2026 PDC Pro Tour

2026 PDC Pro Tour

The 2026 PDC Pro Tour is an upcoming series of non-televised darts tournaments organised by the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC). Players Championships and European Tours are the events that make up the Pro Tour. The 2026 calendar consists of 34 Players Championship events and 15 European Tour events, as well as 24 events for each of the PDC's secondary tours—the Challenge Tour, Development Tour and Women's Series.

Prize money

2026 PDC Pro Tour

On 31 March 2025, the PDC announced a mass increase in prize money for PDC Pro Tour tournaments, along with increases for the PDC's secondary tours. The breakdown for each tour is shown below:

Stage	ET	PC	CT/DT	WS
Winner	£35,000	£15,000	£3,000	£2,500
Runner-up	£15,000	£10,000	£2,000	£1,000
Semi-finalists	£10,000	£6,500	£1,000	£750
Quarter-finalists	£8,000	£4,000	£750	£500
Last 16	£5,000	£3,000	£350	£300
Last 32	£3,500	£2,000	£250	£200
Last 48	£2,000	N/A	N/A	N/A
Last 64	N/A	£1,250	£100	£75
Total	£230,000	£150,000	£20,000	£15,000

PDC Tour Card

2026 PDC Pro Tour

128 players are granted PDC Tour Cards, which enables them to participate in all Players Championship events, the UK Open, and qualifiers for all European Tours and select televised events.

Tour Cards

• (64) The top 64 players from the PDC Order of Merit after the 2026 World Championship • (28) Qualifiers from 2025 Q-School not ranked in the top 64 of the PDC Order of Merit following the World Championship • (2) Two highest qualifiers from the 2024 Challenge Tour (Wesley Plaisier and Christian Kist) • (1) The highest qualifier from the 2024 Development Tour (Sebastian Białecki) • Niko Springer, who also earned a Tour Card through the 2024 Development Tour, entered the top 64 in his first year on tour. Therefore, one extra Tour Card was awarded at 2026 Q-School. • (2) Two highest qualifiers from the 2025 Challenge Tour (Stefan Bellmont and Darius Labanauskas) • (2) Two highest qualifiers from the 2025 Development Tour (Beau Greaves and Owen Bates) • (16) The daily finalists from the 2026 Q-Schools.

Afterwards, the playing field was complemented by the highest qualified players from the Q-School Orders of Merit until the maximum number of 128 Tour Card players had been reached.

Q-School

PDC Qualifying School (or Q-School) is split into two different events: UK Q-School for British and Irish players, held at the Arena MK in Milton Keynes, England; and European Q-School for the rest of Europe, held at Wunderland Kalkar in Kalkar, Germany. Non-European players can choose which Q-School to compete in.

• The First Stage, played between 5–7 January, was entered by any darts player who registered to compete. The players who reached the last 16 of each of the three days qualified for the Final Stage alongside other players coming from a First Stage Order of Merit ranking, producing a full list of 128 players for each Final Stage. • The Final Stage, held between 8–11 January, consisted of all players qualified from the First Stage plus the players exempted to the Final Stage; players who were exempted were those who lost their PDC Tour Cards after the 2026 World Championship, and those who finished from third to sixteenth in the 2025 Challenge Tour and Development Tour Orders of Merit who did not have PDC Tour Cards yet. In a change from prior years, players from lower in the First Stage Order of Merit came in after the first day to replace Tour Card winners, with the intent of consistently having a 128-player field at both Q-Schools.

The final two players of each day's play in the Final Stage were given a PDC Tour Card. The remaining Tour Cards were then awarded to players in qualifying positions on the respective UK and European Q-School Orders of Merit. A total of 29 PDC Tour Cards were distributed—13 at UK Q-School and 16 at European Q-School.

8 January	9 January	10 January	11 January
UK Q-School
Rhys Griffin (WAL)  Adam Leek (AUS)	Carl Sneyd (ENG)  Niall Culleton (IRL)	Shane McGuirk (IRL)  Tom Sykes (ENG)	Charlie Manby (ENG)  Samuel Price (ENG)
European Q-School
Arno Merk (GER)  Filip Bereza (POL)	Jeffrey Sparidaans (NED)  Cristo Reyes (ESP)	Matthias Ehlers (GER)  Yorick Hofkens (GER)	Sietse Lap (NED)  Jeffrey de Zwaan (NED)

At the end of the fourth day in the Final Stage, the following players earned Tour Cards through the Orders of Merit:

Players Championships

2026 PDC Pro Tour

The PDC Players Championships (PC) are a series of non-televised darts events that are part of the PDC Pro Tour. The number of events was the same as the previous year, with a total of 34 Players Championship events.

