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.

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 17 February 2026.^[1]

Players ranked 1 - 32
Rank	Change	Player	Earnings
1		Luke Littler	£2,851,000
2		Luke Humphries	£1,238,000
3		Gian van Veen	£935,250
4		Michael van Gerwen	£700,250
5		Jonny Clayton	£633,500
6	1	Stephen Bunting	£615,750
7	1	Gary Anderson	£597,500
8		James Wade	£582,250
9		Josh Rock	£573,250
10		Danny Noppert	£572,000
11		Gerwyn Price	£563,750
12	1	Ryan Searle	£543,250
13		Chris Dobey	£524,750
14		Nathan Aspinall	£478,250
15		Martin Schindler	£461,500
16		Ross Smith	£458,000
17		Damon Heta	£433,750
18		Jermaine Wattimena	£430,500
19		Mike De Decker	£419,250
20		Rob Cross	£404,250
21		Luke Woodhouse	£397,000
22		Dave Chisnall	£374,000
23		Daryl Gurney	£354,250
24	1	Wessel Nijman	£353,250
25	1	Ryan Joyce	£349,500
26		Dimitri Van den Bergh	£335,000
27		Krzysztof Ratajski	£331,000
28		Ritchie Edhouse	£329,250
29	1	Cameron Menzies	£321,250
30	1	Dirk van Duijvenbode	£320,500
31	2	Andrew Gilding	£302,750
32		Michael Smith	£301,750
*Change since 10 February 2025.

PDC Order of Merit as of 17 February 2026.^[1]

Players ranked 33 - 64
Rank	Change	Player	Earnings
33	2	Peter Wright	£298,750
34		Ricardo Pietreczko	£291,750
35		Joe Cullen	£282,000
36		Raymond van Barneveld	£236,750
37	1	Kevin Doets	£224,250
38	1	Martin Lukeman	£220,500
39		Callan Rydz	£191,750
40		Ricky Evans	£187,750
41	1	Niels Zonneveld	£185,250
42	1	William O'Connor	£184,750
43		Brendan Dolan	£177,000
44		Scott Williams	£175,500
45		Madars Razma	£171,250
46		Gabriel Clemens	£164,000
47		Mickey Mansell	£159,750
48		Connor Scutt	£151,750
49		James Hurrell	£149,500
50		Jeffrey de Graaf	£149,000
51		Justin Hood	£144,000
52		Ian White	£135,250
53	1	Niko Springer	£135,000
54	1	Alan Soutar	£134,250
55		Mensur Suljović	£129,250
56		Ryan Meikle	£125,250
57		Keane Barry	£118,500
58		Richard Veenstra	£116,000
59		Nick Kenny	£114,750
60		Kim Huybrechts	£112,250
61		Thibault Tricole	£107,500
62		Lukas Wenig	£106,500
63		Mario Vandenbogaerde	£95,000
64		Robert Owen	£94,250
*Change since 10 February 2025.

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PDC Order of Merit as of 17 February 2026.^[1]

