PDC World Championship prize money
The PDC paid £2.5m to the 96 players at the 2019 PDC World Championship, the edition that took the field from 72 players to 96, and the first to put more money up than the World Snooker Championship. Winning it was worth £500,000, and the smallest payment at the event was £7,500.
A player is paid once, for where the run ended. The band is the whole of it rather than a step on the way to it, so a player who lost in the semi-finals collected £100,000 and not that plus every band beneath it. Read as single payments the eight bands come to £2,500,000, which is the pot. Read as a ladder they do not: the champion alone would take £932,500, against the £500,000 Michael van Gerwen was actually paid for the title.
What each finishing place paid
The eight bands the 96 players are divided into
| FINISHING PLACE | PLAYERS | EACH | THE BAND |
|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | 1 | £500,000 | £500,000 |
| Runner-up | 1 | £200,000 | £200,000 |
| Semi-finalists | 2 | £100,000 | £200,000 |
| Quarter-finalists | 4 | £50,000 | £200,000 |
| Last 16 | 8 | £35,000 | £280,000 |
| Last 32 | 16 | £25,000 | £400,000 |
| Last 64 | 32 | £15,000 | £480,000 |
| Last 96 | 32 | £7,500 | £240,000 |
| The whole pot | 96 | — | £2,500,000£2.5m |
What each band took between them
How far each band got
Winning it paid 66.7 times what the last 96 band paid. Inside a band nothing separates one player from another: the 32 players who lost in the round of 64 were all paid £15,000, whether they lost by a leg or by a mile.
The money does not stack
What the champion took, and what a ladder would have paid
This is the one thing about darts money that is worth getting right, because every other prize fund on this site works the other way. A club in the Champions League is paid for reaching the last sixteen and paid again for reaching the last eight, and the run is worth the sum of them. In darts there is no sum: a player is paid for where the run ended and for nothing before it. Multiply each band by the players in it and the total is £2,500,000, which is what the PDC put up. Add the bands the other way and the champion alone takes £932,500.
Who collected it
Every one of the 96 players, and what the finish was worth
| PLAYER | BAND | PAID |
|---|---|---|
| Michael van Gerwen | Winner | £500,000 |
| Michael Smith | Runner-up | £200,000 |
| Gary Anderson | Semi-finalists | £100,000 |
| Nathan Aspinall | Semi-finalists | £100,000 |
| Brendan Dolan | Quarter-finalists | £50,000 |
| Dave Chisnall | Quarter-finalists | £50,000 |
| Luke Humphries | Quarter-finalists | £50,000 |
| Ryan Joyce | Quarter-finalists | £50,000 |
| Adrian Lewis | Last 16 | £35,000 |
| Benito van de Pas | Last 16 | £35,000 |
| Chris Dobey | Last 16 | £35,000 |
| Devon Petersen | Last 16 | £35,000 |
| James Wade | Last 16 | £35,000 |
| Jamie Lewis | Last 16 | £35,000 |
| Rob Cross | Last 16 | £35,000 |
| Ryan Searle | Last 16 | £35,000 |
| Alan Norris | Last 32 | £25,000 |
| Cristo Reyes | Last 32 | £25,000 |
| Darius Labanauskas | Last 32 | £25,000 |
