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30. December

PDC World Championship - Day 13

On the 13. day of the tournament the fourth round was played to the end and in all six matches the favourites prevailed. Nathan Aspinall and Stephen Bunting dominated their matches against Ricardo Pietreczko and Luke Woodhouse respectively and both won 4:0. Michael van Gerwen as well had a quite easy match though Jeffrey de Graaf managed to win two sets. The other three matches were hard fought and were won in the end by Chris Dobey, Callan Rydz and Luke Littler with 4:3. Tomorrow is another break, on the 1. January the tournament will continue with the quarterfinals.
Results
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PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 13

Today the the last six fourth round matches will be played in two sessions.
Match of the day: Personal Favourit: Ricardo Pietreczko v Nathan Aspinall. Impartial: Luke Littler v Ryan Joyce
Today's Day's Specials: Replacement Robert Owen is still in the tournament. Would Dom Taylor not have banned after a positive drug test the Welshman wouldn't been in the World Championship. Owen used his chance and now can keep his Tour Card
What you should know as well: From sixteen Dutch players who qualified for the tournament only two are still in - Michael van Gerwen and Kevin Doets. Well, perhaps one could say it are two and a half as Jeffrey de Graaf played a long time for the Netherlands before he got a Swedish pass in 2023...
Schedule Day 13, Resultsnew

PDC World Championship - Day 12

On the twelfth day of the tournament first the last four matches of the third round were played and two more seeded players were eliminated. Kevin Doets first was 0:2 behind against seed Krzysztov Ratajski but managed to win 4:2. Even worse hit it number seed 11 Dimitri van den Bergh who was whitewashed by a once again outstanding playing Callan Rydz with 0:4. The other third round matches were won by Jeffrey de Graaf and Robert Owen. After that the first two second round matches took place which brought the biggest upset of the tournament so far as a strong playing Peter Wright eliminated reigning champion Luke Humphries while Gerwyn Price got a hard fought win over Jonny Clayton.
Results
Bericht, Statistic Day 12new



29. December

Mervyn King

Mervyn King is as well one of the characters in darts who began his career in the BDO and got well known before he switched to the PDC in 2007. King neither last nor this year managed to qualify for the PDC World Championship in which he took part sixteen times. He will lose his Tour Card. It is not known whether he intends to try to get it back.
Mervyn Kingnew

PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 12

Again two session will be played. In the afternoon-session three third round matches will take place, in the evening-session the last third round and two fourth round matches will be played.
Match of the day: Personal Favourit: Jeffrey de Graaf v Paolo Nebrida. Impartial: Jonny Clayton v Gerwyn Price
Today's Day's Specials: For Paolo Nebrida, Kevin Doets and Robert Owen it will be the first third round match on the Alexandra Palace Stage.
What you should know as well: Paolo Nebrida is the last international qualifier still in the tournament and the first ever player from the Philippines to reach the third round. In fact he is after Segio Asada 2020 the only second player from Asia in the third round of a PDC World Championship.
Schedule Day 12, Resultsnew

PDC World Championship - Day 11

On the eleventh day of the tournament six more third round matches were played. The most thrilling and closest match was the first match of the afternoon-session in which in the end Ryan Joyce prevailed 4:3 over Ryan Searle. Clear wins got Ricardo Pietreczko, Nathan Aspinall and Chris Dobey. Michael van Gerwen defeated Brendan Dolan 4:2 but was far from vastly superior. Luke Littler had a rather slow start into his match against a strong playing Ian White but improved a lot and won 4:1.
Results
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28. December

PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 11

Again two session will be played and in each session three third round matches will take place.
Match of the day: Personal Favourit: Scott Williams v Ricardo Pietreczko. Impartial: Chris Dobey v Josh Rock
Today's Day's Specials: Of all players today only Andrew Gilding never before stood in the third round of the World Championship
What you should know as well: Michael van Gerwen is today the player who participated most often in the PDC World Championship - he qualified since 2008 every year. Brendan Dolan played his first PDC World Championship in 2009 and Ian White qualified 2012 for the first time and both returned every year as well. Josh Rock is the player with the least World Championship experience - it is only the third time he will stand on the Alexandra Palace stage.
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27. December

PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 10

The Christnmas Break is over!!! Today again two session will be played and in each session three third round matches will take place.
Match of the day: Personal Favourit: Stephen Bunting v Madars Razma. Impartial: Gerwyn Price v Joe Cullen
Today's Day's Specials: Today with Gerwyn Price, Jonny Clayton and Nick Kenny three Welsh players will stand on stage.
What you should know as well: All in all five Welsh players this year were among the participants. Beside those mentioned above Robert Owen as well reached the third round. Only Jim Williams is already out of the event.
Schedule Day 10, Results
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23. December

PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 9

Again two session with four second matches each will be played. Today is the last day before the Christmas break and the last day of the second round.
Match of the day: Personal Favourit: Josh Rock v Rhys Griffin. Impartial: Rob Cross v Scott Williams
Today's Day's Specials: Krzystof Ratajski, Daryl Gurney and Dave Chisnall all took in BDO World Championships, Chisnall in 2010 stood in the final. Gilding, Clayton and Cross played a few years in the BDO, van Veen took part in youth Yout events.
What you should know as well: Both Josh Rock and Gian van Veen are PDC World Youth Champions - Rock won the tournament in 2022, van Veen is the 2024 champion. Rock lost 2023 in the quarterfinals to van Veen.
Schedule Day 9, Results
Report, Statistics Day 9

PDC World Championship - Day 8

The eighth day of the PDC World Championshipt was not a good day for the seeded players. Eight seeds stood on stage and five of them were eliminated - among them in the evening-session Martin Schindler, Ross Smith and Gary Anderson who all couldn't hit their doubles. Only Ryan Searle, an angry Joe Cullen and Dimitri van den Bergh progressed into the third round.
Results
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22. December

PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 8

Two session with four second matches each will be played. It's Gary Anderson's Birthday!!!
Match of the day: Personal Favourit: Martin Schindler v Callan Rydz. Impartial: Gary Anderson v Jeffrey de Graaf
Today's Day's Specials: From all the seeds today only Ross Smith and Gary Anderson took part in BDO World Championships. Ross Smith took part twice and in 2011 stood in the quarterfinals. Gary Anderson stood eight times on the Lakeside stage and the semi-finals 2003 were his best result.
What you should know as well: Martin Schindler and Dimitri van den Bergh met in 2018 in the final of the PDC World Youth Championship. Van den Bergh won and defended his title. Both players took part five times in the World Youth Championship and in several years as well in the PDC World Championship. Van den Bergh will play this year his already tenth PDC World Championship, for Schindler it will be his sixth.
Schedule Day 8, Resultsnew

PDC World Championship - Day 7

The last two first round matches in the afternoon-session were won by the debutants Rhys Griffin and Alexis Toylo. There were two upsets in the second round matches - Ryan Joyce eliminated Danny Noppert from the event and in the weakest match of the day Raymond van Barneveld lost to Nick Kenny. The other seeds - Brendan Dolan, Chris Dobey, Luke Littler and Damon Heta had no problems to progress into the third round. Littler played against Ryan Meikle a fantastic last set with an average of 140.90.
Results
Bericht,Statistics Day 7new



21. December

PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 7

Two session will be played. In the afternoon the last two first round matches and two second round matches will be played, In the evening session four second round matches will take place.
Match of the day: Personal Favourit: Danny Noppert v Ryan Joyce. Impartial: Damon Heta v Connor Scutt
Debutants of the day: Rhys Griffith, Alexis Toylo
Today's Day's Specials: Raymond van Barneveld for some years dominated the BDO, won four World Champion titles and twice reached the final. In the PDC World Championship he only twice stood in the final - prevailed on time over Phil Taylor and lost once to Taylor. In the times before van Barneveld switched to the PDC it was often dicussed whether van Barnveld - who dominated the BDO - or Phil Taylor - who dominated the PDC - where the better player...
What you should know as well: From the players who will play today their first match of this year's World Championship beside van Barneveld Richard Veenstra, Karel Sedlacek and Danny Noppert took part in the BDO World Championship. Veenstra and Littler both took part in a WDF World Championship.
Schedule Day 7, Resultsnew



20. December

PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 6

Again two session with three first round matches and one second round match each will be played.
Match of the day: Personal Favourit: Stephen Bunting v Kai Gotthardt. Impartial: Florian Hempel v Jeffrey de Zwaan
Debutants of the day: Alexander Merkx
Seeded Player of the Day: Stephen Bunting, Michael van Gerwen
Today's Day's Specials: Ian White really played till 2010 in the BDO. The BDO World Championship in 2010 was the only one he took part and he was the number 16 seed while Stephen Bunting took as well part but was unseeded. White lost to Bunting in the first round and switched to the PDC. With the exception of 2023 White took part from 2012 till today in each PDC World Championship. 2014 - the year in which Bunting won the World Championship - was the year in which White reached the Quarterfinals of the PDC World Championship - his best result.
What you should know as well: Most of the players today played some WDF Youth events but only White and Bunting stood on the Lakeside stage for the BDO World Championship - White once and Bunting seven times. 2010 was already Bunting's fourth BDO World Championship. Alexander Merkx took part in the WDF World Championship 2023 and reached the Last 16.
Schedule Day 6, Results
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19. December

PDC World Championship - Day 5

On the fifth day of the tournament six first round and two second round matches were played. The first round matches were won by Lok Yin Lee, Callan Rydz, Martin Lukeman, Nick Kenny, Matt Campbell and Scott Williams, who always found the answer to whatever strong playing German debutant Niko Springer conjured on the Alexandra Palace stage. Gabriel Clemns had in his second round match not many chances against Robert Owen's impressive performance and lost. The second second round match between Michael Smith and Kevinc Doets developed into a thriller without happy end for Smith - he lost 2:3 in overtime. The highest average of the night played Callan Rydz with 107.06.
Results
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PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 5

On Day 5 again two session with three first round matches and one second round match each will be played.
Match of the day: Personal Favourit: Scott Williams v Niko Springer. Impartial: Michael Smith v Kevin Doets
Debutants of the day: Lok Yin Lee, Niko Springer, Romeo Grbavac
Seeded Player of the Day: Gabriel Clemens, Michael Smith
Today's Day's Specials: Michael Smith played Rugby in his youth. When he was 15 he had an bycicle accident. He had to use crutches for a long time and in this time started to play darts.
What you should know as well: Only Niko Springer, Romeo Grbavac, Michael Smith and Martin Lukeman never were in any way involved in the BDO/WDF. Mensur Suljovic took once part in a BDO World Championship, Scott Williams played in two and Nick Kenny in three and won 2010 the WDF Europe Cup Youth Singles, Chris Landman stood three times in a BDO World Championship on the Lakeside stage and 2023 in the WDF World Championship and reached the WDF final. Callan Rydz played a few WDF Youth events and Gabriel Clemens first played BDO/WDF tournaments but never qualified for the World Championship.
Schedule Day 5, Resultsnew
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18. December

PDC World Championship - Day 4

The fourth day of the tournament hadn't looked too promising on paper but developed into a day with entertaining matches, on which Christian Kist even threw a nine-darter. The first round matches were won by Paolo Nebrida - slightly surprising-, - Madars Razma - not Kist - and very close Ricky Evans who commentated every single of his throws.The tenacious second round match won in the end Nathan Aspinall 3:1.
Results
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Happy Birthday, Vincent van der Voort!

Vincent van der Voort started his career in the BDO before he became in the PDC one of the most popular Dutch players who stayed for a long time in the Top 32. But he suffers already for some time from back problems and problems with his motivation, missed the World Championship already last year, couldn't qualify this year and will lose his Tour Card. Today is his 49. birthday - nevertheless to be sure reason to celebrate.
Happy Birthday, Vincent van der Voort!new

PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 4

Today only an evening-session with three first round matches and one second round match will be played.
Match of the day: Personal Favourit: Madars Razma v Christian Kist. Impartial: Nathan Aspinall v Leonard Gates
Debutants of the day: No debutant will stand on stage today
Seeded Player of the Day: Nathan Aspinall
Today's Day's Specials: Ricky Evans first Major were the World Master 2008 where he lost second round to Simon Whitlock. But he didn't stay long in the BDO/WDF and concentrated on the PDC. 2013 he reached the final of the PDC Youth World Championship but lost to Michael Smith. In the PDC World Championship he so far reached three times the third round.
What you should know as well: With Christian Kist the BDO World Champion 2012 and with Jim Williams the finalist from 2020 stand on the stage of the Alexandra Palace. Madars Razma as well has some BDO World Championship experience.
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17. December

PDC Weltmeisterschaft - Day 3

James Hurrell, Kevin Doets and Ryan Joyce won the first round matches of the afternoon-session, in the evening Jeffrey de Graaf, Ricardo Pietreczko and Ryan Meikel - in a close match against Fallon Sherrock - prevailed. Though Rashad Sweening from the Bahamas lost his first round match to Jeffrey de Graaf he was the crowd favourite of the day. Luke Woodhouse caused the next second round upset by eliminating Mike de Decker. Peter Wright on the other side somehow managed to fight through against Wesley Plaisier into the third round.
Results
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PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 3

Again two sessions with three first round matches and one second round match each will be played.
Match of the day: Personal Favourit: Ryan Joyce v Darius Labanauskas. Impartial: Mike de Decker v Luke Woodhouse
Debutants of the day: James Hurrell, Noa-Lynn van Leuven, Rashad Sweeting
Seeded Player of the Day: Mike de Decker, Peter Wright
Today's Day's Specials: With Rashad Sweeting tody the first ever player from the Bahamas will take part in the PDC World Championship and Noa-Lynn van Leuven will be the first ever trans woman to take part in a World Championship
What you should know as well: Fallon Sherrock of course took part in the BDO Women's World Championship - there is no other Women's World Championship. She once reached the final buit never won the title. James Hurrell, Jeffrey de Graaf and Darius Labanauskas all started their career in the BDO, Hurrell took part two times in the WDF World Championship as well. Peter Wright and Ryan Joyce both stood on the Lakeside stage once but didn't stay long in the BDO.
Schedule Day 3, Resultsnew
Statistics Day 3new



16. December

PDC World Championship - Day 2

On the second day of the tournament we did see some entertaining first round matches though far from all were highclass. From the debutants German Kai Gotthardt impressed the most who stayed focussed even though his barrel broke and defeated Alan Soutar 3:1 to prpgress into the second round where he'll meet Stephen Bunting. The highest first round average today played Connor Scutt with 101.92. The biggest upset caused Jermaine Wattimena who eliminated James Wade in the first second round match with 3:0. Gerwyn Price on the other side showed a solid performance to defeat Keany Barry - who was unable to cope - with 3:0.
Results
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PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 2

Two sessions with three first round matches and one second round match each will be played.
Match of the day: Personal Favourit: Alan Soutar v Kai Gotthardt. Impartial: James Wade v Jermaine Wattimena
Debutants of the day: Wesley Plaisier, Ryusei Azemoto, Kai Gotthardt - all giving their debut in the afternoon-session
Seeded Player of the Day: James Wade, Gerwyn Price
Today's Day's Specials: James Wade took part twice in a BDO World Championship - 2003 and 2004. He was much more successfull in the PDC winning a lot of titles but never the World Championship so far. His best results were the semi-finals in 2009, 2012, 2013 and 2022.
What you should know as well: Beside Wade Cameron Menzies and Alan Soutar were the only players today playing before in BDO World Championships. Robert Owen, Connor Scutt, Leonard Gates and Cameron Menzies stood on the Lakeside stage nevertheless - in a WDF World Championship. Woodhouse, Zonneveld and Price started their careers in the PDC. Ben Robb so far as well only took part in PDC World Championships.
Schedule Day 2new
Statistics Day 2new

PDC World Championship - Day 1

The biggest upset of the first evening-session of the tournament was the clear 3:1 win of Keane Barry over the strong playing Kim Huybrechts who missed toomany doubles. A very nervous Thibault Tricole won the entertaining opening match of the World Championship 3:1 against Joe Comito but couldn't win a single leg against reigning champion Luke Humphries who had no problems at all. Jermaine Wattimena had with 98.54 the highest average of the night and defeated Swiss Stefan Bellmont with 3:0.
Results
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15. December

Paul Lim

Paul Lim started his long dart career in the BDO as well - at that time no other organisation existed and no other World Championship either. Lim was later among the players who split off the BDO and he was one of the founders of World Darts Councils, later PDC, though he didn't stand at the oche during the first PDC World Championship. His biggest World Championship success though he only celebrated this year in the WDF World Championship.
Paul Limnew

PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 1

On the first day of the PDC World Championship only an evening session with three first round matches and one second round match will be played.
Match of the day: Personal Favourit: Jermaine Wattimena v Stefan Bellmont. Impartial: Luke Humphries v Tricole/Comito
Debutants of the day: Joe Comito, Stefan Bellmont
Seeded Player of the Day: Luke Humphries
Today's Day's Specials: Stefan Bellmont is the first ever Swiss player who qualified for a PDC World Championship - he won the Western Europe Qualifier. Bellmont tried to get into the PDC since 2019, took part several times in the PDC Qualifying School, qualified for a few European Tour Events, played a few Challenge Tour tournaments and is since 2022 part of the Swiss team in the PDC World Cupr.
What you should know as well: From the players today Huybrechts and Wattimena first played on the BDO circuit but with far less success than Tricole who qualified for one BDO World Championship and was the runner-up in the first WDF World Championship. But Huybrechts and Wattimena are far more successful in the PDC than Tricole has been so far.
Schedule Day 1new



14. December

PDC World Championship - Preview

Tomorrow in the Alexand´ra Palce in London in London the PDC World Championship 2024/25 will begin.
In the PDC preview reigning champion Luke Humphries, last year's runner-up Luke Littler and the former World Champions Michael Smith, Michael van Gerwen and Gary Anderson have their say.
Previewnew



13. December

Changers

This year we will miss several of the well-known players in the PDC World Championship and some of them will even end their career, a career which often started in the BDO. Over the years many players switched from the BDO - and now the WDF - to the PDC, but players who won the World Champion title both in the BDO as in the PDC we did see only four: Dennis Priestley, Phil Taylor, John Part and Raymond van Barneveld.
Changersnew



11. December

The Festive Season

This time of the year is for dartplayers and dart fans the peak of the dart year. The astonishing WDF World Championships are behind us and the PDC World Championship are right before us. Globaldarts will be a few days in London to enjoy the atmosphere in Alexandra Palace and in the city.
But here in the first article to begin with a retrospect on the Lakeside World Championships.
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10. December

Additions Who is Who

The following players where added to the Who is Who: Romeo Grbavac, Dom Taylor, Joe Comito, Alexis Toylo, Kai Gotthardt, Rashad Sweeting, Noa-Lynn van Leuven, Rhys Griffin and Stefan Bellmont.



9. December

WDF World Championships

On the stage of the Lakeside Country Clubs in Frimley Green on Sunday night three new and one old World Champions were crowned. Paige Pauling defeated Sophie McKinlay in the girl's final and became with the so far highest average in the history of the WDF Girls World Championship new World Champion. In the boy's final not the number 1 seed Jenson Walker was the winner but the three years younger Archie Self. Beau Greaves is not at her best in the moment but nevertheless had no problem to defend her title against Sophie McKinlay - she is now the so far youngest three times World champion in the history of the women's event. Paul Lim couldn't end his lakeside fairytale with a win in the final but he at least won three sets after a very one-sided start of the match. Shane McGuirk is now the first ever first Irish World Champion.
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8. December

WDF World Championships

Finals Day at the WDF World Championships in the Lakeside Country Club in Frimley Green! First in the Girl's Final Paige Pauling and Sophie McKinlay will meet. After that in the all English Boys Final Jenson Walker and Archie Self will meet. Next on will be the Women's Final between reigning champion Beau Greaves and Sophie McKinlay. The Men's Final between Shane McGuirk and Paul Lim will conclude the WDF World Championships 2024.
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7. December

WDF World Championships

Today was semi-finals day in the Lakeside Country Club - in each of the sessions one Girls-, one Boys-, one Women's - and one Men's semifinal took place. In the Girl's event Paige Pauling and Sophie McKinlay prevailed, the the Boy's event it were Jenson Walker and Archie Self. In the Women's tournament Sophie McKinlay and reigning champion Beau Greaves were the winners. The first semi-final of the men was a clear affair - Shane McGuirk defeated Francois Schweyen with 5:0. With the same result Paul Lim defeated Jason Brandon who just couldn't hit his doubles.
WDF World Championships - Schedule Day 9, Resultsnew
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5. December

WDF World Championships

On the sixth day of the tournament more women's second round matches took place and in the men's tournament the second round was played to the end and the first two third round matches took place.In the women's event we saw wins for Aletta Wajer and Lerena Rietbergen, who caused an upset by beating Rhian O'Sullivan and progressed at her debut in the quarterfinals. The last men's second round matches were won by Barry Copeland, Sybren Gijbels and Jason Brandon. The second round winners were Belgian Francois Schweyen and Irish Shane McGuirk who played in his third match again an average of over 90.
Today the women play the second round to the end. In the men's event the third round will be played to the end. Beside we'll see in each session a boy's quarterfinal.
WDF World Championships - Schedule Day 7, Resultsnew
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4. December

Additions Who is Who

The following players where added to the Who is Who: Jimmy van Schie, Danny Porter, Jason Brandon, Laszlo Kadar, Scott Walters, Mike Gillet, Hannes Schier, Shane McGuirk, Sophie McKinlay, Nicole Regnaud, Kirsi Viinikainen, Lerena Rietbergen and Mayumi Ouchi.

