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PDC Order of Merit
World ranking system for darts

The PDC Order of Merit is the world ranking system for professional darts players used by the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC), which ranks players according to the prize money won in PDC ranking tournaments. These world rankings are used to determine qualification and seeding for the televised ranking tournaments as well as the awarding of PDC Tour Cards at the end of the season. The Order of Merit format has been used since the 2007 PDC World Darts Championship, superseding the original PDC World Ranking system established in 1993, where points awarded for performances in tournaments according to their relative prestige. Upon the introduction of the rankings, the first player to hold the number one rank was Alan Warriner. Since 1993, twelve other players have held the top spot, including Luke Humphries, the current world number one. Alongside the main Order of Merit, the PDC also operate several secondary Orders of Merit which count prize money won on specific PDC Tours and may also offer qualification to specific televised events.

Methodology

The Professional Darts Corporation adopted the current Order of Merit system in 2007. In this system, the total prize money won in PDC ranking events over the eligibility period is counted. For PDC Tour Card holders, this eligibility period is either the previous two years or since the player was awarded a tour card, whichever is shorter.6 The PDC World Darts Championship is considered last event of the season, after which the year-end Order of Merit is calculated and players in the top 64 offered a Tour Card for the following year.7 New Tour Card holders start on £0, even if they held a Tour Card in the previous season but failed to make the top 64, resulting in them having to regain their Tour Card through the qualifying tournament, Q School.8 Players without Tour Cards who earn money in ranking tournaments (such as Luke Littler in the 2024 PDC World Darts Championship) are eligible to be ranked during the season,9 though if they fail to reach the top 64 at the end of the year, their ranking money is reset to £0.10 If two players are tied and need separating for seeding or event qualification, the tie is broken by player with the highest total earnings across the previous four ranking tournaments. If this fails to break the tie, players' prize money is counted back from the most recent event until a tie can be broken, with the possibility of a play-off if this cannot break the tie.11

Ranking tournaments

The PDC holds ranked and unranked tournaments. Ranking tournaments are those which all PDC Tour Card holders are eligible to participate in or qualify for, while unranked tournaments are invitational and do not count toward the Order of Merit. Currently, the Premier League, World Series of Darts events and the World Cup of Darts are the only unranked PDC tournaments with Tour Card Holder participation outside of the secondary tours.12

Prize money awarded towards 2025 PDC Order of Merit in ranking tournaments (£1000s)13
TournamentTotalWinnerFinalistSemi-finalistsTop 8Top 16Top 32Top 64Top 96Top 128Prelim. Top 16Prelim. Top 32Prelim. Top 64
PDC Premier Events (2025)
World Championship5,0001,000400200100603525—15—
World Masters14500100503012.5105—2.510.75
UK Open6001105030151052.51.51—
World Matchplay80020010050301510—
World Grand Prix600120604025157.5—
European Championship600120604025157.5—
Grand Slam of Darts1565015070502512516—
Players Championship Finals600120603020106.53—
PDC Pro Tour17
14 European Tour events17530128.5642.5181.2519—
34 Players Championship events125151053.52.51.51.0—
Total 2025 payouts14,6252,6701,2461,4011,6822,1022,4481,95648992201624
Prize money from the 2023 and 2024 seasons still contributing to the Order of Merit, where differing from 2025 prize money2021
World Championship2,500500200100503525157.5—
Prize money from the 2023 season still contributing to the Order of Merit, where differing from 2024 and 2025 prize money22
Players Championship events231001284321.250.75—

