martijn Dragt £24,500
89 Decrease 1  Haupai Puha £24,000
90 Decrease 1  Adam Lipscombe £23,750
91 Decrease 1  Robert Grundy £22,750
92 Decrease 1  Benjamin Reus £22,500
93 Decrease 1  George Killington £22,000
94 Steady  Dominik Grüllich £20,750
95 Steady  Sebastian Białecki £20,000
95 Steady  Brett Claydon £20,000
97 Steady  Darius Labanauskas £18,250
98 Steady  Cam Crabtree £17,750
99 Increase 2  Max Hopp £16,750
100 Decrease 1  Justin Hood £16,500
101 Decrease 1  Bradley Brooks £15,250
102 Increase 5  Maik Kuivenhoven £13,250
102 Steady  Joshua Richardson £13,250
102 Steady  Thomas Lovely £13,250
105 Decrease 1  Andy Boulton £13,000
105 Decrease 1  Michele Turetta £13,000
107 Decrease 1  Darryl Pilgrim £12,750
108 Steady  Jim Long £11,750
109 Steady  Christian Kist £11,000
110 Increase 2  Wesley Plaisier £10,250
111 Decrease 1  Stefan Bellmont £9,500
112 Decrease 1  Marvin van Velzen £9,250
113 Increase 8  Boris Krčmar £9,000
113 Decrease 1  Tom Bissell £9,000
115 Decrease 1  Tim Wolters £8,500
116 Decrease 1  Leon Weber £8,000
116 Decrease 1  Carl Sneyd £8,000
118 Decrease 1  Jimmy van Schie £7,500
118 Decrease 1  Tavis Dudeney £7,500
120 Decrease 1  Greg Ritchie £7,000
120 Decrease 1  Kevin Burness £7,000
122 Decrease 1  Rusty-Jake Rodriguez £6,500
123 Steady  Oskar Lukasiak £6,250
124 Steady  Ted Evetts £6,000
125 Steady  Stefaan Henderyck £5,500
125 Steady  Beau Greaves £5,500
127 Steady  Daniel Klose £5,000
127 Steady  Tytus Kanik £5,000
127 Steady  Tommy Lishman £5,000
127 Steady  Adam Warner £5,000
127 Steady  Jurjen van der Velde £5,000
132 Steady  Alexander Merkx £4,500
132 Steady  Maximilian Czerwinski £4,500
132 Steady  Danny van Trijp £4,500
132 Steady  Tom Sykes £4,500
132 Steady  Cor Dekker £4,500
137 Steady  Adam Paxton £4,250
137 Steady  Andreas Harrysson £4,250
139 Increase 14  Jeffrey Sparidaans £4,000
139 Steady  Jarno Bottenberg £4,000
139 Steady  Kai Gotthardt £4,000
139 Steady  Jules van Dongen £4,000
143 Decrease 1  Michael Unterbuchner £3,750
143 Decrease 1  Aden Kirk £3,750
145 Decrease 1  Nathan Girvan £3,250
146 Decrease 1  Graham Hall £3,000
147 Decrease 1  Jamai van den Herik £2,500
147 Decrease 1  Viktor Tingström £2,500
147 Increase 7  Teemu Harju £2,500
147 Decrease 1  Johan Engström £2,500
147 Decrease 1  Paul Krohne £2,500
147 Decrease 1  Graham Usher £2,500
147 Decrease 1  Mervyn King £2,500
154 Decrease 2  Pero Ljubić £2,250
155 New entry  Jeffrey de Zwaan £1,250
155 New entry  Jerry Hendriks £1,250
155 Decrease 1  Benjamin Pratnemer £1,250
155 Decrease 1  Marcel Erba £1,250
155 Decrease 1  Christian Gödl £1,250
155 Decrease 1  György Jehirszki £1,250
155 Decrease 1  Rowby-John Rodriguez £1,250
155 Decrease 1  Zoran Lerchbacher £1,250
155 Decrease 1  András Borbély £1,250
155 Decrease 1  Finn Behrens £1,250
155 Decrease 1  Michael Rosenauer £1,250
155 Decrease 1  René Eidams £1,250
155 Decrease 1  Kevin Knopf £1,250
155 Decrease 1  Patrick Klingelhöfer £1,250
155 Decrease 1  Paul Goyer £1,250
155 Decrease 1  Petr Křivka £1,250
155 Decrease 1  Laurin Welk £1,250
155 Decrease 1  Marko Kantele £1,250
155 Decrease 1  Cedric Waegemans £1,250
155 Decrease 1  François Schweyen £1,250
155 Decrease 1  Patrick De Backer £1,250
155 Decrease 1  Sybren Gijbels £1,250
177 Decrease 2  Sam Spivey £1,000
177 Decrease 2  Scott Campbell £1,000
177 Decrease 2  Paul Rowley £1,000
177 Decrease 2  Shaun Fox £1,000
177 Decrease 2  Simon Stevenson £1,000
177 Decrease 2  Tommy Morris £1,000
177 Decrease 2  Michael Flynn £1,000
184 Decrease 2  Henry Coates £750
184 Decrease 2  Ryan Branley £750
*Change since 13 May 2025.

