Ryan Joyce
English darts player (born 1985)
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Ryan Joyce (born 20 September 1985) is an English professional darts player who competes in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events, where he is ranked world number twenty-six. A professional since 2018, he has won 2 PDC ranking titles and also reached the quarter-finals of the PDC World Championship in 2019. Nicknamed "Relentless", Joyce has made two PDC major semi-finals: in the 2023 Players Championship Finals and 2024 World Grand Prix. He has also reached a PDC European Tour final, finishing as runner-up at the 2025 European Darts Trophy.
| Ryan Joyce | |||||
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Joyce at the 2025 European Championship | |||||
| Personal information | |||||
| Nickname | "Relentless" | ||||
| Born | 20 September 1985[1] Newcastle, England | ||||
| Darts information | |||||
| Playing darts since | 2007 | ||||
| Darts | 21g Mission Signature | ||||
| Laterality | Right-handed | ||||
| Walk-on music | "Tetris" by Doctor Spin | ||||
| Organisation (see split in darts) | |||||
| BDO | 2013–2018 | ||||
| PDC | 2018–present (Tour Card: 2018–present) | ||||
| Current world ranking | (PDC) 26  1 (15 March 2026)[2] | ||||
| WDF major events – best performances | |||||
| World Championship | Last 32: 2017 | ||||
| World Masters | Last 48: 2014 | ||||
| World Trophy | Last 32: 2016 | ||||
| PDC premier events – best performances | |||||
| World Championship | Quarter-final: 2019 | ||||
| World Matchplay | Last 32: 2020, 2024, 2025 | ||||
| World Grand Prix | Semi-final: 2024 | ||||
| UK Open | Last 16: 2025 | ||||
| Grand Slam | Last 16: 2021, 2024 | ||||
| European Championship | Quarter-final: 2025 | ||||
| PC Finals | Semi-final: 2023 | ||||
| Masters | Last 32: 2026 | ||||
| World Series Finals | Quarter-final: 2022 | ||||
| Other tournament wins | |||||
Players Championships (x2)
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Career
BDO
In 2014 he reached the Last 48 of the World Masters. He took part in the 2016 BDO World Trophy, he was knocked out in the first round losing to Jamie Hughes.[3] He qualified for the 2017 BDO World Darts Championship, where he won 3–0 against Dennis Nilsson in the Preliminary round.[3] In the first round, he lost to Martin Adams 3–2 in a sudden death leg, after throwing for the match twice and missing one dart at double 18 to win followed by Adams hitting a 115 checkout to stay in the match, before Joyce himself survived a dart at 5-4 down before hitting a 164 checkout to take the game to the deciding leg.[3]
Outside of the major tournaments he has reached 3 BDO ranked event finals, the first was the 2013 Turkish Open where he lost 5–0 to Martin Phillips,[3] then the Isle of Man Open in 2016, losing 6–4 to Tony O'Shea also the Denmark Masters in 2016 losing 6–4 to Glen Durrant.[3] He has had more success in pairs competitions winning the Turkish open pairs 2013, Welsh open pairs 2015 and losing in the final of the British open pairs 2016 all while partnering Andy Chalmers.[3] He won the Scottish open pairs 2017 title with Kevin McDine. His most recent success came in the BDO Gold cup singles tournament 2017 which he won beating Wayne Warren 6–3 in the final.[3]
PDC
2018
Joyce attended Q-School for the first time in 2018 and earned a two–year PDC Tour Card by finishing 10th on the UK Q-School Order of Merit.
