PDC World Rankings

The PDC World Rankings or PDC Order of Merit, known for sponsorship purposes as the Werner Rankings Ladder,[1] 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.[2] The format has been used since the 2007 PDC World Darts Championship, superseding the original PDC World Ranking system established in 1993, where points were awarded for performances in tournaments according to their relative prestige.[3][4] Upon the introduction of the rankings, the first player to hold the number one rank was Alan Warriner.[5] Since 1993, thirteen other players have held the top spot, including Luke Littler, the current world number one.[6] Alongside the main ranking, the PDC also operates several secondary rankings 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.[4] 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.[4] 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.[4] 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,[7] though if they fail to reach the top 64 at the end of the year, their ranking money is reset to £0.[4] If two players are tied and need separating for seeding or event qualification, the tie is broken by the 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.[4]

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.[4]

Prize money awarded towards 2026 PDC Order of Merit in ranking tournaments (£1000s)[4]
Tournament Total Winner Finalist Top 4 Top 8 Top 16 Top 32 Top 48 Top 64 Top 96 Top 128 Prelim. Top 16 Prelim. Top 32 Prelim. Top 64
2026 Prize Money
PDC Premier Events (2026)
World Championship 5,000 1,000 400 200 100 60 35 N/a 25 N/a 15 N/a
World Masters 500 100 50 30 17.5 10 5 N/a 2.5 1 0.75
UK Open 750 120 60 35 20 12.5 7.5 N/a 3 2 1.25 N/a
World Matchplay 1,000 225 125 65 35 22.5 12.5 N/a N/a
World Grand Prix 750 150 80 50 35 20 7.5 N/a
European Championship 750 150 80 50 35 20 7.5 N/a
Grand Slam of Darts[A] 1,000 200 100 60 35 20 N/a 5[B] N/a
Players Championship Finals 750 130 70 40 27.5 15 7 N/a 4 N/a
PDC Pro Tour
15 European Tours 230 35 15 10 8 5 3.5[C] 2 N/a N/a
34 Players Championships 150 15 10 6.5 4 3 2 N/a 1.25 N/a
Total 2026 payouts 19,484 3,110 1,530 1,802 2,244 2,856 3,240 752 2,533 64 1,000 40 16 12
2025 Prize Money
PDC Premier Events (2025)
World Championship 2,500 500 200 100 50 35 25 N/a 15 N/a 7.5 N/a
World Masters 500 100 50 30 12.5 10 5 N/a 2.5 1 0.75
UK Open 600 110 50 30 15 10 5 N/a 2.5 1.5 1 N/a
World Matchplay 800 200 100 50 30 15 10 N/a
World Grand Prix 600 120 60 40 25 15 7.5 N/a
European Championship 600 120 60 40 25 15 7.5 N/a
Grand Slam of Darts[A] 650 150 70 50 25 12 5[D] N/a
Players Championship Finals 600 120 60 30 20 10 6.5 N/a 3 N/a
PDC Pro Tour[E]
14 European Tours 175 30 12 8.5 6 4 2.5[C] 1.25 N/a
34 Players Championships 125 15 10 5 3.5 2.5 1.5 N/a 1.0 N/a
Total 2025 payouts 14,625 2,670 1,246 1,401 1,682 2,102 2,448 17.5 2,064 48 992 20 16 24
Prize money from the 2024 season still contributing to the Order of Merit, where differing from 2025 prize money[10][11]
World Championship 2,500 500 200 100 50 35 25 N/a 15 7.5 N/a
  1. 1 2 An additional £3,500 is awarded to the 8 group winners.
  2. ↑ £12,500 and £5,000 are awarded to the second and third place finishers respectively in the group stage, which comprise the top 48.
  3. 1 2 Seeded players at European Tour events automatically qualify to the top 32, and do not receive money toward Order of Merit if they lose at this stage.
  4. ↑ £8,000 and £5,000 are awarded to the third and fourth place finishers respectively in the group stage, which comprise the top 32.
  5. ↑ In 2025, the Pro Tour expanded from 13 European Tour events to 14 and 30 Players Championship events to 34, meaning a total of £675,000 extra prize money was awarded relative to 2024.[8][9]