WDF World Championships

On the fifth day of the tournament more two round matches of Women and men were played and even more seeded players were eliminated. In the men's event it were Benjamin Pratnemer, Kai Fan Leung and Ryan Hogarth, in the women's event it was Desi Mercer. Reigning champion Beau Greaves had no problems to prevail over Kirsi Viinikainen no more than Jimmy van Schie - one of the top favorits of the men, who showed the so far outstanding performance of the tournament. Legend Paul Lim had to fight hard but in the end progressed into round three as well.
In the Women's event the second round will continue, in the Men's event the second round will be played to the end and the first two third round matches will take place.
WDF World Championships - Schedule Day 6, Resultsnew
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3. December

WDF World Championships

On the fourth day of the tournament the first round of the women and the men will be played to the end. Among the first round winners of the men were Hannes Schnier and Paul Lim, who returned after 30 years to the Lakeside and played as Schnier and average of over 90 - Those were the two highest averages of the night. Lerena Rietbergen was the last first round winner of the women, the first women's second round match ended with an 2:1 comeback win of Deta Hedman, who started weaked but then was clearly better then Kirsty Hutchinson. The two Australians Brandon Weening and Peter Machin were the first second round winners of the men.
On the fifth day of the event only second round matches will be played and we'll see tournament favourit Jimmy van Schie and reigning champion Beau Greaves.
WDF World Championships - Schedule Day 5, Resultsnew
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2. December

WDF World Championships

At the in the Lakeside Country Club in Frimley Green this year's WDF World Championships continued at the weekend. In the men's event Brian Raman convinced again with his second round win over number 16 seed Martyn Turner. The best performances of the tournament so far showed Irishman Shane McGuirk who played in his first round match an 92.81 average and won his second round match against number 13 seed Swede Edwin Torbjörnsson with an 96.16 average. Cliff Prior is so far the only seed who won his second round match.
In the women's event it were Czech Jitka Cisarova and Scot Sophie McKinlay who impressed the most. McKinlay caused the so far biggest upset as she eliminated a good playing Lisa Ashton.
On the fourth day of the tournament men's and women's first and second round matches will be played. In the evening-session legends Paul Lim and Deta Hedman will stand on stage.
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30. November

WDF World Championships

Yesterday in the Lakeside Country Club in Frimley Green this year's WDF World Championships started. In an evening-session four men's first round matches took place. With the exception of Belgian Brian Braman only debutants stood on stage which showed a little bit in the quality of the matches. Raman and his fellow country man Francois Schweyen showed from the winners with averages of over 87 the best performances. Beside the two Belgians the Englishmen Carl Wilkinson and Scott Walters progressed into the second round.
On the second day of the tournament beside men's first and second round matches four women's first round matches will be played.
WDF World Championships - Schedule Day 2, Resultsnew



27. November

PDC World Championship

The PDC published the schedule for the first and second round. Both rounds will be played to the end from 15. - 23. December. After the Chrismas break the tournament will continue with the third round. The match between Frenchman Thibault Tricole and Australian Joe Comito will open the World Championship. Reigning Champion Luke Humphries will play in the last match of the opening night his second round match against the winner of that game. The last match before the Christmas break will be in the evening-session on 23. December the second round match between Rob Cross and the winner of the first round match between Scott Williams and German Niko Springer.
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25. November

PDC World Championship

Today Wigan the Tour Card Holders Qualifier for the PDC World Championship took place, four tournament places were on offer, which Matt Campbell, Jeffrey de Zwaan, Dylan Slevin and Rhys Griffin secured. Now the field of participants is complete.
The PDC by now made the draw for the First and Second Round of the tournament which will be played from 15. December 2024 zo 3. January 2025 in the Alexandra Place in London.
Draw First and Second Roundnew
Participantsnew

PDC Rankings

The PDC Order of Merit was updates after the Players Championship Finals and is on Finals Standings.
PDC Rankings

Humphries defends title

In a highclass final Luke Humphries defeated Luke Littler with 11:7 and defended his title. Both players played a good tournament but it was Humphries who was in the final the deciding little bit stronger. Littler defeated on finals day first Mike de Decker clearly with 3:10 and then in the semi-finals a strong playing Ross Smith with 11:9. Humphries prevailed in the quarterfinals 10:5 over Ryan Joyce and in the semi-finals 11:8 over the reinvigorated Dirk van Duijvenbode.
Results Finals Day
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Statistics

Van Veen New World Youth Champion

After Gian van Veen lost in the final of the PDC Winmau World Youth Championship to Luke Littler last year he this year won the title. It was a very close 6:5 win over his fellow country man Jurjen van der Velde and van Veen first look slightly doubtful that he really had won the deciding leg - in which his opponent had three matchdarts - of the highclass match. Then the new Champion first solaced his opponent but in the end both players looked pleased.
Report, Statisticsnew



24. November

Players Championship Finals

Today is Finals Day at the Players Championship Finals in Minehead. In the afternoon-session the quarterfinals will take place, in the evening-session semi-finals and final will be played. Between the semi-finals and the final the final of the PDC Winmau World Youth Championship between Gian van Veen and Jurjen van der Velde will take place.
Out of the Top Ten of the Players Championship Order of Merit only Luke Littler is still in the tournament. Reigning champion Luke Humphries as well progressed into the quarterfinals as did Mike de Decker, Ross Smith, Connor Scutt, Scott Williams, Ryan Joyce and Dirk van Duijvenbode.
Schedule Finals Daynew



23. November

Players Championship Finals

At the Players Championship Finals in Minehead today in the afternoon-session the second round will be played, in evening-session the third round will follow.
As in the previous tournaments in the first round there were several upsets. Already out of the tournament are Gian van Veen (despite an 104 average), James Wade, Ryan Searle, Peter Wright, Gerwyn Price, number 1 seed Chris Dobey, Rob Cross (against an unplayable Luke Littler), Jonny Clayton, Stephen Bunting, Gary Anderson (who lost 5:6 to Ryan Meikle) and Michael van Gerwen who had no chance against a strong playing Ian White.
Schedule, Results Day 2new
Statisticsnew



21. November

Players Championship Finals

From tomorrow till Sunday the Players Championship Finals will take place in Minehead.
In the PDC preview reigning champion Luke Humphries, Grand Slam winner Luke Littler and number 1 seed Chris Dobey have their say.
Preview
Schedule, Results Day 1new
Statisticsnew



18. November

Players Championship Finals

On Friday in Minehead the Players Championship Finals will begin. 64 players will take part. The first and the second round both will be played on two stages.
The PDC published the schedule of the first round, which will be played in an afternoon- and an evening-session on the first day of the tournament.
Participants, Schedule 1. Roundnew

PDC Rankings

The PDC Order of Merit were updated after the Grand Slam of Darts.
PDC Rankings



17. November

Luke Littler wins Grand Slam of Darts

Luke Littler dominated the final of the Grand Slam of Darts and won the very one-sided match against Martin Lukeman with 16:3. For Littler it is the first ranking TV title by which he moves up to the fifth place in the Order of Merit.
Before Lukeman defeated in the semi-finals Mickey Mansell with an average of almost 100, he couldn't keep up this performance in the final.
Littler prevailed in his semi-final in a hard fought and close match with 16:15 over Gary Anderson.
Report, Statisticsnew

Grand Slam of Darts

Finals Day at the Grand Slam.
In the afternoon-session the semi-finals will take place. First Mickey Mansell will play against Martin Lukeman. In the second semi-final Luke Littler and Gary Anderson will clash. In the evening-session the final will be played.
Schedule Finals Day, Results

Grand Slam of Darts Day 8

On the second quarterfinal night we did see a very clear 16:2 demolition of Jermaine Wattimena by Luke Littler, Wattimena just didn't find an answer to Littlers barrage. The second quarterfinal between Gary Anderson and Gian van Veen was a much closer affair though Anderson got into the lead quite early and stayed in command till the end.
Report, Statistics Day 8new



16. November

Grand Slam of Darts

Today is the second quarterfinals night in Wolverhampton.
First Premier League Champion Luke Littler will play against Jermaine Wattimena.After that in the last quarterfinal Gary Anderson will meet the so far outstanding playing Gian van Veen.
Schedule Quarterfinals 2, Results
Statisticsnew

Grand Slam of Darts Day 7

The first quarterfinal night of the Grand Slam showed again how unpredictable the results of this year's tournament are - the commentators had predicted at the start of the evening for both matches the wrong winner. The first close semi-final was won by Mickey Mansell who had throughout the match problems to hit his doubles, but in the deciding leg against Cameron Menzies hit the double for the win with his first dart. The second quarterfinal was dominated after a good start from Rob Cross most of the time by Martin Lukeman who won with 16:11.
Report, Statistics Day 7new



15. November

Grand Slam of Darts

First quarterfinals night in Wolverhampton.
In the first quarterfinal Cameron Menzies will meet Mickey Mansell, For both it is the first TV Ranking quarterfinal. After that debutant Martin Lukeman will play against Rob Cross, who stood 2023 in the Grand Slam final.
Schedule Quarterfinals 1, Results
Statisticsnew

Grand Slam of Darts Day 6

The second night of the Last 16 was thrilling and more highclass then the first one. It started with a close match between Jermaine Wattimena and Dimitri van den Bergh. Van den Bergh couldn't find the final double, Wattimena hit it with his fifth matchdart and won. In the second match Ryan Joyce had no chance against a once again scintillating playing Gian van Veen. The match between Luke Littler and Mike de Decker was a very close thriller with the better end for Littler. In the last match of the night Stephen Bunting for a long time had too many problems with his doubles to endanger Gary Anderson. Anderson won with 10:6.
Report, Statistics Day 6new



14. November

Grand Slam of Darts

Today the last 16 will be played to the end.
In the first match the reinvigorated Jermaine Wattimena and UK Open Champion Dimitri van den Bergh will meet. After that Gian van Veen, who dominated the group phase in the strong group H, will play against Ryan Joyce who eliminated Michael van Gerwen. In the third match Luke Littler and Mike de Decker will clash and in the last match Gary Anderson will play against Stephen Bunting.
Schedule Day 6, Results

Grand Slam of Darts Day 5

The first night of the knockout phase brought some surprising results. Mickey Mansell defeated Danny Noppert in the first match of the night deservedly with 10:7. Cameron Menzies - who only just progressed into the knock-out phase - prevailed in the deciding leg of a close match 10:9 over James Wade and almost couldn't believe it. Martin Lukeman won 10:5 against Ross Smith who struggled with himself. In the final match Rob Cross - who had been so far completely under the radar - impressed with outstanding finishing and defeated the chanceless European Champion Ritchie Edhouse with 10:4.
Report, Statistics Fifth Day



13. November

Grand Slam of Darts

Today at the Grand Slam of Darts the first four Last 16 matches will take place.
Danny Noppert opens the night against Mickey Mansell, James Wade will meet Scot Cameron Menzies, Martin Lukeman clashes with Ross Smith and European Champion Ritchie Edhouse will play in the last match against Rob Cross.
Schedule Day 5, Resultsnew

WDF World Championships

This year's WDF World Championships will be played from 29. November to 8. December in the Lakeside Country Club in Frimley Green.
The field of participants is complete and the WDF already published the draw for the first and second round and the schedule. The men's number 1 seed is Australian Danny Porter who will play his first match against the winner of the first round match between Belgian Francois Schweyen and Australian Michael Cassar on 30 Nevember. Reigning champion and number 1 women's seed Beau Greaves will open her campaign against Australian Amanda Loch or Finn Kirsi Viinikainen on 3. December.
WDF World Championshipsnew



Die diesjährigen WDF World Championships werden vom

Grand Slam of Darts Day 4

On the last nigth with group matches even more top players were elimnated. With Michael Smith and Michael van Gerwen the numbers two and three of the world were defeated for the second time and went out. Michael Smith lost 5:0 to Mike de Decker and had not a single dart on the doubles. Michael van Gerwen managed to draw 4:4 in his match against Ryan Joyce but played a weak deciding leg and Joyce won 5:4. Beside de Decker and Joyce Stephen Bunting and Dimitri van den Bergh got their second win and progressed under the last 16 as did Gary Anderson, Jermaine Wattimena, Luke Litter and Gina van Veen who had already qualified and and all won their third group matches as well. Gian van Veen's match against the once again outstanding Wessel Nijman was the highlight of the night.
Report, Statistics Day 4new

WDF Results

Winner of the Slovenia Masters were the Slovene Benjamin Pratnemer in the men's event, Italian Aurora Fochesato in the women's event and Belgian Milan Vanuytrecht in the youth event. The Slovenia Open wer won by Austrian Hannes Schnier, Italian Aurora Fochesato and - Youth - Slovene Uros Zalik.
Winner of the Irish Open were Finn Marko Kantele, Scot Lorraine Hyde, Scot Mitchell Lawrie (Boys) and Paige Pauling (Girls). The Irish Classic were won by Dutchmen Stefan Schroder, Irishwoman Robyn Byrne, Irish Sean McKeon (Boys) and Paige Pauling (Girls).



12. November

Grand Slam of Darts

In today's evening session the last group matches of groups E - H will take place.
Luke Littler, Gary Anderson, Gian van Veen and Jermaine Wattimena are already qualified for the Knock-Out phase. In all four groups there will be a deciding match for the second qualifying place. In group E Michael Smith will play Mike de Decker, in group F Dimitri van den Bergh will meet Keane Barry, in group G Michael van Gerwen will clash with Ryan Joyce and in group H Stephen Bunting will play against Josh Rock.
Schedule Day 4, Results
Group Tables, Final Standings

Grand Slam of Darts Day 3

On the third day of the tournament the last group matches of the groups A,B,C and D took place.
Only Mickey Mansell and Ritchie Edhouse had already qualified for the Knockout phase, Cameron Menzies, Danny Noppert, James Wade, Martin Lukeman, Rob Cross and Ross Smith qualified last night. Menzies qualified in dramatic fashion despite a 1:5 defeat by a strong playing Beau Greaves because Martin Schindler against Danny Noppert was not able to use his chances to win the third leg he would have needed to progress. Reigning champion Luke Humphries was already elimnated after two defeats but with a 5:1 win over Mickey Mansell at least managed to get a positive end to his campaign.
Report, Statistics Day 3new



11. November

Grand Slam of Darts

Today only an evening-session will take place in which the last group matches of the groups A,B,C and D will be played.
After the second group matches it is clear that Luke Humphries will not defend his title - he lost to James Wade as well and will not be able to progress. Already out as well are Dave Chisnall, Mensur Suljovic, Lourence Ilagan, Noa-Lynn van Leuven and Wessel Nijman while Gian van Veen, Luke Littler, Gary Anderson, Jermaine Wattimena, Ritchie Edhouse and Mickey Mansell are already through to the Last 16.
Tonight in group A James Wade and Rowby-John Rodriguez play for the second playce in the table and in group D Connor Scutt and Ross Smith. In the groups B and C all matches will have a bearing on which players will progress.
Schedule Third Day, Ergebnissenew
Group Tables, Final Standingsnew



10. November

Grand Slam of Darts

On the second day of the Grand Slam the winners of the first group matches play the winners and the losers the losers. In the afternoon-session again the groups B,C,D and H will stand on stage, in the evening-session the groups A, E, F and G.
The first group matches brought some upsets - reigning champion Luke Humphries lost against Rowby-John Rodriguez and should win today his second match to survive the group phase. He will play against James Wade who surprisingly lost to Mickey Mansell. Among yesterday's losers were as well Martin Schindler, Dave Chisnall and Peter Wright.
Schedule Second Day, Resultsnew
Group Tablesnew
Statisticsnew



9. November

Grand Slam of Darts

Today in Wolverhampton the Grand Slam of Darts will begin. In an afternoon- and an evening-session in all eight groups the first group matches will be played.
In the PDC preview reigning champion Luke Humphries, European Championship winner Ritchie Edhouse, World Grand Prix Champion Mike de Decker and the winner from 2022 Michael Smith have their say.
Schedule first day, Resultsnew
Group Tablesnew
Statisticsnew
Preview

Gotthardt wins Superleague

Kai Gotthardt won the PDC Europe Super League and and by this secured a place in the PDC World Championship. Gotthardt prevailed in the final with 8:7 over Paul Krohne who before impressed both in the quarterfinals and in the semis with highclass performances.
Gotthardt defeated on Finals Day first Franz Roeztsch and then Dominik Gruellich both in the deciding leg. Krohne reached the final with wins over Leon Weber and reigning champion Dragutin Horvat but there was less accurate on his doubles.
Results Finals Daynew



8. November

PDC Europe Superleague

Yesterday the Last 16 matches of the PDC Europe Super League took place, today is Finals Day.
Reigning champion Dragutin Horvat is still in the running - he defeated Steven Noster convincingly with 6:1. With Pascal Rupprecht and Paul Krohne two Tour Card holders are still in the tournament as are Leon Weber, Kai Gotthardt, Franz Roetzsch, Dominik Gruellich and Kevin Troppmann. Gruellich and Rupprecht were the only players under the Last 16 with an average over 90.
Last 16new
Finals Daynew



7. November

PDC Europe Superleague

In Hildesheim yesterday the Group Phase of the PDC Europe Super League was played to the end.
At the head of the group tables on the second day of the group phase there were several changes - the three Tour Card holders Lukas Wenig, Pascal Rupprecht and Daniel Klose all moved down to the second place in their groups while reigning champion Dragutin Horvat and Kai Gotthardt stood their ground on top of their groups. Arno Merk ousted in Group B Patrick Tringler on third place and progressed under the Last 16. In Group E Steven Noster had a strong day and ended on the third place of the group while Andre Welge slided down in fourth place. But Welge was in the end the best of the group's fourth's and progressed as well.
The tournament will be broadcasted by Sport1, PDC.TV and DAZN.
Group Tables Final Standingsnew
Schedule Last 16new



6. November

PDC Europe Superleague

Yesterday in Hildesheim the first day of the Group Phase of the PDC Europe Super League took place.
None of the thirty players could win all his five matches, David Schlichting was the only one who lost all his matches. In three of the five groups after the first day with Lukas Wenig, Daniel Klose and Pascal Rupprecht Tour Card Holders sit in the first place. In the other two groups reigning champion Dragutin Horvat and Kai Gotthardt head the table.
The tournament will be broadcasted by Sport1, PDC.TV and DAZN.
Group Tables after Day 1new



5. November

Grand Slam of Darts

After the end of this year's Challenge Tour the field of participants of the Grand Slam of Darts is complete. The tournament will begin on Saturday, 9. November in Wolverhampton.
The PDC already published the group draw and the schedule of the first group matches. Reigning champion Luke Humphries plays together with James Wade, Mickey Mansell and Rowby-John Rodriguez in Group A and will play in his first group match in Saturday's evening-session against Rowby-John Rodriguez. The tournament will be opened in the afternoon-session with the match between Stephen Bunting and Wessel Nijman, a Group H match.
Participants
Groups
Schedule and match pairings First Day

PDC Rankings

The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order of Merit (Final Standings), the Players Championship Order of Merit (Final Standings), the Development Tour Order of Merit (Final Standings) and the Challenge Tour Order of Merit (Final Standings) wwere updated.
PDC Rankings
PDC Pro Tour
PDC Development Tour
PDC Challenge Tour



4. November

PDC Europe Superleague

Tomorrow in Hildesheim this year's PDC Europe Super League will begin by which one place in the PDC World Championship will be allocated.
Thirty players will stand at the oche and first will play on 5. and 6. November in five groups with six players each the group phase. The first three of each group and the overall best of the groups fourth will play on 7. November the Last 16. On 8. November quarterfinals, semi-finals and final will be played. The tournament will be broadcasted by Sport1, PDC.TV and DAZN.
PDC Europe Superleaguenew

