| Priscilla Steenbergen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nickname | "Smurf" [1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 25 July 1998 Maasdijk, Westland, Netherlands | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Darts information | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playing darts since | 2016 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Darts | 25g Bulls Shark [1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Laterality | Right-handed [1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Walk-on music | "Shut Up and Dance" by Walk the Moon [1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Organisation (see split in darts) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| BDO | 2016–2020 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| PDC | 2022–present | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| WDF | 2016–present | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Current world ranking | (WDF W) 11 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| World Championship | Semi-final: 2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| World Masters | Last 16: 2022 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dutch Open | Winner (1): 2026 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Priscilla Steenbergen (born 25 July 1998) is a Dutch professional darts player who competes in World Darts Federation (WDF) and Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events. Her biggest achievement to date was winning the Dutch Open in 2026. She also reached the semi-finals at the 2025 WDF World Darts Championship. She is a gold medalist at the WDF Europe Cup.
After not being able to qualify for the BDO World Darts Championship from the qualifiers in 2016, she went to the third round at the 2016 World Masters, where she lost to Trina Gulliver by 1–4 in legs. In 2017, she was in the quarter-finals of the Hal Masters. In 2019, she advanced to the quarter-finals at the German Open and made it to the 2019 BDO World Trophy via the play-off qualifiers. During this tournament, she lost in the first round match to Aileen de Graaf by 0–4 in legs. In 2020, Steenbergen made it to the quarter-finals at the 2020 Dutch Open and again to Aileen de Graaf. [1]
In 2022, she took part in the 2022 WDF World Darts Championship for the first time. She replaced Fallon Sherrock after her withdrawal, as the highest ranked World Darts Federation player which not already qualified. [3] In the first round match she beat Darlene van Sleeuwen by 2–1 in sets. In the second round she beat Anca Zijlstra with the same result. [4] In the quarter-finals, she was defeated by Kirsty Hutchinson by 1–2 in sets. [5] After a very good result at the WDF World Darts Championship, she took part in the 2022 PDC Women's Series for the first time. During the series held in Hildesheim, Steenbergen reached the quarter-finals three times. At the Belfry Open, she advanced to the semi-finals of the senior tournament for the first time and finally lost to Aileen de Graaf by 2–4 in legs. [6] At the 2022 Dutch Open she was eliminated in the second round. [7]
At the end of September 2022, she was selected by the national federation to participate in the 2022 WDF Europe Cup. On the second day of the tournament, she advanced to the second round of the singles competition, where she lost to Aurora Fochesato by 2–4 in legs. [8] On the third day, she advanced to the quarter-finals of the pairs competition, where she played together with Noa-Lynn van Leuven. They lost to Anna Forsmark and Maud Jansson from Sweden by 0–4 in legs. [9] In the team tournament, she won a silver medal. They lost in the final match to England by 1–9 in legs. [10] They also took the bronze medal in the overall classification.
On 26 November 2022, Priscilla picked up her first WDF title winning the Italian Grand Masters beating Paula Jacklin in the final 6–5.
BDO
| Tournament | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | ||||
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| World Masters | 3R | 2R | 3R | 1R | ||||
| World Trophy | DNQ | 1R | ||||||
WDF
| Tournament | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | |||
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| World Championship | Not held | QF | 2R | DNQ | SF | |||||||
| World Masters | Not held | 3R | NH | 3R | 3R | |||||||
| Dutch Open | 2R | QF | QF | NH | 2R | DNP | 2R | 3R | W | |||
Key
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| W | Won the tournament | F | Finalist | SF | Semifinalist | QF | Quarterfinalist | #R RR L# | Lost in # round Round-robin Last # stage | DQ | Disqualified |
| DNQ | Did not qualify | DNP | Did not participate | WD | Withdrew | NH | Tournament not held | NYF | Not yet founded | ||