Players ranked 65th or lower
Rank	Change	Player	Earnings
65		Karel Sedláček	£88,000
66		Bradley Brooks	£83,750
67		Cam Crabtree	£77,250
68		Wesley Plaisier	£73,500
69		Sebastian Białecki	£69,750
70		Max Hopp	£65,750
71		Adam Lipscombe	£58,000
72	1	Cor Dekker	£47,250
73	1	Dominik Grüllich	£47,000
74	3	Darryl Pilgrim	£30,750
75	1	Tavis Dudeney	£29,000
76	2	Andy Boulton	£28,500
77	3	Maik Kuivenhoven	£27,250
78	2	Tom Bissell	£26,750
79	1	Oskar Lukasiak	£24,500
80	2	Jim Long	£22,500
81		Leon Weber	£21,750
82		Thomas Lovely	£21,000
83	4	Christian Kist	£20,750
84	1	Marvin van Velzen	£20,250
85		Viktor Tingström	£18,500
85	3	Dennie Olde Kalter	£18,500
87		Greg Ritchie	£18,000
88		Adam Warner	£16,750
89		Adam Paxton	£15,000
90		Maximilian Czerwinski	£11,250
91	1	Shane McGuirk	£10,500
91		Tytus Kanik	£10,500
93	4	Jack Tweddell	£9,000
94	1	Adam Gawlas	£8,500
94	1	Stefaan Henderyck	£8,500
96		Kai Gotthardt	£8,250
97	1	Jimmy van Schie	£7,500
97	2	Rusty-Jake Rodriguez	£7,500
99	4	Beau Greaves	£7,000
100	3	Joe Hunt	£6,000
101	7	Tom Sykes	£5,750
101	7	Scott Waites	£5,750
103	2	Owen Bates	£5,500
104	5	Carl Sneyd	£5,250
104	1	Charlie Manby	£5,250
104	1	Stephen Burton	£5,250
104	5	Pero Ljubić	£5,250
108	4	Cristo Reyes	£5,000
109	5	Alexander Merkx	£4,500
110	9	Tommy Morris	£4,250
111		Darius Labanauskas	£4,000
112	5	Stefan Bellmont	£3,750
113	2	Rhys Griffin	£3,500
114		Stephen Rosney	£3,250
114		Mervyn King	£3,250
114	2	Jurjen van der Velde	£3,250
117	4	Jeffrey de Zwaan	£3,000
118	4	David Sharp	£2,500
118	4	Niall Culleton	£2,500
118	4	Chris Landman	£2,500
118	4	Samuel Price	£2,500
118	10	Graham Hall	£2,500
123		Arno Merk	£2,000
123		Derek Coulson	£2,000
123	1	Benjamin Pratnemer	£2,000
123	1	Pascal Rupprecht	£2,000
127		Marvin Kraft	£1,250
127		Sietse Lap	£1,250
127		Jeffrey Sparidaans	£1,250
127		Martijn Dragt	£1,250
127		Tyler Thorpe	£1,250
127	13	Filip Bereza	£1,250
133	12	Henry Coates	£1,000
133	12	Patrik Williams	£1,000
135	11	Danny van Trijp	£750
135	11	Jesús Sálate	£750
135	11	Scott Campbell	£750
*Change since 10 February 2025.

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]

Points are currently awarded as follows:^[3]

WDF Open World Rankings as of 9 February 2026.^[4]

Rank	Change	Player	Points
1	3	Jenson Walker	703
2	7	Jason Brandon	674
3	15	Paul Krohne	652
4	2	Leonard Gates	622
5	2	Mitchell Lawrie	591
6	8	Corné Groeneveld	587
7	3	Alex Spellman	557
8	4	Raymond Smith	532
9	3	Neil Duff	517
10	5	James Beeton	467
11	4	Jeff Smith	458
12	1	Matt Clark	442
13	2	Ben Robb	413
14	3	Liam Maendl-Lawrance	397
15	7	Stefan Schröder	392
16	4	Caleb Hope	364
17	2	François Schweyen	352
18	5	Jonny Tata	336
19	14	Cliff Prior	336
20	5	Ross Montgomery	330
21	9	Alex Williams	326
22	7	Vince Tipple	324
23	2	Thomas Junghans	312
24	3	Andy Davidson	311
25	1	Dennis Nilsson	311
26	5	Jim McEwan	310
27	1	Sybren Gijbels	302
28	12	David Pallett	301
29	18	David Fatum	290
30	4	Kevin Luke	289
31	5	Dalibor Šmolík	264
32	7	Marcus Maier	259

WDF Women's World Rankings as of 9 February 2026.^[5]

Rank	Change	Player	Points
1		Deta Hedman	1272
2		Lerena Rietbergen	967
3	1	Lorraine Hyde	856
4	7	Priscilla Steenbergen	856
5		Nicole Regnaud	725
6	1	Kirsi Viinikainen	695
7	2	Tracy Feiertag	680
8	5	Irina Armstrong	676
9	6	Rhian O'Sullivan	662
10	4	Joanne Hadley	660
11	1	Jitka Císařová	651
12	6	Sophie McKinlay	650
13	5	Aileen de Graaf	640
14	2	Paula Murphy	620
15		Paige Pauling	529
16		Eve Watson	487
17	2	Emine Dursun	474
18	2	Maria Carli	450
19	2	Aaja Jalbert	446
20	6	Paula Jacklin	440
21	10	Cali West	427
22	4	Aletta Wajer	423
23	2	Maud Jansson	408
24	15	Rachna David	390
25	3	Gréta Tekauer	387
26	3	Veronika Ihász	377
27	3	Mikuru Suzuki	360
28	3	Anca Zijlstra	352
29	1	Mayumi Ouchi	309
30		Desi Mercer	302
31	2	Taylor-Marsh Kahaki	283
32	3	Yukie Sakaguchi	275

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

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.

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

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