Niko Springer

Niko Springer
Niko Springer
	Niko Springer
Personal information
Nickname	Meenzer Bub
Born	11 July 2000 (age 24); Mainz, Germany
Home town	Siefersheim
Darts information
Playing darts since	2019
Darts	One80 Niko Springer 22 g
Laterality	Right-handed
Walk-on music	"Legendary" by Welshly Arms
Organisation (see split in darts)
PDC	2019–; (Tour Card 2025–)
Current world ranking	159 (24 November 2024)
PDC premier events – best performances
World Ch'ship	Last 96: 2025
UK Open	Last 160: 2022
Other tournament wins
PDC Development Tour	2024 (x3)

Last updated December 20, 2024

Niko Springer (born 11 July 2000) is a German darts player currently playing in Professional Darts Corporation events.

Career

Springer made his debut at just 18 years old on the PDC Development Tour 2019, where he reached the round of 64 once. He first took part in February 2021 at the PDC Qualifying School in Niedernhausen and reached the final stage. Due to his performance in the Q School and the change in the number of participants to 24, Springer received a wildcard for the PDC Super League Darts in Niedernhausen, which will took place in April 2021. After a convincing performance by the debutant in the preliminary round, Springer was eliminated in the quarter-finals by the later tournament winner Martin Schindler.

At the PDC Development Tour 2021 (tournament 1–6) in Niedernhausen, Springer reached the semifinals and final once each. With 7th place he became the best German of the tournament. In 2021 Springer took part in the PDC European Challenge Tour in Niedernhausen for the first time, where he was able to play in the top 16 several times and once in the final. After Steven Noster, Lukas Wenig and Ricardo Pietreczko, Niko Springer was the fourth-best German with 14th place after eight tournaments.

In the second part of the PDC Development Tour 2021 (tournament 7–12) at the beginning of November 2021, Springer reached the semi-finals and finals and thus qualified for the PDC World Youth Championship (PDC World Youth Championship 2021) on November 28, 2011 in Minehead, England and the UK Open 2022. He was also originally seeded in the final stage of the PDC Qualifying School in January 2022. However, he renounced his seeding and only took part on one day of the First Stage in order to be able to participate in later PDC tournaments.

At the first Host Nation Qualifier of the year for the European Darts Tour 2022, Springer earned a starting place at the International Darts Open, and for the German Darts Championship for the first time. At his debut tournament, the European Darts Tour 2022, the International Darts Open 2022, Springer made it to the top with a 6–4 win over PDC ranked number 36 Jermaine Wattimena, and a 6–5 win over PDC ranked number 23 Brendan Dolan; straight into the round of 16, in which he then lost 2–6 to reigning world champion Peter Wright.

World Championship results

PDC

2025: First round (lost to Scott Williams 1–3)

Performance timeline

Tournament	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
PDC Ranked televised events
World Championship	DNQ				1R
UK Open	DNQ	1R	DNQ
PDC Non-ranked televised events
World Youth Championship	RR	2R	DNP	3R
Career statistics
Year-end ranking (PDC)	-	167	167

PDC European Tour

Season	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13
2022	IDO 3R	GDC 1R	GDG DNQ	ADO DNP	EDO DNP	CDO DNP	EDG DNP	DDC DNP	EDM DNP	HDT DNP	GDO DNP	BDO DNP	GDT DNP
2023	BSD 2R	EDO DNQ	IDO 3R	GDG DNQ	ADO DNP	DDC DNP	BDO DNP	CDO DNP	EDG DNQ	EDM DNQ	GDO DNQ	HDT DNP	GDC DNQ
2024	BDO DNP	GDG DNQ	IDO DNQ	EDG 1R	ADO DNP	BSD DNQ	DDC DNP	EDO DNQ	GDC 1R	FDT DNP	HDT DNP	SDT DNP	CDO DNP

Performance Table Legend
W	Won the tournament	F	Finalist	SF	Semifinalist	QF	Quarterfinalist	#R RR Prel.	Lost in # round Round-robin Preliminary round	DQ	Disqualified
DNQ	Did not qualify	DNP	Did not participate	WD	Withdrew	NH	Tournament not held	#R RR Prel.	Lost in # round Round-robin Preliminary round	NYF	Not yet founded

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References

↑ "Niko Springer - Mastercaller.com". Mastercaller.
↑ dartn.de, Patrick Exner. "Dart Profis - Niko Springer". Dartn.de.
↑ "PDC Order of Merit". PDPA. 24 November 2024. Retrieved 24 November 2024.

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[1] "Niko Springer - Mastercaller.com". Mastercaller.

[2] rtn.de, Patrick Exner. "Dart Profis - Niko Springer". Dartn.de.

[PDC_Rankings-3] "PDC Order of Merit". PDPA. 24 November 2024. Retrieved 24 November 2024.

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