PDC Challenge Tour

At the weekend the PDC Challenge Tour Season was played to the end in Leicester with the events 21 - 24.
Swede Andreas Harrysson won the events 22 and 23, Alexander Merkx the 21. event and Sebastian Bialecki the 24. and last event of the year.
Connor Scutt - who lost in the final of the 23. event to Harrysson - and Wesley Plaisier stayed at the head of the table and both will get a two years Tour Card. Scott and Plaisier are already qualified by the Pro Tour Order of Merit for the PDC World Championship, so by the Challenge Tour Order of Merit Christian Kist and Alexander Merkx get places in the the field of participants of the World Championship. As first of the Challenge Tour Order of Merit Scutt will take part in the Grand Slam of Darts.
Challenge Tournew



1. November

Grand Slam of Darts

After the Players Championship today in Leicester the Tour Card Holders Qualifier for Grand Slam of Darts took place. The tournament will begin on 9. November.
Keane Barry, Martin Luekman, Ryan Joyce, Danny Noppert, Cameron Menzies, James Wade, Mickey Mansell and Ross Smith qualified.
Participantsnew

Players Championship Finals

After the last Players Championship of the season all 64 participants in the Players Championship Finals are known.
The PDC already published the draw for the first round.
Participants, Draw 1. Roundnew

Menzies and Rock win in Leicester

Cameron Menzies and Josh Rock won thw last two Players Championships of the year.
Cameron Menzies won thge 29. Players Championship with a 8:4 defeat of Stephen Bunting. In the semi-finals stood Danny Noppert and Chris Landman. Ricardo Pietreczko, Chris Landman and Callan Rydz threw a Nine-Darter.
The 30. Players Championship was won by Josh Rock who defeated in the close final Jonny Clayton 8:7. The semi-finals reached William O'Connor and Ryan Searle. Dave Chisnalll threw a Nine-Darter.
Resultsnew



30. October

PDC Pro Tour

Today and tomorrow the Players Championships 29 and 30 will be played in Leicester. Those are the last to Players Championships of the season and the lastchance for the Players to qualify for the Players Championship Finals in Minehead.
As always not all Tour Card holders did register. Their places will be filled with players from the Challenge Tour Order of Merit.
Participants, Resultsnew



28. October

PDC Rankings

The PDC Order of Merit was updated after the European Championship.
PDC Rankings



27. October

Edhouse wins European Championship

With an 11:3 defeat of Jermaine Wattimena in the final Ritchie Edhiouse won the European Championship in Dortmund. For Edhouse it is the first PDC title. Edhouse reached the final with wins over Gary Anderson and Luke Woodhouse, Wattimena defeated on finals day Luke Humphries and Danny Noppert. The final was less highclass then the other matches of the two players before and Jermaine Wattimena suddenly had big problems to hit a double. So the final was quite one-sided but nevertheless entertaining.
Results
Report Finalnew
Statistics

European Championship

It is Finals Day at the European Championship in Dortmund. In the afternoon-session the quarterfinals will be played, in the evening-session semi-finals and final will follow.
Eight players are still in the tournament - the Dutchmen Dirk van Duijvenbode, Danny Noppert and Jermaine Wattimena, the Englishmen Luke Woodhouse, Ritchie Edhouse and Luke Humphries, Scotsman Gary Anderson and German Ricardo Pietreczko. It is a Line-Up not many would have predicted.
Schedule Finals Day



26. October

European Championship

Today on the third day of the European Championship in Dortmund the second round takes place. In an afternoon- and an evening-session four matches each will be played.
There were some upsets on the second day of the tournament as well - beside reigning champion Peter Wright - who showed a strangely weak performance and lost with 0:6 against Jermaine Wattiimena - Damon Heta, Luke Littler and Josh Rock were elimnated. Littler lost to Andrew Gilding, Strong performances showed Ricardo Pietreczko, Jmes Wade and Luke Humphries.
Schedule Third Day, Resultsnew
Statisticsnew



25. October

European Championship

On the second day of the European Championship in Dortmund the first round will be played to the end. Again eight matches will take place.
Reigning champion Peter Wright will stand on stage tonight - he will play against Jermaine Wattimena. Beside him among others Luke Humphries and Luke Littler will play their first round matches. For Littler it will be his European Championship debut - he will clash with Andrew Gilding.
Yesterday not only number 1 seed Martin Schindler was eliminated from the event - he lost to Dirk van Duijvenbode - Gian van Veen, Gerwyn Price, Dave Chisnall, Stephen Bunting, Ross Smith, Gabriel Clemens and Raymond van Barneveld didn't survive the first round either.
Schedule Second Day, Resultsnew
Statisticsnew



24. October

European Championship

Tonight in Dortmund the European Championship will begin. The first eight matches of the first round will be played.
Gian van Veen will open the tournament against Ritchie Edhouse. Among others as well on stage tonight number 1 seed German Martin Schindler, Gerwyn Price, Michael van Gerwen and Gary Anderson.
In the PDC preview reigning champion Peter Wright, Martin Schindler and Luke Humphries have their say.
Schedule First Day, Resultsnew
Statisticsnew
Preview



21. October

European Championship

After the last European Tour Event of the year all participants in the European Championship are known. The tournament will take place from 24. - 27. October in Dortmund, Germany.
The PDC alredy published the schedule for the first round which will be played on 24. and 25. Ovtober.
Participants, Schedule First Round

PDC Rankings

The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order of Merit, the European Tour Order of Merit and the Women's Series Order of Merit were updated.
PDC Rankings
European Tour
Women's Series



20.October

Humphries wins in Prague

With an 8:1 win over Kim Huybrechts in a very one-sided but nevertheless entertaining final Luke Humphries secured his second European Tour title of the year. While replacement player Kim Huybrechts reached the final in his half of the draw with wins against Pavel Drtil, a very disappointed Jermaine Wattimena and Niels Zonneveld, Humphries prevailed in his clearly stronger half over Gian van Veen, Mike de Decker and Luke Littler. Littler defeated in a sensational quarterfinal Michael van Gerwen with 6:1 but couldn't keep up with Humphries in the semis.
Results Finals Day
Statistics
Reportnew

PDC European Tour

In Prag today is Finals Day. In the afternoon session the third round will take place, in the evening session quarterfinals, semi-finals and final will be played.
Reigning champion Peter Wright was elimnated yesterday by a strong playing Martin Schindler. Luke Littler played with an average of over 111 a new tournament record. Mike de Decker, Luke Humphries and Jonny Clayton impressed as well. With Pavel Drtil a host nation qualifier is still in the tournament.
Schedule Finals Daynew

PDC Women's Series

This weekend the Women's Series will be played to the end. The Events 20 - 24 will take place in Leicester.
Participants, Resultsnew



18. October

PDC European Tour

Today in Prague, Czechia, the last European Tour Event of the year will begin - the Czech Darts Open. As in all European Tour Events on the first day in an afternoon- and an evening-session the first round will be played. Only the qualifiers will stand at the oche.
Yesterday by the Host Nation Qualifier Jiri Brejcha, Pavel Drtil, Michel Smeijda and Daniel Markovsky qualified for the tournament. Gary Anderson, Ryan Joyce and - after the draw - Rob Cross withdrew from the event. Rob Cross is replaced as seed by Kim Huybrechts, Ricardo Pietreczko moved up into the seeds for Anderson, by the Reserve List Madars Razma and Florian Hempel come into the field of participants. In the evening-session reigning champion Peter Wright will play against Cameron Menzies.
Participants, Schedule, Resultsnew
Statisticsnew



17. October

PDC Rankings

The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order of Merit and the Players Championship Order of Merit were updated.
PDC Rankings
PDC Pro Tour

Siege für van Gerwen und Plaisier in Wigan

Both Players Championships in Wigan were won by Dutch players. Michael van Gerwen won the 27. Players Championship. He defeated in the final Gerwyn Price with 8:4. In the semi-finals stood Ryan Searle and Wessel Nijman. Ryan Searle threw a nine-darter.
The 28. Players Championship was won by Wesley Plaisier. He defeated in the very close final Josh Rock with 8:7. The semi-finalists were Dirk van Duijvenbode and Danny Noppert. Jamie Hughes, Callum Goffin and Josh Rock threw a nine-darter.
Participants, Results

Tournament Calendar 2025

The dates of the Nordic and Baltic Tour and those of the World Series Events 2025 were added.
Tournament Calendar 2025
World Series of Darts 2025
Nordic and Baltic Tour 2025



15. October

PDC Pro Tour

Today and tomorrow in Wigan the Players Championships 27 and 28 will be played.
As always not all Tour Card holders did register. Their places will be filled with players from the Challenge Tour Order of Merit.
Participants, Resultsnew

PDC Winmau World Youth Championship 2024

After the last Development Tour events yesterday in Wigan all rounds of the Winmau World Youth Championship 2024 down to the final took place. The final will be played on 24. November during the Players Championship Finals in Minehead. Gian van Veen and Jurjen van der Velde will be the two finalists. They won their semi-finals against the Irishmen Dylan Slevin and Keane Barry. Van Veen already stood in the final last year but lost to Luke Littler who this year decided not to take part in the event.
PDC Winmau World Youth Championship 2024new

PDC Development Tour

At the weekend in Wigan the last four events of the PDC Development Tour 2024 took place.
Wessel Nijman won two of the events, the other two were won by Tavis Dudeney und Henry Coates gewonnen.
Wessel Nijman ends the season as top of the ranking followed by German Niko Springer on second place and Irishman Keane Barry on place 3. As Wessel Nijman is already qualified for the PDC World Championship, the two Development Tour places in the tournament go to Niko Springer and Keane Barry. Springer and Sebastian Bialecki will get due to their places in the ranking both a two years Tour Card.
Development Tour, Results, Ranking



14. October

WDF World Masters

Dutchman Wesley Plaisier defended in Budapest his World Masters title. He prevailed in the final with 7:3 over German Kai Gotthardt. In the semi-finals stood Englishman Connor Scutt and Dutchman Corne Groenveld. Beau Greaves as well defended her title with a 6:0 win over Rhian O'Sullivan in the final. German Irina Armstrong and Czech Jitka Cisarova were the semi-finalists. Paige Pauling managed the same in the girls event - she as well defended the title she first won in 2022 and defeated in the final Italian Nicole Sescu Gal with 5:0. In the semifinals stood Italian Giada Macchi and Sophie McKinlay from Scotland. Only in the boy's event there was a new champion. Belgian Lex Paeshuyse prevailed in the final over Mason Teese from England. German Florian Preis and Czech Matyas Reihon stood in the semi-finals.
WDF World Masters 2024new

De Decker wins World Grand Prix

The surprise winner of the tournament was in the end the winner - Mike de Decker defeated in the final of the World Grand Prix Luke Humphries with 6:4 and is now the first ever Belgian winner of the tournament. Decker had the far better start in the match and soon was 4:1 in the lead. Humphries managed to draw 4:4 but de Decker kept his nerve, stayed undeterred and won the match.
Bericht, Statistics Finalnew



13. October

PDC World Grand Prix - Semi-Finals

In the first semi-final Mike de Decker and Dimitri van den Bergh met and both players looked rather nervous in the first set. While de Decker seemed to regain his composure and to get more and more comfident that never happened to van den Bergh who experienced a lot of trouble with his starting double. In the end Mike de Decker won with 5:2 and progressed into his first TV ranking final.
The second semi-final was completely different - Humphries stormed with a sensational performance through the five sets to victory though his opponent Ryan Joyce played strong as well. Joyce had no chance, Humphries won 5:0 and again stands in the final of the World Grand Prix.
Resultsnew
Report, Statistics Semifinalsnew



12. October

PDC World Grand Prix

Tonight at the World Grand Prix in Leicester the semi-finals will take place.
With reigning champion Luke Humphries only one of the players one could have awaited in this round reached the Last Four. Two of the other players, Ryan Joyce and Mike de Decker, are not even seeds. Dimitri van den Bergh is one of the seeds and he won the UK Open this year, but he played rather unobstrusive over the last months. For the very first time two Belgian players stand in the semi-finals of a PDC Major and they compete against one another in the first semi-final. After that Luke Humphries will meet Ryan Joyce in the second semi-final - not really a sure-fire success for him, as Joyce turned out to be very clinical on his entrance double, the double 16, which was an important factor in his sucessfull run so far.
Schedule

PDC World Grand Prix - Quarterfinals

On quarterfinals night the upsets continued. Though the match statistics doesn't explain why James Wade was defeated in the first game 0:3 by Mike de Decker. The second match was won by Ryan Joyce 3:2. It was quite evenly matched but Cross often was unable to use the opportunities he created for himself. Luke Humphries didn't play his best match but progressed nevertheless into the semi-finals. In the last quarterfinal we had a Belgian win as well - Dimitri van den Bergh defeated Joe Cullen with 3:1. Cullen started good but dwindled away more and more.
Results
Report, Statistics Quarterfinalsnew



11. October

PDC World Grand Prix

Today is quarterfinals day at the World Grand Prix.
In the first quarterfinal Begian Mike de Decker will meet James Wade. After that Rob Cross will play against Ryan Joyce. In the third quarterfinal reigning champion Luke Humphries will play against Jonny Clayton and in the last quarterfinal Joe Cullen will clash with Dimitri van den Bergh, the second Belgian still in the tournament..
Schedulenew

PDC World Grand Prix - Day 4

The second night of the second round started as well with an upset - Mike de Decker defeated Gary Anderson - who never really was in the match - with 3:0. With the same result James Wade prevailed in the second match over a once again patchy Gerwyn Price. The following match between Daryl Gurney and Joe Cullen ended slightly surprising with a 3:2 win for Cullen - Gurney was far less strong then against van Gerwen. The last second round match between Dave Chisnall and Dimitri van den Bergh in which van den Bergh improved throughout the match and won 3:1.
Resultsnew
Report, Statistics Day 4new



10. October

PDC World Grand Prix

In Leicester today the second round of the World Grand Prix will be played to the end. Again four matches will take place.
The night will begin with the match between Gary Anderson and Mike de Decker. After that Gerwyn Price and James Wade will clash before Daryl Gurney - who eliminated Michael van Gerwen first round - will play against Joe Cullen. In the last second round match Dave Chisnall will meet Dimitri van den Bergh.
Schedulenew

PDC World Grand Prix - Day 3

The first second round evening started with an upset - Ryan Joyce prevailed in a dramatic match 3:2 over Nathan Aspinall. In the following two matches one German players each stood on stage. Both Schindler and Pietreczko showed solid performances but both experienced some Double-In trouble and both had only one convincing set. Their opponents Cross and Humphries won with 3:1. In the last match of the night Jonny Clayton and Ross Smith met. Smith had a strong start but couldn't keep it up and Clayton won 3:1.
Results
Report, Statistics Day 3new



9. October

PDC World Grand Prix

Today at the World Grand Prix in Leicester the second round will begin. Four matches will be played and the format will change to Best of five Sets.
Reigning champion Luke Humphries will meet Ricardo Pietreczko. Rob Cross will play against Martin Schindler, Jonny Clayton against Ross Smith and Nathan Aspinall against Ryan Joyce.
Schedulenew

PDC World Youth Championship 2024

The international qualifiers and the pre qualified Tour Card holders who will take part in the event are known and were published by the PDC. Four of the Tour Card holders decided not to take part: Josh Rock, reigning champion Luke Littler, Pascal Rupprecht and Leighton Bennett. The number of participants expands to 128 - the places still available will be comprised of players from the final PDC Development Tour Orders of Merit. Cut off date is the 13. October after the 24. and last event of the year.
All rounds down to the final of the World Youth Championship will be played on 14. October in Wigan, the final will take place on 24. November between the semi-finals and the final of the Players Championship Finals in Minehead.
World Youth Championship, Participants on 9. October

PDC World Grand Prix - Day 2

On the second day of the World Grand Prix the first round was played to the end. Many of the eight matches were hard fought and needed a deciding set. The so far biggest upset of the tournament caused Daryl Gurney, who defeated Michael van Gerwen with 2:0; van Gerwen couldn't win a single leg. As well with 2:0 Dave Chisnall defeated Cameron Menzies wo as well didn't win a leg. 2:1 wins got a strong playing Dimitri van den Bergh, Mike de Decker, James Wade against an out of form Peter Wright, Gerwyn Price who was in a from both players weak match a little bit better then Danny Noppert, Gary Anderson who never was in front throughout his match against Michael Smith and Joe Cullen who improved a lot after the first set.
Results
Report, Statistics Day 2new



8. October

PDC World Grand Prix - Day 1

On the first day of the World Grand Prix there were several upsets. Ryan Joyce eliminated Josh Rock who was as chanceless as in the last match of the night Gian van Veen against an outstanding Ross Smith. Luke Littler lost to Rob Cross for whom a few great legs in the third legs sufficed for the win. Ricardo Pietreczko was the only debutant who reached the next round - he defeated a far from his best Raymond van Barneveld. Martin Schindler progressed with a solid performance into the second round as did a very convincing Jonny Clayton. Reigning champion Luke Humphries survived a very close match against Stephen Bunting. As close but slightly more highclass was the match between Nathan Aspinall and Ryan Searle in which Aspinall prevailed in the end.
Results
Report, Statistics Day 1new



7. October

PDC World Grand Prix

Tonight in Leicester the PDC World Grand Prix - the only Double-In Double-Out tournament of the PDC - will begin. The first eight matches of the first round will be played. Tonight with Ritchie Edhouse, Ricardo Pietreczko, Luke Litter and Gian van Veen four players will give their World Grand Prix debut. Reigning champion Luke Humphries will stand on stage as well, he will play against Stephen Bunting.
In the PDC preview Luke Humphries, Jonny Clayton and Chris have their say.
Participants, Schedule
Preview World Grand Prixnew



6. October

World Seniors Matchplay

John Henderson won on Saturday the World Seniors Matchplay 2024. He defeated in the final reigning champion Leonhard Gates with 9:6. In the semi-finals stood Richie Howson and Robert Thornton who won the event in 2022.
Schedule, Results



5. October

World Seniors Matchplay

Yesterday in York the World Seniors Matchplay began with the first round. Today the tournament will be played to the end with quarterfinals, semi-finals and final.
Reigning champion Leonhard Gates is among the players who won their first round matches - he defeated James Richardson with 8:5. Beside Richie Howson, John Henderson, David Cameron, Robert Thornton, Martin Adams, Neil Duff - who impressed yesterday with a 96.10 average - and Lisa Ashton - Gates gates opponent in the quarterfinals today - progressed.
Schedule, Results



4. October

PDC Rankings

The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order of Merit, the Players Championship Order of Merit and the European Tour Order of Merit were updated.
PDC Rankings
PDC Pro Tour
PDC European Tour

PDC Pro Tour

The three Players Championships in Wigan were won by Wessel Nijman, Chris Dobey and Luke Humphries. In all three events the runner-up was Stephen Bunting. The semi-finals of the 24. Players Championships reached Gary Anderson and Luke Littler, in the semi-finals of the 25. Players Championship stood Andrew Gilding and Daryl Gurney, in the 26. Players Championship it were Luke Woodhouse and Raymond van Barneveld. For Dobey it was already the third Pro Tour of the year, for both Humphries and Nijman the first. Gary Anderson threw a nine-darter during the 24. Players Championships, Lee Evans hit a perfect leg during the 26. Players Championship.
Results



2. October

PDC World Grand Prix

The PDC now published the draw and the schedule of the first and the second round of the event.
The match between Josh Rock and Ryan Joyce will open the tournament on 7. October. Reigning champion Luke Humphries will stand at the oche as well on the first day - he will play against Stephen Bunting. Last year's runner-up Gerwyn Price will play his first round match on day two against Danny Noppert.
Schedule World Grand Prixnew



1. October

PDC Pro Tour

Today, tomorrow and on Thursday in Wigan the Players Championships 24, 25 and 26 will take place.
As always in Wigan several Tour Card holders didn't register. Among them are Michael van Gerwen, Peter Wright and Gerwyn Price.
Participants



30. September

PDC World Grand Prix

After the Swiss Darts Trophy in Basel all 32 participants in the World Grand Prix - which will be played from 7. - 13. October in Leicester - are know.
There were no changes in the field of participants only some placings in the rankings changed.
Participants World Grand Prixnew



29. September

Schindler wins in Basel

Martin Schindler won the Swiss Darts Trophy in Basel and secured his second European Tour title of the year. He defeated in an at the end close final Ryan Searle - who missed several matchdarts - with 8:7. Searle had a big lead till the middle of the match but Schindler reduced it by winning leg after leg and than won the deciding and last leg of the match.
In the semi-finals stood Josh Rock and Callan Rydz but both had no chance at all against their opponents.
Report Finalnew
Results
Statistics

