World Series of Darts Finals

World Series of Darts Finals
World Series of Darts Finals
Tournament information
Venue	AFAS Live
Location	Amsterdam
Country	Netherlands
Established	2015
Organisation(s)	PDC
Format	Legs
Prize fund	£300,000 (2019)
Month(s) Played	November (2015–19); September (2020); October (2021); September (2022-2023) ; August (2024)
Current champion(s)
	Michael van Gerwen

The World Series of Darts Finals is a non-ranking darts tournament held by the Professional Darts Corporation. It is classed as a PDC premier event. The tournament was held annually in November, but in 2020, it moved to September, and moved to October in 2021. The first three events were held in the Braehead Arena in Glasgow, Scotland, moved to the Multiversum Schwechat, Vienna, Austria for 2018, and moved to the AFAS Live, Amsterdam, Netherlands in 2019. In 2020, it returned to Austria, in the Salzburgarena, Salzburg, before its return to Amsterdam in 2021.

The playing field includes the top eight of the World Series of Darts ranking, and a further 16 players, which are a mix of invited players by the PDC and qualifiers.

History

The World Series of Darts began in 2013. The goal of these series of tournaments is to make darts more popular across the globe.

Two World Series tournaments were held in the first year: the Dubai Duty Free Darts Masters and the Sydney Darts Masters. In 2014, events in Singapore and Perth were added to the series, followed by Japan (Yokohama, then Tokyo in 2016) and Auckland in 2015, Shanghai in 2016, and the USA (Las Vegas) Melbourne and Germany (Düsseldorf) in 2017. Brisbane was added to the roster in 2018, and Gelsenkirchen replaced Düsseldorf for the German Masters. In 2019, the German Masters again moved, this time to Cologne, and the Auckland Masters became the New Zealand Darts Masters, and was relocated to Hamilton.

The best 8 players from the World Series Darts tournaments qualified for the finals tournament, which was inaugurated in 2015. This ranking is formed by the points that the player earns in the World Series tournament.

Stage points

The distribution of the points in each World Series tournament is:

Round	Points
Winner	12
Runner-up	8
Semi-final	5
Quarter-final	3
First round	1

Finals

Year	Winner	Legs	Runner-up	Prize money			Sponsor	Location
Year	Winner	Legs	Runner-up	Total	Champion	Runner-up	Sponsor	Location
2015	Michael van Gerwen (106.60)	11–10	Peter Wright (106.40)	£155,000	£30,000	£15,000	Unibet	Braehead Arena, Glasgow
2016	Michael van Gerwen (101.18)	11–9	Peter Wright (99.63)	£155,000	£30,000	£15,000	Ladbrokes
2017	Michael van Gerwen (103.30)	11–6	Gary Anderson (100.68)	£250,000	£50,000	£25,000	Ladbrokes
2018	James Wade (97.00)	11–10	Michael Smith (99.09)	£250,000	£50,000	£25,000	bwin	Multiversum Schwechat, Vienna
2019	Michael van Gerwen (96.76)	11–2	Danny Noppert (89.37)	£300,000	£70,000	£30,000	Jack's Casino	AFAS Live, Amsterdam
2020	Gerwyn Price (96.21)	11–9	Rob Cross (94.22)				bwin	Salzburgarena, Salzburg
2021	Jonny Clayton (101.63)	11–6	Dimitri Van den Bergh (101.95)				Jack's Casino	AFAS Live, Amsterdam
2022	Gerwyn Price (100.14)	11–10	Dirk van Duijvenbode (97.69)
2023	Michael van Gerwen (96.16)	11–4	Nathan Aspinall (83.57)
2024		–

Statistics

Finalist appearances: As of 18 September 2022.

Rank	Player	Won	Runner-up	Finals	Appearances
1	Michael van Gerwen	5	0	5	9
2	Gerwyn Price	2	0	2	7
3	Jonny Clayton	1	0	1	4
3	James Wade	1	0	1	8
5	Peter Wright	0	2	2	8
6	Gary Anderson	0	1	1	7
	Rob Cross	0	1	1	4
	Danny Noppert	0	1	1	3
	Michael Smith	0	1	1	8
	Dimitri Van den Bergh	0	1	1	7
	Dirk van Duijvenbode	0	1	1	2
	Nathan Aspinall	0	1	1	4

High averages

Ten highest World Series of Darts Finals one-match averages
Average	Player	Year (+ Round)	Opponent	Result
115.62	Mervyn King	2021, First round	James Wade	6–0
112.94	Dave Chisnall	2016, Second round	Kim Huybrechts	6–4
109.82	Jamie Lewis	2018, First round	Dimitri Van den Bergh	6–2
109.71	Michael van Gerwen	2016, Quarter-finals	Simon Whitlock	10–0
108.83	Michael van Gerwen	2017, Quarter-finals	Rob Cross	10–4
108.69	Michael van Gerwen	2016, Semi-finals	Dave Chisnall	11–3
108.10	Peter Wright	2020, Semi-finals	Gerwyn Price	6–11
108.00	Michael van Gerwen	2015, Semi-finals	Adrian Lewis	11–5
107.40	Michael Smith	2022, Second round	Peter Wright	6–4
107.34	Phil Taylor	2016, Semi-finals	Peter Wright	10–11

Five highest World Series of Darts Finals losing averages
Average	Player	Year (+ Round)	Opponent	Result
108.10	Peter Wright	2020, Semi-finals	Gerwyn Price	6–11
107.34	Phil Taylor	2016, Semi-finals	Peter Wright	10–11
106.40	Peter Wright	2015, Final	Michael van Gerwen	10–11
104.10	Phil Taylor	2015, Semi-finals	Peter Wright	9–11
103.59	Kim Huybrechts	2016, Second round	Dave Chisnall	4–6
103.59	Michael van Gerwen	2018, Quarter-finals	Raymond van Barneveld	8–10

Different players with a 100+ match average (Updated 18/09/22)
Player	Total	Highest Av.	Year (+ Round)
Michael van Gerwen	16	109.71	2016, Quarter-Final
Peter Wright	9	108.10	2020, Semi-Final
Dimitri Van den Bergh	6	105.21	2018, Last 32
Gerwyn Price	6	102.48	2020, Quarter-Final
Dave Chisnall	5	112.94	2016, Last 16
Phil Taylor	5	107.34	2016, Quarter-Final
Michael Smith	3	107.40	2022, Last 16
Jonny Clayton	3	104.39	2022, Last 16
Daryl Gurney	3	103.64	2017, Last 16
Kim Huybrechts	3	103.59	2016, Last 16
Gary Anderson	3	103.57	2017, Last 16
Nathan Aspinall	3	103.37	2019, Last 32
Adrian Lewis	2	105.19	2015, Quarter-Final
Raymond van Barneveld	2	103.49	2015, Quarter-Final
Mensur Suljović	2	102.64	2020, Last 32
Glen Durrant	2	102.50	2020, Last 16
Mervyn King	1	115.62	2021, Last 32
Jamie Lewis	1	109.82	2018, Last 32
Krzysztof Ratajski	1	104.19	2019, Last 32
José de Sousa	1	103.86	2021, Last 32
James Wade	1	103.66	2015, Last 16
Kyle Anderson	1	101.35	2018, Last 32
Terry Jenkins	1	100.68	2015, Quarter-Final
Gabriel Clemens	1	100.60	2019, Last 32
Mark Webster	1	100.16	2015, Last 32

References

External links

World Series of Darts official website
World Series Of Darts Finals Winners Archived 2021-04-16 at the Wayback Machine at dartsdatabase.co.uk

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