Darts World Rankings

The Darts World Rankings are systems designed to determine a list of the best darts players in the world based on their performances in past tournaments.

In 1993, a group of former world champions and other high-profile players separated from the British Darts Organisation, meaning there were several major governing bodies in the sport. Each organization has its own players, and each has its own ranking system.

After the British Darts Organisation folded in 2020, the two main rankings are now maintained by the World Darts Federation and the Professional Darts Corporation.

The ranking systems are used to arrange tournament seedings, which are so arranged, that the number one player in the world will not face the number two player until the final of a tournament, providing they both reach that final.

PDC World Rankings

Main article: PDC World Rankings

The Professional Darts Corporation's Ranking is based on the amount of prize money won in ranking tournaments on a two year cycle.

PDC World Rankings as of 30 August 2026.

Players ranked 1–32
Rank	Change	Player	Earnings
1		Luke Littler	£3,125,500
2		Luke Humphries	£1,015,500
3		Gian van Veen	£1,005,250
4		Gerwyn Price	£722,500
5		Jonny Clayton	£682,500
6		James Wade	£647,250
7		Michael van Gerwen	£641,000
8		Josh Rock	£626,000
9		Stephen Bunting	£614,250
10		Gary Anderson	£611,750
11		Danny Noppert	£601,750
12		Ryan Searle	£585,750
13		Wessel Nijman	£575,250
14		Chris Dobey	£559,250
15	2	Ross Smith	£555,750
16	1	Nathan Aspinall	£545,000
17	1	Jermaine Wattimena	£527,250
18		Luke Woodhouse	£497,500
19		Martin Schindler	£441,750
20		Krzysztof Ratajski	£433,000
21		Dirk van Duijvenbode	£430,750
22		Rob Cross	£430,000
23		Damon Heta	£414,750
24		Mike De Decker	£413,500
25		Ryan Joyce	£397,000
26		Cameron Menzies	£367,250
27		Andrew Gilding	£362,250
28		Kevin Doets	£356,500
29		Dave Chisnall	£355,000
30		Daryl Gurney	£340,500
31		Joe Cullen	£305,000
32		Ritchie Edhouse	£298,500
*Change since 26 August 2026.

PDC World Rankings as of 30 August 2026.

Players ranked 33–64
Rank	Change	Player	Earnings
33		Ricardo Pietreczko	£278,000
34	2	William O'Connor	£255,000
35		Michael Smith	£254,000
36	3	Peter Wright	£252,000
37	1	Niels Zonneveld	£251,500
38		Niko Springer	£221,750
39		Martin Lukeman	£207,250
40		Raymond van Barneveld	£202,000
41		Callan Rydz	£199,750
42	1	Justin Hood	£193,250
43	1	Mickey Mansell	£191,750
44		Madars Razma	£191,250
45	1	Connor Scutt	£181,500
45		Gabriel Clemens	£181,500
47		Dimitri Van den Bergh	£179,000
48		Jeffrey de Graaf	£175,750
49		James Hurrell	£174,750
50		Scott Williams	£168,500
51		Kim Huybrechts	£167,500
52		Brendan Dolan	£166,750
53		Ricky Evans	£164,000
54		Mensur Suljović	£154,250
55		Ian White	£154,000
56	3	Keane Barry	£149,750
57	1	Karel Sedláček	£147,500
58	1	Sebastian Białecki	£147,000
59	1	Richard Veenstra	£145,750
60		Alan Soutar	£134,500
61		Robert Owen	£126,500
62		Ryan Meikle	£123,250
63	1	Lukas Wenig	£121,000
64	1	Nick Kenny	£117,000
*Change since 26 August 2026.

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PDC World Rankings as of 30 August 2026.