PDC European Tour

Today is Finals Day in Basel. In the afternoon-session the third round will take place, in the evening-session quarterfinals, semi-finals and final will follow.
On the second day of the tournament the last two Swiss players were eliminated. Roger Hertig lost to Ryan Searle, Bruno Stöckli was beaten by Luke Littler. Four seeded players didn't survive the second round either - Danny Noppert, Dave Chisnall, Chris Dobey and Ricardo Pietreczko who lost in a in a from both players unconvincing match to Raymond van Barneveld.
Schedule 3.Daynew
Statistics



28. September

PDC European Tour

On the second day of the Swiss Darts Trophy the second round will be played. Again an afternoon and an evening-session will take place. The first round winners will play against the seeded players.
Two Swiss Host Nation Qualifiers won their first round matches and progressed into the second round. Bruno Stöckli prevailed over Krystztof Ratajski and will clash in the evening-session session with Luke Littler and Roger Hertig won in the deciding leg against Ryan Meikle and will play in the afternoon-session against Ryan Searle.
Schedule 2.Day, Resultsnew
Statisticsnew



27. September

PDC European Tour

Today in Basel, Switzerland, the penultimate European Tour Event of the year will begin. The Swiss Darts Trophy will be played for the first time. As in all European Tour Events on the first day in an afternoon- and an evening-session the first round will be played. Only the qualifiers will stand at the oche.
Yesterday by the Host Nation Qualifier Marcel Walpen, Bruno Stöckli, Alex Fehlmann and Roger Hertig qualified for the event. Michael van Gerwen and Ryan Joyce have withdrawn from the tournament. Jim Williams and Ian White move up from the Reserve List.
Schedule, Participants, Resultsnew
Statisticsnew
Participants World Grand Prix before Swiss Darts Trophy



26. September

Anderson and Chisnall win Players Championships

The two Players Championships in Leicester were won by Gary Anderson and Dave Chisnall.
Anderson won Players Championship 22 - he defeated in the final Connor Scutt. The semi-finals reached Christian Kist and James Wade. With a similar strong performance Dave Chisnall won the 23. Players Championship. He prevailed in the final over Chris Dobey. In the semi-finals stood Stephen Burton and Martin Schindler. Both for Anderson and for Chisnall it was the second Players Championship title of the year.
Dobey threw in his semi-final against Schindler a nine-darter. Adam Warner as well threw a nine-darter during the 23. Players Championship.
Results

PDC Rankings

The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order of Merit and the Players Championship Order of Merit were updated after the two Players Championships in Leicester.
PDC Rankings
PDC Pro Tour



24. September

PDC Pro Tour

Today and tomorrow in Leicester the Players Championships 22 and 23 will take place.
As always some of the Tour Card Holders didn't register for Leicester. Among them are Josh Rock - who just moved up to 16. place in the Order of Merit - and Jacques Labre. The replacements include players like the former World Champions Christian Kist and Richie Burnett.
The two Players Championships count for the qualification for the World Grand Prix in October.
Participants
Participants World Grand Prix before Players Championships



23. September

PDC Rankings

The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order of Merit and the European Tour Order of Merit were updated after the Hungarian Darts Trophy in Budapest.
PDC Rankings
PDC European Tour

CDC Darts

At the weekend in Bownsburg, Indiana, the last three CDC events of the year took place. Two of the events were won by Adam Sevada and one by Jake Womack. Both moved up by this in the Point Ranking - but not far enough to oust Leonard Gates, Jim Long and Stowe Buntz at the head of the ranking.
So Gates, Long and Buntz qualified for the PDC World Championship 2024/25. For all three it will be the second PDC World Championship.
The Top 16 of the ranking will take part in the Continental Cup which ends this year's season. Among them is three times World Champion John Part.
CDC Circuit

PDC Europe Super League 24

After the end of the Next Gen Tour the PDC Europe now announced the participants of this year's Super League which will take place from 5. - 8. November in Hildesheim, Germany.
The number of participants was increased to 30 - one half qualified by the Next Gen Tour rankings, the other half are the last 16 of last year's Super League with the exception of Manfred Bilderl who decided not to take part. As always the winner of the Super League qualifies for the PDC World Championship. Last year it was Dragutin Horvat who in 2024 again wil play the Super League.
PDC Europe Super League 24



22. September

Van Gerwen wins Hungarian Darts Trophy

With 8:7 Michael van Gerwen won the final of the Hungarian Darts Trophy against his felllow country man Gian van Veen and got his first European Tour title of the year.
Van Gerwen reached the final with wins over Gabriel Clemens, Josh Rock and Ross Smith on finals day and was only under pressure in the final. Van Veen defeated today similar easily Danny Noppert, Wessel Nijmann, and Ryan Searle against him he slightly lost his momentum near the end of the match.
Results
Statistics
Report Finals Day

PDC European Tour

Today is Finals Day of the Hungarian Darts Trophy in Budapest. In the afternopon-session the third round will be played. In the evening-session quarterfinals, semifinals and the final will follow.
In the second round both Norwegian Cor Dekker and Michael van Gerwen threw a nine-darter. While Dekker nevertheless lost to Stephen Bunting Michael van Gerwen progressed with a strong performance. German Gabriel Clemens caused an upset as he eliminated Luke Humphries in a very close match. Today in the third round a third nine-darter followed - again against Stephen Bunting - and again Bunting's opponent lost the match. This time it was German Martin Schindler.
Schedule Finals Day
Statistics



21. September

PDC European Tour

On the second day of the Hungarian Darts Trophy today in Budapest in an afternoon- and an evening-session the second round will take place. The first round winners will play against the seeded players.
With the exception of Alberto Bezijan - who defeated in the first round fellow country man Andras Csoka - all Hungarian qualifiers were eliminated. Nathan Aspinall, who is back after his ellbow injury, won his first round match against Krzysztof Ratajski while Jonny Clayton eliminated Michael Smith.
Results, Schedule Second Day
Statistics



19. September

Wins for Littler and van Gerwen

The Players Championships 20 and 21 in Wigan were won by Luke Littler and Michael van Gerwen.
Littler won on Tuesday the Players Championship 20, he defeated in the final Stephen Bunting. In the semi-finals stood Dave Chisnall and Gerwyn Price.
On Wednesday Michael van Gerwen prevailed in the final of the 21. Players Championship over Dave Chinsall. For van Gerwen it was the first ranking title of the year. The semi-finals reached Ritchie Edhouse and Maik Kuivenhoven.
Results

PDC Rankings

The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order of Merit and the Players Championship Order of Merit were updated after the Players Championships 20 and 21 in Wigan.
PDC Rankings
PDC Pro Tour



17. September

PDC Pro Tour

Today and tomorrow in Wigan the Players Championships 20 and 21 will take place.
As always not all Tour Card Holders have registered - among them Josh Rock and Peter Wright. They will be replaced amongst others by Connor Scutt, Christian Kist and John Henderson.
Participants



15. September

Littler wins in Amsterdam

Luke Littler defeated in the final of the World Series of Darts Finals Michael Smith with 11:4 and is the new champion.
Littler was unstoppable on finals day and defeated on his way to the final first Chris Dobey and then in the semi-finals Michael van Gerwen who showed a good performance but was nevertheless as chanceless as Michael Smith was in the final. Smith reached the final with wins over Rob Cross and Peter Wright.
Results
Statistics
Report Final

World Series of Darts Finals

Today is finals day in Amsterdam. In the afternoon-session the quarterfinals will take place, in the evening-session semi-finals and final will follow.
Reigning champion Michael van Gerwen and the world number 1 Luke Humphries provided the highlights of the second round and will clash today in the quarterfinals. Chris Dobey and Luke Littler showed strong performances as well and progressed into the Last Eight. Daryl Gurney is the only Tour Card Qualifier still in the tournament.
Schedule Day 3, Results
Statistics
Report Second Round



14. September

World Series of Darts Finals

Today the World Series of Darts Finals will continue. In the afternoon-session the first round will be played to the end, in the evening-session the second round will take place.
Reigning champion Michael van Gerwen prevailed last night in a from both players scrappy match 6:4 over Jonny Clayton. Boris Krcmar caused with his win over Stephen Bunting the only mild upset of the first day. Beside van Gerwen and Krcmar Damon Heta, Chris Dobey, Raymond van Barneveld, Luke Littler, Luke Humphries and Danny Noppert progressed into the second round.
Schedule, Results
Statistics



13. September

World Series of Darts Finals

Today in Amsterdam the World Series of Darts Finals 2024 will begin. In an evening-session the first eight matches of the first round will take place.
The tournament will be opened by the match between Boris Krcmar and Stephen Bunting. Reigning champion Michael van Gerwen will as well stand on stage tonight, he will play against Jonny Clayton.
Preview



11. September

World Series of Darts Finals

As Nathan Aspinall injury needs additional treatment he has withdrawn from the World Series of Darts Finals.
He will be replaced by Andrew Gilding.
Participants, Schedule

Tournament Calendar 2025

The provisional Tournament Calendar 2025 is now online. All so far known PDC and WDF dates were included.
Tournament Calendar 2025
PDC European Tour 2025
PDC Pro Tour 2025
PDC Challenge Tour 2025
PDC Development Tour 2025
Women's Series 2025



9. September

PDC Rankings

The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order of Merit and the European Tour Order of Merit were updated after the Flanders Darts Trophy in Antwerpen.
PDC Rankings
PDC European Tour

PDC Women's Series

Two of the four events of the Women's Series at the weekend were won by Beau Greaves who by this increased he lead in the ranking. Greaves prevailed in the finals once over Fallon Sherrock and once over Noa-Lynn van Leuven. The other two titles got Gemma Hayter with a win over Mikuru Suzuki and Robyn Byrne who defeated in her final Lorraine Winstanley. Both for Hayter as for Byrne it was the second Women's Series title.
Participants, Results
Updated Ranking



8. September

Chisnall wins in Antwerpen

Dave Chisnall won the Flanders Darts Trophy in Antwerpen. He defeated in the final Ricardo Pietreczko with 8:6 and won his second European Tour title of the year.
Chisnall defeated on finals day Gabriel Clemens - who couldn't keep up the strong performance he showed against van Gerwen - Peter Wright and Chris Dobey. Pietreczko today prevailed over Danny Noppert, Dirk van Duijvenbode and World Champion Luke Humphries before Chisnall destroyed all his hopes for a second European Tour title of his career.
Results Finals Day
Statistics
Report Finalnew

PDC European Tour

The Flanders Darts Trophy in Antwerpen will today be played to the end in an afternoon - and an evening session. In the afternoon-session the third round will take place, in the evening-session quarterfinals, semi-finals and the final will follow.
Yesterday Gabriel Clemens and Luke Littler provided the highlights of the second round. Clemens showed a great performance and defeated for the first time in his career Michael van Gerwen, Luke Littler played an outstanding 111.13 average at his 6:1 win over Jermaine Wattimena. From the seeded players beside van Gerwen Gerwyn Price, Martin Schindler and Damon Heta were eliminated.
Results, Schedule Finals Daynew
Statisticsnew



7. September

PDC European Tour

Today in Antwerpen the Flanders Darts Trophy continues with the second round in an afternoon - and an evening session. The seeded players will play gainst the first round winners.
The biggest upset of the first round caused Andrew Gilding who defeated with a strong performance local hero Dimitri van den Bergh. Gilding will play tonight against German Ricardo Pietreczko. All four Belgian Home Nation Qualifiers lost theit first round matches.
Results, Schedule Day 2new
Statisticsnew

PDC Women's Series

Action continues on the PDC Women's Series this weekend as well. The events 17 - 20 will be played in Wigan.
Participants, Results



27. August

PDC Premier League 2025

The PDC published dates and venues of the Premier League 2025.
The tickets will go on sale during October.
Premier League 2025 - Schedulenew

PDC Nordic and Baltic Tour

On the Nordic and Baltic Tour the last two events of the season were played at the weekend in Iceland.
Andreas Harrysson won the penultimate event 6:5 against Darius Labanauskas. Labanauskas won the title of the last event of the year. He defeated in the final final Teemu Harjuwith 6:4 and moved up to the second place of the ranking behind Jeffrey de Graaf.
PDC Nordic and Baltic Tournew



26. August

PDC Rankings

The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order of Merit and the Players Championship Order of Merit were updated after the Players Championships 18 and 19 in Milton Keynes.
PDC Rankings
PDC Pro Tour



23. August

PDC Pro Tour

The two Players Championships in Milton Keynes were won by Damon Heta and Chris Dobey.
Damon Heta won Players Championship 18 with 8:3 in the final against Ryan Searle. In the semi-finals stood Cameron Menzies and Steve Beaton. Chris Dobey won the 19. Players Championship. the final the again strong playing Cameron Menzies with 8:6. The semi-finals reached Thibault Tricole and Daryl Gurney.
Today the Tour Card Holders Qualifiers for the 13. European Tour Event and the World Series of Darts finals took place in Milton Keynes statt. Gabriel Clemens was the only player who qualified for both tournaments.
Participants, Resultsnew
ET 13 - Czech Darts Open
Worlds Series of Darts Finals - Participantsnew



20. August

PDC Pro Tour

On Wednesday and Thursday in Milton Keynes the Players Championships 18 and 19 will be played. Following this as well in Milton Keynes the Tour Card Holders qualifier for the European Event 13 in Prague and the World Series of Darts Finals will take place.
Participants, Resultsnew
ET 13 - Czech Darts Open

PDC Challenge Tour

At the weekend in Milton Keynes five events of the PDC Challenge Tour took place.
They were won by Alexander Merckx, Connor Scutt, Jimmy van Schie, Wesley Plaisier and Christian Kist. Both Plaisier and Scott reached another final each, Scott furthermore another quarterfinal.
Challenge Tour



16. August

World Series of Darts

Luke Humphries won in Hamilton, New Zealand, the last World Series Event of the year - the New Zealand Darts Masters. He defeated in the final Damon Heta - who was rewarded for his performances again with the Kyle Anderson Memorial Trophy - with 8:2. For Humphries it was the first title on the World Series. He reached the final with wins over Kayden Milne, Michael Smith and Luke Littler. Heta defeated on his way to the final Simon Whitlock, reigning champion Rob Cross and Gerwyn Price who had won last weekend in Australia.
Schedule, Resultsnew
Statistics new
Report new



15. August

World Series of Darts

To conclude the international World Series Events on 16. and 17. August the New Zealand Darts Masters will take place Hamilton.
Again the eight PDC players will play against eight oceanic players. Reigning champion Rob Cross was drawn as last week in the Australian Darts Masters against New Zealand's number 1 Haupai Puha. Last week Cross won the close match.
Preview



14. August

Dartoids World

Dartoid travels to Hiroshima - actually to play darts. But his evocative visit to the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima - which commrmorates the devasting effect of the atomic bombing on 6. August 1945 and especially the Hiroshima "shadows" haunted him - not only all the the way into the darts bar...
"Nuclear" Darts



11. August

PDC Women's Series

The most successfull players of the weekend were Beau Greaves and Noa-Lynn van Leuven who met in three of the four events in the final. Twice Greaves was the winner, one time Noa-Lynn van Leuven. In the 14. event of the Women's Series Aileen de Graaf won the all Dutch final against Anca Zijlstra. On her way to the final de Graaf defeated Greaves in the Top 16 and van Leuven in the quarterfinals.
Results
Ranking

CDC Main Tour

During the third CDC Main Tour weekend in Wheeling, Illinois, USA Canadian Jim Long and the Americans Stowe Buntz and Leonard Gates each won one of the events.
The point ranking is headed by David Cameron, Gates, Buntz and Long follow on the places 2,3 and 4.

CDC Main Tour



10. August

World Series of Darts

Gerwyn Price won Wollongong in Australia the Australien Darts Masters with an 8:1 demolition of Luke Littler. Price reached the final with wins over Brenton Lloyd, Damon Heta and Peter Wright. Littler, who couldn't keep up his impressive perfomances in the final, defeated on his way to the final Rob Modra, Luke Humphries and Dimitri van den Bergh. Reigning champion Rob Cross was eliminated in the quarterfinals by Peter Wright.
Schedule, Results
Statistics
Report

PDC Women's Series

Today and tomorrow in Niederhausen, Germany, four more events of the PDC Women's Series will be played.
Schedule, Participants



9. August

World Series of Darts

Today in Wollongon, Australia, the Australian Darts Masters will begin.
Eight PDC representatives will play in the first round against eight oceanic representatives. Reigning champion Rob Cross will play in the first round against the number 1 of New Zealand Haupai Puha.
Schedule



6. August

PDC Rankings

The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order of Merit and the Players Championship Order of Merit were updated after the Players Championships 15, 16 and 17 in Milton Keynes.
PDC Rankings
PDC Pro Tour

PDC European Tour

After the Players Championships in Milton Keynes the Tour Card Holders Qualifiers for the European Tour Events in Budapest and Basel followed.
Only the two Dutchmen Dirk van Duijvenbode and Wessel Nijmann managed to qualify for both events.
Both Florian Hempel and William O'Connor threw a nine-darter during the events.
ET 11 - Hungarian Darts Trophy
ET 12 - Swiss Darts Trophy

PDC Pro Tour

Josh Rock won the 17. Players Championship of the year in Milton Keynes. He defeated in the final Joe Cullen witht 8:6. The semi-finals reached Ross Smithand Florian Hempel. By this win rock moves up to the 17. place of the PDC Order of Merit. als zwei Jahren.
Resultsnew



2. August

PDC Pro Tour

The first two Players Championships in Milton Keynes were won by Luke Littler and Mike de Decker. For de Decker it was the first tournamnt win on the Pro Tour, for Littler already the second this year.
Littler defeated in the final of the 15. Players Championships Wessel Nijmann with 8:6, in the semi-finals stood Chris Dobey and Damon Heta. De Decker triumphed in the 16. Players Championship with a 8:2 win over Ricky Evans, Karel Sedlacek and Luke Humphries reached the semi-finals.
Participants, Resultsnew

PDC Nordic and Baltic Tour

Last weekend was a Nordic and Baltic Tour weekend.
Darius Labanauskas won the seventh Pro Tour Event, Oskar Lukasiak the eighth. The Qualifiers for the European Tour Events 11, 12 and 13 were won by Cor Dekker, Anton Östlund and Marko Kantele.
Nordic and Baltic Tour



29. July

PDC Development Tour

At the weekend in Milton Keynes five ecents of the PDC Development Tour took place.
The five events were dominated by Wessel Nijmann and Niko Springer. Nijmann won events 16, 17 and 19, Springer events 18 and 20. Two times the two players met in the Finals and each one time was the winner. In the other two events Spinger reached the semi-finals while Nijmann lost in the 20. event in the semi-finals. Beau Greaves took part at the weekend as well reaching two quarterfinals and one semi-final.
Nijmann now heads the table followed by Springer.
Development Tour

PDC Pro Tour

From Wednesday in Milton Keynes the Players Championships 15, 16 and 17 will be played. Following this as well in Milton Keynes the Tour Card holders qualifiers for the Events 11 und 12 in Budapest and Basel will take place.
Participants
ET 11 - Hungarian Darts Trophy
ET 12 - Swiss Darts Trophy



25. July

PDC World Matchplay - Semifinals, Final and Women's World Matchplay

To conclude the coverage of the World Matchplay the review on the semi-finals and the final of the men and the Women's World Matchplay.
Semifinals and Finalnew
Women's World Matchplaynew



24. July

PDC Rankings

The PDC Order of Merit was updated after the World Matchplay.
PDC Rankings

PDC World Matchplay - Quarterfinals

The quarterfinals of the World MAtchplay waren were thrilling and highclass.
Here a short review.
The Quarterfinalsnew



21 July

Humphries wins World Matchplay

Luke Humphries defeated in the final of the World Matchplay Michael van Gerwen with 18:15 and for the first time won the title.
The final was a highclass match in which Michael van Gerwen had his share as well which what had not really to be expected after his first matches in the tournament. In the first half of the match he was even in the lead several times but Humphries got stronger, more consistent and more convincing and won in the end against an appearingly disappointed van Gerwen with an 100 checkout.
Statisticsnew

Greaves defends title

With an impressive performance in the final Beau Greaves defended her Women's World Matchplay title and qualified for both the Grand Slam of Darts and the PDC World Championship.
Greaves defeated in the final Fallon Sherrock with 6:3 and an average of 98.75 - a clear improvement compared to her previous matches. Greaves prevailed in the quarterfinals over Katie Sheldon and in the semi-finals over Mikuru Suzuki. Sherrock defeated on her way into the final first debutant Anastasia Dobromyslova and than in a quaint semi-final - in which both players had distinct double trouble - Lisa Ashton.
Results, Statistics, Reportnew

PDC Women's World Matchplay

Today in the afternoon-session the Women's World Matchplay takes place.
In the quarterfinals reigning champion Beau Greaves will meet Katie Sheldon, Mikuri Suzuki plays against Noa-Lynn van Leuven, Fallon Sherrock will play debutant Anastasia Dobromyslova and Lisa Ashton will play against Rhian O'Sullivan.
Women's World Matchplay

