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 Order of Merit

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

PDC Order of Merit as of 18 February 2025.[1]
Players ranked 1 - 32
Rank Change Player Earnings
1 Steady  Luke Humphries £1,902,000
2 Steady  Luke Littler £1,141,000
3 Steady  Michael van Gerwen £824,250
4 Steady  Rob Cross £571,250
5 Steady  Stephen Bunting £553,000
6 Steady  Jonny Clayton £541,250
7 Steady  Dave Chisnall £531,750
8 Increase 2  Chris Dobey £509,000
9 Decrease 1  Gerwyn Price £507,500
10 Decrease 1  Damon Heta £506,500
11 Steady  Nathan Aspinall £487,250
12 Steady  Peter Wright £455,250
13 Decrease 1  Danny Noppert £451,750
14 Increase 1  James Wade £439,750
15 Decrease 1  Gary Anderson £435,750
16 Steady  Dimitri Van den Bergh £425,500
17 Steady  Josh Rock £413,500
18 Increase 3  Ryan Searle £410,000
19 Decrease 1  Ross Smith £405,000
19 Increase 1  Michael Smith £405,000
21 Decrease 2  Andrew Gilding £401,000
22 Increase 1  Martin Schindler £372,250
23 Decrease 1  Joe Cullen £368,250
24 Steady  Mike De Decker £362,250
25 Steady  Daryl Gurney £333,750
26 Steady  Dirk van Duijvenbode £313,500
27 Steady  Gian van Veen £305,500
28 Steady  Ritchie Edhouse £291,750
29 Steady  Ryan Joyce £284,000
30 Steady  Ricardo Pietreczko £283,250
31 Steady  Krzysztof Ratajski £274,500
32 Steady  Brendan Dolan £271,000
*Change since 11 February 2025.
PDC Order of Merit as of 18 February 2025.[1]
Players ranked 33 - 64
Rank Change Player Earnings
33 Steady  Luke Woodhouse £268,750
34 Steady  Raymond van Barneveld £253,000
35 Steady  Jermaine Wattimena £252,250
36 Steady  Scott Williams £224,250
37 Steady  Gabriel Clemens £215,000
38 Steady  Martin Lukeman £206,750
39 Steady  Cameron Menzies £198,000
40 Steady  Callan Rydz £179,250
41 Steady  Kevin Doets £152,500
42 Steady  Mickey Mansell £151,250
43 Increase 1  Ricky Evans £145,250
44 Decrease 1  Madars Razma £141,750
45 Steady  José de Sousa £140,750
46 Steady  Kim Huybrechts £124,750
47 Increase 1  Niels Zonneveld £123,000
48 Decrease 1  Richard Veenstra £122,750
49 Steady  William O'Connor £122,250
50 Steady  Keane Barry £114,500
51 Steady  Ian White £114,250
52 Increase 2  Wessel Nijman £111,000
52 Steady  Florian Hempel £111,000
54 Decrease 1  Jim Williams £106,000
55 Steady  Matt Campbell £99,250
56 Steady  Alan Soutar £88,250
57 Increase 7  Nick Kenny £83,250
58 Decrease 1  Ryan Meikle £82,000
59 Steady  Robert Owen £79,250
60 Steady  Mensur Suljović £78,500
60 Increase 2  Connor Scutt £78,500
60 Decrease 2  Dylan Slevin £78,500
63 Decrease 2  Stephen Burton £77,750
64 Decrease 1  Jeffrey de Graaf £76,000
*Change since 11 February 2025.