Joyce made his Players Championship Finals debut at the 2018 edition as the 27th seed. He lost to the 38th seed Steve Lennon 6–2 in the first round.[3]
Joyce made his debut at the 2019 PDC World Darts Championship, whitewashing both Anastasia Dobromyslova and Simon Whitlock 3–0, then defeating both Alan Norris and James Wade 4–3 in sets. However, he was beaten in the quarter-finals by the eventual winner Michael van Gerwen 5–1.[3]
2020
In July 2020, at Players Championship 10, the second Players Championship event of the Summer Series, Joyce won his first PDC title, coming back from 7–3 down to defeat Dave Chisnall 8–7 in the final.[4]
2023
On the 2023 PDC Pro Tour, Joyce was the runner-up at Players Championship 16 and Players Championship 24. In October Joyce won his second PDC title, defeating Gerwyn Price 8–7 in the final of Players Championship 26.[3]
In November 2023, Joyce reached a first major televised semi-final at the 2023 Players Championship Finals, losing 11–3 to eventual champion Luke Humphries.[5][6]
2024
On the 2024 PDC Pro Tour, Joyce was the runner-up at Players Championship 9, losing to Michael Smith 8–6 in the final.[7][8]
At the 2024 World Grand Prix Joyce reached the semi-finals, defeating Josh Rock 2–0 in sets, Nathan Aspinall 3–2 in a deciding leg in set 5, and Rob Cross also 3–2, before being whitewashed 5–0 by Luke Humphries.[3]
2025
In March 2025, Joyce reached his first PDC European Tour final at the 2025 European Darts Trophy. He was defeated by Nathan Aspinall 8–4 in legs.[9][10] He made his European Championship debut in October,[11] being eliminated by eventual champion Gian van Veen in the quarter-finals.[12]
Style of play
Personal life
Joyce has admitted suffering from a fear of flying, this impacting on his willingness to attend European Tour events.[15]
World Championship results
BDO
- 2017: First round: (lost to Martin Adams 2–3)
PDC
- 2019: Quarter-finals (lost to Michael van Gerwen 1–5)
- 2020: First round (lost to Jan Dekker 2–3)
- 2021: Second round (lost to Krzysztof Ratajski 0–3)
- 2022: Second round (lost to Mervyn King 2–3)
- 2023: First round (lost to Scott Williams 1–3)
- 2024: Second round (lost to Stephen Bunting 0–3)
- 2025: Fourth round (lost to Luke Littler 3–4)
- 2026: Second round (lost to Krzysztof Ratajski 1–3)
Performance timeline
Source: [3]
BDO
| Tournament | 2014 | 2016 | 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BDO Ranked televised events | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| BDO World Championship | DNP | 1R | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| BDO World Trophy | DNP | 1R | DNP | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Winmau World Masters | 4R | 1R | 3R | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Career statistics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Year-end ranking | 183 | 36 | 104 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
PDC
| Tournament | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PDC Ranked televised events | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| PDC World Championship | DNP | QF | 1R | 2R | 2R | 1R | 2R | 4R | 2R | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| PDC World Masters | Did not qualify | Prel. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| UK Open | DNQ | 4R | 4R | 4R | 4R | 3R | 3R | 6R | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| World Matchplay | DNQ | 1R | DNQ | 1R | 1R | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| World Grand Prix | DNQ | 2R | DNQ | SF | 1R | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| European Championship | Did not qualify | QF | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Grand Slam of Darts | DNQ | RR | 2R | DNQ | 2R | DNQ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Players Championship Finals | 1R | 1R | 1R | 2R | 3R | SF | QF | 2R | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| PDC Non-ranked televised events | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| World Series of Darts Finals | DNQ | QF | DNQ | DNP | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Career statistics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Year-end ranking | 51 | 42 | 44 | 34 | 44 | 37 | 33 | 24 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
