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.

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 8 September 2024.^[1]

Players ranked 1 - 32
Rank	Change	Player	Earnings
1		Luke Humphries	£1,650,750
2		Michael Smith	£1,057,750
3		Michael van Gerwen	£975,500
4		Rob Cross	£588,500
5		Nathan Aspinall	£551,750
6	1	Dave Chisnall	£547,250
7	1	Gerwyn Price	£528,000
8		Jonny Clayton	£506,500
9		Damon Heta	£499,750
10	1	Ross Smith	£480,750
11	1	Peter Wright	£477,000
12		Dimitri Van den Bergh	£461,250
13		Chris Dobey	£450,250
14		Stephen Bunting	£418,000
15		Danny Noppert	£416,250
16	1	Josh Rock	£398,500
17	1	Joe Cullen	£398,250
18		James Wade	£378,250
19	1	Ryan Searle	£374,000
20	1	Andrew Gilding	£371,500
21		Dirk van Duijvenbode	£363,750
22		Luke Littler	£347,000
23		Gary Anderson	£338,500
24		Martin Schindler	£331,250
25		Gabriel Clemens	£304,500
26	1	Daryl Gurney	£284,250
27	1	Krzysztof Ratajski	£284,000
28		Raymond van Barneveld	£274,250
29		Brendan Dolan	£269,250
30	1	Gian van Veen	£208,000
31	2	Ricardo Pietreczko	£203,500
32	2	José de Sousa	£202,500
*Change since 1 September 2024.

PDC Order of Merit as of 8 September 2024.^[1]

Players ranked 33 - 64
Rank	Change	Player	Earnings
33	1	Scott Williams	£201,500
34		Luke Woodhouse	£190,250
35		Ryan Joyce	£183,750
36		Mike De Decker	£176,750
37		Kim Huybrechts	£156,000
38		Callan Rydz	£151,500
39		Madars Razma	£149,750
40		Martin Lukeman	£144,250
41		Alan Soutar	£136,750
42		Ricky Evans	£131,500
43		Ritchie Edhouse	£131,000
44	1	Cameron Menzies	£129,750
45		Jermaine Wattimena	£129,000
46		Jim Williams	£121,500
47		Steve Beaton	£108,250
48		William O'Connor	£106,750
49		Matt Campbell	£105,750
50	1	Kevin Doets	£105,000
51	1	Keane Barry	£102,750
52		Simon Whitlock	£101,000
53		Richard Veenstra	£98,250
54		Mickey Mansell	£90,750
55		Florian Hempel	£88,750
56		Mensur Suljović	£87,500
57		Boris Krčmar	£85,750
58		Niels Zonneveld	£84,750
59		Ryan Meikle	£80,000
60		Jamie Hughes	£78,500
61		Vincent van der Voort	£77,250
62		Mervyn King	£76,500
63	1	Adam Gawlas	£73,250
64	1	Ian White	£72,750
*Change since 1 September 2024.

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PDC Order of Merit as of 8 September 2024.^[1]