PDC World Matchplay

We have a debutant in the Women's World Matchplay this year as well - Anastasia Dobromyslova.
For her it is the return on the big stage after fiove years. As a Russian player she was banned from playing after the Ukraine War started. She now plays under neutral flag.
The Debutants - Anastasia Dobromyslovanew



20. July

PDC World Matchplay - Semi-Finals

The two semi-finals were won by Luke Humphries and Michael van Gerwen who will play tomorrow in the evening-session the final.
Luke Humphries defeated in the first semi-final James Wade with 17:10. For a long time it was a balanced match but after Humphries got the 8:7 lead he pulled clear. The second semifinal between Michael van Gerwen was a match of ebbs and flow and a match of missed doubles. After Smith had drawn 12:12 he no longer was in the races and van Gerwen won 17:13. Results
Statistics, Reportnew

PDC Women's World Matchplay

Tomorrow in Blackpool in the Afternoon-Session the third PDC Women's World Matchplay will take place.
In the PDC reigning champion Beau Greaves, Fallon Sherrock, Lisa Ashton and Noa-Lynn van Leuven have their say.
Preview Women's World Matchplaynew

PDC World Matchplay

Time for the Semi-Finals in Blackpool! The World Numbers 1, 2 and 3 will stand on stage - and one unseeded player.
In the opening semi-final World Number 1 Luke Humphries will play against the not seeded James Wade. In the second semifinal the Numbers 2 and 3 of the World Michael Smith and Michael van Gerwen will clash.
Schedule, Resultsnew



19. July

PDC World Matchplay - Quarterfinals 2

The second quarterfinal evening Rob Cross probably will remember as a pitch-black day - he couldn't keep up his so far great performances at all and the match was mostly shaped by his problems to hit a double. At one time his hitting rate was 7 percent. It improved till the end of the match to 21 percent but the deserved 16:7 winner of the match in the end was Michael Smith. Smith will play in the semi-finals against Michael von Gerwen who won 16:10 against Andrew Gilding who even had been in the lead early in the match but probably had some problems with the long format of the match.
Resultsnew
Report, Statisticsnew

PDC World Matchplay

Second quarterfinals day in Blackpool.
The first match tonight is a repeat of last year's UK Open Final - Michael van Gerwen will play against Andrew Gilding. In the second quarterfinal with Michael Smith and Rob Cross two former World Champions will meet.
Schedule

PDC World Matchplay - The Second Round

By now Summer arrived here in Blackpool and the good weather is supposed to stay till the weekend. Not only the seagulls are delighted.
The second article is a review of the second round.
The Second Roundnew

PDC World Matchplay - Quarterfinals 1

The winners of the first two quarterfinals were James Wade uand Luke Humphries. James Wade defeated with a highclass and throughout consistent performance Ross Smith with 16:10 - Ross just didn't find a way to cope with it. Luke Humphries defeated Dimitri van den Bergh with the same results but he struggled first a lot with himself and the Belgian again and again came close. Only in the last legs Humphries found into his stride and drew away.
Results
Bericht, Statistics Day 6new



18. July

PDC World Matchplay

Today is the first quarterfinals day in Blackpool.
In the first match tonight Ross Smith will play against James Wade. After that World Champion Luke Humphries will meet UK Open Champion Dimitri van den Bergh - a reapeat of the UK Open Final in March.
Schedule, Resultsnew

PDC World Matchplay - The First Round

Global Darts by now arrived in slightly rainy Blackpool. As one hears it seems to be the normal weather here this year.
The first article is some kind of review of the first round.
The First Roundnew


17. July

PDC World Matchplay - Day 5

The last four matches of the second round started with an astonishing clear 11:5 win of Andrew Gilding over Krzysztof Ratajski. It followed the outstanding match of the night between Rob Cross and Ryan Searle which was won almost as clear with 11:6 and an average of 106.99 by Cross. Michael van Gerwen won his match against Joe Cullen 11:8. The match started quite one-sided and Cullen improved too late to turn the match around. In the last second round match Michael Smith and Chris Dobey met. It started rather one-sided but got very close before Smith came with 11:9 over the finishing line.
Results
Report, Statistics Day 5new

PDC World Matchplay - Day 4

The first day of the second round ended Nathan Aspinalls attempt to defend his title despite his arm injury, he lost 8:11 to James Wade. As well eliminated were seeds Gerwyn Price and Jonny Clayton - they lost to Ross Smith and Dimitri van den Bergh. Luke Humphries is through to the quarterfinals too - he defeated Stephen Bunting with 11:7.
Tonight the other four matches of the second round will be played - among others Rob Cross, Michael Smith and Michael van Gerwen will stand on stage.
Schedule Day 5, Resultsnew
Report, Statistics Day 4



15. July

PDC World Matchplay - Day 2

The second day of the World Matchplay was a little bit pressed for time which one could feel in the last match of the night. Seed Dave Chisnall looked rather nervous und couldn't get anything straight - he lost 2:10 against Krzysztof Ratajski. Seed Peter Wright was not really at ease either and was eliminated by Andrew Gilding. The third seeded player who lost his match was Danny Noppert who in the afternoon-session couldn't cope with James Wade. Highlights of the day were Dimitri van den Bergh's nine-darter, Bunting's win in the Tie Break against Ryan Joyce and a fantastic match between Rob Cross and Gian van Veen which Cross won in a Sudden Death Leg.
Tonight the last four first round matches will be played - among them the highly anticipated game between Michael van Gerwen and Luke Littler.
Schedule Day 3, Results
Statistics Day 3new
Report, Statistics Day 2



14. July

PDC World Matchplay - Day 1

On the first night of the World Matchplay all seeds won the matches with good performances and progressed into the second round. The outstanding performance came from Luke Humphries who defeated with an average of over 108 an as well strong playing German debutant Ricardo Pietreczko 10:4. One could see that reigning champion Aspinall had problems with his injured throwing arm but he battled and won.
Today there will be two sessions. As the English football national team will play the final of the European Championship they will start both earlier then usually. The afternoon-session will begin at 12 BST, the evening-session at 16.30 BST.
Schedule, Results Day 2new
Report, Statistics Day 1



13. July

PDC World Matchplay

Today the World Matchplay in Blackpool will begin.
In the PDC Preview kommen Nathan Aspinall, Luke Humphries, Martin Schindler and Luke Littler have their say.
PDC Preview
Results Day 1

Tomas 'Shorty' Seyler passed away

On 11. July the former German number 1 Tomas Seyler passed away.
Seyler both as a player and as a TV pundit played a key part in the development of the sport of darts in Germany. Our condolences to his family and his friends.
Tomas "Shorty" Seylernew



12. July

PDC World Matchplay

Only one more day till the World Matchplay in Blackpool will begin - time for the fifth and last of the debutants!
The fifth debutant will be as well the last player to come on stage on Monday night - Ritchie Edhouse. He will play against Chris Dobey.
The Debutants - Ritchie Edhouse



11. July

PDC World Matchplay

Two more days and the World Matchplay in Blackpool will begin - and here is debutant number four!
The fourth debutant of the tournament who will come on stage for the penultimate first round match on Monday night is Luke Littler. He was drawn against Michael van Gerwen - a match that could be a hightlight of the first round.
The Debutants - Luke Littler



10. July

PDC World Matchplay

Only three days till the World Matchplay in Blackpool will begin. Here is our third debutant!
The third debutant and the only one who will stand on stage on the second day of the tournament is the young Dutchman Gian van Veen. He will play in the first match of the evening-session on Sunday against Rob Cross.
The Debutants - Gian van Veen

Dartoids World

Not only the World Matchplay is just around the corner - another sports mega event is getting closer and closer: the Olympic Games in Paris.
Dartoid went to search for a Darts Bar in Paris but sadly came to the conclusion that Paris will not win a gold medal in this in this discipline.
Darts in Paris



9. July

PDC World Matchplay

Only four days till the World Matchplay in Blackpool will begin and time for the second debutant!
The second debutant who will come on stage for the last match on the opening night of the tournamant - directly after Pietreczko - will be Luke Woodhouse. Woodhouse will meet reigning champion Nathan Aspinall.
The Debutants - Luke Woodhouse



8. July

PDC World Matchplay

Five days to go till the World Matchplay will begin in Blackpool. Global Darts takes the opportunity to present you each day one of the five debutants in the tournament.
As first debutant German Ricardo Pietreczko will come on the stage on the opening night of the tournament. He was drawn against World Champion Luke Humphries.
The Debutants - Ricardo Pietreczko



6. July

PDC World Matchplay

The PDC published draw and schedule of the first round of the tournament.
Reigning champion Nathan Aspinall will play on the first night of the tournament against Luke Woodhouse. As well on the opening night World Champion Luke Humphries will play against German debutant Ricardo Pietreczko. The probably most eagerly anticipated match will be the clash between Michael van Gerwen and debutant Luke Littler on the third and last first round evening.
Participants, Draw and Schedule First Round

PDC Rankings

The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order of Merit and the Players Championship Order of Merit were updated.
PDC Rankings
Pro Tour



3. July

PDC World Matchplay

After the two Players Championships on Tuesday and today in Milton Keynes all participants in the World Matchplay in Blackpool - which will begin on 13. July - are known.
Five debutants will stand on the Winter Gardens stage this year Winter Gardens: Luke Littler, Gian van Veen, Ricardo Pietrezcko, Ritchie Edhouse and Luke Woodhouse.
Participants

Wins for Ross Smith and Clayton in Milton Keynes

Ross Smith and Jonny Clayton were the winners of the Players Championships 13 and 14 in Milton Keynes - the last two Players Championships which count for the qualification for the World Matchplay which will begin on 13. July in Blackpool.
Ross Smith won the title of the 13. Players Championship with a close 8:7 win over Wesley Plaisier. The semi-finals reached Cam Crabtree and Andy Boulton.
The 14. Players Championship was won by Jonny Clayton who prevailed 8:5 as well over Wesley Plaisier. In the semi-finals stood Ryan Joyce and Cameron Menzies.
Participants, Results



1. July

PDC Pro Tour

Tomorrow and on Wednesday in Milton Keynes the Players Championships 13 and 14 will be played. From the Tour Card Holders Rob Cross, Jacques Labre, Adrian Lewis, Geert Nentjes, Pascal Rupprecht, Michele Turetta, Michael van Gerwen, Jules van Dongen, Adam Smith-Neale and Jamie Hughes (PC 13 only) didn't register for Milton Keynes. They will be replaced by Danny Jansen, Richie Burnett, Andy Boulton, Connor Scutt, Wesley Plaisier, John Henderson, Darryl Pilgrim, Stefan Bellmont, Lee Cocks and Aden Kirk (PC 13 only).
Participants



30. June

England wins PDC World Cup

With a 10:6 win over a courageous Austrian Team the Team from England won the PDC World Cup. With the English Team - in which World Champion Luke Humphries gave his debut beside Michael Smith - the number 1 seed and strongest team won the tournament. England defeated on its way to the final today first the Team from Northern Ireland and in the semi-finals Team Scotland. Team Austria reached the final with wins over Croatia and Belgium.
Results Finals Daynew
Statistics Finals Daynew

PDC World Cup

Today the World Cup in Frankfurt will be played to the end. In the afternoon-session the quarterfinals will take place, in the evening-session semi-finals and final will be played.
With Wales and the Netherlands two of the four Top seeds were already eliminated in the second round. Wales lost to Team Croatia, Team Netherlands had an average of over 100 but an awful hitting rate on the doubles and lost with 2:8 against a strong Team Belgium. The German Team is out as well, it was defeated By Team Northern Ireland with 8:7. Team England and Team Scotland - the other two top seeds - progressed without problems into the quarterfinals. The quarterfinals reached beside Team Austria and a little bit surprising the Team from Sweden and the unseeded Team Italy.
Schedulenew



29. June

PDC World Cup

On the third day of the tournament the second round will be played in an afternoon- and an evening-session and the top 4 seeds from Scotland, Wales, England and the Netherlands will enter the event. They were drawn against Poland, Croatia, France and Belgium.
The gruop phase ended with a few upsets as Team Chinese Taipei eliminated a quite good playing Team Republic of Ireland while Team Italy prevailed over Team Portugal.
Schedule, Results Day 3new
Statistics Day 3new



28. June

PDC World Cup

With a good match and a win over New Zealand in their first group match the German Team delighted the home crowd in Frankfurt. As well good performances showed Austria and North Ireland while Team Sweden with Jeffrey de Graaf and Oskar Lukasiak played with 98.56 the highest average of the first night.
On the second day of the tournament in the afternoon-session the losers of the first group matches will play gainst the third team of their groups while in the evening-session the winners of the first group matches will play gainst the third teams of their groups.
Results Day 1new
Statistics Day 1new
Schedule, Results Day 2new
Statistics Day 2new



26. June

PDC World Cup

Tomorrow in Frankfurt the PDC World Cup will begin. The PDC already published the schedule of the first day of the tournament on which the first group matches of all groups will be played. The tournament will be opened by the match Sweden against Spain.
The four top seeded teams will enter the tournament on Saturday in the second round where the format will change to k.o. matches. Reigning champion Wales - the number two seed - will consist of Jonny Clayton and Jim Williams as Gerwyn Price had to withdraw due to an injury.
Participants
Schedule first Group Matches

PDC Rankings

The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order of Merit and the European Tour Order of Merit were updated.
PDC Rankings
European Tour



24. June

Chisnall wins European Darts Open

With a 8:6 win over Ross Smith in the final Dave Chisnall won the European Darts Open in Leverkusen. For Chisnall it was already the seventh European Tour title. In the semi-finals stood Michael Smith and Damon Heta.
Steve Bunting threw in the third round an unbelievable 117.12 average but lost in the quarterfinals a close match against Damon Heta.
Schedule, Resultsnew
Statisticsnew

PDC Development Tour

At the weekend in Wigan five more events of the PDC Development Tour took place.
There were five different winners - Beau Greaves (for the first time), Keane Barry, Wessel Nijmann, Nathan Rafferty and Sebastian Bialecki. Keane Barry now heads the ranking in front of Wessel Nijmann.
Development Tour



23. June

PDC European Tour - Day 3

Today the European Darts Open in Leverkusen will be played to the end. In the afternoon-session the third round will be played, in the evening-session quarterfinals, semi-finals and final will follow.
From the seeds in the second round already five were eliminated - among them reigning champion Gerwyn Price who lost 2:6 to Dirk van Duijvenbode and World Champion Luke Humphries who was defeated 4:6 by Raymond van Barneveld.
Schedule



22. June

PDC European Tour - Day 2

On the second day of the tournaments the seeds enter the event and play in the second round against the first round winners. Again an afternoon- and an evening-session will take place.
One of the seeded players is reigning champion Gerwyn Price who will play in the evening-session against Dirk van Duijvenbode.
Participants, Schedule, Resultsnew
Statisticsnew



21. June

PDC European Tour - Day 1

Today in Leverkusen the European Darts Open - the eighth event of the European Tour 2024 - will begin. As always on the first day only the qualifiers will stand at the oche and will play in an afternoon-and an evening-session the first round.
Gary Anderson, Luke Littler, Nathan Aspinall, Jonny Clayton and Ryan Searle withdrew from the tournament. Gian van Veen moved up for Gary Anderson as seeded player. Ritchie Edhouse, Kevin Doets, Dylan Slevin, Jamie Hughes and Ryan Meikle will be the replacements from the reserve list.
Participants, Schedule, Resultsnew
Statisticsnew



20. June

WDF World Masters

After a one-year break this year a WDF World Masters will take place which will be played from 9. - 13. October in Budapest, Hungary. Many participants are already known.
Participants
Tournament Information



19. June

PDC World Cup

All participants in the PDC World Cup - which will be played from 27. - 30. June in Frankfurt - are by now known. England, reigning champion Wales, the Netherlands and Scotland are the top seeds who'll join the tournament in the second round. Beside twelve teams will be seeded for the group stage.
Participants
Draw Groups



18. June

Women's World Matchplay

After the Women's Series Events last weekend the eight participants in the Women's World Matchplay are known. Qualified have the Top Eight of the One-Year Women's World Matchplay Order of Merit - reigning champion Beau Graves, Fallon Sherrock, Lisa Ashton - who won at the weekend two of the four events - Mikuru Suzuki, Noa-Lynn van Leuwen, Rhian O'Sullivan, Anastasia Dobromylsova and Aileen de Graaf who can't take part in the World Matchplay and will be replaced by Katie Sheldon.
The draw for the Women's World Matchplay - which will be played on 21. July - already took place.
Women's World Matchplaynew
One-Year Women's World Matchplay Ordernew



16. June

World Series of Darts

After the Bahrain Darts Masters Luke Littler now won the Poland Darts Masters as well. He defeated in the final Rob Cross with 8:3. As Littler Cross showed till the final strong performances. Littler reached the final with wins over a strong Peter Wright and Michael Smith. Cross defeated on finals day Stephen Bunting and reigning champion Michael van Gerwen - who had in the quarterfinals with 109.98 the highest average of the night.
Schedule, Resultsnew
Statistics new
Report new



15. June

PDC Women's Series

This weekend in Wigan four more events of the PDC Women's Series will be played. Those are the last which count for the qualification for the Women's World Matchplay in July in Blackpool. The Top eight of the ranking after the weekend have qualified.
Participants, Resultsnew



14. June

World Series of Darts

Today in Gliwice, Poland, the Poland Darts Masters will beginn.
Eight PDC representatives will play against eight East Europe representatives. One of the PDC representatives is reigning champion Michael van Gerwen who will play in the first round against Czech Karel Sedlacek.
Schedule, Results
Statistics

PDC Rankings

The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order of Merit and the Players Championship Order of Merit were updated.
PDC Rankings
Pro Tour



13. June

PDC European Tour

Today in Hildesheim the Tour Card Holders Qualifiers for the European Tour Events in Hildesheim and Antwerpen were played which will take place end of August and beginning of September. Only two players managed to qualify for both events - Maik Kuivenhoven and Martin Lukeman.

German Darts Championship Hildesheim - Participants
Flanders Darts Trophy Antwerpen - Participants

Wins for Soutar and van den Bergh in Hildesheim

The two Players Championships in Hildesheim were won by Alan Soutar and Dimitri van den Bergh.
Alan Soutar won the 11. Players Championship on Tuesday - he defeated in the final Daryl Gurney with 8:7. The semi-finals reached Raymond van Barneveld and Dirk van Duijvenbode. Stephen Bunting and Adam Hunt threw nine-darters.
On Wednesday Dimitri van den Bergh won Players Championship 12 - he defeated in the final Matt Campbell. In the semi-finals stood Danny Noppert and Madars Razma. The nine-darter of the day threw Boris Krcmar.
Today the Tour Card Holders Qualifiers for the European Tour Events 9 and 10 in Hildesheim and Antwerpen will follow.
Participants, Resultsnew



10. June

PDC Pro Tour

Tomorrow and on Wednesday in Hildesheim the Players Championships 11 and 12 will take place. From the Tour Card Holders Gary Anderson, Rob Cross, Chris Dobey, Luke Humphries, Jacques Labre, Adrian Lewis, Luke Littler, Adam Smith-Neale, Krzysztof Ratajski and Ryan Searle didn't register. For them Danny Jansen, Andy Boulton, Stefan Bellmont, Rene Eidams, Darryl Pilgrim, Lee Cocks, Noa- Lynn van Leuven Richie Burnett, Connor Scutt and Kai Gotthardt move up.
On Thursday as well in Hildesheim the Tour Card Holgers Qualifiers for the European Tour Events 9 and 10 in Hildesheim and Antwerpen will follow.
Participants, Resultsnew
German Darts Championship Hildesheim
Flanders Darts Trophy Antwerpen

PDC Challenge Tour

At the weekend in Leicester five more events of the PDC Challenge Tour took place. Most successfull player was Christian Kist whio won two of the events and by this moved up to the second place of the ranking. Beside Kist threw in the 11. event the Challenge Tour a nine-darter. The other three winners were Connor Scutt, Justin Hood and Wesley Plaisier.
PDC Challenge Tour



9. June

Price wins in Copenhagen

Gerwyn Price won the Nordic Darts Masters in Copenhagen. He defeated in the final Rob Cross with 8:5 - a revanche for his defeat in the final last weekand at the US Darts Masters. Price reached the final with wins over Madars Razma, Dimitri van den Bergh and Michael Smith. Cross prevailed over Jeffrey de Graaf (with a recard average of 108.13), Stephen Bunting and Luke Humphries. Reigning champion Peter Wright was the only PDC representative who lost his first round match - Johan Engström defeated him in a close match 6:5.
Resultsnew
Statisticsnew
Reportnew



7. June

World Series of Darts

Today in Copenhagen the Nordic Darts Masters will begin.
In the PDC preview reigning champion Peter Wright, Rob Cross and Stephen Bunting have their say. Bunting returns after an almost ten years break to the World Series of Darts.
Preview

Results, Schedulenew
Statisticsnew



6. June

World Series of Darts

On Friday and Saturday the PDC World Series of Darts will continue with the Nordic Darts Masters in Copenhagen.
Eight PDC representatives and eight Nordic and Baltic representatives will take part. Among the PDC representatives is reigning champion Peter Wright who will play in the first round against Swede Johan Engström.
Schedulenew

PDC Nordic und Baltic Tour

Last weekend in Finland the third weekend of the PDC Nordic und Baltic Tour took place with two Pro Tour Events and three European Tour Qualifiers. Swedes Johan Engström and Jeffrey de Graaf were the winners of the Pro Tour Events - Engström as well reached lost to de Graaf in the second final. Engström beside qualified for the German Darts Championship - the ninth European Tour Event while Marko Kantele qualified for The European Tour Events 8 and 10.
PDC Nordic und Baltic Tour

PDC European Tour

As well at the weekend the East Europe Qualifiers for the European Tour Events 9 - 13 and the Home Nation Qualifier for the European Tour Event 11 - the Hungarian Darts Trophy- were played. Qhalified have Krzysztof Kciuk (ET 9), Sebastian Bialecki (ET 10 + 11) Nandor Pres (ET 12) and Patrik Kovacs (ET 13). The Home Nation Qualifiers for the Hungarian Darts Trophy are Andras Csoka, Gyorgy Jehirszki, Alberto Mario Bezjian and Janos Vegso.



