PDC Order of Merit

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Template:Short description 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.[1] 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.[2][3] Upon the introduction of the rankings, the first player to hold the number one rank was Alan Warriner.[4] Since 1993, twelve other players have held the top spot, including Luke Humphries, the current world number one.[5] 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

A distant view of the World Championship stage from a table in the crowd.
The PDC World Darts Championship offers the highest amount of prize money of any event contributing to the Order of Merit.

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.[3] 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.[3] 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.[3] 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,[6] though if they fail to reach the top 64 at the end of the year, their ranking money is reset to £0.[3] 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.[3]

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.[3]

Prize money awarded towards 2025 PDC Order of Merit in ranking tournaments (£1000s)[3]
Tournament Total Winner Finalist Semi-finalists Top 8 Top 16 Top 32 Top 64 Top 96 Top 128 Prelim. Top 16 Prelim. Top 32 Prelim. Top 64
PDC Premier Events (2025)
World Championship 5,000 1,000 400 200 100 60 35 25 — 15 —
World MastersTemplate:Efn-ua 500 100 50 30 12.5 10 5 — 2.5 1 0.75
UK Open 600 110 50 30 15 10 5 2.5 1.5 1 —
World Matchplay 800 200 100 50 30 15 10 —
World Grand Prix 600 120 60 40 25 15 7.5 —
European Championship 600 120 60 40 25 15 7.5 —
Grand Slam of DartsTemplate:Efn-ua 650 150 70 50 25 12 5Template:Efn-ua —
Players Championship Finals 600 120 60 30 20 10 6.5 3 —
PDC Pro TourTemplate:Efn-ua
14 European Tour events 175 30 12 8.5 6 4 2.5Template:Efn-ua 1.25Template:Efn-ua —
34 Players Championship events 125 15 10 5 3.5 2.5 1.5 1.0 —
Total 2025 payouts 14,625 2,670 1,246 1,401 1,682 2,102 2,448 1,956 48 992 20 16 24
Prize money from the 2023 and 2024 seasons still contributing to the Order of Merit, where differing from 2025 prize money[7][8]
World Championship 2,500 500 200 100 50 35 25 15 7.5 —
Prize money from the 2023 season still contributing to the Order of Merit, where differing from 2024 and 2025 prize money[8]
Players Championship eventsTemplate:Efn-ua 100 12 8 4 3 2 1.25 0.75 —

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PDC Order of Merit

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Luke Humphries, the current PDC world number one

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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:

  • Pro Tour 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.[9]
  • 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.[10]
  • 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.[11]
  • 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.[12] The Challenge Tour Order of Merit also acts as a reserve list for Pro Tour events.[3]
  • 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.[13]
  • 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.[3] Top ranked players at the end of the year may qualify for televised tournaments and receive Tour Cards, depending on their rank.[14]
  • 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.[3]
Qualification and seedings to PDC events via PDC Orders of Merit[3]
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By Order of Merit Other
Main PT ET PC WS CT DT WO
Ranked televised events
World Championship 40 (32)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 40 — 3 3 3 39
World Masters 24 (16)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Template:Efn — Template:Efn Template:Efn Template:Efn 8Template:Efn
UK Open TCH — 8 8 — 16
World Matchplay 16 (16)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 16 —
World Grand Prix 16 (16)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 16 —
European Championship — 32 (32)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". —
Grand Slam of Darts 0 (8)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". — 1 1 1 21
Players Championship Finals — 64 (64)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". —
PDC Pro Tour
European Tour events 16 (16)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 16 — 16
Players Championship events TCH 0 (32)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". —
Non-ranked televised events
Premier League Darts 4 — 4
World Series of Darts Finals — 8 (8)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". — 24
World Cup of Darts Template:Efn — Template:Efn
Tour Cards 64 — 2 2 — 60Template:Efn

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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.[15] 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.[16]

PDC World Rankings Points System, 2003[15]
Tournament Category Winner Runner-up Top 4 Top 8 Top 16 Top 32 Top 40 Top 64
World Championship 50 40 35 30 24 16 12 Template:Efn
Premier Event 30 24 20 16 12 8 — Template:EfnTemplate:Efn
Category One 16 12 10 8 6 4 — Template:Efn
Category Two 8 6 4 3 2 1 —
Category Three 5 4 3 2 1 —

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Previous World Number Ones

PDC Ranking Leaders Timeline[4][17]
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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
Template:Flagicon Phil Taylor 13 Template:Hlist
Template:Flagicon Michael van Gerwen 7 Template:Hlist
Template:Flagicon Alan Warriner 6 Template:Hlist
Template:Flagicon Rod Harrington 5 Template:Hlist
Template:Flagicon Colin Lloyd 3 Template:Hlist
Template:Flagicon Dennis Priestley 2 Template:Hlist
Template:Flagicon Peter Manley 2 Template:Hlist
Template:Flagicon Gerwyn Price 2 Template:Hlist
Template:Flagicon Luke Humphries 2 Template:Hlist
Template:Flagicon Raymond van Barneveld 1 2008
Template:Flagicon John Part 1 2003
Template:Flagicon Peter Wright 1 2022
Template:Flagicon Michael Smith 1 2023
Italic indicates the player was reigning world champion that year
Bold indicates the player stood number one at the conclusion of that year's world championship

Periods

No. Player(s) From Length Ref.
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Template:PDCFlag (5) Template:Dts 2003 Bobby Bourn Memorial Trophy Script error: No such module "age". days [4][18]
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Template:PDCFlag (6) Template:Dts 2006 UK Open Script error: No such module "age". days [20][21]
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Template:PDCFlag (7) Template:Dts 2007 World Championship Script error: No such module "age". days [4][18]
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Key
Before January 2007 Used old points system
Current Reigning number one on Order of Merit

Total Days at No. 1

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

First WDC/PDC rankings

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

References

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External links

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