A 2023 Tour Card is needed to compete in Professional Darts Corporation ProTour tournaments.
In total 128 players are granted Tour Cards, which enables them to participate in all Players Championships and European Tour Qualifiers.
Most Tour Cards are valid for 2 years. The top 64 in the PDC Order of Merit all receive Tour Cards automatically, and those who won a two-year card in 2022 still have a valid card for 2023. The top player from the European and UK branches of the 2022 Challenge Tour and Development Tour received cards automatically. The remaining places were awarded at the 2023 Q-Schools, with the final four days of competition awarding two Tour Cards per day from the UK Q-School and one a day from the European Q-School; with the remaining players being ranked and the top players also receiving Tour Cards. All players who won a card at either Q-School have their Order of Merit ranking reset to zero. [1] [2]
No. | Country | Player | Prize Money [3] | Qualified through |
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1 | England | Michael Smith | £1,243,500 | Top 64 of Order of Merit |
2 | Scotland | Peter Wright | £1,144,500 | Top 64 of Order of Merit |
3 | Netherlands | Michael van Gerwen | £1,050,750 | Top 64 of Order of Merit |
4 | Wales | Gerwyn Price | £726,750 | Top 64 of Order of Merit |
5 | England | Luke Humphries | £526,000 | Top 64 of Order of Merit |
6 | England | Rob Cross | £512,000 | Top 64 of Order of Merit |
7 | Wales | Jonny Clayton | £482,750 | Top 64 of Order of Merit |
8 | Netherlands | Danny Noppert | £449,750 | Top 64 of Order of Merit |
9 | England | Nathan Aspinall | £441,500 | Top 64 of Order of Merit |
10 | England | James Wade | £440,000 | Top 64 of Order of Merit |
11 | Belgium | Dimitri Van den Bergh | £411,750 | Top 64 of Order of Merit |
12 | England | Joe Cullen | £367,750 | Top 64 of Order of Merit |
13 | Netherlands | Dirk van Duijvenbode | £350,250 | Top 64 of Order of Merit |
14 | Portugal | José de Sousa | £340,000 | Top 64 of Order of Merit |
15 | England | Ryan Searle | £327,500 | Top 64 of Order of Merit |
16 | Australia | Damon Heta | £311,250 | Top 64 of Order of Merit |
17 | England | Ross Smith | £304,750 | Top 64 of Order of Merit |
18 | England | Dave Chisnall | £294,000 | Top 64 of Order of Merit |
19 | Germany | Gabriel Clemens | £286,250 | Top 64 of Order of Merit |
20 | Poland | Krzysztof Ratajski | £281,750 | Top 64 of Order of Merit |
21 | England | Chris Dobey | £274,000 | Top 64 of Order of Merit |
22 | Scotland | Gary Anderson | £235,750 | Top 64 of Order of Merit |
23 | England | Callan Rydz | £233,500 | Top 64 of Order of Merit |
24 | England | Stephen Bunting | £232,750 | Top 64 of Order of Merit |
25 | Northern Ireland | Brendan Dolan | £219,750 | Top 64 of Order of Merit |
26 | Northern Ireland | Daryl Gurney | £195,250 | Top 64 of Order of Merit |
27 | Germany | Martin Schindler | £189,250 | Top 64 of Order of Merit |
28 | England | Mervyn King | £174,250 | Top 64 of Order of Merit |
29 | Netherlands | Raymond van Barneveld | £165,750 | Top 64 of Order of Merit |
30 | Netherlands | Vincent van der Voort | £165,750 | Top 64 of Order of Merit |
31 | Belgium | Kim Huybrechts | £163,750 | Top 64 of Order of Merit |
32 | Scotland | Alan Soutar | £161,500 | Top 64 of Order of Merit |