The Players Championship Order of Merit is determined based on the total prize money won by each player in the Players Championship events throughout the year. The top 64 players on this ranking will qualify for the Players Championship Finals.

No.	Date	Venue	Winner	Legs	Runner-up	Ref.
1	Monday 9 February	Halle 39, Hildesheim, Germany	James Wade  (93.69)	8 – 6	Nathan Aspinall (95.26)
2	Tuesday 10 February	Wessel Nijman  (102.78)	8 – 7	Gerwyn Price (107.41)
3	Monday 16 February	Robin Park Leisure Centre, Wigan, England	Chris Dobey  (95.37)	8 – 1	Stephen Bunting (84.92)
4	Tuesday 17 February	Luke Humphries  (104.62)	8 – 6	Wessel Nijman (92.87)
5	Tuesday 24 February	Leicester Arena, England	Ross Smith  (104.24)	8 – 2	Chris Dobey (97.86)
6	Wednesday 25 February	Gerwyn Price  (95.59)	8 – 1	Andrew Gilding (94.67)
7	Monday 30 March	Ryan Searle  (95.65)	8 – 3	Alan Soutar (99.00)
8	Tuesday 31 March	Wessel Nijman  (97.70)	8 – 4	Joe Cullen (98.98)
9	Monday 13 April	Robin Park Leisure Centre, Wigan, England
10	Tuesday 14 April
11	Monday 27 April	Arena MK, Milton Keynes, England
12	Tuesday 28 April
13	Monday 4 May	Halle 39, Hildesheim, Germany
14	Tuesday 5 May
15	Tuesday 12 May	Leicester Arena, England
16	Wednesday 13 May
17	Monday 18 May
18	Tuesday 19 May
19	Tuesday 2 June	Arena MK, Milton Keynes, England
20	Wednesday 3 June
21	Tuesday 16 June	Robin Park Leisure Centre, Wigan, England
22	Wednesday 17 June
23	Monday 6 July	Leicester Arena, England
24	Tuesday 7 July
25	Tuesday 28 July	Halle 39, Hildesheim, Germany
26	Wednesday 29 July
27	Tuesday 25 August	Leicester Arena, England
28	Wednesday 26 August
29	Tuesday 22 September	Maaspoort, Den Bosch, Netherlands
30	Wednesday 23 September
31	Wednesday 28 October
32	Thursday 29 October
33	Wednesday 4 November	Leicester Arena, England
34	Thursday 5 November

European Tour

2026 PDC Pro Tour

The PDC European Tour (ET) is a series of darts events that are part of the PDC Pro Tour. In 2026, the total number of events expanded to fifteen, one more than the previous year. European Tour events in Poland and Slovakia will be held for the first time.

The PDC European Tour Order of Merit is determined based on the total prize money won by each player in the European Tour events throughout the year. The top 32 players on this ranking will qualify for the European Championship.

No.	Date	Event	Location	Winner	Legs	Runner-up	Ref.
1	20–22 February	2026 Poland Darts Open	EXPO Kraków	Luke Littler  (108.06)	8 – 4	Gian van Veen (96.11)
2	13–15 March	2026 European Darts Trophy	Lokhalle, Göttingen	Wessel Nijman  (100.80)	8 – 3	Gerwyn Price (92.38)
3	20–22 March	2026 Belgian Darts Open	Oktoberhallen, Wieze	Luke Humphries  (97.37)	8 – 6	Jonny Clayton (94.16)
4	4–6 April	2026 German Darts Grand Prix	Zenith, Munich
5	17–19 April	2026 European Darts Grand Prix	Glaspalast Sindelfingen
6	8–10 May	2026 Austrian Darts Open	Stadthalle Graz
7	22–24 May	2026 International Darts Open	WT Energiesysteme Arena, Riesa
8	29–31 May	2026 Baltic Sea Darts Open	Wunderino Arena, Kiel
9	19–21 June	2026 Slovak Darts Open	Incheba, Bratislava
10	10–12 July	2026 European Darts Open	Ostermann-Arena, Leverkusen
11	28–30 August	2026 Hungarian Darts Trophy	MVM Dome, Budapest
12	4–6 September	2026 Czech Darts Open	PVA EXPO, Prague
13	11–13 September	2026 Flanders Darts Trophy	Antwerp Expo
14	9–11 October	2026 Swiss Darts Trophy	St. Jakobshalle, Basel
15	16–18 October	2026 Dutch Darts Championship	MECC Maastricht