Players ranked 65th or lower
Rank	Change	Player	Earnings
65		Bradley Brooks	£114,750
66		Thibault Tricole	£111,750
67		Max Hopp	£111,000
68		Mario Vandenbogaerde	£109,500
69		Cam Crabtree	£102,500
70		Wesley Plaisier	£96,750
71	1	Cristo Reyes	£80,000
71	1	Maik Kuivenhoven	£80,000
71		Adam Lipscombe	£80,000
74		Tom Bissell	£68,750
75		Darryl Pilgrim	£68,250
76		Cor Dekker	£65,750
77		Beau Greaves	£64,500
78		Dominik Grüllich	£62,250
79		Christian Kist	£60,500
80		Andy Boulton	£56,000
81		Tom Sykes	£55,750
82		Jim Long	£50,500
83		Charlie Manby	£45,250
84		Joe Hunt	£42,750
85		Oskar Lukasiak	£42,000
86		Thomas Lovely	£40,500
87		Leon Weber	£40,000
88		Jimmy van Schie	£39,500
89		Darius Labanauskas	£37,500
90		Tavis Dudeney	£37,250
91		Marvin van Velzen	£36,500
92		Viktor Tingström	£35,750
93		Shane McGuirk	£35,500
94		Alexander Merkx	£33,500
95		Henry Coates	£32,000
96		David Sharp	£31,250
97		Greg Ritchie	£31,000
98		Adam Paxton	£30,750
99		Kai Gotthardt	£29,750
100		Mervyn King	£29,000
101		Adam Warner	£28,750
102		Owen Bates	£28,500
103		Adam Gawlas	£27,750
104		Dennie Olde Kalter	£27,500
105		Jurjen van der Velde	£27,250
106		Martijn Dragt	£26,250
107		Jeffrey Sparidaans	£25,750
108		Jeffrey de Zwaan	£25,500
109		Benjamin Pratnemer	£24,500
110		Tommy Morris	£24,250
111		Tyler Thorpe	£22,750
111		Niall Culleton	£22,750
113		Scott Waites	£22,500
114		Chris Landman	£22,000
115		Jack Tweddell	£21,750
116		Sietse Lap	£21,250
117		Stephen Burton	£20,500
118		Arno Merk	£20,250
119		Tommy Lishman	£20,000
120	3	Adam Leek	£19,250
121	1	Derek Coulson	£19,000
122	1	Maximilian Czerwinski	£18,750
123	1	Rhys Griffin	£18,000
124		Stephen Rosney	£15,750
125		Stefaan Henderyck	£15,500
126		Tytus Kanik	£15,000
127		Harry Ward	£14,250
128	7	Samuel Price	£14,000
128		Stefan Bellmont	£14,000
130	1	Steve Lennon	£13,750
131	1	Carl Sneyd	£13,500
132	1	Nathan Potter	£13,000
133	1	Daniel Ayres	£12,750
134	1	Yorick Hofkens	£12,500
135	1	Pascal Rupprecht	£12,250
136		Rusty-Jake Rodriguez	£10,000
137		Marvin Kraft	£9,500
137		Paul Krohne	£9,500
139		Boris Krčmar	£8,500
140		Daniel Klose	£8,250
141		Andy Baetens	£8,000
142		Lewis Pride	£7,750
143		Michael Unterbuchner	£7,500
144		Jan Schmidt	£7,000
144		Patrik Kovács	£7,000
146		Pero Ljubić	£6,500
147		Christopher Wickenden	£6,250
148	15	Nándor Major	£5,500
148	15	Jonas Masalin	£5,500
148		Dragutin Horvat	£5,500
148		Marcel Hausotter	£5,500
152	2	Jack Aldridge	£5,250
153	2	Oliver Mitchell	£4,250
154	2	Johan Engström	£4,000
154	2	Finn Behrens	£4,000
154	2	Callum Goffin	£4,000
154	2	Anton Östlund	£4,000
158	2	Aden Kirk	£3,750
158	2	Filip Bereza	£3,750
158	2	Scott Campbell	£3,750
161		László Kádár	£3,500
161	2	Valters Melderis	£3,500
163	3	Patrik Williams	£3,000
164	3	Ted Evetts	£2,500
164	3	Graham Hall	£2,500
166		András Borbély	£2,000
166		David Pisek	£2,000
166		Milán Biró	£2,000
166	3	Jaimy van de Weerd	£2,000
166	3	Michal Šmejda	£2,000
166	3	Mio Varila	£2,000
166	3	Adrian Dudek	£2,000
166	3	Gabriel Varaljay	£2,000
166	3	Jan Sliacky	£2,000
166	3	Juraj Holub	£2,000
166	3	Péter Kelemen	£2,000
166	3	Jason Riedtke	£2,000
166	3	Teemu Harju	£2,000
166	3	György Jehirszki	£2,000
166	3	Liam Maendl-Lawrance	£2,000
166	3	Aaron Hardy	£2,000
166	3	Nick Zwittnigg	£2,000
166	3	Zoran Lerchbacher	£2,000
166	3	Michael Hurtz	£2,000
166	3	Petr Křivka	£2,000
166	3	Robin Masino	£2,000
166	3	Kevin Troppmann	£2,000
166	3	François Schweyen	£2,000
166	3	Jani Haavisto	£2,000
166	3	Pascal Devroey	£2,000
166	3	Florian Hempel	£2,000
166	3	Florian Preis	£2,000
166	3	Wojciech Bruliński	£2,000
166	3	Sam Spivey	£2,000
166	3	Andreas Harrysson	£2,000
166	3	Dawid Robak	£2,000
166	3	Krzysztof Kciuk	£2,000
166	3	Mirosław Grudziecki	£2,000
166	3	Piotr Maciejczak	£2,000
200	4	Gilbert van der Meijden	£1,250
200	4	Danny Trueman	£1,250
200	4	Matthias Ehlers	£1,250
200	4	Jack Todd	£1,250
200	4	Jamai van den Herik	£1,250
200	4	Oliver King	£1,250
200	4	Ron Meulenkamp	£1,250
200	4	Samuel Whittaker	£1,250
208	4	Danny van Trijp	£750
208	4	Jesús Sálate	£750
*Change since 26 August 2026.