PDC European Tour [3]
| Season | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Did not qualify | DDM 2R |
GDT DNQ |
DDO 2R |
EDM 2R |
GDC 2R |
DDC DNQ |
IDO DNQ |
EDT 2R | |||||
| 2019 | Did not qualify | DDM 1R |
DDO 2R |
CDO DNQ |
ADC DNQ |
EDM 1R |
IDO DNQ |
GDT 2R | ||||||
| 2022 | IDO WD |
Did not qualify | EDG 1R |
Did not qualify | GDT 3R | |||||||||
| 2023 | BSD 1R |
EDO 2R |
Did not qualify | EDG WD |
EDM 3R |
GDO DNQ |
HDT DNQ |
GDC 1R | ||||||
| 2024 | BDO 3R |
GDG 3R |
IDO DNP |
EDG DNP |
ADO 1R |
BSD 1R |
DDC 1R |
EDO WD |
GDC 2R |
FDT 3R |
HDT WD |
SDT WD |
CDO WD | |
| 2025 | BDO 1R |
EDT F |
IDO DNQ |
GDG QF |
ADO SF |
EDG 1R |
DDC 2R |
EDO 2R |
BSD WD |
FDT 3R |
CDO 2R |
HDT 2R |
SDT 3R |
GDC 3R |
PDC Players Championships
| Season | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | BAR SF |
BAR QF |
BAR 3R |
BAR 2R |
MIL 3R |
MIL 4R |
BAR 4R |
BAR 4R |
WIG 4R |
WIG 1R |
MIL 4R |
MIL 2R |
WIG 3R |
WIG 1R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 4R |
BAR 3R |
BAR 2R |
DUB 1R |
DUB 1R |
BAR 2R |
BAR 1R | ||||||||||||
| 2019 | WIG 2R |
WIG 3R |
WIG 3R |
WIG 1R |
BAR 3R |
BAR 4R |
WIG 2R |
WIG 3R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 2R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 1R |
BAR QF |
BAR 2R |
BAR 1R |
WIG 1R |
WIG 1R |
BAR QF |
BAR 1R |
HIL 1R |
HIL 3R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 3R |
BAR 3R |
DUB SF |
DUB 1R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 1R | ||||
| 2020 | BAR 1R |
BAR 3R |
WIG 3R |
WIG 1R |
WIG 4R |
WIG 2R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 1R |
MIL 1R |
MIL W |
MIL 1R |
MIL 2R |
MIL 2R |
NIE 1R |
NIE 1R |
NIE 1R |
NIE 1R |
NIE 3R |
COV 1R |
COV 4R |
COV 3R |
COV 1R |
COV QF | |||||||||||
| 2021 | BOL 1R |
BOL 3R |
BOL 2R |
BOL 2R |
MIL QF |
MIL 2R |
MIL 1R |
MIL 3R |
NIE 1R |
NIE 1R |
NIE 2R |
NIE 2R |
MIL 2R |
MIL 2R |
MIL 3R |
MIL 3R |
COV 4R |
COV 1R |
COV SF |
COV 3R |
BAR 3R |
BAR 2R |
BAR 4R |
BAR 3R |
BAR 2R |
BAR 3R |
BAR 3R |
BAR 4R |
BAR 3R |
BAR 2R | ||||
| 2022 | BAR 2R |
BAR 1R |
WIG 1R |
WIG 4R |
BAR 2R |
BAR 2R |
NIE DNP |
BAR 2R |
BAR 3R |
BAR 2R |
BAR 3R |
BAR 2R |
WIG 3R |
WIG SF |
NIE DNP |
BAR 1R |
BAR 3R |
BAR 2R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 2R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 2R |
BAR 3R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 2R |
BAR 2R | ||||||
| 2023 | BAR 1R |
BAR 2R |
BAR 2R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 3R |
BAR 2R |
HIL 1R |
HIL 2R |
WIG 1R |
WIG 1R |
LEI 4R |
LEI 2R |
HIL DNP |
LEI 2R |
LEI F |
HIL 3R |
HIL 3R |
BAR SF |
BAR 2R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 3R |
BAR 4R |
BAR F |
BAR 3R |
BAR W |
BAR 4R |
BAR 2R |
BAR 2R |
BAR 2R | |||||
| 2024 | WIG 2R |
WIG 4R |
LEI 1R |
LEI 2R |
HIL DNP |
LEI 1R |
LEI 2R |
HIL F |
HIL 4R |
HIL DNP |
MIL 1R |
MIL SF |
MIL 1R |
MIL 4R |
MIL 4R |
MIL 2R |
MIL 1R |
WIG 3R |
WIG 1R |
LEI 1R |
LEI 2R |
WIG 2R |
WIG QF |
WIG 3R |
WIG 2R |
WIG QF |
LEI 2R |
LEI 2R | ||||||
| 2025 | WIG 1R |
WIG 1R |
ROS 1R |
ROS 4R |
LEI 1R |
LEI 4R |
HIL 1R |
HIL 2R |
LEI 2R |
LEI 1R |
LEI 2R |
LEI 2R |
ROS DNP |
HIL 4R |
HIL 1R |
LEI 1R |
LEI 1R |
LEI 4R |
LEI 1R |
LEI 3R |
HIL 1R |
HIL QF |
MIL 3R |
MIL 2R |
HIL DNP |
LEI 3R |
LEI 3R |
LEI 4R |
WIG 3R |
WIG 2R |
WIG SF |
WIG 2R | ||
| Performance Table Legend | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| W | Won the tournament | F | Finalist | SF | Semifinalist | QF | Quarterfinalist | #R RR Prel. |
Lost in # round Round-robin Preliminary round |
DQ | Disqualified |
| DNQ | Did not qualify | DNP | Did not participate | WD | Withdrew | NH | Tournament not held | NYF | Not yet founded | ||