Rankings

Luke Littler, the current PDC world number one
PDC World Rankings as of 26 August 2026.[12]
Players ranked 1 - 32
Rank Change Player Earnings
1Steady  Luke Littler£3,137,500
2Steady  Luke Humphries£1,015,500
3Steady  Gian van Veen£1,001,250
4Steady  Gerwyn Price£722,500
5Steady  Jonny Clayton£680,000
6Steady  James Wade£649,750
7Steady  Michael van Gerwen£642,000
8Steady  Josh Rock£621,000
9Steady  Stephen Bunting£609,250
10Increase 1  Gary Anderson£596,750
11Decrease 1  Danny Noppert£595,750
12Steady  Ryan Searle£584,750
13Steady  Wessel Nijman£575,250
14Steady  Chris Dobey£555,250
15Increase 1  Nathan Aspinall£535,000
16Increase 1  Jermaine Wattimena£522,250
17Decrease 2  Ross Smith£520,750
18Steady  Luke Woodhouse£497,500
19Steady  Martin Schindler£447,750
20Increase 1  Krzysztof Ratajski£433,500
21Increase 1  Dirk van Duijvenbode£425,250
22Increase 2  Rob Cross£425,000
23Decrease 3  Damon Heta£420,750
24Decrease 1  Mike De Decker£413,500
25Steady  Ryan Joyce£393,500
26Steady  Cameron Menzies£367,250
27Steady  Andrew Gilding£362,750
28Increase 2  Kevin Doets£356,500
29Decrease 1  Dave Chisnall£355,500
30Decrease 1  Daryl Gurney£349,000
31Steady  Joe Cullen£305,500
32Steady  Ritchie Edhouse£297,500
*Change since 29 July 2026.
PDC World Rankings as of 26 August 2026.[12]
Players ranked 33 - 64
Rank Change Player Earnings
33Increase 1  Ricardo Pietreczko£282,000
33Steady  Peter Wright£282,000
35Steady  Michael Smith£254,000
36Increase 1  William O'Connor£251,500
36Steady  Niels Zonneveld£251,500
38Steady  Niko Springer£218,250
39Steady  Martin Lukeman£208,500
40Steady  Raymond van Barneveld£202,000
41Steady  Callan Rydz£197,750
42Steady  Mickey Mansell£194,250
43Increase 1  Justin Hood£193,250
44Decrease 1  Madars Razma£189,250
45Steady  Gabriel Clemens£181,500
46Steady  Connor Scutt£179,500
47Steady  Dimitri Van den Bergh£179,000
48Steady  Jeffrey de Graaf£175,750
49Increase 1  James Hurrell£171,250
50Increase 1  Scott Williams£168,500
51Increase 1  Kim Huybrechts£167,500
52Increase 2  Brendan Dolan£166,750
53Decrease 4  Ricky Evans£164,000
54Decrease 1  Mensur Suljović£156,750
55Steady  Ian White£154,000
56Increase 2  Karel Sedláček£147,500
57Decrease 1  Sebastian Białecki£147,000
58Steady  Richard Veenstra£145,750
59Decrease 3  Keane Barry£144,750
60Steady  Alan Soutar£134,500
61Steady  Robert Owen£129,000
62Steady  Ryan Meikle£123,250
63Steady  Nick Kenny£123,000
64Steady  Lukas Wenig£121,000
*Change since 29 July 2026.
Click "show" to view players ranked outside top 64
PDC World Rankings as of 26 August 2026.[12]
Players ranked 65th or lower
Rank Change Player Earnings
65Increase 3  Bradley Brooks£114,750
66Decrease 1  Thibault Tricole£111,750
67Steady  Max Hopp£111,000
68Decrease 2  Mario Vandenbogaerde£109,500
69Steady  Cam Crabtree£102,500
70Steady  Wesley Plaisier£96,750
71Steady  Adam Lipscombe£80,000
72Increase 1  Cristo Reyes£78,000
72Steady  Maik Kuivenhoven£78,000
74Steady  Tom Bissell£68,750
75Steady  Darryl Pilgrim£68,250
76Steady  Cor Dekker£65,750
77Steady  Beau Greaves£62,500
78Steady  Dominik Grüllich£62,250
79Steady  Christian Kist£60,500
80Steady  Andy Boulton£56,000
81Increase 1  Tom Sykes£52,250
82Decrease 1  Jim Long£50,500
83Steady  Charlie Manby£45,250
84Steady  Joe Hunt£42,750
85Decrease 1  Oskar Lukasiak£42,000
86Increase 1  Thomas Lovely£40,500
87Decrease 1  Leon Weber£40,000
88Steady  Jimmy van Schie£39,500
89Increase 2  Darius Labanauskas£37,500
90Decrease 1  Tavis Dudeney£37,250
91Decrease 1  Marvin van Velzen£36,500
92Steady  Viktor Tingström£35,750
93Steady  Shane McGuirk£35,500
94Steady  Alexander Merkx£33,500
95Steady  Henry Coates£32,000
96Increase 2  David Sharp£31,250
97Increase 5  Greg Ritchie£31,000