Secondary Orders of Merit

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In addition to the main two-year Order of Merit, the PDC also operates secondary Orders of Merit for their different tours. These include the:

  • ProTour Order of Merit, which counts money earned in Players Championships and European Tour events over a 12-month rolling period. In addition to qualification for televised tournaments, this ranking determines the seedings for Pro Tour events.[3]
  • European Tour Order of Merit, which counts money earned in European Tour events during the calendar year. The top 32 on this ranking list comprise the qualifiers for the European Championship, all seeded, at the end of the year.[4]
  • Players Championship Order of Merit, which counts money earned in Player Championship events during the calendar year. The top 64 on this ranking list are the seeded qualifiers to the Players Championship Finals.[5]
  • Challenge Tour Order of Merit, which counts money earned on the Challenge Tour (by non Tour Card holders that participated in Q-School) during the calendar year. The top players at the end of the year qualify for the World Championship, UK Open, and receive Tour Cards.[6]
  • Development Tour Order of Merit, which counts money earned on the Development Tour (by Tour Card holders and non Tour Card holders alike, aged 16–23) during the calendar year. The top players at the end of the year qualify for the World Championship, UK Open, and receive Tour Cards.[7]
  • Women's Series Order of Merit, which was introduced in 2021 after the first women's series events were introduced in 2020.[8] The tournament series qualifies two women to the Grand Slam, and World Championship.[9]

Player exemptions and seedings

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The PDC rankings from all orders of merit determine exemptions from the qualifying competitions and seedings for all televised events. Additionally, the orders of merit are used to offer tour cards for the following year.

PDC Order of Merit Exemptions[8]
Tournament Qualifiers (seeds)
By Order of Merit Other
Main PT ET PC WS CT DT WO
Ranked televised events
World Championship 32 (32) 32 — 2 2 2 26
World Masters 24 (16)[a] — [nb 1] [nb 1] [nb 1] 8[b]
UK Open TCH — 8 8 — 16
World Matchplay 16 (16) 16 —
World Grand Prix 16 (16) 16 —
European Championship — 32 (32) —
Grand Slam of Darts 0 (8) — 2 2 2 18
Players Championship Finals — 64 (64) —
PDC Pro Tour
European Tour events 16 (16) 16 — 16
Players Championship events TCH 0 (32) —
Non-ranked televised events
Premier League Darts 4 — 4
World Series of Darts Finals — 8 (8) — 24
Tour Cards 64 — 2 2 — var
  1. ^ a b c The top 8 non-tour card holders will enter at the preliminary round group stage
  1. ^ Players Ranked 25–56 will enter at the last 64 of the preliminary round, while Players Ranked 57–88 will be seeded in the preliminary round group stage, and Players Ranked 89–128 will enter at the preliminary rounded group stage non-seeded[10]
  2. ^ The 8 qualifiers from the preliminary round


Ranking tournaments

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The PDC holds a variety of ranked and unranked televised tournaments throughout the year. There are an additional selection of ranked floor and streamed tournaments that comprise the PDC Pro Tour, as well as unranked secondary tours and events such as the Challenge Tour, Development Tour, and event qualifiers. Money earned in all ranking events counts toward the Order of Merit, with none counting from the unranked events.[8]