33 | Austria | Mensur Suljović | £157,500 | Top 64 of Order of Merit |
34 | England | Adrian Lewis | £139,750 | Top 64 of Order of Merit |
35 | Latvia | Madars Razma | £138,500 | Top 64 of Order of Merit |
36 | Northern Ireland | Josh Rock | £129,000 | Top 64 of Order of Merit |
37 | Ireland | William O'Connor | £124,000 | Top 64 of Order of Merit |
38 | Australia | Simon Whitlock | £123,500 | Top 64 of Order of Merit |
39 | England | Martin Lukeman | £122,500 | Top 64 of Order of Merit |
40 | Netherlands | Martijn Kleermaker | £119,000 | Top 64 of Order of Merit |
41 | England | Andrew Gilding | £113,500 | Top 64 of Order of Merit |
42 | Ireland | Keane Barry | £110,500 | Top 64 of Order of Merit |
43 | England | Ian White | £106,250 | Top 64 of Order of Merit |
44 | England | Ryan Joyce | £104,250 | Top 64 of Order of Merit |
45 | England | Ryan Meikle | £97,000 | Top 64 of Order of Merit |
46 | England | Ritchie Edhouse | £96,750 | Top 64 of Order of Merit |
47 | Netherlands | Jermaine Wattimena | £96,250 | Top 64 of Order of Merit |
48 | England | Ricky Evans | £95,000 | Top 64 of Order of Merit |
49 | England | Luke Woodhouse | £92,500 | Top 64 of Order of Merit |
50 | Germany | Florian Hempel | £86,000 | Top 64 of Order of Merit |
51 | Austria | Rowby-John Rodriguez | £82,750 | Top 64 of Order of Merit |
52 | Lithuania | Darius Labanauskas | £82,250 | Top 64 of Order of Merit |
53 | Belgium | Mike De Decker | £80,500 | Top 64 of Order of Merit |
54 | Croatia | Boris Krčmar | £80,500 | Top 64 of Order of Merit |
55 | England | Steve Beaton | £80,000 | Top 64 of Order of Merit |
56 | England | Jamie Hughes | £75,000 | Top 64 of Order of Merit |
57 | England | Scott Williams | £73,000 | Top 64 of Order of Merit |
58 | South Africa | Devon Petersen | £69,250 | Top 64 of Order of Merit |
59 | Wales | Jim Williams | £68,250 | Top 64 of Order of Merit |
60 | Wales | Lewy Williams | £67,000 | Top 64 of Order of Merit |
61 | Ireland | Steve Lennon | £65,000 | Top 64 of Order of Merit |
62 | Czech Republic | Adam Gawlas | £64,250 | Top 64 of Order of Merit |
63 | England | Joe Murnan | £57,000 | Top 64 of Order of Merit |
64 | Canada | Jeff Smith | £56,750 | Top 64 of Order of Merit |
65 | Netherlands | Danny Jansen | £48,250 | 2022 Q-School |
66 | Scotland | Cameron Menzies | £47,750 | 2022 Q-School |
67 | Canada | Matt Campbell | £47,750 | 2021 EU Challenge Tour |
68 | Northern Ireland | Nathan Rafferty | £45,750 | 2022 Q-School |
69 | Northern Ireland | Mickey Mansell | £44,250 | 2022 Q-School |
70 | Ireland | John O'Shea | £36,500 | 2022 Q-School |
71 | England | Scott Waites | £26,750 | 2022 Q-School |
72 | Netherlands | Jimmy Hendriks | £26,000 | 2022 Q-School |
73 | Netherlands | Kevin Doets | £24,500 | 2022 Q-School |
74 | Spain | José Justicia | £23,000 | 2022 Q-School |
75 | Germany | Ricardo Pietreczko | £23,000 | 2022 Q-School |
76 | Wales | Richie Burnett | £22,000 | 2022 Q-School |
77 | England | Ted Evetts | £22,000 | 2022 Q-School |
78 | Belgium | Mario Vandenbogaerde | £20,250 | 2022 Q-School |
79 | England | Connor Scutt | £19,500 | 2022 Q-School |
80 | Poland | Krzysztof Kciuk | £18,000 | 2022 Q-School |
81 | Belgium | Brian Raman | £17,500 | 2022 Q-School |
82 | Austria | Rusty-Jake Rodriguez | £17,250 | 2021 EU Development Tour |