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PDC Order of Merit as of 18 February 2025.[1]
Players ranked 65th or lower
Rank Change Player Earnings
65 Steady  Thibault Tricole £59,000
66 Steady  James Hurrell £49,750
67 Steady  Dom Taylor £47,000
68 Steady  Chris Landman £39,250
69 Steady  Mario Vandenbogaerde £31,000
70 Steady  Andy Baetens £30,500
71 Steady  Rhys Griffin £30,000
72 Steady  Berry van Peer £25,250
73 Steady  Radek Szagański £24,750
74 Decrease 1  Nathan Rafferty £23,750
75 Steady  Steve Lennon £23,500
76 Increase 15  Jelle Klaasen £21,750
77 Decrease 1  Jitse Van der Wal £21,500
77 Decrease 1  Lukas Wenig £21,500
79 Steady  Patrick Geeraets £21,000
80 Decrease 2  Darren Beveridge £20,250
81 Decrease 2  Matthew Dennant £20,000
82 Increase 4  Owen Bates £18,750
82 Decrease 1  Danny Lauby £18,750
84 Decrease 1  William Borland £18,500
85 Decrease 3  Benjamin Reus £18,000
86 Decrease 2  Adam Hunt £17,750
87 Increase 1  George Killington £17,500
88 Decrease 3  Robert Grundy £16,500
89 Decrease 1  Brett Claydon £15,500
90 Decrease 3  Haupai Puha £15,000
91 Decrease 3  Martijn Dragt £14,500
92 Steady  Joshua Richardson £9,250
93 Steady  Michele Turetta £8,000
94 Steady  Tim Wolters £7,500
95 Steady  Bradley Brooks £7,000
96 New entry  Stefan Bellmont £5,000
96 Increase 14  Justin Hood £5,000
96 Increase 1  Darryl Pilgrim £5,000
99 Decrease 2  Darius Labanauskas £4,500
100 Steady  Karel Sedláček £4,250
101 Decrease 2  Cam Crabtree £4,000
101 Decrease 5  Jules van Dongen £4,000
103 Decrease 2  Carl Sneyd £3,500
103 Decrease 2  Kevin Burness £3,500
105 Increase 15  Andy Boulton £3,250
106 Decrease 2  Tavis Dudeney £3,000
107 Increase 13  Aden Kirk £2,750
107 Decrease 1  Thomas Lovely £2,750
109 New entry  Maik Kuivenhoven £2,500
109 New entry  Cor Dekker £2,500
109 Increase 1  Wesley Plaisier £2,500
109 Steady  Niko Springer £2,500
109 Decrease 8  Rusty-Jake Rodriguez £2,500
114 Increase 6  Oskar Lukasiak £2,250
114 Increase 6  Tom Bissell £2,250
116 New entry  Jim Long £2,000
116 Decrease 6  Adam Paxton £2,000
116 Decrease 6  Christian Kist £2,000
116 Decrease 6  Stefaan Henderyck £2,000
116 Decrease 12  Sebastian Białecki £2,000
121 Decrease 15  Adam Lipscombe £1,750
121 Decrease 15  Marvin van Velzen £1,750
123 New entry  Jeffrey Sparidaans £1,500
123 New entry  Maximilian Czerwinski £1,500
123 New entry  Tytus Kanik £1,500
126 New entry  Jarno Bottenberg £1,000
126 New entry  Mervyn King £1,000
126 New entry  Max Hopp £1,000
126 New entry  Michael Flynn £1,000
126 Decrease 16  Beau Greaves £1,000
126 Decrease 16  Tommy Lishman £1,000
126 Decrease 16  Kai Gotthardt £1,000
126 Decrease 16  Leon Weber £1,000
126 Decrease 16  Jimmy van Schie £1,000
135 Decrease 15  Andreas Harrysson £750
135 Decrease 15  Henry Coates £750
135 Decrease 15  Nathan Girvan £750
135 Decrease 15  Pero Ljubić £750
135 Decrease 15  Ryan Branley £750
*Change since 11 February 2025.

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.[2]

Current points distribution

Points are currently awarded as follows:[3]

