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2017 BDO World Darts Championship
2017 BDO World Darts Championship (Lakeside World Professional Darts Championship), 40th edition at Frimley Green, 7-15 January 2017; Glen Durrant won his first men's title beating Danny Noppert 7-3, Lisa Ashton took a third women's title, first year on Channel 4.
2017 PDC World Darts Championship
The 2017 PDC World Darts Championship, also the William Hill World Darts Championship, was won by Michael van Gerwen, who beat defending champion Gary Anderson 7-3 in London.
2018 BDO World Darts Championship
2018 BDO World Darts Championship (Lakeside, Frimley Green, January 6-14): 41st BDO world tournament; Glen Durrant beat Mark McGeeney 7-6 to retain the men's title, Lisa Ashton won a fourth women's title.
2018 PDC World Darts Championship
2018 PDC World Darts Championship, the William Hill World Darts Championship, held 14 December 2017 to 1 January 2018 at Alexandra Palace, London. Debutant Rob Cross beat retiring 16-time champion Phil Taylor 7-2 in the final, averaging 107.67.
2018 Premier League Darts
2018 Premier League Darts: PDC invitational league, February 1 to May 17, 2018, ten players, first Berlin night. Michael van Gerwen beat Michael Smith 11-4 (112.37 average) for a fourth title.
2019 PDC World Darts Championship
The 2019 PDC World Darts Championship, the twenty-sixth PDC world title, ran at Alexandra Palace, London, ending with Michael van Gerwen beating Michael Smith 7-3 in the final.
2020 BDO World Darts Championship
2020 BDO World Darts Championship, the 43rd and final BDO world title, held 4–12 January 2020 at the Indigo at the O2, London. Wayne Warren, 57, beat Jim Williams 7–4; Mikuru Suzuki retained the women's title; prize cuts and 15% ticket sales preceded the BDO's collapse.
2020 PDC World Darts Championship
2020 PDC World Darts Championship, held at Alexandra Palace 13 Dec 2019–1 Jan 2020; Peter Wright beat Michael van Gerwen 7-3 in the final for his first world title, £500,000 prize, oldest first-time PDC champion.
2020 Premier League Darts
2020 Premier League Darts: PDC darts league suspended by COVID-19 in March, resumed behind closed doors in Milton Keynes, and won by debutant Glen Durrant, who beat Nathan Aspinall 11-8 in the Coventry play-off final on October 15.
2021 PDC World Darts Championship
The 2021 PDC World Darts Championship (William Hill World Darts Championship) ran 15 December 2020 to 3 January 2021 at Alexandra Palace. Gerwyn Price beat Gary Anderson 7-3 to become the first Welsh champion and world number one.
2021 Premier League Darts
2021 Unibet Premier League Darts, the PDC's seventeenth edition, a delayed ten-player round-robin held behind closed doors at Milton Keynes's Marshall Arena; Jonny Clayton won on debut, with two nine-dart finishes thrown.
2022 International Darts Open
2022 International Darts Open, first of thirteen 2022 PDC European Tour events, held 25-27 February at the SACHSENarena in Riesa, Germany. Gerwyn Price beat Peter Wright 8-4 in the final to stay world number 1; 48 players, £140,000 prize money.
2022 PDC World Darts Championship
The 2022 PDC World Darts Championship was a darts tournament at Alexandra Palace in London, won by Peter Wright, who beat Michael Smith 7-5 for his second world title.
2022 Premier League Darts
2022 Premier League Darts (Cazoo Premier League), 18th PDC Premier League edition, first under the eight-player nightly knockout format. Michael van Gerwen beat Joe Cullen 11-10 in the Berlin play-off final on 13 June 2022.
2022 WDF World Darts Championship
2022 WDF World Darts Championship, inaugural Lakeside WDF world championship, 2–10 April 2022, Frimley Green; Neil Duff and Beau Greaves won the men's and women's titles after postponement from January.
2023 PDC Pro Tour
The 2023 PDC Pro Tour was the Professional Darts Corporation's set of 2023 ranking tournaments: 30 Players Championship events and 13 European Tour events with £5,275,000 in prize money.
2023 PDC World Darts Championship
2023 PDC World Darts Championship (2022/23 Cazoo World Darts Championship): Michael Smith beat Michael van Gerwen 7-4 in the 3 January 2023 final at Alexandra Palace for his first world title, hitting a nine-dart finish in a leg where both players threw for perfection.
2023 Premier League Darts
2023 Premier League Darts: 19th PDC edition, February 2 to May 25, 2023, eight players in nightly knockouts. Michael van Gerwen beat Gerwyn Price 11-5 at The O2 for a record seventh title.
2024 in darts
2024 in darts saw Luke Humphries beat Luke Littler 7-4 for the world title, then win the World Matchplay, while Littler took the Premier League and Grand Slam.
2024 PDC World Darts Championship
2024 PDC World Darts Championship (2023/24 Paddy Power World Darts Championship), held at Alexandra Palace, London, 15 December 2023 to 3 January 2024; Luke Humphries beat 16-year-old debutant Luke Littler 7-4 in the final, a record 4.8m Sky Sports audience, £500,000 top prize, 96 players.
Adrian Lewis
Adrian Lewis, nicknamed Jackpot, English PDC darts player from Stoke-on-Trent; back-to-back world champion 2011 and 2012, first nine-dart finish in a world final, four World Cup titles with Phil Taylor; left the tour in 2023, returning via MODUS Super Series in 2025.
Barry Hearn
Barry Hearn OBE is an English sports promoter and founder of Matchroom Sport (1982), who as PDC and World Snooker chairman commercialized darts and snooker, chaired Leyton Orient, and received an OBE for services to sport.
BDO World Darts Championship
BDO World Darts Championship: the British Darts Organisation's world title, first held 1978, staged at the Lakeside Country Club from 1986, broadcast by the BBC until 2016, and ended by the BDO's September 2020 collapse, succeeded by the WDF World Championship.
Beau Greaves
Beau Greaves, 'Beau 'n' Arrow', is an English darts player from Doncaster, a three-time WDF women's world champion and the first woman to win a PDC ranking title.
British Darts Organisation
British Darts Organisation (BDO), founded 7 January 1973 by Olly Croft, was the UK darts governing body and staged the original World Championship from 1978, mostly at Lakeside Frimley Green, until its 2020 liquidation.
Callan Rydz
Callan Rydz, "The Riot", English PDC darts player born 1998 in Newcastle upon Tyne; three-time Pro Tour winner, two-time World Championship quarter-finalist, first-round record 107.06 average at the 2025 Worlds.
Darts
Darts: precision sport of throwing darts at a 20-segment board, 501 double-out format, oche 2.37 m. Two governing bodies, PDC (professional circuit) and WDF; PDC World Championship at Alexandra Palace, £5m prize fund.
Darts in the Netherlands
Darts in the Netherlands is organized around the Nederlandse Darts Bond (NDB), founded in 1976, with stars Raymond van Barneveld and Michael van Gerwen making it darts' second-strongest nation.
Darts world rankings
Darts world rankings: the PDC Order of Merit (Werner Rankings Ladder), a rolling 104-week prize-money list deciding seedings and qualification for majors; the WDF runs a separate points-based ranking.
Dave Chisnall
Dave Chisnall, nicknamed "Chizzy", is an English professional darts player born in 1980 who plays on the PDC circuit, with 26 non-televised titles and six lost televised finals.