| Daryl Gurney | Last 32 | £25,000 |
| Dimitri Van den Bergh | Last 32 | £25,000 |
| Jermaine Wattimena | Last 32 | £25,000 |
| John Henderson | Last 32 | £25,000 |
| Keegan Brown | Last 32 | £25,000 |
| Kim Huybrechts | Last 32 | £25,000 |
| Kyle Anderson | Last 32 | £25,000 |
| Max Hopp | Last 32 | £25,000 |
| Mervyn King | Last 32 | £25,000 |
| Steve West | Last 32 | £25,000 |
| Toni Alcinas | Last 32 | £25,000 |
| Vincent van der Voort | Last 32 | £25,000 |
| William O'Connor | Last 32 | £25,000 |
| Alan Tabern | Last 64 | £15,000 |
| Cody Harris | Last 64 | £15,000 |
| Daniel Larsson | Last 64 | £15,000 |
| Danny Noppert | Last 64 | £15,000 |
| Darren Webster | Last 64 | £15,000 |
| Gabriel Clemens | Last 64 | £15,000 |
| Gerwyn Price | Last 64 | £15,000 |
| Ian White | Last 64 | £15,000 |
| James Wilson | Last 64 | £15,000 |
| Jan Dekker | Last 64 | £15,000 |
| Jeffrey de Zwaan | Last 64 | £15,000 |
| Jelle Klaasen | Last 64 | £15,000 |
| Jim Long | Last 64 | £15,000 |
| Joe Cullen | Last 64 | £15,000 |
| Jonny Clayton | Last 64 | £15,000 |
| Josh Payne | Last 64 | £15,000 |
| Kevin Burness | Last 64 | £15,000 |
| Mensur Suljović | Last 64 | £15,000 |
| Michael Barnard | Last 64 | £15,000 |
| Noel Malicdem | Last 64 | £15,000 |
| Peter Wright | Last 64 | £15,000 |
| Raymond van Barneveld | Last 64 | £15,000 |
| Richard North | Last 64 | £15,000 |
| Ron Meulenkamp | Last 64 | £15,000 |
| Ross Smith | Last 64 | £15,000 |
| Rowby-John Rodriguez | Last 64 | £15,000 |
| Seigo Asada | Last 64 | £15,000 |
| Simon Whitlock | Last 64 | £15,000 |
| Stephen Bunting | Last 64 | £15,000 |
| Steve Beaton | Last 64 | £15,000 |
| Steve Lennon | Last 64 | £15,000 |
| Ted Evetts | Last 64 | £15,000 |
| Adam Hunt | Last 96 | £7,500 |
| Aden Kirk | Last 96 | £7,500 |
| Anastasia Dobromyslova | Last 96 | £7,500 |
| Boris Koltsov | Last 96 | £7,500 |
| Chuck Puleo | Last 96 | £7,500 |
| Craig Ross | Last 96 | £7,500 |
| Diogo Portela | Last 96 | £7,500 |
| Geert Nentjes | Last 96 | £7,500 |
| James Bailey | Last 96 | £7,500 |
| Jeff Smith | Last 96 | £7,500 |
| Jeffrey de Graaf | Last 96 | £7,500 |
| José de Sousa | Last 96 | £7,500 |
| Karel Sedláček | Last 96 | £7,500 |
| Krzysztof Ratajski | Last 96 | £7,500 |
| Lisa Ashton | Last 96 | £7,500 |
| Lourence Ilagan | Last 96 | £7,500 |
| Martin Schindler | Last 96 | £7,500 |
| Matthew Edgar | Last 96 | £7,500 |
| Mickey Mansell | Last 96 | £7,500 |
| Nitin Kumar | Last 96 | £7,500 |
| Paul Lim | Last 96 | £7,500 |
| Paul Nicholson | Last 96 | £7,500 |
| Raymond Smith | Last 96 | £7,500 |
| Ricky Evans | Last 96 | £7,500 |
| Robert Marijanović | Last 96 | £7,500 |
| Robert Thornton | Last 96 | £7,500 |
| Royden Lam | Last 96 | £7,500 |
| Simon Stevenson | Last 96 | £7,500 |
| Stephen Burton | Last 96 | £7,500 |
| Wayne Jones | Last 96 | £7,500 |
| Yordi Meeuwisse | Last 96 | £7,500 |
| Yuanjun Liu | Last 96 | £7,500 |
Michael van Gerwen was paid £500,000 for winning it rather than that on top of every band beneath, which is what makes the eight bands add up to £2,500,000, the whole of what the PDC put up.
