PDC World Darts Championship

PDC World Darts Championship
Association	PDC
First edition	1994
Game mode	Knockout system (set mode)
Title holder	Peter Wright (1st title)
Record winner	Phil Taylor (14 titles)
Record player	Phil Taylor (121 games)
Website	[1]

The PDC World Darts Championship , also known under the sponsor name William Hill World Darts Championship , is one of the world championships in darts which is organized by the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC). It is one of the two World Professional Darts Championships that take place annually.

The PDC World Darts Championship always takes place from December to January at Alexandra Palace in London . The winner receives the Sid Waddell Trophy , which is named after the darts commentator of the same name who died in 2012.

For the first time in 1994 the tournament was held as the WDC World Darts Championship after some players had split off from the British Darts Organization two years earlier .

Englishman Phil Taylor is the record world champion with a total of 14 world titles and 25 participations . The current PDC world champion is the Scot Peter Wright , who won his first title in 2020.

All tournaments at a glance

year	World Champion (Average in the final)	Result	Vice World Champion (Average in the final)	Prize money			sponsor	venue
				total	winner	finalist
1994	Dennis Priestley (94.38)	6-1	Phil Taylor (85.62)	£ 64,000	£ 16,000	£ 8,000	Skol	Circus Tavern , Purfleet
1995	Phil Taylor (94.11)	6–2	Rod Harrington (87.15)	£ 55,000	£ 12,000	£ 6,000	Proton Cars
1996	Phil Taylor (98.52)	6-4	Dennis Priestley (101.48)	£ 62,500	£ 14,000	£ 7,000	Vernon's Pools
1997	Phil Taylor (100.92)	6–3	Dennis Priestley (96.78)	£ 99,500	£ 45,000	£ 10,000	Red band
1998	Phil Taylor (103.98)	6-0	Dennis Priestley (90.75)	£ 72,500	£ 20,000		Skol
1999	Phil Taylor (97.11)	6–2	Peter Manley (93.63)	£ 104,000	£ 30,000	£ 16,000
2000	Phil Taylor (94.42)	7-3	Dennis Priestley (91.80)	£ 111,000	£ 31,000	£ 16,400
2001	Phil Taylor (107.46)	7-0	John Part (92.58)	£ 125,000	£ 33,000	£ 18,000
2002	Phil Taylor (98.47)	7-0	Peter Manley (91.35)	£ 205,000	£ 50,000	£ 25,000
2003	John Part (96.87)	7-6	Phil Taylor (99.98)	£ 237,000			Ladbrokes
2004	Phil Taylor (96.03)	7-6	Kevin Painter (90.48)	£ 257,000
2005	Phil Taylor (96.14)	7-4	Mark Dudbridge (90.66)	£ 300,000	£ 60,000	£ 30,000
2006	Phil Taylor (106.74)	7-0	Peter Manley (91.72)	£ 500,000	£ 100,000	£ 50,000
2007	Raymond van Barneveld (100.93)	7-6	Phil Taylor (100.86)
2008	John Part (92.86)	7-2	Kirk Shepherd (85.10)	£ 589,000				Alexandra Palace , London
2009	Phil Taylor (110.94)	7-1	Raymond van Barneveld (101.18)	£ 724,000	£ 125,000	£ 60,000
2010	Phil Taylor (104.38)	7-3	Simon Whitlock (100.51)	£ 1,000,000	£ 200,000	£ 100,000
2011	Adrian Lewis (99.40)	7-5	Gary Anderson (99.41)
2012	Adrian Lewis (93.06)	7-3	Andy Hamilton (90.83)
2013	Phil Taylor (103.04)	7-4	Michael van Gerwen (100.66)
2014	Michael van Gerwen (100.10)	7-4	Peter Wright (95.71)	£ 1,050,000	£ 250,000
2015	Gary Anderson (97.68)	7-6	Phil Taylor (100.69)	£ 1,250,000		£ 120,000	William Hill
2016	Gary Anderson (99.26)	7-5	Adrian Lewis (100.23)	£ 1,500,000	£ 300,000	£ 150,000
2017	Michael van Gerwen (107.79)	7-3	Gary Anderson (104.93)	£ 1,650,000	£ 350,000	£ 160,000
2018	Rob Cross (107.67)	7-2	Phil Taylor (102.26)	£ 1,800,000	£ 400,000	£ 170,000
2019	Michael van Gerwen (102.21)	7-3	Michael Smith (95.29)	£ 2,500,000	£ 500,000	£ 200,000
2020	Peter Wright (102.79)	7-3	Michael van Gerwen (102.88)

