World Professional Darts Championship
Template:Short description Template:Refimprove The World Professional Darts Championship is one of the most important tournaments in the darts calendar. Originally held as an annual event between 1978 and 1993, players then broke off into two separate organisations after a controversial split in the game. Each organisation, the British Darts Organisation (BDO) and the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) then arranged their own World Championships, the former in January the latter in December. As a result, there was no longer a unified world champion in the sport for nearly three decades.
The BDO version dated back to 1978, when it was held at the Heart of the Midlands nightclub, Nottingham. The following year it moved to the Jollees Cabaret Club, Stoke, where it stayed until 1985. From then until 2019 it was held at the Lakeside Leisure Complex at Frimley Green, Surrey. In 2020 the tournament was held at The O2 Arena in London. The BDO went into liquidation in 2020 and the World Darts Federation announced later that they would be creating their own version of a World Championship, returning to the Lakeside Leisure Complex.[1] Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, their version didn't get underway until 2022.[2] Since qualification for the BDO version was always based on WDF rankings, most of the player pool and legacy of this new version of the World Championship is based on the old BDO system.
The PDC version has been running since 1994 after "the split", with a field of players containing all active previous World Champions from the BDO. It was originally staged at Purfleet's Circus Tavern, Essex, before moving to its current home Alexandra Palace, London, for the 2008 World Championship.
Men's winners
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By player
The following sortable table lists all winners of both versions of the World Championship (correct as of 4 January 2025).
| Player | Total | BDO | PDC |
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| Template:Flagicon Phil Taylor | 16 | 2 | 14 |
| Template:Flagicon Raymond van Barneveld | 5 | 4 | 1 |
| Template:Flagicon Eric Bristow | 5 | 5 | – |
| Template:Flagicon Martin Adams | 3 | 3 | – |
| Template:Flagicon John Lowe | 3 | 3 | – |
| Template:Flagicon Michael van Gerwen | 3 | – | 3 |
| Template:Flagicon John Part | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| Template:Flagicon Glen Durrant | 3 | 3 | – |
| Template:Flagicon Gary Anderson | 2 | – | 2 |
| Template:Flagicon Peter Wright | 2 | – | 2 |
| Template:Flagicon Ted Hankey | 2 | 2 | – |
| Template:Flagicon Adrian Lewis | 2 | – | 2 |
| Template:Flagicon Dennis Priestley | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Template:Flagicon Scott Waites | 2 | 2 | – |
| Template:Flagicon Jocky Wilson | 2 | 2 | – |
| Template:Flagicon Bob Anderson | 1 | 1 | – |
| Template:Flagicon Steve Beaton | 1 | 1 | – |
| Template:Flagicon Stephen Bunting | 1 | 1 | – |
| Template:Flagicon Richie Burnett | 1 | 1 | – |
| Template:Flagicon Rob Cross | 1 | – | 1 |
| Template:Flagicon Tony David | 1 | 1 | – |
| Template:Flagicon Keith Deller | 1 | 1 | – |
| Template:Flagicon Andy Fordham | 1 | 1 | – |
| Template:Flagicon Christian Kist | 1 | 1 | – |
| Template:Flagicon Jelle Klaasen | 1 | 1 | – |
| Template:Flagicon Scott Mitchell | 1 | 1 | – |
| Template:Flagicon Gerwyn Price | 1 | – | 1 |
| Template:Flagicon Leighton Rees | 1 | 1 | – |
| Template:Flagicon Michael Smith | 1 | – | 1 |
| Template:Flagicon Les Wallace | 1 | 1 | – |
| Template:Flagicon John Walton | 1 | 1 | – |
| Template:Flagicon Wayne Warren | 1 | 1 | – |
| Template:Flagicon Mark Webster | 1 | 1 | – |
| Template:Flagicon Luke Humphries | 1 | – | 1 |
| Template:Flagicon Luke Littler | 1 | – | 1 |
By country
The following sortable table lists all winners of both versions of the World Championship (correct as of 20 February 2024).
| Player | Total | BDO | PDC |
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| File:Flag of England.svg England | 47 | 28 | 19 |
| File:Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands | 10 | 6 | 4 |
| File:Flag of Scotland.svg Scotland | 7 | 3 | 4 |
| File:Flag of Wales (1959–present).svg Wales | 5 | 4 | 1 |
| File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia | 1 | 1 | – |
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Highest average progression
| Average | Seed | Player | Score | Opponent | Stage | Year |
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| 97.49 | 3 | Template:Flagicon Leighton Rees | 6–3 | Template:Flagicon Alan Evans | QF | 1978 |
| 99.00 | 5 | Template:Flagicon John Lowe | 2–0 | Template:Flagicon Tony Brown | 1st | 1984 |
| 100.29 | unseeded | Template:Flagicon Keith Deller | 2–4 | Template:Flagicon John Lowe | QF | 1985 |
| 100.80 | unseeded | Template:Flagicon Phil Taylor | 5–0 | Template:Flagicon Cliff Lazarenko | SF | 1990 |
| 102.63 | 1 | Template:Flagicon Dennis Priestley | 3–0 | Template:Flagicon Jocky Wilson | 1st | 1993 |
| 103.98 | 1 | Template:Flagicon Phil Taylor | 6–0 | Template:Flagicon Dennis Priestley | F | 1998 |
| 105.03 | 3 | Template:Flagicon Phil Taylor | 3–0 | Template:Flagicon Reg Harding | 1st | 1999 |
| 105.87 | 2 | Template:Flagicon Phil Taylor | 6–0 | Template:Flagicon Alan Warriner | QF | 2000 |
| 107.46 | 2 | Template:Flagicon Phil Taylor | 7–0 | Template:Flagicon John Part | F | 2001 |
| 111.21 | 2 | Template:Flagicon Phil Taylor | 6–1 | Template:Flagicon Shayne Burgess | 2nd | 2002 |
| 114.05 | 1 | Template:Flagicon Michael van Gerwen | 6–2 | Template:Flagicon Raymond van Barneveld | SF | 2017 |
Women's winners
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By player
The following sortable table lists all winners of all versions of the World Championship (correct as of 10 December 2023).
| Player | Total | WDF (BDO) |
PDC |
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| Template:Flagicon Trina Gulliver | 10 | 10 | – |
| Template:Flagicon Lisa Ashton | 4 | 4 | – |
| Template:Flagicon Anastasia Dobromyslova | 3 | 3 | – |
| Template:Flagicon Beau Greaves | 3 | 3 | – |
| Template:Flagicon Mikuru Suzuki | 2 | 2 | – |
| Template:Flagicon Francis Hoenselaar | 1 | 1 | – |
| Template:Flagicon Deta Hedman | 1 | 1 | - |
| Template:Flagicon Stacy Bromberg | 1 | – | 1 |
By country
The following sortable table lists all winners of all versions of the World Championship (correct as of 7 December 2025).
| Player | Total | WDF (BDO) |
PDC |
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| File:Flag of England.svg England | 18 | 18 | – |
| File:Flag of Russia.svg Russia | 3 | 3 | – |
| File:Flag of Japan.svg Japan | 2 | 2 | – |
| File:Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands | 1 | 1 | – |
| File:Flag of the United States.svg United States | 1 | – | 1 |
Youth winners
The British Darts Organisation scores are sets, while the Professional Darts Corporation scores are legs.
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References
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