PDC Order of Merit

PDC Order of Merit as of 19 June 2025.24
Players ranked 1 - 32
RankChangePlayerEarnings
1 Luke Humphries£1,873,750
2 Luke Littler£1,300,500
3 Michael van Gerwen£734,750
4 Stephen Bunting£596,500
5 Jonny Clayton£557,750
6 Nathan Aspinall£526,000
7 Chris Dobey£525,500
8 2 James Wade£522,250
9 Rob Cross£505,500
10 2 Damon Heta£502,750
11 2 Dave Chisnall£473,000
11 Gerwyn Price£473,000
13 1 Gary Anderson£464,000
14 Ross Smith£450,250
15 1 Peter Wright£447,000
16 1 Danny Noppert£443,750
17 Josh Rock£436,750
18 Martin Schindler£416,750
19 Ryan Searle£411,250
20 1 Mike De Decker£389,500
20 Michael Smith£389,500
22 Dimitri Van den Bergh£382,250
23 Gian van Veen£381,000
24 Joe Cullen£365,500
25 Daryl Gurney£333,500
26 Ryan Joyce£327,500
27 Ritchie Edhouse£317,250
28 Andrew Gilding£306,000
29 Ricardo Pietreczko£304,250
30 1 Dirk van Duijvenbode£289,750
31 1 Jermaine Wattimena£285,750
32 2 Luke Woodhouse£284,500
*Change since 1 June 2025.
PDC Order of Merit as of 19 June 2025.25
Players ranked 33 - 64
RankChangePlayerEarnings
33 Krzysztof Ratajski£271,250
34 Brendan Dolan£265,750
35 Raymond van Barneveld£259,250
36 Cameron Menzies£256,500
37 Scott Williams£244,750
38 Martin Lukeman£225,250
39 Gabriel Clemens£207,750
40 Callan Rydz£182,750
41 Kevin Doets£180,250
42 Wessel Nijman£169,500
43 Mickey Mansell£158,750
44 Ricky Evans£153,250
45 Madars Razma£148,000
46 Niels Zonneveld£145,500
47 William O'Connor£141,000
48 Kim Huybrechts£122,500
49 Richard Veenstra£119,250
50 Ian White£118,500
51 José de Sousa£112,250
52 Florian Hempel£108,750
53 Matt Campbell£105,000
54 Keane Barry£102,750
55 2 Alan Soutar£99,250
56 1 Jim Williams£96,750
57 1 Connor Scutt£96,250
58 Robert Owen£94,750
59 Jeffrey de Graaf£92,500
60 Nick Kenny£89,500
61 Stephen Burton£87,500
62 Mensur Suljović£83,500
63 Ryan Meikle£82,750
64 Dylan Slevin£80,000
*Change since 1 June 2025.

Secondary Orders of Merit

In addition to the main two-year Order of Merit, the PDC also operates three Orders of Merit for subsets of the PDC Tour and four Orders of Merit for secondary tours. These rankings offer qualification to televised events and are the basis for seeding in tournaments. Additionally, some secondary tours offer Tour Cards. These are secondary Orders of Merit are the:

