World Darts Federation

The WDF stages a world championship (called the WDF World Cup), as well as continental championships such as the WDF Americas Cup, the WDF Asia-Pacific Cup and the WDF Europe Cup. The country that is first in the overall leader board (overall best result in the two events, singles, pairs, teams) becomes the world champion. Winners of any of the events can also call themselves the official World Champion. Winners of continental championships can call themselves the official champion of their own areas.

After the collapse of the British Darts Organisation in September 2020, the WDF announced plans to launch the WDF World Championship and WDF World Masters.^[3] Both competitions took place for the first time in 2022, starting with the 2022 WDF World Darts Championship in April.^[4]

80 national full members :^[5]

The WDF Rankings, as defined by the World Darts Federation, are the "objective merit-based method used for determining qualification for entry and seeding in all of its tournaments for both male and female singles, pairs and team". The rankings tables are "rolling tables", and points from an event are counted until that event occurs the following year. If a particular event does not occur in the following year, points are deleted after a calendar year.^[6]

A player's WDF Ranking is based on the points they have accrued from their best 10 performances over the previous 12 month rolling period.^[7] The eligible tournaments include a selection of Platinum, Gold, Silver, and Bronze level tournaments with decreasing points at each level.

Since the formation of the WDF rankings in 1974 the method used to calculate a player's ranking points has changed several times. Notes: The WDF international tournaments have six categories for both men and women (singles, pairs and teams)

The rankings are based on a cumulative points system similar to ATP rankings in tennis they are done on a rolling one year basis. When a tournament is played, the previous year's results are removed from the rankings. This list is used to determine seeds for some of the WDF Opens. The World Darts Federation also have a ranking system designed to provide a measure of the global activities of darts players in every WDF recognised 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. Therefore, the WDF World Rankings give a better reflection on BDO player world ranking. The leading players gain points in different levels of categorised events and prize money and at the end of the season the leading players receive monetary bonus rewards from the WDF.^[9]

In 2025, in response to a motion put forth by England and seconded by Scotland and Wales, the WDF voted to implement an immediate ban on transgender women from competing as women.^[10] In accordance with the change in policy, the WDF renamed its "Men's" and "Boys'" events to "Open" and "Open Youth" events.^[11]

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WDF Open World Rankings as of 16 March 2026.^[12]

Rank	Change	Player	Points
1		Mitchell Lawrie	756
2	1	Leonard Gates	731
3	1	Jenson Walker	703
4		Paul Krohne	652
5		Jason Brandon	605
6		Corné Groeneveld	587
7		James Beeton	583
8		Alex Spellman	532
9		Neil Duff	517
10	3	Ben Robb	503
11	1	Jeff Smith	458
12	1	Raymond Smith	442
13	1	Matt Clark	434
14		Liam Maendl-Lawrance	397
15		Stefan Schröder	392
16		Caleb Hope	368
17		François Schweyen	352
18	3	Ross Montgomery	347
19		Jonny Tata	336
20		Cliff Prior	336
21	3	Alex Williams	334
22		Thomas Junghans	312
23		Andy Davidson	311
24		Dennis Nilsson	311
25	1	Sybren Gijbels	302
26	4	Vince Tipple	294
27	2	Jim McEwan	291
28		David Fatum	290
29		Kevin Luke	289
30	3	David Pallett	284
31	26	Moreno Blom	266
32		András Borbély	263

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WDF Women's World Rankings as of 16 March 2026.^[13]

Rank	Change	Player	Points
1		Deta Hedman	1272
2		Lerena Rietbergen	967
3		Priscilla Steenbergen	856
4	1	Nicole Regnaud	776
5	1	Lorraine Hyde	771
6	2	Rhian O'Sullivan	728
7	1	Sophie McKinlay	719
8	1	Kirsi Viinikainen	695
9	1	Irina Armstrong	654
10	1	Tracy Feiertag	647
11		Jitka Císařová	645
12		Aileen de Graaf	640
13		Paula Murphy	564
14		Paige Pauling	529
15	1	Joanne Hadley	480
16	1	Emine Dursun	474
17	1	Cali West	470
18	3	Eve Watson	462
19		Maria Carli	450
20		Paula Jacklin	443
21	20	Gemma Hayter	434
22	1	Aaja Jalbert	433
23	1	Aletta Wajer	423
24	1	Maud Jansson	400
25	1	Rachna David	390
26	1	Veronika Ihász	377
27	1	Mikuru Suzuki	360
28	1	Gréta Tekauer	359
29	1	Anca Zijlstra	350
30	1	Desi Mercer	315
31	2	Mayumi Ouchi	309
32	2	Taylor-Marsh Kahaki	298