Current rankings

WDF Men's World Rankings as of 17 February 2025.[4]
Rank Change Player Points
1 Steady  Jimmy van Schie 781
2 Steady  Danny Porter 629
3 Steady  Brandon Weening 542
4 Steady  Peter Machin 511
5 Steady  Ben Robb 455
6 Steady  Brian Raman 413
7 Steady  Benjamin Pratnemer 395
8 Steady  Jason Brandon 394
9 Steady  Thomas Junghans 393
10 Steady  Carl Wilkinson 386
11 Steady  Leonard Gates 358
12 Steady  James Beeton 357
13 Increase 6  Ryan Hogarth 350
14 Decrease 1  Cliff Prior 338
15 Steady  Howard Jones 334
16 Increase 2  Corné Groeneveld 328
17 Decrease 3  Alexander Merkx 328
18 Decrease 2  Neil Duff 314
19 Decrease 2  Reece Colley 309
20 Increase 25  Martyn Turner 305
21 Decrease 1  François Schweyen 293
22 Decrease 1  Edwin Torbjörnsson 292
23 Increase 19  Karl Schaefer 291
24 Decrease 2  Bradley Kirk 285
25 Increase 85  Raymond Smith 283
26 Decrease 3  Xanti van den Bergh 282
27 Decrease 3  Shane McGuirk 279
28 Decrease 1  Jeffrey Sparidaans 270
29 Decrease 1  David Fatum 267
30 Decrease 4  Darren Johnson 266
31 Decrease 6  Kai Fan Leung 266
32 Decrease 3  Liam Maendl-Lawrance 265
WDF Women's World Rankings as of 8 February 2025.[5]
Rank Change Player Points
1 Steady  Beau Greaves 1453
2 Steady  Rhian O'Sullivan 1016
3 Steady  Lerena Rietbergen 898
4 Increase 1  Nicole Regnaud 700
5 Increase 2  Lorraine Hyde 688
6 Steady  Deta Hedman 686
7 Decrease 3  Aileen de Graaf 625
8 Increase 1  Irina Armstrong 525
9 Increase 1  Joanne Hadley 523
10 Decrease 2  Jitka Císařová 510
11 Increase 1  Wendy Harper 499
12 Decrease 1  Desi Mercer 495
13 Steady  Sophie McKinlay 479
14 Increase 2  Paige Pauling 468
15 Decrease 1  Anca Zijlstra 468
16 Decrease 1  Gréta Tekauer 436
17 Steady  Amanda Loch 427
18 Increase 4  Aletta Wajer 406
19 Decrease 1  Kym Mitchell 397
20 Decrease 1  Priscilla Steenbergen 393
21 Steady  Paula Jacklin 389
22 Increase 1  Tracy Feiertag 377
23 Decrease 3  Kirsty Hutchinson 365
24 Steady  Vicky Pruim 348
25 Steady  Paula Murphy 330
26 Increase 1  Maud Jansson 305
27 Increase 1  Kirsi Viinikainen 294
28 Increase 1  Adriana van Wijgerden 278
29 Increase 3  Veronika Ihász 269
30 Decrease 4  Natalie Gilbert 260
31 Steady  Lisa Ashton 249
32 Increase 1  Eleanor Cairns 238

Previous World Number Ones (Men's, WDF)

The following is a list of players who ended the year ranked number one in the WDF.[6]

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.[15] 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.[16]
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.[17]
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

Notes and references

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i "PDC Order of Merit". PDPA. 18 February 2025. Retrieved 18 February 2025.
  2. ^ "WDF World Rankings Systems: 2013 Monetary Awards". WDF. 4 January 2014. Retrieved 12 January 2014.
  3. ^ "WDF Rules". WDF. Retrieved 22 October 2020.
  4. ^ "WDF Men's Rankings Table". WDF. 17 February 2025. Retrieved 17 February 2025.
  5. ^ "WDF Women's Rankings Table". WDF. 8 February 2025. Retrieved 8 February 2025.
  6. ^ WDF Roll of Honour (previous world number ones) Archived 10 July 2010 at the Wayback Machine
  7. ^ "WDF Monetary Awards: Wolfie & Deta top the 2010 rankings : World Darts Federation". Dartswdf.com. 22 December 2010. Retrieved 24 December 2015.
  8. ^ "WDF Monetary Awards: Scott & Deta Top The 2011 Rankings : World Darts Federation". Dartswdf.com. 22 December 2011. Retrieved 24 December 2015.
  9. ^ "WDF Awards 2012 : World Darts Federation". Dartswdf.com. 10 January 2013. Retrieved 24 December 2015.
  10. ^ "WDF World Rankings Systems: 2013 Monetary Awards : World Darts Federation". Dartswdf.com. 4 January 2014. Retrieved 24 December 2015.
  11. ^ "WDF World Rankings Systems: 2014 Monetary Awards : World Darts Federation". Dartswdf.com. 7 January 2015. Retrieved 24 December 2015.
  12. ^ "WDF World Rankings Systems: 2015 Monetary Awards". Dartswdf.com. 13 December 2015. Retrieved 3 January 2018.
  13. ^ "WDF World Rankings Systems 2016 – Monetary Awards". Dartswdf.com. 17 December 2016. Retrieved 3 January 2018.
  14. ^ "WDF World Rankings Systems 2017 – Monetary Awards". Dartswdf.com. 24 December 2016. Retrieved 3 January 2018.
  15. ^ "Handbook and BDO documentation: Section J – Invitation Tables Men's 2013/14" (PDF). BDO. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 January 2014. Retrieved 12 January 2014.
  16. ^ "BDO Men's Rankings Table". BDO. 18 March 2020. Retrieved 18 March 2020.
  17. ^ "BDO Women's Rankings Table". BDO. 18 March 2020. Retrieved 18 March 2020.
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