  • ProTour Order of Merit, which counts money earned in Players Championships and European Tour events over a 12-month rolling period. In addition to qualification for televised tournaments, this ranking determines the seedings for Players Championship events.26
  • European Tour Order of Merit, which counts money earned in European Tour events during the calendar year. The top 32 on this ranking list qualify for the European Championship at the end of the year, where all players are seeded according to their European Tour ranking.27
  • Players Championship Order of Merit, which counts money earned in Player Championship events during the calendar year. The top 64 on this ranking qualify for the Players Championship Finals. Similarly to the European Championship, all players are seeded according to their rank.28
  • Challenge Tour Order of Merit, which counts money earned in a calendar year on the Challenge Tour, a secondary tour open to players without Tour Cards that participated in the most recent Q-School. Top ranked players at the end of the year may qualify for televised tournaments and receive Tour Cards, depending on their rank.29 The Challenge Tour Order of Merit also acts as a reserve list for Pro Tour events.30
  • Development Tour Order of Merit, which counts money earned in a calendar year on the Development Tour, a secondary open to some Tour Card holders and players without Tour Card aged 16–23. Top ranked players at the end of the year may qualify for televised tournaments and receive Tour Cards, depending on their rank.31
  • Women's Series Order of Merit, which counts money earned in a calendar year on the Women's Series, a secondary tour for female players.32 Top ranked players at the end of the year may qualify for televised tournaments and receive Tour Cards, depending on their rank.33
  • Women's World Matchplay Order of Merit, which counts money earned on the Women's Series earned over an approximately 12-month period prior to the Women's World Matchplay, to the which the top 8 players are invited.34
Qualification and seedings to PDC events via PDC Orders of Merit35
TournamentQualifiers (seeds)
By Order of MeritOther
MainPTETPCWSCTDTWO
Ranked televised events
World Championship40 (32)40—33339
World Masters24 (16)36—373839840
UK OpenTCH—88—16
World Matchplay16 (16)16—
World Grand Prix16 (16)16—
European Championship—32 (32)—
Grand Slam of Darts0 (8)—11121
Players Championship Finals—64 (64)—
PDC Pro Tour
European Tour events16 (16)16—16
Players Championship eventsTCH0 (32)—
Non-ranked televised events
Premier League Darts4—4
World Series of Darts Finals—8 (8)—24
World Cup of Darts41—42
Tour Cards64—22—6043

Previous world ranking system

Prior to 2007, a ranking point system was used where ranking points were awarded according to the stage reached in a tournament and the relative prestige of the tournament.44 There was no limit on the number of tournaments which counted to the tally, which meant that the top-ranked players were not necessarily the best-performing in the major tournaments. For instance, Colin Lloyd was the world number one player in the PDC for most of 2005 and 2006, despite most of the major titles being shared between Phil Taylor, Raymond van Barneveld and John Part.45

PDC World Rankings Points System, 200346
Tournament CategoryWinnerRunner-upTop 4Top 8Top 16Top 32Top 40Top 64
World Championship5040353024161247
Premier Event30242016128—4849
Category One161210864—50
Category Two864321—
Category Three54321—

Previous World Number Ones

PDC Ranking Leaders Timeline5152

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

Player#Years in which player stood Number 1
Phil Taylor13
  • 1996
  • 2000
  • 2002
  • 2003
  • 2004
  • 2006
  • 2007
  • 2008
  • 2009
  • 2010
  • 2011
  • 2012
  • 2013
Michael van Gerwen7
  • 2014
  • 2015
  • 2016
  • 2017
  • 2018
  • 2019
  • 2020
Alan Warriner6
  • 1993
  • 1994
  • 1997
  • 1998
  • 2001
  • 2002
Rod Harrington5
  • 1995
  • 1996
  • 1998
  • 1999
  • 2000
Colin Lloyd3
  • 2005
  • 2006
  • 2007
Dennis Priestley2
  • 1994
  • 1995
Peter Manley2
  • 2000
  • 2001
Gerwyn Price2
  • 2021
  • 2022
Luke Humphries2
  • 2024
  • 2025
Raymond van Barneveld12008
John Part12003
Peter Wright12022
Michael Smith12023
Italic indicates the player was reigning world champion that yearBold indicates the player stood number one at the conclusion of that year's world championship