98Increase 1  Adam Paxton£30,750
99Decrease 3  Kai Gotthardt£29,750
100Decrease 3  Mervyn King£29,000
101Decrease 1  Adam Warner£28,750
102Increase 5  Owen Bates£28,500
103Steady  Adam Gawlas£27,750
104Decrease 4  Dennie Olde Kalter£27,500
105Decrease 1  Jurjen van der Velde£27,250
106Increase 10  Martijn Dragt£26,250
107Decrease 1  Jeffrey Sparidaans£25,750
108Decrease 3  Jeffrey de Zwaan£25,500
109Decrease 2  Benjamin Pratnemer£24,500
110Decrease 1  Tommy Morris£24,250
111Decrease 1  Tyler Thorpe£22,750
111Decrease 1  Niall Culleton£22,750
113Decrease 1  Scott Waites£22,500
114Decrease 1  Chris Landman£22,000
115Decrease 1  Jack Tweddell£21,750
116Increase 1  Sietse Lap£21,250
117Decrease 3  Stephen Burton£20,500
118Increase 2  Arno Merk£20,250
119Increase 3  Tommy Lishman£20,000
120Steady  Derek Coulson£19,000
121Decrease 3  Maximilian Czerwinski£18,750
122Decrease 3  Rhys Griffin£18,000
123Steady  Adam Leek£17,250
124Steady  Stephen Rosney£15,750
125Increase 1  Stefaan Henderyck£15,500
126Decrease 1  Tytus Kanik£15,000
127Increase 1  Harry Ward£14,250
128Increase 2  Stefan Bellmont£14,000
129Decrease 2  Steve Lennon£13,750
130Increase 4  Carl Sneyd£13,500
131Decrease 3  Nathan Potter£13,000
132Increase 4  Daniel Ayres£12,750
133Decrease 2  Yorick Hofkens£12,500
134Decrease 2  Pascal Rupprecht£12,250
135Decrease 2  Samuel Price£12,000
136Decrease 1  Rusty-Jake Rodriguez£10,000
137Steady  Marvin Kraft£9,500
137Steady  Paul Krohne£9,500
139Steady  Boris Krčmar£8,500
140Steady  Daniel Klose£8,250
141Steady  Andy Baetens£8,000
142Increase 3  Lewis Pride£7,750
143Decrease 1  Michael Unterbuchner£7,500
144Decrease 1  Jan Schmidt£7,000
144Decrease 1  Patrik Kovács£7,000
146Decrease 1  Pero Ljubić£6,500
147Increase 2  Christopher Wickenden£6,250
148Decrease 1  Dragutin Horvat£5,500
148Decrease 1  Marcel Hausotter£5,500
150Increase 9  Jack Aldridge£5,250
151Decrease 1  Oliver Mitchell£4,250
152Decrease 1  Johan Engström£4,000
152Decrease 1  Finn Behrens£4,000
152Decrease 1  Callum Goffin£4,000
152Decrease 1  Anton Östlund£4,000
156Decrease 1  Aden Kirk£3,750
156Decrease 1  Filip Bereza£3,750
156Decrease 1  Scott Campbell£3,750
159Decrease 1  Valters Melderis£3,500
160Steady  Patrik Williams£3,000
161Steady  Ted Evetts£2,500
161Steady  Graham Hall£2,500
163Steady  Jaimy van de Weerd£2,000
163Steady  Michal Šmejda£2,000
163Steady  Mio Varila£2,000
163Steady  Adrian Dudek£2,000
163Steady  Gabriel Varaljay£2,000
163Steady  Jan Sliacky£2,000
163Steady  Juraj Holub£2,000
163Steady  Péter Kelemen£2,000
163Steady  Jason Riedtke£2,000
163Steady  Nándor Major£2,000
163Steady  Teemu Harju£2,000
163Steady  György Jehirszki£2,000
163Steady  Liam Maendl-Lawrance£2,000
163Steady  Aaron Hardy£2,000
163Steady  Nick Zwittnigg£2,000
163Steady  Zoran Lerchbacher£2,000
163Steady  Michael Hurtz£2,000
163Steady  Petr Křivka£2,000
163Steady  Robin Masino£2,000
163Steady  Kevin Troppmann£2,000
163Steady  François Schweyen£2,000
163Steady  Jani Haavisto£2,000
163Steady  Pascal Devroey£2,000
163Steady  Florian Hempel£2,000
163Steady  Florian Preis£2,000
163Steady  Jonas Masalin£2,000
163Steady  Wojciech Bruliński£2,000
163Steady  Sam Spivey£2,000
163Steady  Andreas Harrysson£2,000
163Steady  Dawid Robak£2,000
163Steady  Krzysztof Kciuk£2,000
163Steady  Mirosław Grudziecki£2,000
163Steady  Piotr Maciejczak£2,000
196Steady  Gilbert van der Meijden£1,250
196Steady  Danny Trueman£1,250
196Steady  Matthias Ehlers£1,250
196Steady  Jack Todd£1,250
196Steady  Jamai van den Herik£1,250
196Steady  Oliver King£1,250
196Steady  Ron Meulenkamp£1,250
196Steady  Samuel Whittaker£1,250
204Steady  Danny van Trijp£750
204Steady  Jesús Sálate£750
*Change since 29 July 2026.

