2024 WDF calendar | |||
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Tournament information | |||
Dates | Yearly | ||
Country | Worldwide | ||
Organisation(s) | WDF | ||
Format | 501 Legs (men's & women's) | ||
Prize fund | Depends on tournament's category | ||
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2024 WDF season of darts comprises every tournament of World Darts Federation. The prize money of the tournaments may vary depending on category.
Two of WDF's most prestigious events to be held in 2024 are due the WDF World Darts Championship (to be held in November–December), [1] and the four WDF Continental Cup's; WDF Africa Cup (April), WDF Europe Cup (September), WDF Americas Cup (October–November) and WDF Asia-Pacific Cup (early November).
2024 is the fourth year in darts under WDF-sole management after the demise of BDO in 2020. [2]
World Darts Federation | Points | ||||||||
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Category | Prize Fund ($) | 1st | 2nd | 3/4 | 5/8 | 9/16 | 17/32 | 33/64 | |
Platinum | It depends on each tournament | 270 | 167 | 103 | 64 | 39 | 26 | 13 | |
Gold | 180 | 111 | 68 | 43 | 26 | 17 | 9 | ||
Silver | 90 | 56 | 34 | 21 | 13 | 9 | |||
Bronze | 45 | 28 | 17 | 11 | 6 |
Date | Tournament | Cat. | Venue | City | Prize money | Men's | Women's | ||||
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winner | score | runner-up | winner | score | runner-up | ||||||
January 20 | Las Vegas Open | Gold | Tuscany Suites and Casino | Paradise | $11,560 | Jacob Taylor | 6–5 | Jeff Smith | Fallon Sherrock | 5–1 | Wendy Reinstadtler |
January 21 | Las Vegas Classic | Silver | $5,980 | Jeff Smith | 5–0 | Robbie Phillips | Fallon Sherrock | 5–2 | Deta Hedman | ||
January 26–27 | Reykjavik International Games | Non-ranked | Bullseye Reykjavík | Reykjavík | n/a | Alexander Veigar Þorvaldsson | 5–3 | Petúr Guðmundsson | Brynja Herborg | 4–0 | Árdís Guðjónsdóttir |
January 27–28 | Romanian Classic | Silver | Radisson Blu Hotel | Bucharest | €8,000 | Jimmy van Schie | 5–4 | Alexander Merkx | Deta Hedman | 5–0 | Lorraine Hyde |
January 28 | Romanian Open | Silver | €8,000 | Alexander Merkx | 5–3 | Patrik Kovács | Deta Hedman | 5–2 | Eve Watson |
Date | Tournament | Cat. | Venue | City | Prize money | Men's | Women's | ||||
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winner | score | runner-up | winner | score | runner-up | ||||||
December 15 | Xmas Classic | Silver | Birkdale Sports Club | Birkdale | AU$7,760 | Robbie King | 5–4 | Michael Cassar | Vanessa James | 5–4 | Janine Cassar |
The players/nations are sorted by:
Total | Nation | Category | ||||||||
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Platinum | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||||||
18 | Australia (AUS) | ● | ●●●●●●●●●●● | ●●●●●● | ||||||
16 | Netherlands (NED) | ●● | ●●●●●●●●● | ●●●●● | ||||||
13 | England (ENG) | ●● | ●●●●●●● | ●●●● | ||||||
10 | New Zealand (NZL) | ● | ●●● | ●●●●●● | ||||||
9 | United States (USA) | ●●●●●● | ●●● | |||||||
6 | Canada (CAN) | ● | ● | ●●●● | ||||||
6 | Sweden (SWE) | ● | ●●●●● | |||||||
5 | Scotland (SCO) | ●●●●● | ||||||||
5 | Belgium (BEL) | ●●● | ●● | |||||||
5 | Slovenia (SLO) | ● | ●●●● | |||||||
3 | Finland (FIN) | ● | ●● | |||||||
3 | Philippines (PHI) | ● | ●● | |||||||
2 | Japan (JPN) | ● | ● | |||||||
2 | Lithuania (LTU) | ● | ● | |||||||
2 | Austria (AUT) | ●● | ||||||||
2 | Faroe Islands (FAR) | ●● | ||||||||
1 | Ireland (IRE) | ● | ||||||||
1 | Denmark (DEN) | ● | ||||||||
1 | Iran (IRI) | ● | ||||||||
1 | Malta (MLT) | ● | ||||||||
1 | Northern Ireland (NIR) | ● | ||||||||
1 | Switzerland (SUI) | ● | ||||||||
1 | Catalonia (CAT) | ● | ||||||||
1 | Hungary (HUN) | ● | ||||||||
1 | India (IND) | ● | ||||||||
1 | Malaysia (MYS) | ● | ||||||||
1 | Romania (ROM) | ● | ||||||||
1 | Singapore (SGP) | ● | ||||||||
1 | Taiwan (TAI) | ● |
Total | Nation | Category | ||||||||
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Platinum | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||||||
25 | England (ENG) | ●●● | ●●● | ●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●● | ● | |||||
14 | New Zealand (NZL) | ● | ●●●●●● | ●●●●●●● | ||||||
13 | Netherlands (NED) | ●●●●●●●●●● | ●●● | |||||||
11 | Australia (AUS) | ● | ●●●●●●● | ●●● | ||||||
9 | United States (USA) | ●●●●●● | ●●● | |||||||
8 | Czech Republic (CZE) | ●●●●●●●● | ||||||||
7 | Hungary (HUN) | ●●●●●●● | ||||||||
3 | Scotland (SCO) | ● | ●● | |||||||
3 | Germany (GER) | ● | ●● | |||||||
3 | Japan (JPN) | ● | ●● | |||||||
3 | Sweden (SWE) | ● | ●● | |||||||
3 | Canada (CAN) | ●●● | ||||||||
2 | Uganda (UGA) | ● | ● | |||||||
2 | Denmark (DEN) | ●● | ||||||||
2 | Italy (ITA) | ●● | ||||||||
1 | Finland (FIN) | ● | ||||||||
1 | Iran (IRI) | ● | ||||||||
1 | Ireland (IRE) | ● | ||||||||
1 | Belgium (BEL) | ● | ||||||||
1 | Greece (GRE) | ● | ||||||||
1 | Malaysia (MYS) | ● | ||||||||
1 | Mongolia (MGL) | ● | ||||||||
1 | Philippines (PHI) | ● | ||||||||
1 | Taiwan (TAI) | ● |
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