WDF World rankings

The rankings are based on a cumulative points system, calculated on a rolling one-year basis. When a tournament is played, the previous year's results are removed from the rankings and the new tournament scores are used. This list is used to determine seeds for some of the WDF Opens. The World Darts Federation ranking system is designed to provide a measure of the global activities of darts players in every WDF recognized darts event. It used to be very similar to the BDO system but was revised in January 2007 to include categories by country and by events, and the distribution of ranking points reflect the levels of prize money on offer and the numbers of entries in a tournament. Players gain points in six levels of categorized events and prize money and at the end of the season the leading players receive monetary bonus rewards from the WDF.

Current points distribution

Points are currently awarded as follows:

Current rankings

WDF Open World Rankings as of 17 August 2026.

Rank	Change	Player	Points
1		Mitchell Lawrie	988
2	1	Paul Krohne	850
3	1	Jenson Walker	757
4	1	Jeff Smith	597
5	1	Neil Duff	581
6	2	Leonard Gates	511
7		Corné Groeneveld	507
8	2	Jason Brandon	485
9	7	Stefan Schröder	480
10	3	Moreno Blom	473
11		James Beeton	459
12		Ben Robb	418
13	85	Chris Lim	416
14	14	András Borbély	416
15	5	Raymond Smith	412
16	1	Jarno Bottenberg	378
17	2	Daniel Zapata	372
18	20	Kaya Baysal	357
19		Caleb Hope	343
20	11	Alex Spellman	337
21	11	Mursel Yavuz	336
22	2	Ross Montgomery	335
23	11	Marcus Maier	331
24	3	Cliff Prior	327
25	11	Alex Williams	327
26	69	Mark Cleaver	319
27	3	Ethan De Veyra	315
28	3	Darren Johnson	303
29	3	François Schweyen	292
30	6	Thomas Junghans	287
31	2	Franko Giuliani	279
32	5	Kevin Luke	276

WDF Women's World Rankings as of 17 August 2026.

Rank	Change	Player	Points
1		Deta Hedman	1384
2		Lerena Rietbergen	967
3		Priscilla Steenbergen	856
4		Rhian O'Sullivan	819
5		Gemma Hayter	818
6		Kirsi Viinikainen	795
7		Nicole Regnaud	776
8		Irina Armstrong	711
9		Aileen de Graaf	698
10		Maria Carli	650
11		Lorraine Hyde	643
12		Paula Jacklin	619
13		Jitka Císařová	600
14		Paula Murphy	524
15		Eve Watson	517
16		Cali West	500
17		Paige Pauling	496
18		Mayumi Ouchi	489
19		Rachna David	487
20		Anca Zijlstra	465
21		Tracy Feiertag	448
22		Emine Dursun	406
23		Desi Mercer	400
24		Sophie McKinlay	390
25		Lovely-Mae Orbeta	386
26		Aaja Jalbert	385
27		Aurora Fochesato	357
28		Miyu Miyawaki	347
29		Kosuzu Iwao	337
30		Steph Clarke	320
31		Christine Richardson-Clark	315
32		Yukie Sakaguchi	314

Previous World Number Ones (Men's, WDF)

The following is a list of players who ended the year ranked number one in the WDF.