2. June

Cross wins in New York

Rob Cross won the title with a close 8:7 win over Gerwyn Price in the final. It is his first US Darts Masters title. Cross reached the final with wins over Adam Sevada, reigning champion Michael van Gerwen and World Champion Luke Humphries. Price defeated Jules van Dongen, Peter Wright and Luke Littler. Jeff Smith was the only North American representative who reached the second round. He defeated Michael Smith but had no chance in the second round against Luke Littler.
Results, Statistics, Reportnew

Campbell Wins North American Championship

Canadian Matt Campbell won thanks to his consistent performances the North American Championship. He defeated on his way in the final Jeff Smith and David Cameron before he prevailed in the final over Stowe Buntz. Buntz reached the final with wins over Jules van Dongen and Adam Sevada.
Campbell was the deserved winner but due to a PDC rule as a Tour Card Holder is not eligible to qualify for the World Darts Championship or Grand Slam of Darts, despite winning the North American Championship. Another player of the Championship Darts Corporation will get the places.
Results, Statistics, Reportnew



30. May

World Series of Darts

Tomorrow and on Sunday in New York the U.S. Darts Masters will take place - an event of the World Series of Darts.
Eight PDC representatives and eight North American players will take part. Michael van Gerwen will be among the PDC representatives and will try to defend the title. He will play in the first round tomorrow against Danny Lauby.
Schedule, Results, Statisticsnew

North American Championship

Beside the quarterfinals, the semi-finals and the final of the U.S. Darts Masters on Saturday in New York the North American Championship will be played. Participants will be the same eight North American players who qualified for the U.S. Darts Masters. The winner will get a place in the PDC World Championship and in the Grand Slam of Darts.
Last year's finalists Matt Campbell and Jeff Smith will clash this year already in the quarterfinals.
Schedulenew



27. Mai

Rock wins in Rosmalen

Young Northern Irishman Josh Rock won in Rosmalen his first European Tour title. He defeated in the final Jonny Clayton with 8:4.
Rock reached the final with wins over Cameron Menzies, Gerwyn Price and Martin Schindler on finals day. Clayton defeated on finals day reigning champion Dave Chisnall, Ryan Searle and Michael van Gerwen but experienced a lot of double trouble in the final.

Report Finalnew
Statisticsnew
Overall Statistics European Tour 2024new



26. May

PDC European Tour - Day 3

Today the Dutch Darts Championship will be played to the end. In the afternoon-session the third round will take place. In the evening-session Quarterfinals, Semi-Finals and Final will follow.
After the second round from the Dutch participants Danny Noppert, Michael van Gerwen, Jermaine Wattimena and Gian van Veen are still in the event. Reigning champion Dave Chisnall won his second round match against Niels Zonneveld and will play today in the third round against Jonny Clayton. From the seeds Stephen Bunting, Daryl Gurney, Damon Heta, Ricardo Pietreczko, Peter Wright and Ross Smith - despite a nine-darter - didn't survive the second round.
Schedule, Results



25. May

PDC European Tour - Day 2

On the second day of the Dutch Darts Championship in Rosmalen the second round will be played again in an afternoon- and an evening-session. The seeded players come into the tournament and play against the first round winners.
In the first round the Dutch players were quite sucessfull - six from nine progressed. Eliminated were only Christian Kist, Damian Mol and Raymond van Barneveld who was steamrolled by Cameron Menzies. Today in the afternoon-session reigning champion Dave Chisnall will play against Niels Zonneveld.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Statistics



24. May

PDC European Tour - Day 1

Today in Rosmalen, Netherlands, the Dutch Darts Championship will begin - the seventh tournament of the PDC European Tour 2024. As always on the first day only the qualifier will stand at the oche. They will play in an afternoon- and an evening-session the first round.
Michael Smith and Nathan Aspinall withdrew from the tournament. For Smith Clayton moves up as seeded player. Ritchie Edhouse and Jermaine Wattimena moved up from the reserve list.
By the Host Nation Qualifier yesterday qualified Moreno Blom, Damian Mol, Christian Kist and Marvin van Velzen for the tournament.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Statistics



23. May

Sensational Littler wins Premier League

Luke Littler win in the O2Arena in London the final of the Premier League with another great performance 11:7 against an as well strong playing Luke Humphries and is the new Premier League Champion. Littler threw a nine-darter in the final.
Before Littler defeated in the semi-finals Michael Smith with 10:5 while Humphries prevailed with the same result over Michael van Gerwen.

Results
Report, Statisticsnew

PDC Premier League

Tonight the Premier League Play-Offs will take place in the O2 Arena in London.
In the first semi-final head of the table Luke Littler will play against the fourth of the table Michael Smith. After that second of the table and World Champion Luke Humphries will clash with third of the table and reigning champion Michael van Gerwen.

Preview Play-Offs
Schedule



21. May

World Series of Darts

By now all participants in the US Darts Masters 2024 are known. The tournament will be played on 31. May and 1. June in the Madison Square Garden in New York. The PDC representatives will be Luke Humphries, reigning champion Michael van Gerwen, Michael Smith, Nathan Aspinall, Gerwyn Price, Rob Cross, Peter Wright and Luke Littler. For North America Matt Campbell, Jules van Dongen, Danny Lauby, Stowe Buntz, Alex Spellmann, David Cameron, Jeff Smith and Adam Sevada will stand at the oche.
The same eight North Americans will take part in the North American Championship on 1. June.
US Darts Masters



20. May

PDC Rankings

The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order of Merit, the European Tour Order of Merit and the Players Championship Order of Merit were updated.
PDC Rankings
European Tour
Pro Tour



18. May

Smith wins last League Day

Michael Smith defeated on the last League Day in Sheffield not only his main rival for a Play-Off place Nathan Aspinall but won the League Day and progressed as last player after Luke Littler, Luke Humphries and Michael van Gerwen into the Top Four. He will now play next Thursday in the Play-Offs in London against head of the table Luke Littler. In the other semi-final World Champion Luke Humphries and reigning champion Michael van Gerwen will clash.
Beside Aspinall Peter Wright, Gerwyn Price and Rob Cross already lost in the quarterfinals.
Results
Statistics
Table



12. May

Cross wins Baltic Sea Darts Open

Rob Cross won in Kiel the Baltic Sea Darts Open with a 8:6 defeat of Luke Humphries in the final. In a highclass match Humphries delighted the crowd with a nine-darter.
Humphries defeated on finals day Ross Smith, Michael van Gerwen and Danny Noppert. Cross reached the final with wins over Stephen Bunting, Ritchie Edhouse and Madars Razma.
Resultsnew
Statisticsnew

PDC European Tour - Day 3

On finals Day the Baltic Sea Darts Open in Kiel will be played to the end. In the afternoon-session the third round took place, in the evening-session quarterfinals, semi-finals and final will follow.
In the second round of the tournament yesterday six seeded players were eliminated - among them reigning champion Dave Chisnall who lost a close match against Madars Razma. Two German players - Ricardo Pietreczko and Franz Roetzsch progressed into the third round but both lost in today's afternoon-session.
Participants, Schedulenew



11. May

PDC European Tour - Day 2

On the second day of the Baltic Sea Darts Open the seeded players enter the tournament. They will play in today's second round against the first round winners. Again an afternoon- and an evening-session will take place.
Regning champion Dave Chisnall will begin his campaign in the last match of the day against Madars Razma. World Champion Luke Humphries and Michael van Gerwen will both stand on stage in the evening session as well. Humphries will play against young Pole Sebastian Bialecki while van Gerwen will meet his fellow country man Wessel Nijman who yesterday sensational eliminated Luke Littler from the event.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Statistics



10. May

PDC European Tour - Day 1

Today in Kiel the Baltic Sea Darts Open will begin - the sixth tournament of the PDC European Tour 2024. As always on the first day only the qualifier will stand at the oche. They will play in an afternoon- and an evening-session the first round.
Gary Anderson and Gerwyn Price withdrew from the tournament. Joe Cullen and Krzystztof Ratajski move up under the seeded players, Luke Woodhouse and Jermaine Wattimena moved up from the reserve list.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Statistics

Humphries wins 15. League Day

Luke Humphries won the 15. League Day of Premier League in Leeds and by this confirmed his second playce in the table. He defeated in the final Michael van Gerwen who ousted Nathan Aspinall from the third place. Michael Smith and Luke Littler stood in the semi-finals - but both lost there with 6:1 against Humphries and van Gerwen respectively. Smith now is only one point behind Aspinall. The two players will meet next Thursday in a all deciding quarterfinal in the hunt of the fourth Play-Off place.
Beside Aspinall Peter Wright, Gerwyn Price and Rob Cross failed to win points in Leeds.
Results
Report, Statisticsnew
Table



9. May

PDC Premier League

The 15. and penultimate League Day of Premier League takes place today in Leeds.
Only Luke Littler and Luke Humphries already secured a place in the Play-Offs - for them it's only about the place in the ranking. The second last and the last in the table - Gerwyn Price and Peter Wright - no longer have a chance to get into the Last Four.
In the first quarterfinal Michael van Gerwen plays against Gerwyn Price. After that head of the table Littler will meet last in the table Wright. Luke Humphries will play in the third quarterfinal against Rob Cross. In the last quarterfinal Nathan Aspinall will clash with Michael Smith.
Preview Fifteenth League Day
Schedule



8. May

PDC European Tour

Today in Hildesheim the Tour Card Holders Qualifiers for the European Tour Events 7 and 8 in Rosmalen und Leverkusen took place.
Both for Rosmalen and for Leverkusen qualified Jeffrey de Graaf, Dom Taylor and Owen Bates. The other qualifiers for Rosmalen are Madars Razma, Mickey Mansell, Cameron Menzies, Ryan Meikle, Niels Zonneveld, William O'Connor and Haupai Puha. For Leverkusen qualified beside Nathan Rafferty, Radek Szaganski, Mike de Decker, Callan Rydz, Karel Sedlacek, Matthew Dennant and Andy Beatens.
Dutch Darts Championship Rosmalen
European Darts Open Leverkusen

Wins for Smith and Dolan in Hildesheim

Michael Smith and Brendan Dolan were the winners of the two Players Championships in Hildesheim.
Michael Smith won on Monday the 9. Players Championship. He defeated in the final Ryan Joyce with 8:6. The semifinals reached Ritchie Edhouse and Krzysztof Ratajski. The 10. Players Championship on Tuesday was won by Brendan Dolan who prevailed in the final with 8:4 over Jeffrey de Graaf. In the semifinals stood Graham Hall and again Krzysztof Ratajski.
Participants, Resultsnew



6. May

PDC Pro Tour

Today and tomorrow in Hildesheim the Players Championships 9 and 10 will take place. From the Tour Card Holders Nathan Aspinall, Rob Cross, Luke Humphries, Boris Krcmar, Jacques Labre, Adrian Lewis, Luke Littler, Robert Owen, Ryan Searle and Adam Smith-Neale didn't register for Hildesheim. They will be replaced by Danny Jansen, Andy Boulton, Stefan Bellmont, Oskar Lukasiak, Lee Cocks, Darryl Pilgrim, Noa-Lynn van Leuven, Richie Burnett, Rene Eidams and Kai Gotthardt.
On Wednesday as well in Hildesheim the Tour Card Holders Qualifiers for European Tour Events 7 and 8 in Rosmalen and Leverkusen will follow.
Participants
Dutch Darts Championship Rosmalen
European Darts Open Leverkusen

PDC Development Tour

At the weekend in Hildesheim, Germany, five events of the PDC Development Tour took place.
The two events on Friday were won by Roman Benecky and Gian van Veen. On Saturday the winners were Wessel Nijmann and Nathan Rafferty. The event on Sunday had with Niko Springer a German winner. Springer beside reached on Saturday the final against Wessel Nijman and was by far the most successfull German player of the weekend.
Gian van Veen - who beside his win reached Sunday's final and a semi-final and a quarterfinal - heads the ranking, Springer moved up to sixth place.
Development Tour 2024new



2. May

Littler wins as well in Aberdeen

On the 14. Premier League night in Aberdeen again Luke Littler was the winner - he defeated in the highclass final Rob Cross with 6:4. Littler reached the final with a close win over Nathan Aspinall and a clear win against Michael Smith. Cross defeated for the second time in a row Michael van Gerwen and after that in a close semi-final Luke Humphries, who had some problems with his doubles. Littler expanded his lead but nothing changed in the table.
Beside van Gerwen in Aberdeen Gerwyn Price - who had withdrawn due to a back injury -, Peter Wright and Nathan Aspinall couldn't win a point.
Results
Report, Statistics
Table



1. May

Due to a trapped nerve in his back injury Gerwyn Price has withdrawn from the 14. Premier League Day tonight. His quarterfinal opponent Luke Humphries receives a bye into the semifinals, two points and +1 leg difference while Price receives -6 leg difference in the league table.

PDC Premier League

The 14. League Day of the Premier League will take place today in Aberdeen.
Peter Wright hopes he will produce tonight for his Scottish fans. He will play in the first quarterfinal against Michael Smith who needs a win to stay in the race for the Play-Off places. In the second quarterfinal head of the table Luke Littler will clash with Nathan Aspinall. After that Rob Cross will meet Michael van Gerwen whom he defeated last week in the semifinals. In the last quarterfinal Luke Humphries will play against Gerwyn Price.
Preview Fourteenth League Day
Schedule



30. April

PDC Rankings

The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order of Merit and the European Tour Order of Merit were updated after the Austrian Darts Open in Graz.
PDC Rankings
European Tour



28. April

Littler wins Austrian Darts Open

Luke Littler won in Graz his second European Tour title of the year. He defeated in the final of tbe Austrian Darts Open Joe Cullen with 8:4. On finals day Littler defeated beside Krzysztof Ratajski, Danny Noppert and Ross Smith while Cullen prevailed over Dave Chisnall, Gian van Veen - in one of the outstanding matches of the tournament - and Stephen Bunting. As Littler Cullen showed throughout convincing performances though he run slightly out of steam in the final.
Results Finals Daynew
Tournament Statisticsnew



25. April

Third Day win for Littler in Liverpool

Luke Littler celebrated in Liverpool his thrid day win of the season - he defeated in at first very one-sided final Rob Cross with 6:2. By this Littler now is first of the table while Luke Humphries - who lost his quarterfinal to Nathan Aspinall - now is second. Littler defeated in his quarterfinal Gerwyn Price and in the semi-finals Nathan Aspinall. Cross prevailed over Michael Smith and Michael van Gerwen who was far from his best.
No point got in Liverpool beside Humphries Gerwyn Price, Peter Wright and Michael Smith.
Results
Statisticsnew
Table



24. April

European Tour

At the weekend in Graz the Austrian Darts Open will take place - the fifth European Tour Event of the year. Tormorrow as always on the first day of the tournament only the qualifiers will stand at the oche. In an afternoon- and an evening-session the first round will be played.
By the Host Nation Qualifier today qualified Zoran Lerchbacher, Dominik Haberl, Hannes Schnier and Christian Goedl for the tournament. Luke Humphries and Gary Anderson withdrew, for them Krzysztof Ratajski and Joe Cullen move up into the seeds and Ricky Evans and Richard Veenstra come from the reserve list as replacements into the field of participants.
Participants, Schedulenew

PDC Premier League

Today the Premier League travels for the 13. League Day to Liverpool.
The battle for the Play-Off places continues. In the first quarterfinal second of the table Luke Littler will meet sixth of the table Gerwyn Price. After that head of the table Luke Humphries will play against third of the table Nathan Aspinall who won last week in Rotterdam. In the following quarterfinal Peter Wright - who has with only four points no chance to get into the Play-Offs - will play against reigning champion Michael van Gerwen. In the last quarterfinal Michael Smith will clash with Rob Cross. Smith sits in fifth place at the moment but is only two points behind place four and six points behind the first place of the table.
Preview Thirteenth League Night
Schedule



23. April

PDC Rankings

The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order of Merit and the European Tour Order of Merit were updated after the German Darts Grand Prix in Sindelfingen. As well updated were the PDC Women's Series Order of Merit and the PDC Nordic and Baltic Order of Merit.
PDC Rankings
European Tour
Women's Series
PDC Nordic and Baltic Tour



22. April

Anderson wins in Sindelfingen

Gary Anderson for the first time in ten years secured an Europesn Tour title. He defeated in the final in Sindelfingen Ross Smith with 8:6.
On finals day Anderson won against Gerwyn Price, Josh Rock and Rob Cross. Ross Smith defeated on his way into the final Ritchie Edhouse, Damon Heta and Michael van Gerwen. The best German, Gabriel Clemens, was defeated by Michael van Gerwen in the quarterfinals.
Results Finals Daynew
Statisticsnew

PDC Women's Series

Beau Greaves was the most successfull player of the Women's Series weekend - she won two of the events and reached the finals of the other two. One event each won Noa-Lynn van Leuven and Mikuru Suzuki. Fallon Sherrock and Lisa Ashton both reached one final.
Participants, Resultsnew



20. April

PDC Women's Series

Today and tomorrow the second tournament weekend of the PDC Women's Series will be played in Wigan.
On each day two events will take place.
Participants, Resultsnew

European Tour

On the second day of the European Darts Grand Prix in Sindelfingen in an afternoon - and an evening-session the first round winners will play against the seeded players.
While players like James Wade or Jose de Sousa are already out of the tournament MArtin Schindler, Ritchie Edhouse and Luke Littler impressed with over 100 averages.
Participants, Schedule, Results Day 2new
Statisticsnew



19. April

European Tour

Today in Sindelfingen the European Darts Grand Prix will begin - the fourth European Tour event of the year. As always on the first day of the tournament only the qualifiers will stand at the oche. In an afternoon- and an evening-session the first round will be played.
Among the players in action today are six German players and big names like James Wade, Raymond van Barneveld, Peter Wright and Luke Littler.
Participants, Schedule, Results Day 1new
Statisticsnew

Aspinall wins in Rotterdam

Nathan Aspinall got in Rotterdam his second day win of the season and moved up to third place of the table. He defeated in the final Michael Smith with 6:4. Smith improved his chances to reach a play-off place and sits in fifth place only two points behind Michael van Gerwen who lost in the quarterfinals to Luke Humphries and stayed without a point. Thanks to his win over van Gerwen Humphries is back at the head of his table despite losing in the semi-finals to Nathan Aspinall.
Without a point stayed in Rotterdam beside van Gerwen Rob Cross, Peter Wright and Luke Littler.
Results
Report, Statisticsnew
Table



18. April

PDC Premier League

Today the 12. League Day of Premier League will take place in Rotterdam.
So in the centre of interest of course will be Michael van Gerwen who will stand on home soil at the oche in the last quarterfinal against World Champion Luke Humphries. The night will be opened by the quarterfinal between Michael Smith and head of the table Luke Littler. After that Rob Cross will play against Gerwyn Price. In the third quarterfinal Nathan Aspinall will meet bottom of the table Peter Wright.
Preview Twelfth League Day
Schedule



16. April

Coaching Klinik

Though the Darts Perfommance Centre doesn't exist any more the founder Paul Gillings left me some articles of his Coaching Clinik which will be published here on Global Darts.
This Coaching Clinik Blog is about how you can prevent that you yourself are your biggest enemy at the oche.
How to beat your biggest enemy on the oche - Yourself!