PDC Ranking Tournaments with Payouts[8]
Tournament Prize money
Total Champion Runner-up Semi-finalists Top 8 Top 16 Top 32 Top 64 Top 96 Top 128
Ranked televised events
World Championship £2,500,000 £500,000 £200,000 £100,000 £50,000 £35,000 £25,000 £15,000 £7,500 —
UK Open £600,000 £110,000 £50,000 £30,000 £15,000 £10,000 £5,000 £2,500 £1,500 £1,000
World Matchplay £800,000 £200,000 £100,000 £50,000 £30,000 £15,000 £10,000 —
World Grand Prix £600,000 £120,000 £60,000 £40,000 £25,000 £15,000 £7,500 —
European Championship £600,000 £120,000 £60,000 £40,000 £25,000 £15,000 £7,500 —
Grand Slam of Darts[A] £650,000 £150,000 £70,000 £50,000 £25,000 £12,250 £5,000[B] —
Players Championship Finals £600,000 £120,000 £60,000 £30,000 £20,000 £10,000 £6,500 £3,000 —
PDC Pro Tour[C]
13 European Tour events £175,000 £30,000 £12,000 £8,500 £6,000 £4,000 £2,500[D] £1,250[E] —
30 Players Championship events £125,000 £15,000 £10,000 £5,000 £3,500 £2,500 £1,500 £1,000 —
Total yearly ranking payouts £11,625,000 £2,070,000 £996,000 £1,141,000 £1,432,000 £1,822,000 £2,208,000 £1,636,000 £288,000 £32,000
  1. ^ The Grand Slam pays an additional £3,500 to the 8 group winners.
  2. ^ The Grand Slam pays £8,000 and £5,000 for third and fourth place finishers respectively in the group stage, which comprise the top 32.
  3. ^ The 2020 PDC Pro Tour was reduced to 4 European Tour events and 23 Players Championships due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
  4. ^ The 16 seeded players at a European Tour event do not receive money toward OoM for a top 32 finish.
  5. ^ European Tour events pay out to 48 players (the complete field).

Unranked tournaments

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The PDC operates additional unranked tournaments for tour card holders and occasional qualifiers throughout the year. This includes three televised premier invitational events comprising the Premier League, World Series of Darts Finals, and the World Cup of Darts pairs event.[11][12] Although none of these events count toward the Order of Merit, they all award some number of tournament spots based on Order of Merit position. Additionally there are usually five to seven World Series of Darts events scheduled across the globe each year with eight top PDC players seeded over eight local qualifiers.[8]

Secondary tours and tournaments

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The PDC also offers secondary tours that do not count toward the main Order of Merit, but do each include their own confined orders of merit. The Challenge Tour is open to any players who played at the most recent Q-School but failed to earn a tour card. Throughout the year, the top players on the Challenge Tour OoM are invited to fill openings on the Pro Tour, receive invitations to the World Championship and UK Open, and at the end of the year receive tour cards for the next two years.[8]

The Development Tour is open to players outside of the top 32 on the main Order of Merit who are between the ages of 16 and 23. Similarly to the Challenge Tour, the top players on the Development Tour order of merit receive tour cards and invitations to the UK Open and World Championship. Additionally, 96 players - comprising 16 invitations, tour card holders of the appropriate age, and Development Tour competitors - partake in the World Youth Championship. Although this championship does not count toward any order of merit, there is a £60,000 payout, and the finalists receive tour cards as well as berths in the Grand Slam and World Championship.[8]

Previous world ranking system

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Under the previous ranking points system, Colin Lloyd was the world number one player in the PDC for most of 2005 and 2006, despite most of the major titles being shared between Phil Taylor, Raymond van Barneveld and John Part. Although Lloyd also won two major titles, he often accumulated ranking points in the less prestigious non-televised events, in which Taylor did not always compete. Similarly, Alan Warriner was world number one on four occasions before ever winning his first and only PDC major, the 2001 Grand Prix, while Taylor won eight world championships and a host of other titles during that period.

Previous World Number Ones

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PDC Ranking Leaders Timeline[13][14]

13 players have held the position of World Number One since the World Darts Council started new rankings in 1993. Seven different players held the position in the old points system, and seven players have held the position since the PDC switched to the two-year earnings based Order of Merit system in 2007, with Phil Taylor being the only player to have been number one in both eras.

Player # Years in which player stood Number 1
England Phil Taylor 13
  • 1996
  • 2000
  • 2002
  • 2003
  • 2004
  • 2006
  • 2007
  • 2008
  • 2009
  • 2010
  • 2011
  • 2012
  • 2013
Netherlands Michael van Gerwen 7
  • 2014
  • 2015
  • 2016
  • 2017
  • 2018
  • 2019
  • 2020
England Alan Warriner 6
  • 1993
  • 1994
  • 1997
  • 1998
  • 2001
  • 2002
England Rod Harrington 5
  • 1995
  • 1996
  • 1998
  • 1999
  • 2000
England Colin Lloyd 3
  • 2005
  • 2006
  • 2007
England Dennis Priestley 2
  • 1994
  • 1995
England Peter Manley 2
  • 2000
  • 2001
Wales Gerwyn Price 2
  • 2021
  • 2022
England Luke Humphries 2
  • 2024
  • 2025
Netherlands Raymond van Barneveld 1 2008
Canada John Part 1 2003
Scotland Peter Wright 1 2022
England Michael Smith 1 2023
Italic indicates the player was reigning world champion that year
Bold indicates the player stood number one at the conclusion of that year's world championship

