Players Championship Finals

The Players Championship Finals are a PDC tournament which was first played in 2009. The participants of the tournament are the Top 32 players of the PDC Pro Tour Order of Merit, to which only count the Pro Tour tournaments.

2009 and 2010 the PDC for this tournament returned to the Circus Tavern in Purfleet where till 2007 the PDC World Championship was played. 2011 the tournament moved to the Doncaster Dome in Doncaster. In 2012 it will played in the Butlins resort in Minehead.

During the tournaments legs are played - Best of 11 in the first round, Best of 15 in round two, in the quarterfinals Best of 17, in the semi-finals Best of 19 and in the final Best of 25.

The Players Championship Finals were after the World Championship the first tournament of the year. To get into more reasonable rhythm nearer the date of the last Players Championships played in a year in 2011 the tournament was played twice and is from 2012 the last Major before the World Championship and after the Grand Slam.
In the first year the main sponsor was the betting company Coral. Then Totesport was the main sponsor. Now the tournament is sponsored by Cash Converter.







Winners
2009Phil Taylor16:9Robert Thornton
2010Paul Nicholson13:11Mervyn King
2011Phil Taylor13:12Gary Anderson
2011/2Kevin Painter13:9Mark Webster




Price Money
WinnerRunner-UpSemi-FinalQuarterfinalLast 16Last 32
201260 000 Pound24 000 Pound15 000 Pound10 000 Pound6 000 Pound3 000 Pound








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