• 1976 Alan Evans
• 1977 John Lowe
• 1978 Leighton Rees
• 1979 John Lowe (2)
• 1980 Eric Bristow
• 1981 Eric Bristow (2)
• 1982 Jocky Wilson
• 1983 Eric Bristow (3)
• 1984 Eric Bristow (4)
• 1985 Eric Bristow (5)
• 1986 John Lowe (3)
• 1987 Bob Anderson
• 1988 John Lowe (4)
• 1989 Bob Anderson (2)
• 1990 Eric Bristow (6)
• 1991 Phil Taylor
• 1992 Rod Harrington
• 1993 Leo Laurens
• 1994 Steve Beaton
• 1995 Richie Burnett
• 1996 Martin Adams
• 1997 Martin Adams (2)
• 1998 Ronnie Baxter
• 1999 Raymond van Barneveld
• 2000 Raymond van Barneveld (2)
• 2001 Mervyn King
• 2002 John Walton
• 2003 Martin Adams (3)
• 2004 Raymond van Barneveld (3)
• 2005 Raymond van Barneveld (4)
• 2006 Martin Adams (4)
• 2007 Gary Anderson
• 2008 Scott Waites
• 2009 Tony O'Shea
• 2010 Martin Adams (5)
• 2011 Scott Waites (2)
• 2012 Stephen Bunting
• 2013 James Wilson
• 2014 Alan Norris
• 2015 Darius Labanauskas
• 2016 Darius Labanauskas (2)
• 2017 Scott Mitchell
• 2018  Jim Williams
• 2019  Nick Kenny
• 2020  Wayne Warren
• 2021  Brian Raman
• 2022  Jelle Klaasen
• 2023  Andy Baetens
• 2024  Jimmy van Schie
• 2025  Jimmy van Schie (2)

BDO rankings

The BDO Invitational Table relates only to registered playing members of the BDO, who comply with BDO and World Darts Federation (WDF) eligibility rules, including terms and conditions of the 1997 Tomlin Order.

The BDO awards points depending on a player's performances within each of its events and other BDO-recognised qualifying events. Forty-nine points are awarded to the champion of each of its three Major Events – The Lakeside World Professional Championship, The Bavaria World Darts Trophy and the Winmau World Masters and A+ events. Lower points are awarded for each round of the tournament reached. Other events are placed into Category A, B, C, and D based on the prize pool and number of payouts, with points for placings slowly decreasing. Only the best 12 placings are added for a player's ranking.

Final rankings

Following a cease in tournaments due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the BDO stopped publishing rankings on 18 March 2020. The BDO having entered liquidation in September of that year, what follows are the final published rankings by the organisation.

Final BDO Men's World Rankings as of 18 March 2020.

Rank	Player	Points
1	Jim Williams	381
2	Wesley Harms	357
3	Wayne Warren	329
4	Nick Kenny	307
5	Michael Warburton	306
6	Richard Veenstra	261
7	Dave Parletti	259
8	Martijn Kleermaker	253
9	David Evans	250
10	Mario Vandenbogaerde	247

BDO Women's World Rankings as of 18 March 2020.

Rank	Player	Points
1	Lisa Ashton	431
2	Beau Greaves	415
3	Fallon Sherrock	406
4	Anastasia Dobromyslova	359
5	Lorraine Winstanley	348
6	Aileen de Graaf	336
7	Mikuru Suzuki	329
8	Deta Hedman	321
9	Laura Turner	307
10	Maria O'Brien	274

External links

• Tables : World Darts Federation
• https://web.archive.org/web/20160125183750/http://www.bdodarts.com/images/bdo-content/rules/gd/BDO_Invitation_Rules.pdf