Periods

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No. Player(s) From Length Ref.
1  Alan Warriner-Little January 1993 Incarnation of the WDC 674 days[A] [13]
2  Dennis Priestley 6 November 1994 1994 Lada UK Masters 155 [13][15]
3  Rod Harrington 10 April 1995 1995 UK Matchplay 479 days[A] [13][15]
4  Phil Taylor August 1996 31 days[A] [13][15]
 Alan Warriner-Little (2) September 1996 699 days[A] [13][15]
 Rod Harrington (2) 1 August 1998 1998 World Matchplay 728 days [13][15]
 Phil Taylor (2) 29 July 2000 2000 World Matchplay 57 days [13][15]
5  Peter Manley 24 September 2000 2000 Windy City Open 399 days [13][15]
 Alan Warriner-Little (3) 28 October 2001 2001 World Grand Prix 69 days [13][15]
Alan Warriner-Little (4) and Phil Taylor (3) 5 January 2002 2002 World Championship 28 days [13][15]
 Alan Warriner-Little (5) 2 February 2002 2002 Eastbourne Open 88 days[A] [13][15]
 Phil Taylor (4) May 2002 248 days[A] [13][15]
6  John Part 4 January 2003 2003 World Championship 203 days [13][15]
 Phil Taylor (5) 26 July 2003 2003 Bobby Bourn Memorial Trophy 582 days [13][15]
7  Colin Lloyd 27 February 2005 2005 West Tyrone Open 469 days [16][15]
 Phil Taylor (6) 11 June 2006 2006 UK Open 7 days [17][18]
 Colin Lloyd (2) 18 June 2006 2006 Players Championship 3 197 days [18][15]
 Phil Taylor (7) 1 January 2007 2007 World Championship 365 days [13][15]
8  Raymond van Barneveld 1 January 2008 2008 World Championship 159 days [19][15]
 Phil Taylor (8) 8 June 2008 2008 UK Open 2,033 days [19][20]
9  Michael van Gerwen 1 January 2014 2014 World Championship 2,559 days [20][21]
10  Gerwyn Price 3 January 2021 2021 World Championship 427 days [21][22]
11  Peter Wright 6 March 2022 2022 UK Open 140 days [22][23]
 Gerwyn Price (2) 24 July 2022 2022 World Matchplay 77 days [23]
 Peter Wright (2) 9 October 2022 2022 World Grand Prix 21 days [24]
 Gerwyn Price (3) 30 October 2022 2022 European Championship 65 days [24][25]
12  Michael Smith 3 January 2023 2023 World Championship 365 days [25]
13  Luke Humphries 3 January 2024 2024 World Championship 512 days [26][27]
  1. ^ a b c d e f Uses 1st of month where exact date unknown.
Key
Before January 2007 Used old points system
Current Reigning number one on Order of Merit

Total Days at No. 1

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No. Player Total Days at No 1 Longest Consecutive Run
1 Phil Taylor 3323 2033
2 Michael van Gerwen 2559 2559
3 Alan Warriner-Little 1558 699
4 Rod Harrington 1207 728
5 Colin Lloyd 666 469
6 Gerwyn Price 569 427
7 Luke Humphries 512 512
8 Peter Manley 399 399
9 Michael Smith 365 365
10 John Part 203 203
11 Peter Wright 161 140
12 Raymond van Barneveld 159 159
13 Dennis Priestley 155 155
Active players in bold.

First WDC/PDC rankings

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Following the World Darts Council split from the British Darts Organisation between 1992 and 1994, the WDC drew up its first ranking list in the run-up to its inaugural 1994 World Championship. Mike Gregory and Chris Johns later went back to the BDO set up, and Bobby George and many of the non-UK players never competed in the early days of the WDC.[citation needed]

Ranking Player   Ranking Player
1 England Alan Warriner 16 Denmark Jann Hoffmann
2 England Rod Harrington = Wales Chris Johns
3 England Phil Taylor = Netherlands Roland Scholten
4 England John Lowe 19 Netherlands Raymond van Barneveld
5 England Mike Gregory = England Keith Deller
6 England Peter Evison 21 England Bobby George
7 England Kevin Spiolek 22 Denmark Per Skau
= England Dennis Priestley 23 Germany Bernd Hebecker
9 England Bob Anderson = Germany Andree Welge
10 Scotland Jocky Wilson = Belgium Pascal Rabau
11 Scotland Jamie Harvey 26 Belgium Leo Laurens
12 England Eric Bristow = Netherlands Bert Vlaardingerbroek
13 England Cliff Lazarenko = Republic of Ireland Tom Kirby
14 Sweden Magnus Caris = Australia Wayne Weening
= England Steve Beaton = Finland Mauro Levy

References

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