PDC secondary tours

Challenge Tour

No.	Date	Venue	Winner	Legs	Runner-up	Ref.
1	Friday 16 January	Arena MK, Milton Keynes, England	Tommy Lishman  (99.12)	5 – 2	Tommy Morris (98.52)
2	Joe Hunt  (99.49)	5 – 2	José Justicia (90.20)
3	Saturday 17 January	Joe Hunt  (88.04)	5 – 2	Arron Monk (80.40)
4	Martijn Dragt  (88.23)	5 – 3	Scott Waites (88.38)
5	Sunday 18 January	Jack Tweddell  (85.68)	5 – 1	Steve Lennon (84.06)
6	Friday 27 March	Leicester Arena, England	Derek Coulson  (93.94)	5 – 0	Oliver Mitchell (77.88)
7	Daniel Klose  (87.88)	5 – 3	Callum Goffin (80.89)
8	Saturday 28 March	Ted Evetts  (86.61)	5 – 4	Aden Kirk (84.98)
9	Florian Preis  (86.71)	5 – 4	Aden Kirk (87.85)
10	Sunday 29 March	Nathan Potter  (101.13)	5 – 1	Radek Szagański (83.50)
11	Friday 1 May	Halle 39, Hildesheim, Germany
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13	Saturday 2 May
14
15	Sunday 3 May
16	Friday 14 August	Arena MK, Milton Keynes, England
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18	Saturday 15 August
19
20	Sunday 16 August
21	Saturday 26 September	Robin Park Leisure Centre, Wigan, England
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23	Sunday 27 September
24

Development Tour

No.	Date	Venue	Winner	Legs	Runner-up	Ref.
1	Friday 20 February	Leicester Arena, England	Jurjen van der Velde  (95.35)	5 – 1	Dylan Slevin (86.10)
2	Sebastian Białecki  (90.41)	5 – 3	James Beeton (84.51)
3	Saturday 21 February	Jurjen van der Velde  (97.54)	5 – 3	Charlie Manby (94.96)
4	Jack Drayton  (86.31)	5 – 1	Angelo Balsamo (75.39)
5	Sunday 22 February	Jack Drayton  (90.67)	5 – 3	Cam Crabtree (89.35)
6	Friday 24 April	Arena MK, Milton Keynes, England
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8	Saturday 25 April
9
10	Sunday 26 April
11	Friday 5 June
12
13	Saturday 6 June
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15	Sunday 7 June
16	Friday 31 July	Halle 39, Hildesheim, Germany
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18	Saturday 1 August
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20	Sunday 2 August
21	Saturday 3 October	Robin Park Leisure Centre, Wigan, England
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23	Sunday 4 October
24

Women's Series

<table><thead><tr><th>No.</th><th>Date</th><th>Venue</th><th>Winner</th><th>Legs</th><th>Runner-up</th><th>Ref.</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>1</td><td>Saturday 7 February</td><td>Halle 39, Hildesheim, Germany</td><td>Beau Greaves  (98.43)</td><td>5 – 2</td><td> Lisa Ashton (92.61)</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>2</td><td>Beau Greaves  (89.46)</td><td>5 – 0</td><td> Lisa Ashton (75.48)</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>3</td><td>Sunday 8 February</td><td>Beau Greaves  (86.39)</td><td>5 – 1</td><td> Fallon Sherrock (76.08)</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>4</td><td>Beau Greaves  (100.20)</td><td>5 – 0</td><td> Lisa Ashton (75.92)</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>5</td><td>Saturday 21 March</td><td>Robin Park Leisure Centre, Wigan, England</td><td>Lisa Ashton  (90.32)</td><td>5 – 3</td><td> Fallon Sherrock (88.46)</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>6</td><td>Beau Greaves  (101.55)</td><td>5 – 0</td><td> Gemma Hayter (80.21)</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>7</td><td>Sunday 22 March</td><td>Beau Greaves  (99.16)</td><td>5 – 4</td><td> Fallon Sherrock (95.98)</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>8</td><td>Beau Greaves  (92.60)</td><td>5 – 1</td><td> Rhian O'Sullivan (80.87)</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>9</td><td>Saturday 16 May</td><td>Leicester Arena, England</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>10</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>11</td><td>Sunday 17 May</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>12</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>13</td><td>Saturday 20 June</td><td>Robin Park Leisure Centre, Wigan, England</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>14</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>15</td><td>Sunday 21 June</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>16</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>17</td><td>Saturday 22 August</td><td>Leicester Arena, England</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>18</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>19</td><td>Sunday 23 August</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>20</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>21</td><td>Saturday 10 October</td><td>Robin Park Leisure Centre, Wigan, England</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>22</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>23</td><td>Sunday 11 October</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>24</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr></tbody></table>