15. April

PDC Rankings

The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order of Merit and the European Tour Order of Merit were updated after the International Darts Open in Riesa.
PDC Rankings
European Tour

Schindler wins in Riesa

Martin Schindler won in Riesa the final against reigning champion Gerwyn Price with 8:5 and is the new International Darts Open Champion. Schindler is the only third German player who won a PDC tournament. Schindler as Price played consistently good throughout the tournament. In the final Price lost his accuracy on the doubles and Schindler won deservedly.
Schindler defeated on finals day Richard Veenstra, Danny Noppert and Chris Dobey. Price prevailed over Ricardo Pietreczko, Ross Smith and Stephen Bunting. Against Pietrezcko he played a new European Tour Rekord Average of 115.74.
Report Finalnew
Overall Statistics European Tour 24new
International Darts Open



14. April

European Tour

Today the tournament in Riesa will be played to the end. In the afternoon the third round took place, tonight quarterfinals, semi-finals and final will follow.
From the Premier League players Nathan Aspinall, Rob Cross and Luke Humphries lost their third round matches. Only reigning champion Gerwyn Price prevailed in the third round and played with 115.74 the so far highest average of the tournament.
Schedule, Results Day 3new
Statisticsnew



13. April

European Tour

On the second day of the event as always in the European Tour Events the second round took place. In an afternoon- and an evening- session the first round winners played against the seeded players.
From the seeded players Krzystztof Ratajski, Jonny Clayton, Michael Smith, Dave Chisnall, Joe Cullen, Josh Rock and Dirk van Duijvenbode didn't survive the second round. The outstanding performances provided Chris Dobey and Nathan Aspinall who both played averages of over 111.
Schedule, Results Day 2new
Statisticsnew



12. April

European Tour

Today in Riesa the International Darts Open will begin - the third European Tour event of the year. As always on the first day of the tournament only the qualifiers will stand at the oche. In an afternoon- and an evening-session the first round will be played.
Gary Anderson and Michael van Gerwen withdrew, for them Steven Bunting and Joe Cullen move up into the seeds and Lee Evans and Dylan Slevin come from the Reserve List into the field of participants.
Participants, Schedule, Results Day 1new
Statisticsnew

Van Gerwen wins in Birmingham

Michael van Gerwen won in Birmingham the final against Luke Littler with 6:3 and is back winning with his fourth day win. He moved up to the third place of the table.
On his way to the final van Gerwen defeated Nathan Aspinall and Michael Smith. Littler prevailed against Rob Cross and Luke Humphries. Peter Wright and Gerwyn Price as Aspinall and Cross didn't get a point in Birmingham.
Results
Report, Statisticsnew
Table



11. April

PDC Premier League

The 11. League Day of Premier League will be played today in Birmingham.
The League Day will begin with the quarterfinal between bottom of the table Peter Wright and World Champion Luke Humphries. In the second quarterfinal Rob Cross will meet head of the table Luke Littler. After that Gerwyn Price will play against Michael Smith. in the last quarterfinal Michael van Gerwen will clash with Nathan Aspinall.

Preview Eleventh League Day
Schedule

PDC Rankings

The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order of Merit and the Players Championship Order of Merit were updated after the Players Championships 7 and 8 in Leicester.
PDC Rankings
Pro Tour

European Tour

Yesterday in Leicester the Tour Card Holders Qualifiers for the European Tour Events 5 and 6 in Graz and Kiel took place.
Madars Razma, Ritchie Edhouse and Wessel Nijman qualified for both events.
Austrian Darts Open Graz
Baltic Sea Darts Open Kiel



9. April

PDC Pro Tour

Chris Dobey and Danny Noppert were the winners of the Players Championships 7 and 8 which took place yesterday and today in Leicester.
On Monday Chris Dobey won the 7. Players Championship with 8:4 against Josh Rock. In semi-finals stood Ross Smith and Luke Woodhouse. During the event Dobey, Steve Beaton and Daryl Gurney threw a nine-darter.
Today Danny Noppert defeated in the 8. Players Championship Luke Humphries in the final with 8:6 and won the title. The semi-finals reached Gian van Veen and Radek Szaganski.
Resultsnew



7. April

PDC Pro Tour

Tomorrow and on Tuesday in Leicester the Players Championships 7 and 8 will take place. Most Tour Card Holders registered - only Adrian Lewis and Adam Smith Neale will miss out and will be replaced by Andy Boulton and Aden Kirk.
On Wednesday as well in Leicester the Tour Card Holders Qualifiers for the European Tour Events 5 and 6 in Graz and Kiel will follow.

Participants
Austrian Darts Open Graz
Baltic Sea Darts Open Kiel



5. April

Zweiter Tagessieg in Folge für Littler

Luke Littler got in Manchester his second Premier League Day win in a row and moved up to the head of the table. Littler defeated in the final Gerwyn Price who before in his semi-final against Michael Smith threw a nine-darter.
Littler reached the final with wins over Michael van Gerwen and Nathan Aspinall. Price defeated in the quarterfinals in the best match of the night Peter Wright who played an 109 average. Beside Wright and van Gerwen in Manchester Luke Humphries and Rob Cross stayed without a point.
Resultsnew
Statisticsnew
Tablenew



4. April

PDC Premier League

Tomorrow the Premier League travels for the tenth League Day to Manchester.
In the first quarterfinal Nathan Aspinall will play against Rob Cross. After that Luke Littler clashes with Michael van Gerwen whom he defeated last week in the semi-finals. In the third quarterfinal Michael Smith will play against head of the table Luke Humphries before in the last quarterfinal the two players at the bottom of the table - Gerwyn Price and Peter Wright - will battle for points.
Preview Tenth League Day
Schedule



2. April

PDC Rankings

The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order of Merit and the European Order of Merit were updated after the German Darts Grand Prix in Munic.
PDC Rankings
European Tour



1. April

Humphries wins in Munic

Luke Humphries defeated in the final of the German Darts Grand Prix in Munic Michael van Gerwen with 8:1 and retrieved the title he had lost last year. Humphries dominated the event and played in the final an 112.66 average - van Gerwen had - as all others of Humphries' opponents - no chance at all. Humphries defeated on finals day Ryan Joyce, Danny Noppert and Gerwyn Price as well while van Gerwen reached the final with unthreatened wins over Joe Cullen, Jermaine Wattimena and Martin Schindler.
Results Day 3
Statistics
Report Finalnew

PDC European Tour

Today the tournament in Munic will be played to the end. In the afternoon-session the third round will be played, tonight quarterfinals, semi-finals and final will take place.
Outstanding on the second day were the first four matches of the evening-session - the four winners Michael Smith, Danny Noppert, Gerwyn Price and Luke Humphries all progressed with averages of over 100 into the next round. Danny Noppert won the best and very close match of the day against Gian van Veen who showed a great perfomrnace himself and had an average of 108.51.
Schedule



31. March

PDC European Tour

On the first day of the tournament Peter Wright and Chris Dobey provided with their averages of over 103 the performance highlights. With the exception of Martin Schindler all German qualifiers were eliminated first round.
On the second day the seeded players join the tournament. Among them is with Michael Smith the reigning champion. He will play at the begin of the evening session against Cameron Menzies.
Schedule, Results Day 2new
Statistics



29. March

PDC European Tour

Tomorrow in Munic the second event of the PDC European Tour will begin - the German Darts Grand Prix. On the first day of the tournament as always the qualifiers will stand at the oche - among them according to the new rules this year the players who qualified by the PDC Order of Merit.
Gary Anderson had to withdraw due to a shoulder injury and will be replaced by Luke Woodhouse while Stephen Bunting moves up into the seeds.
Participants, Schedule, Results Day 1

First Day win for Littler

On the ninth League Day of Premier League Luke Littler got his first day win. He defeated in the final Nathan Aspinall with 6:4 and moved up to the second place of the table. Littler reached the final with wins over Luke Humphries and Michael van Gerwen. Aspinall defeated on his way to the final Gerwyn Price and Peter Wright.
Results
Report, Statistics
Table



28. March

PDC Premier League

The ninth League Day of Premier League takes place today in Belfast in Northern Ireland.
The League Night starts with a repeat of the World Championship final from January - Luke Humphries clashes with Luke Littler. The second quarterfinal is a repeat of the World Championship Final 2023 - Michael Smith will play with Michael van Gerwen. In the third quarterfinal Nathan Aspinall will meet Gerwyn Price and in the last quarterfinal Rob Cross will play against Peter Wright.
Preview Ninth League Day
Schedule

WDF Results

The Torshavn Open on the Faroe Islands were won by Jan McIntosh and Michelle Merlit. For both it was the first ranking title and McIntosh is the first ever player from the Faroe Islands who won a WDF Ranking Title.
Winner of the International Youth Open in Vienna were Italian Aurora Fochesato and Latvian Ralfs Laumanis. Fochesato won the event for the third time.
Leonard Gates won the Missouri St.Patrick's Open, the women's title conquered Kaitlyn McKinley.



25. March

PDC Women's Series

Fallon Sherrock started with two wins in this year's PDC Women's Series and stood in the semi-finals of the other two events. By this she now heads the table.
The other two events of the weekend were won by Noa-Lynn van Leuven and Mikuru Suzuki. Beau Greaves - who dominated the the Women's Series last year - lost twice to Fallon Sherrock in the final and beside reached a quarterfinal.
Participants, Results
Ranking



23. March

PDC Women's Series

This weekend the PDC Women's Series starts into the season 2024.
Today and tomorrow in Wigan four events will take place.
Participants, Results



22. March

Third win in a row for Humphries

On the eighth League Day Luke Humphries completed the hat-trick. This time he defeated Michael Smith in the final. Again Humphries dominated the night - he played in all three matches an average of over 100. The semi-finals reached Gerwyn Price and Nathan Aspinall who won their quarterfinals against Michael van Gerwen and Rob Cross respectively. It was the fourth time in a row the Dutchman lost already in the quarterfinals. Beside Cross and van Gerwen Peter Wright and Luke Littler stayed without a point.
Humphries extended his lead at the head of the table to seven points, Michael Smith moved up into the Top 4.
Results
Report, Statisticsnew
Table



21. March

PDC Premier League

For the eighth League Day the Premier League travels to Dublin.
The quarterfinals will be played according to the position of the players in the ranking - in the first quarterfinal head of the table Luke Humphries will take on bottom of the table Peter Wright. After that Nathan Aspinall will play against Rob Cross. In the third quarterfinal Michael van Gerwen and Gerwyn Price will clash and in the last quarterfinal Luke Littler will play against Michael Smith.
Preview Eighth League Daynew
Schedulenew



20. March

Wins for van Barneveld and Chisnall in Hildesheim

The Players Championships 5 + 6- - which took place on Monday and Tuesday in Hildesheim - were won by Raymond Van Barnevld and Dave Chisnall.
Raymond van Barneveld defeated in the final of the fifth Players Championships Stephen Bunting with 8:1. In the semi-finals stood Gary Anderson and Ross Smith. Michael Smith threw a nine-darter in the fourth round.
Winner of the sixth Players Championship was Dave Chisnall who prevailed in the final 8:6 against Dirk van Duijvenbode. The semi-finals reached Darryl Gurney and again Ross Smith.
Resultsnew

PDC Rankings

The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order of Merit and the Players Championship Order of Merit were updated after the two Players Championships in Hildesheim.
PDC Rankings
Pro Tour



18. March

PDC Pro Tour

Today and tomorrow in Hildesheim, Germany, the PDC Pro Tour will continue with the Players Championships 5 and 6.
Not all Tour Card Holders did register. Among those absent are Nathan Aspinall and Luke Humphries. Players from the Challenge Tour Order of Merit move up to replace them.
Participants, Resultsnew

PDC Challenge Tour

Five events of the PDC Challlenge Tour were played at the weekend in Hildesheim, Germany. On Friday Noa-Lynn van Leuven and Rene Eidams won one event each. On Saturday Andy Boulton was the winner twice. The last event on Sunday was won by Lee Cocks.
Danny Jansen, who stood in one final and one quarterfinal, still heads the table while Boulton moved up in second place.
Participants, Results, Table



15. March

Humphries wins in Nottingham as well

Luke Humphries won as well the seventh Premier League League Day in Nottingham - his second day win in a row by which he ousted Michael van Gerwen - who lost in Nottingham in the quarterfinals against Nathan Aspinall - at the head of the table.
Aspinall defeated in the semi-finals Luke Littler before he lost in the final 3:6 to Humphries. Humphries reached the final with wins over Michael Smith and Peter Wright.
Results
Report, Statisticsnew
Table



14. March

PDC Premier League

The seventh League Day of Premier League will take place tonight in Nottingham.
In the first quarterfinal the two players at the bottom of the league will meet - Gerwyn Price will play against Peter Wright who still waits for his first points. After that as in last League Day's final in Brighton Luke Humphries and Michael Smith will play against each other. In the third quarterfinal Michael van Gerwen and Luke Littler will meet and in the last quarterfinal Rob Cross will play against Nathan Aspinall.
Preview Seventh League Daynew
Schedule

World Series of Darts

All PDC participants and most Northamerican participants in the U.S. Darts Masters were announced. Luke Ltitler will be among the participants in the tournament which will take place from 31. May to 1. June in New York.
Beside the PDC announced that the number of participants in the World Series Finals will be expanded from 24 to 32 and due to this on the second day of the tournament an afternoon-seesion was added.
Teilnehmer U.S.Darts Masters



11. March

PDC Rankings

The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order of Merit and the European Tour Order of Merit were updated after the Belgian Darts Open.
PDC Rankings
European Tour



10. March

Littler wins Belgian Darts Open

In a highclass final in Wieze in the end with Luke Littler the best player of the tournament prevailed. He defeated in the close final Rob Cross - who showed a great performance as well and had with over 108 the better average - with 8:7 and threw a nine-darter in the final. It was Littler's European Tour debut.
Littler reached the final with wins over Damon Heta, Jermaine Wattimena and Ricard Pietreczko on Finals Day, Cross defeated on the last day of the tournament Danny Noppert, Ryan Searle and Gerwyn Price.
Schedule, Results
Statistics
Reportnew



8. March

PDC European Tour

Today in Wieze in Belgium the first European Tour Event of the year will begin - the Belgian Darts Open. On the first day of the tournament as always the qualifiers will stand at the oche - among them according to the new rules this year the players who qualified by the PDC Order of Merit.
So tonight the newly cowned UK Open Champion Dimitri van den Bergh will be in action who was drawn against Stephen Bunting. By the Host Nation Qualifier yesterday Born van Put, Steven Strobbe, Jeroen Caron and Geert de Vos qualified for the event.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Statistics

Spring in Exmoor

Here to finish the article about the final day of UK Open which ended with Dimitri van den Bergh as a slightly surprising but nevertheless deserved winner. Before we did see some interesting and one outstanding quarterfinals, a rather sad and an one sided semi-final and a very close and very emotional final to which both winner and finalist conntributed their bit.
Spring in Exmoor 3new

Humphries wins in Brighton

World Champion Luke Humphries got in Brighton the first day win of this year's Premier League. The ourstanding player of the night defeated in the final Michael Smith with 6:3 and by this moved up to the second place in the table behind Michael van Gerwen who for the second night in a row stayed without a point.
Humphries reached the final with wins over Gerwyn Price and Rob Cross - in the so far best match of the season. Michael Smith defeated on his way to the final Peter Wright and Luke Littler. Wright still is the only player whithout a point in the table..
Report, Statisticsnew
Tablenew



6. March

PDC Premier League

For the sixth League Night Premier League travels to Brighton.
The night will start with the quarterfinal between Luke Humphries and Gerwyn Price. After that Rob Cross will play with head of the table Michael van Gerwen. In the third quarterfinal the winner of last week's League Day Nathan Aspinall will meet Luke Littler and in the last quarterfinal Michael Smith will play against the still hunting for a first point Peter Wright.
Preview Sixth League Daynew
Schedule, Results

PDC Rankings

The PDC Order of Merit was updated after the UK Open.
PDC Rankings



5. March

Spring in Exmoor

The second article recalls the action on the second day of the tournament - there were more upsets, a lot of emotions and at the end of the day the eight quarterfinalist were known. Most of them were not among the favourites to win predicted before the tournament started.
Spring in Exmoor 2new



3. March

Van den Bergh wins UK Open

In a thrilling final which got very close at the end Dimitri van den Bergh prevailed 11:10 over Luke Humphries.
Before the Belgian defeated on finals day first Martin Lukeman and after that Damon Heta. Humphries reached the final with wins over Stephen Bunting and Ricky Evans.
Tournament Statisticsnew
PDC Report Finals Daynew

Spring in Exmoor

This year again Global Darts is in Minehead for the UK Open.
Again a few tournament articles will be published. In the first article we have a view on the debutants and mainly the players from Germany and Austria and accompany them through the first tournament day.
Spring in Exmoor 1new

UK Open

It is Finals Day in Minehead. In the afternoon the quarterfinals will take place, in the Evening-Session semi-finals and final will be played.
On the second day in the fith and sixth round the number of participants was reduced to eight. Not a single former champion is still in the tournament instead we've with Martin Lukeman and Ricky Evans two players in the mix not many would have predicted among the last eight. As well still in are Premier League players Luke Humphries, Luke Littler and Rob Cross beside Stephen Bunting, Dimitri van den Bergh and Damon Heta who yesterday impressed with two great comebacks.
Participants, Schedule Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Resultsnew
PDC Report Day 2new



2. March

UK Open

On the first day of the UK Open in Minehead Rounds 1 - 4 took place. Today the fifth and sixth round will be played.
The biggest upsets of the first day caused Martin Schindler, Graham Usher and Mensur Suljovic who eliminated Gerwyn Price, Ryan Searle and Michael van Gerwen - who seemed to have problems with his shoulder. The only player still in the tournament who started first round as debutant is Benjamin Drue-Reus.
Participants, Schedule Fifth Roundnew
PDC Report Day 1new



1. March

UK Open

Today the UK Open begun in Minehead.
In an extra long afternoon session the first three rounds were played on eight boards.After that the draw for the fourth round took place in which the Top 32 of the PDC Order of Merit will enter the tournament. The fourth round will follow in the evening session.
Participants, Schedule first, second, third and fourth round, Resultsnew



29. February

PDC Premier League

On the fifth League Day the Premier League today is in Exeter.
The night will begin with the quarterfinal between World Champion Luke Humphries and head of the table Michael van Gerwen. After that Nathan Aspinall will play against Peter Wright who was quite quite improved last week but still hasn't manage to win a point for the table. In the third quarterfinal Gerwyn Price will meet Rob Cross and in the last quarterfinal Luke Littler will play against Michael Smith.
Preview fifth League Daynew
Schedule
Statiscsnew
Tablenew



26. February

UK Open

On Friday, the 1. March, the UK Open will begin in Minehead.
The PDC published now after the draw the schedule of the first, second and third round as well which will be all played on Friday afternoon. After that the draw for the fourth round will take place in which the Top 32 of the Order of Merit join the tournament and which will be played Friday night.
Participants, Schedule first to third roundnew

Development Tour

At the weekend in Milton Keynes the first Development Tour weekend of the year took place. Five Events were played, two were won by Keane Barry who besides two times reached the quarterfinals. One tournament each won Danny Jansen, Jurjen van der Velde and Gian van Veen. Gian van Veen in addition was defeated in one final by Keane Barry. Beau Greaves took part in four of the events and sits after the weekend in the tenth place of the ranking.
Barry heads the ranking in front of van Veen, Danny Jansen sits in third place.
Development Tour



25. February

PDC Rankings

The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order of Merit and the Players Championship Order of Merit were updated after the Players Championships 3 and 4.
PDC Rankings
PDC Pro Tour



23. February

Third Night Win in a row for van Gerwen

Michael van Gerwen won the fourth League Day in Newcastle as well. This time he prevailed in the final over Nathan Aspinall who won his first three points in Newcastle. In the semi-finals stood Rob Cross and Luke Littler.
Peter Wright now is the only player without a point in the table though he showed a strong performance on the fourth League Day.
Report, Statistics - Fourth League Daynew
Tablenew



22. February

PDC Premier League

For the fourth League Day Premier League travels to Newcastle.
The fourth League Night will be opened by the quarterfinal between Michael Smith and Nathan Aspinall. After that Rob Cross will play against Luke Humphries. In the third quarterfinal Peter Wright and Luke Littler will meet - Wright hopes as Aspinall for his first points in the table. In the last quarterfinal Gerwyn Price will play against head of the table Michael van Gerwen.
Preview Fourth League Day
Schedule, Results

Searle and Heta win Players Championships in Leicester

Ryan Searle won in Leicester the third Players Championship against Gary Anderson who once again impressed with high averages. In the semi-finals stood Callan Rydz and Michael van Gerwen.
Winner of the fourth Players Championships was Damon Heta who prevailed in the final over over Chris Dobeye. The semi-finals reached Peter Wright and Christian Perez.
Participants, Results

European Tour

Yesterday in Leicester the Tour Card Holders Qualifiers for the European Tour Events 3 + 4 took place.
Callan Rydz and Ritchie Edhouse qualified for both events.
Beside for the European Tour Event 3 in Riesa Mike de Decker, Meryn King, Jitse van der Wal, Owen Bates, Simon Whitlock, Cameron Menzies, William O'Connor and Richard Veenstra qualified.
In Sindelfingen beside Rydz and Edhouse Keane Barry, Luke Littler, Martin Lukeman, Jeffrey Sparidaans, Mickey Mansell, Stephen Burton, Scott Williams and Christian Perez will stand at the oche.
European Tour Event 3 Riesa
European Tour Event 4 Sindelfingen



19. February

PDC Pro Tour

This week the Pro Tour comes to Leicester.
Today and on Tuesday the Players Championships 3 and 4 will be played, aon Wednesday the Tour Card Holders Qualifiers for the European Tour Events 3 and 4 in Riesa and in Sindelfingen will follow.

