World Professional Darts Championship

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) now organise their own World Championship in January. As a result, there is no longer a unified world champion in the sport.

The BDO have organised their version dating 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, with the World Darts Federation indicating later that year that they would be looking at creating their own version of the World Championship.

The PDC version started in 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 Alexandra Palace, London, for the 2008 World Championship.

Men's winners

Englishman Phil Taylor has won a record sixteen World Championships.
Englishman Eric Bristow has won five World Championships.

By player

The following sortable table lists all winners of both versions of the World Championship (correct as of 4 January 2021).

Player Total BDO PDC
Phil Taylor16214
Raymond van Barneveld541
Eric Bristow55
Martin Adams33
Michael van Gerwen33
John Lowe33
John Part312
Glen Durrant33
Gary Anderson22
Ted Hankey22
Adrian Lewis22
Dennis Priestley211
Scott Waites22
Jocky Wilson22
Bob Anderson11
Steve Beaton11
Stephen Bunting11
Richie Burnett11
Rob Cross11
Tony David11
Keith Deller11
Andy Fordham11
Christian Kist11
Jelle Klaasen11
Scott Mitchell11
Gerwyn Price11
Leighton Rees11
Les Wallace11
John Walton11
Wayne Warren11
Mark Webster11
Peter Wright11

Highest average progression

Average Seed Player Score Opponent Stage Year
97.49 3 Leighton Rees 6–3 Alan Evans QF 1978
99.00 5 John Lowe 2–0 Tony Brown 1st 1984
100.29 unseeded Keith Deller 2–4 John Lowe QF 1985
100.80 unseeded Phil Taylor 5–0 Cliff Lazarenko SF 1990
102.63 1 Dennis Priestley 3–0 Jocky Wilson 1st 1993
103.98 1 Phil Taylor 6–0 Dennis Priestley F 1998
105.03 3 Phil Taylor 3–0 Reg Harding 1st 1999
105.87 2 Phil Taylor 6–0 Alan Warriner QF 2000
107.46 2 Phil Taylor 7–0 John Part F 2001
111.21 2 Phil Taylor 6–1 Shayne Burgess 2nd 2002
114.05 1 Michael van Gerwen 6–2 Raymond van Barneveld SF 2017

Women's winners

By player

The following sortable table lists all winners of both versions of the World Championship (correct as of 11 January 2020).

Player Total BDO PDC
Trina Gulliver1010
Lisa Ashton44
Anastasia Dobromyslova33
Mikuru Suzuki22
Francis Hoenselaar11
Stacy Bromberg11

Youth winners

References

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