Players ranked 65th or lower
Rank	Change	Player	Earnings
65		Rowby-John Rodriguez	£65,250
66		Lee Evans	£62,250
67		Dylan Slevin	£60,500
68		Stephen Burton	£52,500
69		Karel Sedláček	£51,750
70		Adrian Lewis	£48,750
71		Maik Kuivenhoven	£47,750
72		Jeffrey de Zwaan	£46,000
73		Daniel Klose	£43,250
74		Keegan Brown	£38,750
75		Nick Kenny	£37,750
76		Jeffrey Sparidaans	£37,000
77		Robert Owen	£36,000
78		Arron Monk	£33,250
79		Graham Hall	£32,750
80		Wessel Nijman	£32,500
81		Dom Taylor	£31,000
82		Wesley Plaisier	£30,500
83		Graham Usher	£27,750
84		Pascal Rupprecht	£26,500
85		Jurjen van der Velde	£25,250
86		Jeffrey de Graaf	£24,500
87		Thibault Tricole	£21,250
87		James Hurrell	£21,250
89		Owen Roelofs	£21,000
89		Andy Baetens	£21,000
91		Danny van Trijp	£19,500
92		Josh Payne	£19,000
93		Chris Landman	£18,750
93		Adam Smith-Neale	£18,750
95		Mario Vandenbogaerde	£18,500
96		Berry van Peer	£18,000
96		Geert Nentjes	£18,000
98		Ronny Huybrechts	£17,750
99		Christian Perez	£15,500
100		Robbie Knops	£15,250
101		Danny Lauby	£14,500
101		Connor Scutt	£14,500
101		Adam Warner	£14,500
104		Nathan Rafferty	£14,250
104		Callum Goffin	£14,250
104		Lukas Wenig	£14,250
107		Steve Lennon	£14,000
108		Patrick Geeraets	£13,500
109		Radek Szagański	£13,250
110		Matthew Dennant	£13,000
111		Owen Bates	£12,000
112		Leighton Bennett	£11,500
112		Danny Jansen	£11,500
114		Rhys Griffin	£11,000
115		Robert Grundy	£10,500
115		Stefan Bellmont	£10,500
115		Franz Rötzsch	£10,500
118	10	Jitse Van der Wal	£10,250
119	1	Cameron Crabtree	£10,000
119	1	Andy Boulton	£10,000
121	1	Benjamin Reus	£9,500
121	1	Haupai Puha	£9,500
123	1	Brett Claydon	£9,000
123	1	George Killington	£9,000
125	1	Jelle Klaasen	£8,250
125	1	Kai Gotthardt	£8,250
127	1	Adam Hunt	£8,000
127	1	Darren Beveridge	£8,000
129		Martijn Dragt	£6,500
129		John Henderson	£6,500
129		Paul Krohne	£6,500
129		Joshua Richardson	£6,500
133		Jacques Labre	£6,250
134		Richie Burnett	£5,500
135		Christian Kist	£5,250
136		Darryl Pilgrim	£5,000
136		Michele Turetta	£5,000
138		Romeo Grbavac	£4,750
139		Justin Hood	£4,500
139		Tim Wolters	£4,500
139		Oskar Lukasiak	£4,500
142		William Borland	£4,000
143	5	Sebastian Białecki	£3,750
143		Johan Engström	£3,750
143		Kevin Troppmann	£3,750
143		Michael Unterbuchner	£3,750
147	1	Jamie Atkins	£3,000
147	1	Jules van Dongen	£3,000
149	1	Max Hopp	£2,500
149	18	Marko Kantele	£2,500
149	1	Niko Springer	£2,500
149	1	Matthias Ehlers	£2,500
149	1	Jan Dueckers	£2,500
149	1	Lee Cocks	£2,500
149	1	Marvin van Velzen	£2,500
149	1	Moreno Blom	£2,500
149	1	Moritz Hilger	£2,500
149	1	Darius Labanauskas	£2,500
149	1	Andreas Harrysson	£2,500
149	1	Leonard Gates	£2,500
149	1	Scott Mitchell	£2,500
162	1	René Eidams	£2,250
163	1	Aden Kirk	£2,000
163	1	Thomas Lovely	£2,000
165	1	Jarred Cole	£1,500
165	1	Joe Croft	£1,500
165	1	Michael Taylor	£1,500
168		Brian Raman	£1,250
168		François Schweyen	£1,250
168		Jody Tobback	£1,250
168		Luc Bogaert	£1,250
168	1	Dragutin Horvat	£1,250
168	1	Krzysztof Kciuk	£1,250
168	1	Benjamin Pratnemer	£1,250
168	1	Nico Blum	£1,250
168	1	Damian Mol	£1,250
168	1	Jiri Brejcha	£1,250
168	1	Teemu Harju	£1,250
168	1	Christopher Toonders	£1,250
168	1	Daniel Larsson	£1,250
168	1	Christian Gödl	£1,250
168	1	Dominik Haberl	£1,250
168	1	Hannes Schnier	£1,250
168	1	Zoran Lerchbacher	£1,250
168	1	Arno Merk	£1,250
168	1	Alexander Mašek	£1,250
168	1	Cor Dekker	£1,250
168	1	Patrick Klingelhöfer	£1,250
168	1	Oliver Mueller	£1,250
168	1	Viktor Tingström	£1,250
168	1	Vítězslav Sedlák	£1,250
168	1	Born Van Put	£1,250
168	1	Geert De Vos	£1,250
168	1	Jeroen Caron	£1,250
168	1	Steven Strobbe	£1,250
196	4	Reece Colley	£1,000
196	4	Shane McGuirk	£1,000
196	4	Bradley Brooks	£1,000
196	4	Harry Lane	£1,000
196	4	Jack Male	£1,000
196	4	Jenson Walker	£1,000
196	4	Johnny Haines	£1,000
196	4	Ron Meulenkamp	£1,000
196	4	Tom Lonsdale	£1,000
*Change since 1 September 2024.

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]

Points are currently awarded as follows:^[3]

WDF Men's World Rankings as of 14 November 2023.^[4]

Rank	Change	Player	Points
1	6	Andy Baetens	1221
2		Neil Duff	970
3	2	Jelle Klaasen	948
4		Haupai Puha	904
5	4	James Hurrell	673
6	3	Luke Littler	667
7	49	Wesley Plaisier	666
8	2	Ben Robb	664
9		Danny Lauby	565
10	1	Raymond Smith	563
11	17	Kai Fan Leung	531
12	6	Mark Barilli	516
13		Darren Johnson	492
14	6	Chris Landman	487
15	11	Barry Copeland	485
16	8	Thibault Tricole	458
17		Peter Machin	458
18	2	Martyn Turner	449
19	1	Alexander Merkx	446
20	12	Leonard Gates	444
21		Gary Stone	444
22		Liam Maendl-Lawrance	425
23	12	James Richardson	416
24		Danny Porter	416
25	3	László Kádár	411
26	1	Patrik Kovács	409
27		Jonny Tata	402
28	9	Moreno Blom	391
29	8	Antony Allen	388
30	17	Benjamin Pratnemer	385
31		Thomas Junghans	365
32		Berry van Peer	360

WDF Women's World Rankings as of 5 September 2022.^[5]

Rank	Change	Player	Points
1	4	Beau Greaves	1641
2	1	Deta Hedman	1190
3	9	Kirsty Hutchinson	784
4		Anca Zijlstra	710
5	9	Suzanne Smith	625
6		Anastasia Dobromyslova	594
7	17	Jo Clements	565
8	6	Fallon Sherrock	560
9	2	Lorraine Winstanley	508
10	7	Aileen de Graaf	504
11		Rhian O'Sullivan	502
12	3	Laura Turner	482
13	25	Lorraine Hyde	455
14	3	Wendy Harper	443
15	5	Paula Jacklin	427
16	1	Paula Murphy	386
17	4	Nicole Regnaud	373
18	22	Vicky Pruim	371
19	18	Corrine Hammond	355
20		Mikuru Suzuki	354
21	102	Anna Forsmark	348
22	6	Tori Kewish	319
23	9	Veronika Ihász	318
24	16	Maria O'Brien	316
25	7	Priscilla Steenbergen	312
26	19	Jitka Cisarova	307
27	184	Aletta Wajer	283
28	43	Natalie Gilbert	283
29	6	Margaret Sutton	268
30	15	Elena Shulgina	253
31	12	Desi Mercer	236
32	41	Krisztina Csombok	225

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

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.

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

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