statistics

Participants by country

nation	Participation
	number	after year
Australia	18th	2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
Barbados	3	2005, 2006, 2008
Belgium	12	2004, 2006, 2007, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
Brazil	3	2018, 2019, 2020
China	10	2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
Denmark	8th	2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2016
Germany	15th	2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
England	27	1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
Finland	10	2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
Gibraltar	1	2010
Greece	3	2015, 2016, 2017
Guyana	4th	2004, 2009, 2010, 2011
Hong Kong	7th	2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2018, 2019
India	3	2008, 2019, 2020
Ireland	14th	1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
Jamaica	1	2003
Japan	17th	2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
Canada	25th	1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
Croatia	4th	2011, 2013, 2015, 2018
Latvia	1	2020
Lithuania	2	2019, 2020
Malaysia	4th	2012, 2013, 2014, 2017
New Zealand	15th	2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
Netherlands	21st	2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
Northern Ireland	14th	2004, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
Austria	12	2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
Philippines	11	2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020
Poland	4th	2010, 2018, 2019, 2020
Portugal	3	2012, 2019, 2020
Russia	8th	2009, 2010, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
Scotland	26th	1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
Sweden	6th	2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2017, 2019
Serbia	1	2012
Singapore	10	1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020
Slovenia	2	2010, 2020
Spain	12	2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
South Africa	14th	2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
Thailand	1	2016
Czech Republic	2	2008, 2019
Hungary	1	2009
United States	26th	1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020
Wales	19th	2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020

Finalists

rank	Surname	nation	winner	Second	final	Participation
1	Phil Taylor	England	14th	5	19th	25th
2	Michael van Gerwen	Netherlands	3	2	5	13
3	Gary Anderson	Scotland	2	2	4th	11
4th	Adrian Lewis	England	2	1	3	15th
	John Part	Canada	2	1	3	18th
6th	Dennis Priestley	England	1	4th	5	19th
7th	Raymond van Barneveld	Netherlands	1	1	2	14th
	Peter Wright	Scotland	1	1	2	11
9	Rob Cross	England	1	0	1	3
10	Peter Manley	England	0	3	3	13
11	Mark Dudbridge	England	0	1	1	10
	Andy Hamilton	England	0	1	1	12
	Rod Harrington	England	0	1	1	10
	Kevin Painter	England	0	1	1	17th
	Krik Shepherd	England	0	1	1	4th
	Simon Whitlock	Australia	0	1	1	12
	Michael Smith	England	0	1	1	9

World champion by country

country	player	title	First title	Last title
England	4th	18th	1994	2018
Netherlands	2	4th	2007	2019
Scotland	2	3	2015	2020
Canada	1	2	2003	2008

Nine dart finishes

A nine dart finish was played a total of nine times at a PDC World Championship. This was the first time that the Dutchman Raymond van Barneveld succeeded .

player	Year, round	path	opponent	Result
Raymond van Barneveld	2009 quarterfinals	3 x T20; 3 x T20; T20, T19, D12	Jelle Klaasen	victory
Raymond van Barneveld	2010 , 2nd round	3 x T20; 3 x T20; T20, T19, D12	Brendan Dolan	victory
Adrian Lewis	2011 , final	3 x T20; 3 x T20; T20, T19, D12	Gary Anderson	victory
Dean Winstanley	2013 , 2nd round	3 x T20; 3 x T20; T20, T19, D12	Vincent van der Voort	defeat
Michael van Gerwen	2013 , semi-finals	3 x T20; 2 x T20, T19; 2 x T20, D12	James Wade	victory
Terry Jenkins	2014 , 1st round	3 x T20; 3 x T20; T20, T19, D12	Per Laursen	defeat
Kyle Anderson	2014 , 1st round	3 x T20; 3 x T20; T20, T19, D12	Ian White	defeat
Adrian Lewis	2015 , 3rd round	3 x T20; 3 x T20; T20, T19, D12	Raymond van Barneveld	defeat
Gary Anderson	2016 , semi-finals	3 x T20; 3 x T20; T20, T19, D12	Jelle Klaasen	victory

Averages

Highest averages in a game
Average	player	Year, round	opponent	Result
114.05	Michael van Gerwen	2017 , semi-finals	Raymond van Barneveld	6–2
111.21	Phil Taylor	2002 , 2nd round	Shayne Burgess	6-1
110.94	Phil Taylor	2009 , finals	Raymond van Barneveld	7-1
109.34	Raymond van Barneveld	2017 , semi-finals	Michael van Gerwen	2-6
109.23	Michael van Gerwen	2016 , 2nd round	Darren Webster	4-0
109.00	Phil Taylor	2007 , 2nd round	Mick McGowan	4–1
108.80	Phil Taylor	2009 quarterfinals	Co Stompé	5–0
108.65	Michael van Gerwen	2018 , 2nd round	James Wilson	4-0
108.39	Gary Anderson	2011 , 3rd round	Andy Smith	4-0
108.31	Raymond van Barneveld	2013 , 1st round	Michael Smith	3–0