Other PDC rankings

In addition to the main two-year ranking, the PDC also operates three rankings for subsets of the PDC Tour and four rankings 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.[13]
  • 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.[14]
  • 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.[15]
  • World Series Order of Merit, which counts points earned in a calendar year in the world series. The top 8 on this ranking are seeded for the World Series of Darts Finals.
  • 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.[16] The Challenge Tour Order of Merit also acts as a reserve list for Pro Tour events.[4]
  • 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.[17]
  • 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.[4] Top ranked players at the end of the year may qualify for televised tournaments, depending on their rank.[18]
  • 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 which the top 8 players are invited.[4]
Qualification and seedings to PDC events via PDC Orders of Merit[4]
Tournament Qualifiers (seeds)
By Order of Merit Other
Main PT ET PC WS CT DT WO
Ranked televised events
World Championship 40 (32) 40 N/a 3 3 3 39
World Masters 24 (16)[a] N/a [b] [b] [b] 8[c]
UK Open TCH N/a 8 8 N/a 16
World Matchplay 16 (16) 16 N/a
World Grand Prix 16 (16) 16 N/a
European Championship N/a 32 (32) N/a
Grand Slam of Darts 0 (8) N/a 1 1 1 21
Players Championship Finals N/a 64 (64) N/a
PDC Pro Tour
European Tour events 16 (16) 16 N/a 16
Players Championship events TCH 0 (32) N/a
Non-ranked televised events
Premier League Darts 4 N/a 4
World Series of Darts Finals N/a 8 (8) N/a 24
World Cup of Darts [d] N/a [d]
Tour Cards 64 N/a 2 2 N/a 60[e]
  1. ↑ 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]
  2. 1 2 3 The top 8 eligible players from the Secondary Tours holders enter at the preliminary round group stage
  3. ↑ The 8 qualifiers from the preliminary round.
  4. 1 2 Customarily, up to 2 Tour Card Holders are invited where possible from each nation, with priority for selection given to the highest-ranked players in the main Order of Merit. However, on some occasions (such as John Henderson's defence of Scotland's 2021 title), a lower-ranked player is invited. Where no Tour Card holders are available for a participating nation, players are invited directly by the PDC or through national qualifiers.[4][20]
  5. ↑ Players who have one year remaining of a two-year Tour Card and players qualifying through Q-school.

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.[21] 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.[22]

PDC World Rankings Points System, 2003[21]
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 [a]
Premier Event 30 24 20 16 12 8 N/a [b][c]
Category One 16 12 10 8 6 4 N/a [d]
Category Two 8 6 4 3 2 1 N/a
Category Three 5 4 3 2 1 N/a
  1. ↑ 2, 4 or 6 points for players who reached the later rounds of qualifying.
  2. ↑ For events with more than 128 players, 4 points.
  3. ↑ 1, 2, or 4 points for players who reached the later rounds of qualifying for the World Matchplay.
  4. ↑ For events with more than 128 players, 2 points.

Previous world number ones

PDC Ranking Leaders Timeline[5][23]

14 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 eight 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.

