The 2025 PDC Pro Tour will be a series of non-televised darts tournaments organised by the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC). Players Championships and European Tour events are the events that make up the Pro Tour. There will be thirty-four Players Championship events and fourteen PDC European Tour events, as well as 24 events for the Challenge and Development Tours, and the Women's Series.[1][2]
Prize money
The prize money will remain unchanged from the previous year. This is how it will be divided:
^ abPre-qualified players from the PDC and PDC Pro Tour Orders of Merit who lose in their first match of the event shall not be credited with prize money on any Order of Merit. A player who qualifies as a qualifier, but later becomes a seed due to the withdrawal of one or more other players shall be credited with their prize money on all Orders of Merit regardless of how far they progress in the event.
^Last 64 prize money will only be paid out, if a minimum of 128 participants take part in a Women's Series event.
PDC Tour Card
128 players are granted Tour Cards, which enables them to participate in all Players Championships events, the UK Open and qualifiers for all European Tour and select televised events.
Afterwards, the playing field will be complemented by the highest qualified players from the Q-School Order of Merit until the maximum number of 128 Pro Tour Card players has been reached. In 2025, that means that a total of 21 additional players will qualify this way.[3][4]
The PDC Pro Tour Qualifying School (or Q–School) is split into the UK Q-School for British and Irish players, held at the Marshall Arena in Milton Keynes, England; and the European Q-School for the rest of European players, held at Wunderland Kalkar in Kalkar, Germany. Non-European players can choose which Q-School to compete in.[5][6]
The First Stage, played between 6–8 January, is entered by any darts player who registers to Q-School. The eight quarterfinalists from each of the three days qualify into the Final Stage alongside other players coming from a First Stage ranking to produce a full list of 128 players for each Final Stage.
The Final Stage, held between 9–12 January, consists of all players qualified from the First Stage plus players exempted to the Final Stage. The exemptions are given to those who lost their PDC Tour Cards after the 2025 World Championship, and those who finished from third to sixteenth in the 2024 Challenge Tour and Development Tour Orders of Merit and do not have PDC Tour Cards yet.
The winner of each day's play in the Final Stage is given a PDC Tour Card.
The PDC Player Championships (PC) are a series of non-televised darts events that are part of the PDC Pro Tour. Starting in 2025, the number of events will increase by four compared to previous years, bringing the total to thirty-four Players Championship events per year.[1][2]
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 qualify for the premier event Players Championship Finals.
The PDC European Tour (ET) is a series of televised darts events that are part of the PDC Pro Tour. Beginning in 2025, the total number of events will expand to fourteen per year, one more than the previous years. The German Darts Open returns after a one-year absence and will be hosted in Göttingen, location rejoining the tour for the first time since 2018.[8]
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 qualify for the premier event European Championship.[9]
The Challenge Tour, known as the Winmau Challenge Tour for sponsorship reasons, is the PDC's second tier system for players of any age who competed at the current year's Qualifying Schools but did not win a Tour Card[10]. Under PDC Order of Merit Rule 4.2[11], the Challenge Tour OoM rankings are used to top up Players Championship events to make the total number of entries up to 128, should any of the current Tour Card holders choose not to enter the brackets, as of the Event entry deadline.
Under PDC Order of Merit Rule 6.9, the 2025 Challenge Tour prizes are as follows:
The top two players on the Challenge Order of Merit, who have not obtained the further rewards via another method, win a two-year PDC Tour Card starting 2026, and a place in the first round of the 2026 World Darts Championship.
The highest ranked player on the Challenge Tour Order of Merit, who has not obtained the further reward via another method, gets a spot at the 2025 Grand Slam of Darts.
The players in the Top 16 of the Challenge Tour Order of Merit, who have not obtained a PDC Tour Card before the 2025 Q-School, receive free entry to the Final Stage of the later event.
The eight highest ranked players from the Challenge Tour Order of Merit who remain non-Tour Card Holders for the 2026 season qualify for the first round of the 2026 UK Open.
The 2025 Challenge Tour will consist of four weekends of five events, and one weekend of four events.
The Development Tour, known as the Winmau Development Tour for sponsorship reasons, is the PDC's youth system open to all players aged 16–24[12]. According to PDC Order of Merit Rule 6.2[11], players ranked in the top 32 of the PDC Order of Merit or outside the previously mentioned age range on the cut-off date of a Development Tour event are not eligible to enter said event.
Under PDC Order of Merit Rule 6.9, the 2025 Development Tour prizes are as follows:
The top two players on the Development Order of Merit, who have not obtained the further rewards via another method, win a two-year PDC Tour Card, starting 2025, and a place in the first round of the 2026 World Darts Championship.
The highest ranked player on the Development Tour Order of Merit, who has not obtained the further reward via another method, gets a spot at the 2025 Grand Slam of Darts.
The players in the Top 16 of the Development Tour Order of Merit, who have not obtained a PDC Tour Card before the 2025 Q-School, receive free entry to the Final Stage of the later event.
The eight highest ranked players from the Development Tour Order of Merit who do not manage to earn a Tour Card for the 2026 season qualify for the first round of the 2026 UK Open.
The two finalists of the PDC World Youth Championship qualify for the 2026 Grand Slam of Darts. Furthermore, the winner of the PDC World Youth Championship receives an invitation to play in the first round of the 2026 World Darts Championship.
The 2025 PDC Development Tour consisted of four weekends of five events, and one weekend of four events.
The PDC Women's Series is a series of female-only darts tournaments organized by the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC)[13]. According to PDC Order of Merit Rule 6.2[11], women players ranked in the top 32 of the PDC Order of Merit or under 16 years of age on the cut-off date of a Women's Series event are not eligible to enter said event.
Under PDC Order of Merit Rule 6.9[11], the Women's Series prizes are as follows:
The top two players on the Women's Series Order of Merit, who have not obtained the further rewards via another method, win a place in the first round of the 2026 World Darts Championship.
The top player on the Women's Series Order of Merit, who has not obtained the further rewards via another method, gets a spot at the 2025 Grand Slam of Darts.
The players in the Top 8 of the Women's Series Order of Merit, who have not obtained a PDC Tour Card before the 2025 Q-School, receive free entry to the later event.
The PDC Asian Tour is the PDC Global Affiliate Tour specifically for Asian darts players. This year's calendar will consist of twenty-four events organized over six weekends.[14]
The prizes for this PDC Global Affiliate Tour are as follows:
The top four players on the Asian Tour Order of Merit, who have not obtained the further reward via another method, earn a spot in the first round of the 2026 World Darts Championship.
The top two players of the PDC Asian Championship, who have not obtained the further reward via another method, qualify to the first round of the 2026 World Darts Championship. Furthermore, the winner of the PDC Asian Championship receives an invitation to play in the 2025 Grand Slam of Darts.
The Professional Darts Corporation Nordic & Baltic Tour (PDCNB) is the PDC Global Affiliate Tour for players from Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, and Sweden. On 30 August 2024, the 2025 calendar was announced, consisting of five weekends in five different countries.[15] On 8 October 2024, a sixth weekend in Norway with four events was added.[16]
The prizes for this PDC Global Affiliate Tour are as follows:
The top four players on the PDCNB Order of Merit, who have not obtained the further reward via another method, earn a spot in the first round of the 2026 World Darts Championship.
The players in the Top 8 of the PDCNB Order of Merit, who have not obtained a PDC Tour Card before the 2025 Q-School, receive free entry to the later event.