83 | Poland | Radek Szagański | £16,500 | 2022 Q-School |
84 | England | George Killington | £15,250 | 2022 Q-School |
85 | England | James Wilson | £15,000 | 2022 Q-School |
86 | England | Shaun Wilkinson | £14,750 | 2022 Q-School |
87 | Netherlands | Luc Peters | £13,000 | 2022 Q-School |
88 | Netherlands | Damian Mol | £12,250 | 2022 Q-School |
89 | Spain | Tony Martinez | £11,250 | 2022 Q-School |
90 | England | Bradley Brooks | £11,250 | 2021 UK Development Tour |
91 | Scotland | Jamie Clark | £11,000 | 2022 Q-School |
92 | Northern Ireland | Kevin Burness | £10,250 | 2022 Q-School |
93 | Scotland | Ross Montgomery | £9,750 | 2022 Q-School |
94 | United States | Jules van Dongen | £8,750 | 2022 Q-School |
95 | England | Nick Fullwell | £7,250 | 2022 Q-School |
96 | England | Darren Webster | £6,500 | 2022 Q-School |
97 | Denmark | Vladimir Andersen | £2,000 | 2022 Q-School |
98 | Wales | Robert Owen | £0 | 2022 Challenge Tour |
99 | Netherlands | Danny van Trijp | £0 | 2022 Challenge Tour |
100 | Netherlands | Geert Nentjes | £0 | 2022 Development Tour |
101 | Netherlands | Jurjen van der Velde | £0 | 2022 Development Tour |
102 | Netherlands | Jeffrey Sparidaans | £0 | 2023 Q-School |
103 | England | Arron Monk | £0 | 2023 Q-School |
104 | Australia | Corey Cadby | £0 | 2023 Q-School |
105 | England | Graham Usher | £0 | 2023 Q-School |
106 | Netherlands | Jeffrey de Zwaan | £0 | 2023 Q-School |
107 | England | Josh Payne | £0 | 2023 Q-School |
108 | Belgium | Robbie Knops | £0 | 2023 Q-School |
109 | England | Adam Smith-Neale | £0 | 2023 Q-School |
110 | Netherlands | Maik Kuivenhoven | £0 | 2023 Q-School |
111 | Netherlands | Richard Veenstra | £0 | 2023 Q-School |
112 | Netherlands | Niels Zonneveld | £0 | 2023 Q-School |
113 | Germany | Pascal Rupprecht | £0 | 2023 Q-School |
114 | Belgium | Ronny Huybrechts | £0 | 2023 Q-School |
115 | Czech Republic | Karel Sedláček | £0 | 2023 Q-School |
116 | France | Jacques Labre | £0 | 2023 Q-School |
117 | Germany | Daniel Klose | £0 | 2023 Q-School |
118 | Netherlands | Gian van Veen | £0 | 2023 Q-School |
119 | Netherlands | Owen Roelofs | £0 | 2023 Q-School |
120 | Ireland | Dylan Slevin | £0 | 2023 Q-School |
121 | England | Lee Evans | £0 | 2023 Q-School |
122 | England | Stephen Burton | £0 | 2023 Q-School |
123 | Wales | Nick Kenny | £0 | 2023 Q-School |
124 | England | Keegan Brown | £0 | 2023 Q-School |
125 | England | Adam Warner | £0 | 2023 Q-School |
126 | England | Graham Hall | £0 | 2023 Q-School |
127 | Wales | Callum Goffin | £0 | 2023 Q-School |
128 | Philippines | Christian Perez | £0 | 2023 Q-School |
No. | Nation | Number of Tour card holders | Difference to prior year |
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1 | England | 44 | −4 |
2 | Netherlands | 22 | +4 |
3 | Wales | 8 | +2 |
4 | Belgium | 7 | +1 |
5 | Germany | 6 | 0 |
Northern Ireland | 6 | 0 | |
Scotland | 6 | –3 | |
8 | Ireland | 5 | +1 |
9 | Australia | 3 | 0 |
Austria | 3 | –1 | |
Poland | 3 | 0 | |
12 | Canada | 2 | 0 |
Czech Republic | 2 | +1 | |
Spain | 2 | 0 | |
15 | Croatia | 1 | 0 |
Denmark | 1 | 0 | |
France | 1 | +1 | |
Latvia | 1 | 0 | |
Lithuania | 1 | 0 | |
Philippines | 1 | +1 | |
Portugal | 1 | 0 | |
South Africa | 1 | 0 | |
United States | 1 | –1 | |
23 Nations | 128 |
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