Henderson wins World Senior Championship

Though Scotsman Robert Thornton coudln't defend the title thanks to John Hendersons win the tile stayed in Scotland. John Henderson defeated in the final Colin McGarry with 5:0. In Finals Day Henderson defeated Andy Hamilton and Canadian Jim Long and only lost one Set on the day. Colin McGarry won withput problems in the quarterfinals 3:1 against Mark Dudbridge and prevailed in a hard fought semifinal in the deciding set with 4:2 over Lisa Ashton durch.
Participants, Resultsnew

PDC Nordic and Baltic

The Nordic and Baltic Tour started at the weekend in Latvia in the season 2024.
The three qualifiers for the first three European Tour Events of the year were won by Andreas Harrysson, Viktor Tingström and Cor Dekker gewonnen. The titles of the first two Pro Tour Events went to Jeffrey de Graaf - with a win over Jani Laurilaa - and Marko Kantele who prevented in the final only just a comeback of Johan Engström.
PDC Nordic and Baltic Tour

German Host Nation Qualifiers

At the weekend in Hildesheim, Germany the Host Nation Qualifiers for theEuropean Tour Events 2, 3, 4 and 6 in Munic, Riesa, Sindelfingen and Kiel took place. This year for places are on offer for each event in the Host Nation Qualifiers. Most successful participant was Franz Rötzsch who will stand at the oche in Munic, Sindelfingen and Kiel. Michael Unterbuchner qualified for the events in Munic and Riesa. As well for Munic qualified beside Oliver Müller and Matthias Ehlers, for Riesa Patrick Klingelhöfner, Kai Gotthardt and Jan Drückers. For Sindelfingen qualified beside Rötzsch Rene Eidams, Arno Merk and Nike Springer while Maritz Hilger, Kevin Troppmann and Christopher Toonders qualified for Kiel.



16. February

Van Gerwen wins in Glasgow as well

Michael van Gerwen prevailed on the third League Day in Glasgow in a close final 6:5 over Luke Humphries and now leads with three points advance the table. Before he won in the quarterfinals against Peter Wright and in the semi-finals against Rob Cross. Humphries defeated in the quarterfinals Nathan Aspinall and in the semi-finals Gerwyn Price.
Aspinall and Peter Wright still sit with no point at the bottom of the table.
Statistics - Third League Daynew

PDC Rankings

The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order of Merit and the Players Championship Order of Merit were updated after the first two Players Championships of the year.
PDC Rankings

World Seniors Darts Championship

From 15. - 18. February in der Circus Tavern in Purfleet this year's World Seniors Darts Championship is played - for the last time with Phil Taylor who will retire after it.
In the first round invited players and qualifiers take place. The winners will clash in the second round on Saturday with the seeded players..
Participants, Resultsnew



15. February

PDC Premier League

Today the Premier League comes for the third League Night to Glasgow.
Therefore Peter Wright - the only Scotsman in the field of participants - will be in the limelight. He'll clash in the second quarterfinal with Michael van Gerwen. The night will be opened by the quarterfinal between Rob Cross and Michael Smith. In the third quarterfinal Nathan Aspinall will play against Luke Humphries. After that Gerwyn Price will meet Luke Littler.
Preview Third League Day
Schedule, Results
Tablenew
Statistics Third League Daynew



14. February

Qualifiers European Tour Events 1 and 2

At the Tour Card Holder Qualifiers today in Wigan four players qualified for both the first European Tour Event in Wieze, Belgium, and for the second European Tour Event in Munic: Mike de Decker, Lukas Wenig, Jermaine Wattimena and Richard Veenstra.
For the event in Wieze qualified as well Luke Woodhouse, James Hurrell, Daniel Klose, Luke Littler, Berry van Peer and Chris Landman. In Munic Alan Soutar, Steve Lennon, Jeffrey de Graaf, Niels Zooneveld, Kevin Doets and Cameron Menzies will stand on stage as well.
European Tour Event 1 Wieze
European Tour Event 2 Munic

Littler and Anderson win in Wigan

Luke Littler and Gary Anderson won in Wigan the Players Championships 1 and 2. Both players showed outstanding performances.
Luke Littler won on Monday the first Players Championship of the year with an 8:7 win over Ryan Searle. In the semi-finals stood Alan Soutar and Gian van Veen. Littler was beside one of three players who threw a nine-darter - the other two nine-darters threw Mickey Mansell and Leighton Bennett.
The second Players Championship on Tuesday was won by Gary Anderson who as well prevailed in the final over Ryan Searle. The semi-finals reached Peter Wright and Martin Lukeman. Anderson twice just missed a nine-darter throughout the day.
Today in Wigan the qualifiers for the European Tour Events 1 and 2 will take place.
Participants, Resultsnew



11. February

PDC Pro Tour

On Monday this year's PDC Pro Tour will begin in Wigan.
On Monday and Tuesday the Players Championships 1 and 2 will be played, on Wednesday the Tour Card Holders Qualifiers for the European Tour Events 1 and 2 in Wieze, Belgium and in Munic will follow.

UK Open

The Uk Open will be played from 1. - 3. March in Minehead.
The first amateur qualifiers already took place and the PDC announced the participants who qualified by the Development Tour and the Challenge Tour.
Participantsnew



9. February

Van Gerwen wins in Berlin

Michael van Gerwen defeated in the very close final of the second league day in Berlin Luke Littler with 6:5 and got his first day win. Before he defeated in the quarterfinals Nathan Aspinall with 6:4 and prevailed in the semi-finals over Michael Smith as well in the deciding leg. Littler reached the final with 6:5 wins over Rob Rob Cross and Luke Humphries.
Michael Smith stays in the first place of the table. Aspinall and Peter Wright sit without points in the last to places of the table.
Report, Statistics - Second League Daynew



7. February

PDC Premier League

For the Second League Day the Premier League travels to Berlin.
The night will begin with the quarterfinal between Nathan Aspinall and Michael van Gerwen before in the second quarterfinal as in the final of the first League Day Michael Smith and Gerwyn Price will clash. After that Luke Littler will play against Rob Cross - both players reached last week the semi-finals. In the fourth quarterfinal reigning world champion Luke Humphries will meet the two times world champion Peter Wright.
Preview Second League Day
Schedule, Resultsnew
Tablenew



5. February

Bunting wins Masters

With a 11:7 win over Michael van Gerwen Stephen Bunting won the Masters and secured his first PDC TV title. With Bunting the most convincing and consistent player won the tournament.
The very one-sided semi-finals beside reached Nathan Aspinall and Dimitri van den Bergh. Reigning champion Chris Dobey was already eliminated in the second round on Saturday by van Gerwen.
Results
Tournament Statisticsnew
Report Finals Daynew



2. February

The Masters

Tonight in Milton Keynes the Masters will begin. The first round will be played in which the players ranked 9 - 24 in the PDC Order of Merit will take part. Among them is the reigning champion Chris Dobey who will play against Andrew Gilding.
Gerwyn Price withdrew due to family reasons from the event and is replaced by Daryl Gurney.
Participants, Schedule First and Second Round
Previewnew

Smith wins in Cardiff

Michael Smith won the first Premier League Night in Cardiff. He defeated Gerwyn Price in the final with 6:2. Smith heads with five points the league table. In the semi-finals stood Rob Cross and Luke Littler.
Michael van Gerwen, Nathan Aspinall, Peter Wright and Luke Humphries lost in the quarterfinals and stayed without a point.
Report, Statisticsnew
Tablenew
Results



1. February

PDC Premier League

Today the first League Night of Premier League will be played in Cardiff.
In the first quarterfinal Peter Wright will meet Rob Cross. After that local hero Gerwyn Price will play against Nathan Aspinall. In the third quarterfinal reigning champion Michael van Gerwen will play against Michael Smith and in the last quarterfinal Luke Littler and Luke Humphries will collide.

Preview First Legue Daynew
Schedule



29. January

Van Gerwen wins Dutch Darts Masters

With a 8:6 win over Luke Littler Michael van Gerwen won the Dutch Darts Masters and the Toon Greebe Trophy. The final was from both players highclass - Littler had with almost 107 the higher average but spoilt to many chances.
Van Gerwen defeated on his way to the final with Vincent van der Voort, Raymond van Barneveld and Gian van Veen three fellow country men. Littler prevailed over Dirk van Duijvenbode, Luke Humphries and Gerwyn Price.
Schedule, Results, Statistics new
Report Finals Day new



27. January

World Series of Darts

At the Dutch Darts Masters in the first round the PDC representatives Nathan Aspinall, Peter Wright, Rob Cross and Michael Smith were eliminated. Instead the Benelux players Danny Nopper, Kevin Doets, Raymond van Barneveld and Gian van Veen progressed into the quarterfinals. As well eliminated was the reigning champion Dimitri van den Bergh. He lost in the best match of the first round despite an 102.43 average to Gerwyn Price.
Today the tournament will be played to the end - after the quarterfinals in which we'll see a repeat of the World Championship Fional between Luke Humphries and Luke Littler semi-finals and final will follow..
Schedule, Results, Statisticsnew



26. January

World Series of Darts

Today in Den Bosch in the Netherlands the second event of the World Series 2024 will begin, the Dutch Darts Masters. The PDC representatives Rob Cross, Gerwyn Price, Michael van Gerwen, Luke Humphries, Michael Smith, Nathan Aspinall, Luke Littler and Peter Wright will meet eight Benelux representatives - among them reigning champion Dimitri van den Bergh.
Nathan Aspinall will open the event against Danny Noppert. The reigning champion will meet Gerwyn Price. Ithe last match of the night and the first round Michael van Gerwen will play against Vincent van der Voort.
Schedule
Previewnew



25. January

WDF Rankings

The WDF Rankings were updated.
WDF Rankings



23. January

PDC Premier League

The PDC today published the schedule of the quarterfinals of all League Days of the Premier League. The Premier League will begin on Thursday, 1. February with the League Day in Cardiff and will end on 23. May with the Play-Offs in the O2 Arena in London. On each League Day a mini tournament with quarterfinals, semi-finals and final will be played. On the first League Day the quarterfinal between the new World Champion Luke Humphries and the World Championship runner-up Luke Littler will be the highlight.
Premier League Schedulenew

The Masters

The PDC published as well the schedule of the first and second round of The Masters which will be played from 2. - 4. February. In The Masters the Top 24 of the PDC Order of Merit after the World Championship take part. The tournament will be opened by the first round match between Dirk van Duijvenbode and Ryan Searle. Reigning Champion Chris Dobey will play in the first round against Andrew Gilding. The seeded players will begin the tournament in the second round and will play against the first round winners - number 1 seed Luke Humphries will play against the winner of the first round match between Stephen Bunting and Ross Smith.
Participants, Schedule First and Second Roundnew



22. January

PDC Challenge Tour

At the in Milton Keynes dthe first Challenge Tour Weekend took place. Fice events were played and they had five differten winners. und es gabe fünf verschiedene Sieger. On Friday Richie Burnett and Danny Jansen were the winners, on Saturday Oskar Lukasiak and Stefan Bellmont both won once. The fifth event on Suday was won by Aden Kirk. As Danny Jansen beside his win reached a final twice he heads the ranking after the weekend with Stefan Bellmont and Aden Kirk following in second and third place.
Challenge Tour



19. January

Littler wins in Bahrain

World Championship runner-up Luke Littler defeated in the final in Bahrain Michael van Gerwen with 8:5 and won his first PDC senior title. On his way in the final he defeated Nathan Aspinall and Gerwyn Price, in the quarterfinal against Aspinall Littler threw a nine-darter. Michael van Gerwen reached the final with wins over Rob Cross and Michael Smith where he couldn't quite built on his previous performances.
Schedule, Results and Statistics - Day 2

World Series of Darts

Though in Bahrain some of the PDC representatives had difficult games all of them won the first round matches and progressed into the quarterfinals. Michael van Gerwen played against Hasan Haji with almost 107 the highest average while Luke Humphries had beside a 98.02 average a hitting rate on the doubles of 100 percent.
Today the tournament will be played to the end.
Schedule, Results and Statistics
Bericht Tag 1



18. January

World Series of Darts

Today in Bahrain the Bahrain Darts Masters will begin - the first event of the World Series of Darts this year. The PDC representatives Rob Cross, Gerwyn Price, Michael van Gerwen, Luke Humphries, Michael Smith, Nathan Aspinall, Luke Littler and Peter Wright will play against eight Asian representatives, among them two qualifiers from Bahrain.
Peter Wright will open the tournament against Japanese Haruki Muramatsu. World Champion Luke Humphries will play against Abdulla Saeed from Bahrain and reigning champion Michael Smith will meet Paolo Nebrida from the Philippines.
Schedule

Tour Card Holders 2024

A summery of all Tour Card Holders of the year 2024 you can find here:
Tour Card Holders 2024



15. January

PDC Qualifiying Schools 2024 - Finale Stage Day 4

On the last day of the final stage the two direct Tour Cards got Englishman Dom Taylor and Swede Jeffrey de Graaf who were the day winners in Milton Keynes and Kalkar. They defeated in the finals Joshua Richardson and Jitse van der Wal.
The Tour Cards European Qualifying School allocated by the ranking went to Haupai Puha, Jules van Dongen, Radek Szaganski, Chris Landman, Patrick Geeraets, Jitse van der Wal, Paul Krohne, Benjamin Reus, Mario Vandenbogaerde, Lukas Wenig, Thibault Tricole, Michele Turetta and Tim Wolters. The Tour Cards by the UK ranking went to Matthew Dennant, William Borland, Joshua Richardson, James Hurrell, George Killington, Danny Lauby II, Rhys Griffin, Brett Claydon, Darren Beveridge and Adam Hunt.
Report
European Qualifying School Ranking Final Standings
UK Qualifying School Ranking Final Standings
European Qualifying School Finale Phase Results Day 4
UK Qualifying School Finale Phase Results Day 4



12. Januar

PDC Qualifiying Schools 2024 - Finale Stage Day 3

On the thirt day of the final stage the two direct Tour Cards were allocated to Englishman Leighton Bennett and Belgina Andy Baetens who won the day in Milton Keynes and Kalkar respectively. They defeated in the finals Thomas Cromwell and Radel Szaganski.
Today the last two two direct Tour Cards will be allocated to the day winners. Beside after the end of the final stage on Sunday 23 more Tour Cards will be on offer according to the European/UK ranking - 13 in the European Q School, 10 in the UK Q School.
Report, Rankings after Day 3



y 12. Januar

PDC Qualifiying Schools 2024 - Finale Stage Day 1

On the first day of the final stage the first two direct Tour Cards were allocated to Irishman Steve Lennon and Dutchman Martijn Dragt who won the day in Milton Keynes and Kalkar respectively. They defeated in the finals William Borland and Chris Landman who now head the respective rankings.
Today again two direct Tour Cards will be allocated to the day winners. Beside after the end of the final stage on Sunday 23 more Tour Cards will be on offer according to the European/UK ranking - 13 in the European Q School, 10 in the UK Q School.
Report, Rankings after Day 1
European Qualifying School Final Stage Results Day 2
UK Qualifying School Final Stage Results Day 2
Rankings after Day 2new



10. January

PDC Qualifiying Schools 2024

The first phase of the Qualifying Schools was played today to the end and the 128 participants in the final phases in both the European and the UK Qualifying Schools are known. Among the 24 players who reached the final stage of the European Qualifying School direct were among others the WDF World Champion 2023 Andy Baetens and the former Tour Card Holders Max Hopp and John Michael. Among the direct qualifiers of the UK Qualifiying School are Andy Hamilton, Fallon Sherrock and the young English talent Leighton Bennett. The field of participants in both Qualifying Schools was filled up with players from the rankings.
Participants final Stage European Qualifying School, Resultsnew
Participants final Stage UK Qualifying School, Resultsnew

World Series of Darts

The PDC announced the field of participants of the first two World Series Events of the year. The Bahrain Darts Masters and the Dutch Darts Masters will both take place in January, the Bahrain Darts Masters on 18. and 19. January, the Dutch Darts Masters on 26. and 27. January. In both events the eight PDC representatives will play against eight regional representatives. In both events Luke Humphries, Michael van Gerwen, Michael Smith, Nathan Aspinall, Gerwyn Price, Rob Cross, Peter Wright and Luke Littler will represent the PDC.
Bahrain Darts Masters
Dutch Darts Masters



8. January

PDC Qualifiying Schools 2024

Today in Milton Keynes and in Kalkar, Germany, the UK and the European Qualifying School will begin. All in all more then 800 players registered. The first phase will be played from 8. - 10. January. The second, final phase will follow from 11. - 14 January with 128 participants in each venue, which will consist of qualifiers from the first phase, players from the Challenge Tour and Development Tour Orders of Merit and players who lost their Tour Card end of 2023. 30 Tour Cards are on offer.
Qualifying School 2024, Resultsnew

European Tour

The PDC announced a new qualifying format for the European Tour 2024:
European Tour

Pro Tour

The price money for the Players Championships will be increased in 2024:
Pro Tour



5. Januar

PDC Rankings

Der PDC Order of Merit wurde nach der Weltmeisterschaft aktualisiert.
PDC Rankings



5. January

PDC Rankings

The PDC Order of Merit was updated after the World Championship.
PDC Rankings

Russ Bray inducted in PDC Hall of Fame

The final of the PDC World Championship was the last televised ranking matched Russ Bray refereed. We will still see him in World Series events but beside this from now on he will be a PDC ambassodor. In honour of this occasion Russ Bray before the World Championship final was inducted in the PDC Hall of Fame..
Russ Bray inducted in PDC Hall of Famenew



4. January

PDC Premier League

After the conclusion of the PDC World Championship 2023/24 the PDC today announced the participants of the PDC Premier League which will be played from 1. February each Thursday.
Beside the newly crowned World Champion Luke Humphries the runner-up Luke Littler invited as well. He will be the so far youngest participant in the Premier League. The other participants will be Michael van Gerwen, Michael Smith, Nathan Aspinall, Gerwyn Price, Rob Cross and Peter Wright.
Premier League 2024new



3. January

Humphries wins PDC World Championship

In a thrilling and highclass final Luke Humphries prevailed with 7:4 and for the first time won the PDC World Champion title. At the start of the final Humphries had some problems to hit his doubles and the as usual strong playing Littler got a 4:2 lead. But Humphries settled and came back into the match, first levelled 4:4 and then won the last three sets to triumph.
Report, Statistics Finalnew



2. January

PDC World Championship - Semifinals

On the 15. day of the tournament the semi-finals took place in the Alexandra Palace in London.
In the first semi-final Rob Cross and Luke Littler met and though Rob Cross showed a strong performance he couldn't keep up with Littler who won in the end with 2:6 and progressed as youngest ever and beside unseeded player into the final. Even more dominant was Luke Humphries in the second semi-final against Scott Williams who couldn't win a single set. By his semi-final win Humphries is now the number 1 of the world.
In the final tomorrow Humphries will play against Littler.
Semifinals Resultsnew
Report, Statistics Semifinalsnew



1. January

PDC World Championship - Day 14

After the New Year's Eve break today in the Ally Pally the quarterfinals will be played.
In the afternoon first Chris Dobey will play against Rob Cross and after that Luke Littler against Brendan Dolan. In the evening session first Michael van Gerwen will take on Scott Williams before in the last quarterfinal Luke Humphries and Dave Chisnall will meet.
Quarterfinals Resultsnew
Report, Statistics Quarterfinalsnew

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