Periods

No.Player(s)FromLengthRef.
1 Alan Warriner-Little January 1993Incarnation of the WDC674 days5354
2 Dennis Priestley 6 November 19941994 Lada UK Masters1555556
3 Rod Harrington 10 April 19951995 UK Matchplay479 days575859
4 Phil Taylor August 199631 days606162
 Alan Warriner-Little (2)September 1996699 days636465
 Rod Harrington (2)1 August 19981998 World Matchplay728 days6667
 Phil Taylor (2)29 July 20002000 World Matchplay57 days6869
5 Peter Manley 24 September 20002000 Windy City Open399 days7071
 Alan Warriner-Little (3)28 October 20012001 World Grand Prix69 days7273
Alan Warriner-Little (4) and Phil Taylor (3)5 January 20022002 World Championship28 days7475
 Alan Warriner-Little (5)2 February 20022002 Eastbourne Open88 days767778
 Phil Taylor (4)May 2002248 days798081
6 John Part 4 January 20032003 World Championship203 days8283
 Phil Taylor (5)26 July 20032003 Bobby Bourn Memorial Trophy582 days8485
7 Colin Lloyd 27 February 20052005 West Tyrone Open469 days8687
 Phil Taylor (6)11 June 20062006 UK Open7 days8889
 Colin Lloyd (2)18 June 20062006 Players Championship 3197 days9091
 Phil Taylor (7)1 January 20072007 World Championship365 days9293
8 Raymond van Barneveld 1 January 20082008 World Championship159 days9495
 Phil Taylor (8)8 June 20082008 UK Open2,033 days9697
9 Michael van Gerwen 1 January 20142014 World Championship2,559 days9899
10 Gerwyn Price 3 January 20212021 World Championship427 days100101
11 Peter Wright 6 March 20222022 UK Open140 days102103
 Gerwyn Price (2)24 July 20222022 World Matchplay77 days104
 Peter Wright (2)9 October 20222022 World Grand Prix21 days105
 Gerwyn Price (3)30 October 20222022 European Championship65 days106107
12 Michael Smith 3 January 20232023 World Championship365 days108
13 Luke Humphries 3 January 20242024 World Championship540 days109110
Key
Before January 2007Used old points system
CurrentReigning number one on Order of Merit

Total Days at No. 1

No.PlayerTotal Days at No 1Longest Consecutive Run
1Phil Taylor33232033
2Michael van Gerwen25592559
3Alan Warriner-Little1558699
4Rod Harrington1207728
5Colin Lloyd666469
6Gerwyn Price569427
7Luke Humphries540540
8Peter Manley399399
9Michael Smith365365
10John Part203203
11Peter Wright161140
12Raymond van Barneveld159159
13Dennis Priestley155155
Active players in bold.

First WDC/PDC rankings

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

RankingPlayer RankingPlayer
1 Alan Warriner16 Jann Hoffmann
2 Rod Harrington= Chris Johns
3 Phil Taylor= Roland Scholten
4 John Lowe19 Raymond van Barneveld
5 Mike Gregory= Keith Deller
6 Peter Evison21 Bobby George
7 Kevin Spiolek22 Per Skau
= Dennis Priestley23 Bernd Hebecker
9 Bob Anderson= Andree Welge
10 Jocky Wilson= Pascal Rabau
11 Jamie Harvey26 Leo Laurens
12 Eric Bristow= Bert Vlaardingerbroek
13 Cliff Lazarenko= Tom Kirby
14 Magnus Caris= Wayne Weening
= Steve Beaton= Mauro Levy

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  15. An additional £3,500 is awarded to the 8 group winners. ↩

  16. £8,000 and £5,000 are awarded to the third and fourth place finishers respectively in the group stage, which comprise the top 32. ↩

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  36. Players Ranked 25–56 will enter at the last 64 of the preliminary round, while Players Ranked 57–88 will be seeded in the preliminary round group stage, and Players Ranked 89–128 will enter at the preliminary rounded group stage non-seeded[19] ↩

  37. The top 8 eligible players from the Secondary Tours holders enter at the preliminary round group stage ↩

  38. The top 8 eligible players from the Secondary Tours holders enter at the preliminary round group stage ↩

  39. The top 8 eligible players from the Secondary Tours holders enter at the preliminary round group stage ↩

  40. The 8 qualifiers from the preliminary round. ↩

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  43. Players who have one year remaining of a two-year Tour Card and players qualifying through Q-school. ↩

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  48. For events with more than 128 players, 4 points. ↩

  49. 1, 2, or 4 points for players who reached the later rounds of qualifying for the World Matchplay. ↩

  50. For events with more than 128 players, 2 points. ↩

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