Notable players not to be ranked world number one in the PDC include: Two-time back-to-back PDC World Champions Adrian Lewis and Gary Anderson, 11-time major title winner James Wade and 2018 world champion Rob Cross.[24]

Player # Years in which player stood Number 1
England Phil Taylor 13
  • 1996
  • 2000
  • 2002
  • 2003
  • 2004
  • 2006
  • 2007
  • 2008
  • 2009
  • 2010
  • 2011
  • 2012
  • 2013
Netherlands Michael van Gerwen 7
  • 2014
  • 2015
  • 2016
  • 2017
  • 2018
  • 2019
  • 2020
England Alan Warriner 6
  • 1993
  • 1994
  • 1997
  • 1998
  • 2001
  • 2002
England Rod Harrington 5
  • 1995
  • 1996
  • 1998
  • 1999
  • 2000
England Colin Lloyd 3
  • 2005
  • 2006
  • 2007
England Dennis Priestley 2
  • 1994
  • 1995
England Peter Manley 2
  • 2000
  • 2001
Wales Gerwyn Price 2
  • 2021
  • 2022
England Luke Humphries 2
  • 2024
  • 2025
England Luke Littler 2
  • 2025
  • 2026
Netherlands Raymond van Barneveld 1 2008
Canada John Part 1 2003
Scotland Peter Wright 1 2022
England 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.
1 Alan Warriner January 1993 Incarnation of the WDC 674 days[A] [5]
2  Dennis Priestley 6 November 1994 1994 Lada UK Masters 155 days [5][25]
3  Rod Harrington 10 April 1995 1995 UK Matchplay 479 days[A] [5][25]
4  Phil Taylor August 1996 31 days[A] [5][25]
Alan Warriner (2) September 1996 699 days[A] [5][25]
 Rod Harrington (2) 1 August 1998 1998 World Matchplay 728 days [5][25]
 Phil Taylor (2) 29 July 2000 2000 World Matchplay 57 days [5][25]
5  Peter Manley 24 September 2000 2000 Windy City Open 399 days [5][25]
Alan Warriner (3) 28 October 2001 2001 World Grand Prix 69 days [5][25]
Alan Warriner (4) and Phil Taylor (3) 5 January 2002 2002 World Championship 28 days [5][25]
Alan Warriner (5) 2 February 2002 2002 Eastbourne Open 88 days[A] [5][25]
 Phil Taylor (4) May 2002 248 days[A] [5][25]
6  John Part 4 January 2003 2003 World Championship 203 days [5][25]
 Phil Taylor (5) 26 July 2003 2003 Bobby Bourn Memorial Trophy 582 days [5][25]
7  Colin Lloyd 27 February 2005 2005 West Tyrone Open 469 days [26][25]
 Phil Taylor (6) 11 June 2006 2006 UK Open 7 days [27][28]
 Colin Lloyd (2) 18 June 2006 2006 Players Championship 3 197 days [28][25]
 Phil Taylor (7) 1 January 2007 2007 World Championship 365 days [5][25]
8  Raymond van Barneveld 1 January 2008 2008 World Championship 159 days [29][25]
 Phil Taylor (8) 8 June 2008 2008 UK Open 2,033 days [29][30]
9  Michael van Gerwen 1 January 2014 2014 World Championship 2,559 days [30][31]
10  Gerwyn Price 3 January 2021 2021 World Championship 427 days [31][32]
11  Peter Wright 6 March 2022 2022 UK Open 140 days [32][33]
 Gerwyn Price (2) 24 July 2022 2022 World Matchplay 77 days [33]
 Peter Wright (2) 9 October 2022 2022 World Grand Prix 21 days [34]
 Gerwyn Price (3) 30 October 2022 2022 European Championship 65 days [34][35]
12  Michael Smith 3 January 2023 2023 World Championship 365 days [35]
13  Luke Humphries 3 January 2024 2024 World Championship 683 days [36][37]
14  Luke Littler 16 November 2025 2025 Grand Slam 284 days [6]
  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Uses 1st of month where exact date unknown.
Key
Before January 2007 Used old points system
Current Reigning number one on Order of Merit

Total days at number one

Sources: [23][38]

No. Player Total Days at No 1 Longest Consecutive Run
1Phil Taylor33232033
2Michael van Gerwen25592559
3Alan Warriner-Little1558699
4Rod Harrington1207728
5Luke Humphries683683
6Colin Lloyd666469
7Gerwyn Price569427
8Peter Manley399399
9Michael Smith365365
10Luke Littler284284
11John Part203203
12Peter Wright161140
13Raymond van Barneveld159159
14Dennis 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.

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

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