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Year	Men	Women
1976	Alan Evans	No rankings
1977	John Lowe	No rankings
1978	Leighton Rees	No rankings
1979	John Lowe (2)	No rankings
1980	Eric Bristow	No rankings
1981	Eric Bristow (2)	No rankings
1982	Jocky Wilson	No rankings
1983	Eric Bristow (3)	No rankings
1984	Eric Bristow (4)	Sandy Reitan
1985	Eric Bristow (5)	Lilian Barnett
1986	John Lowe (3)	Linda Batten
1987	Bob Anderson	Maarit Fagerholm
1988	John Lowe (4)	Jayne Kempster
1989	Bob Anderson (2)	Sharon Colclough
1990	Eric Bristow (6)	Sharon Colclough (2)
1991	Phil Taylor	Sharon Colclough (3)
1992	Rod Harrington	Mandy Solomons
1993	Leo Laurens	Mandy Solomons (2)
1994	Steve Beaton	Deta Hedman
1995	Richie Burnett	Deta Hedman (2)
1996	Martin Adams	Deta Hedman (3)
1997	Martin Adams (2)	Deta Hedman (4)
1998	Ronnie Baxter	Francis Hoenselaar
1999	Raymond van Barneveld	Trina Gulliver
2000	Raymond van Barneveld (2)	Trina Gulliver (2)
2001	Mervyn King	Trina Gulliver (3)
2002	John Walton	Trina Gulliver (4)
2003	Martin Adams (3)	Trina Gulliver (5)
2004	Raymond van Barneveld (3)	Trina Gulliver (6)
2005	Raymond van Barneveld (4)	Trina Gulliver (7)
2006	Jelle Klaasen	Trina Gulliver (8)
2007	Gary Anderson	Trina Gulliver (9)
2008	Scott Waites	Francis Hoenselaar (2)
2009	Tony O'Shea	Trina Gulliver (10)
2010	Martin Adams (4)	Deta Hedman (5)
2011	Scott Waites (2)	Deta Hedman (6)
2012	Stephen Bunting	Deta Hedman (7)
2013	James Wilson	Deta Hedman (8)
2014	Alan Norris	Deta Hedman (9)
2015	Darius Labanauskas	Deta Hedman (10)
2016	Darius Labanauskas (2)	Deta Hedman (11)
2017	Scott Mitchell	Aileen de Graaf
2018	Jim Williams	Deta Hedman (12)
2019	Nick Kenny	Aileen de Graaf (2)
2020	Wayne Warren	Deta Hedman (13)
2021	Brian Raman	Deta Hedman (14)
2022	Jelle Klaasen (2)	Beau Greaves
2023	Andy Baetens	Beau Greaves (2)
2024	Jimmy van Schie	Beau Greaves (3)
2025	Jimmy van Schie (2)	Deta Hedman (15)

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The rankings show Deta Hedman and Trina Gulliver as consistently being the leading women's player's, having been number one on a record ten or more occasions each. No male player has held the number one position as many years Gulliver and Hedman, although Eric Bristow has held the top position for a record six times. The rankings for the men has become even more complex since the inception of the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) formerly the World Darts Council (WDC). The leading ranked players in 1993/94 split from the BDO and they have their own world ranking system known as the Order of Merit. The players from the PDC are not included in the rankings because the BDO, the former British governing body of amateur darts, was the one recognised by the WDF.

• WDF World Darts Championship
• BDO World Darts Championship
• PDC World Darts Championship
• World Professional Darts Championship