Highest tournament average (at least 3 games)
Average	player	year	cut off	receipt
106.32	Michael van Gerwen	2017	winner
104.68	Michael van Gerwen	2016	3rd round
104.63	Phil Taylor	2010	winner
104.19	Adrian Lewis	2010	Quarter finals
104.08	Phil Taylor	2009	winner
104.05	Michael van Gerwen	2018	Semifinals
103.45	Gary Anderson	2017	final
103.38	Michael van Gerwen	2019	winner
103.06	Gary Anderson	2011	final
102.83	Phil Taylor	2006	winner

Players with an average of at least 100 points in a game
player	total	Highest Av.	year	round
Phil Taylor	56	111.21	2002	2nd round
Michael van Gerwen	29	114.05	2017	Semifinals
Gary Anderson	20th	108.39	2011	3rd round
Adrian Lewis	15th	106.51	2010	1 round
Raymond van Barneveld	13	109.34	2017	Semifinals
Peter Wright	12	105.86	2020	Quarter finals
Michael Smith	7th	105.22	2019	Semifinals
Rob Cross	6th	107.67	2018	final
Simon Whitlock	6th	105.37	2010	Quarter finals
Dave Chisnall	4th	104.63	2017	Quarter finals
Jelle Klaasen	3	102.54	2016	1 round
Jamie Lewis	2	107.27	2018	2nd round
Dimitri Van den Bergh	3	104.45	2019	2nd round
Terry Jenkins	2	102.64	2012	3rd round
Andy Hamilton	2	102.04	2012	Quarter finals
Daryl Gurney	2	100.51	2018	1 round
Jeffrey de Zwaan	2	106.09	2019 , 2020	2nd round, 3rd round
Cristo Reyes	1	106.07	2017	2nd round
Darren Webster	1	104.64	2017	2nd round
Gerwyn Price	2	104.20	2020	3rd round
Richie Burnett	1	103.38	2001	1 round
Kim Huybrechts	1	103.26	2019	2nd round
Corey Cadby	1	102.48	2017	Preliminary round
Co Stompé	1	102.42	2010	3rd round
Stephen Bunting	1	102.34	2015	3rd round
Benito van de Pas	1	102.30	2017	3rd round
Mick McGowan	1	101.82	2007	2nd round
Ryan Searle	1	101.54	2020	2nd round
Robert Thornton	1	101.49	2015	Quarter finals
Dennis Priestley	1	101.48	1996	final
Vincent van der Voort	1	101.17	2018	2nd round
Chris Dobey	2	101.09	2020	3rd round
Joe Cullen	1	100.88	2017	1 round
Ian White	1	100.33	2020	2nd round
Nathan Aspinall	1	100.53	2019	Semifinals
Christian Kist	1	100.23	2018	1 round

Other records

• Most games won: 110 games by Phil Taylor
• Longest winning streak: 44 games Phil Taylor (1995–2003)
• Most 180s at a world championship in total: 880 (2018)
• Most 180s in a World Championship by one player: 71 Gary Anderson (2018)
• Most 180s in one game by one player: 22 Gary Anderson (2017 final)
• Most 180s in one game: 42 Gary Anderson and Michael van Gerwen (final 2017)
• Most 170 finishes in a world championship: 8 (2020)
• Most participations: 25 Phil Taylor
• Youngest player in a World Cup: Mitchell Clegg (16 years and 37 days)
• Youngest finalist: Kirk Shepherd (21 years and 88 days)
• Oldest player in a World Cup: Paul Lim (65 years, 223 days)

Women's World Championship

In 2010 the only PDC Women's World Darts Championship was held. It was won by Stacy Bromberg , who is the only title holder of this tournament to this day.

Web link

• Tournament statistics on www.dartsdatabase.co.uk (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Each player's average score is based on the average for each 3-dart visit to the board (ie total points scored divided by darts thrown and multiplied by 3)
2. ↑ dartsdatabase.co.uk ; best winning averages
3. ↑ 2017 PDC World Championship Tournament averages . Darts Database. Retrieved November 24, 2018.
4. ↑ 2016 PDC World Championship tournament averages . Darts Database. Retrieved November 24, 2018.
5. ↑ ^{a b} 2010 PDC World Championship tournament averages . Retrieved November 24, 2018.
6. ↑ 2009 PDC World Championship tournament averages . Darts Database. Retrieved November 24, 2018.
7. ↑ 2018 PDC World Championship tournament averages . Darts Database. Retrieved November 24, 2018.
8. ↑ 2017 PDC World Championship tournament averages . Darts Database. Retrieved November 24, 2018.
9. ↑ 2019 PDC World Championship tournament averages . Darts Database. Retrieved January 16, 2019.
10. ↑ 2011 PDC World Championship tournament averages . Darts Database. Retrieved November 24, 2018.
11. ↑ 2006 PDC World Championship tournament averages . Darts Database. Retrieved November 24, 2018.