Around this on the darts calendar
What else was played either side of it
| EVENT | CHAMPION | PLAYERS | THE POT |
|---|---|---|---|
| German Darts Grand Prix 2018 | Michael van Gerwen | 48 | £135,000 |
| German Darts Open 2018 | Max Hopp | 48 | £135,000 |
| Gibraltar Darts Trophy 2018 | Michael van Gerwen | 48 | £135,000 |
| International Darts Open 2018 | Gerwyn Price | 48 | £135,000 |
| Auckland Darts Masters 2018 | Michael van Gerwen | 16 | £60,000 |
| Brisbane Darts Masters 2018 | Rob Cross | 16 | £60,000 |
| German Darts Masters 2018 | Mensur Suljović | 16 | £60,000 |
| Melbourne Darts Masters 2018 | Peter Wright | 16 | £60,000 |
| Shanghai Darts Masters 2018 | Michael Smith | 16 | £60,000 |
| US Darts Masters 2018 | Gary Anderson | 16 | £60,000 |
| World Matchplay 2019 | Rob Cross | 32 | £700,000 |
| Grand Slam of Darts 2019 | Gerwyn Price | 32 | £550,000 |
| European Championship 2019 | Rob Cross | 32 | £500,000 |
| Players Championship Finals 2019 | Michael van Gerwen | 64 | £500,000 |
| UK Open 2019 | Nathan Aspinall | 159 | £450,000 |
| World Grand Prix 2019 | Michael van Gerwen | 32 | £450,000 |
| World Series of Darts Finals 2019 | Michael van Gerwen | 24 | £300,000 |
| Masters 2019 | Michael van Gerwen | 16 | £200,000 |
| Austrian Darts Championship 2019 | Mensur Suljović | 48 | £140,000 |
| Austrian Darts Open 2019 | Michael van Gerwen | 48 | £140,000 |
The 20 events on this site played closest in time to this one, oldest first. Together with the 2019 PDC World Championship they paid out £7,330,000.
Frequently asked questions
How much did the 2019 PDC World Championship winner get?
£500,000, and Michael van Gerwen is who collected it. It is the whole of what the champion was paid: there is no separate payment for each round on the way to it.
What was the PDC World Championship prize money in 2019?
£2,500,000 across the 96 players. It is split into eight bands by finishing place, from £500,000 down to £7,500, and the bands add up to the pot exactly.
What is the smallest payment at the PDC World Championship?
£7,500. That is the last 96 band, which covers 32 players who lost the first match. No player at the 2019 event collected less.
Does PDC World Championship prize money add up round by round?
No. A player is paid once, for where the run ended, and the band is the whole of it. A player who lost in the semi-finals collected £100,000 and not that plus every band beneath it. Add the eight bands up as single payments and they come to £2,500,000, which is the pot; add them as a ladder and the champion alone would take £932,500.
Which band pays out the most at the PDC World Championship?
Winner, at £500,000. Nobody else at the event is paid more in one payment.
Where to next
The rest of the darts money
Michael van Gerwen took £500,000 here and £7,192,750 in all. PDC World Championship prize money puts this edition beside the other 11 we hold. For the other tournaments, see World Matchplay prize money, Grand Slam of Darts prize money, Players Championship Finals prize money, World Grand Prix prize money, European Championship prize money, UK Open prize money, World Series of Darts Finals prize money, Masters prize money, International Darts Open prize money, Austrian Darts Open prize money, European Darts Grand Prix prize money, German Darts Championship prize money, Premier League Darts prize money, European Darts Open prize money, German Darts Grand Prix prize money, Czech Darts Open prize money, PDC World Masters prize money, Gibraltar Darts Trophy prize money, European Darts Trophy prize money, Belgian Darts Open prize money, Baltic Sea Darts Open prize money, Hungarian Darts Trophy prize money, Dutch Darts Masters (European Tour) prize money, European Darts Matchplay prize money, Dutch Darts Championship prize money, US Darts Masters prize money, New Zealand Darts Masters prize money, Nordic Darts Masters prize money, German Darts Open prize money, German Darts Masters (European Tour) prize money, Flanders Darts Trophy prize money, Swiss Darts Trophy prize money, Bahrain Darts Masters prize money, Danish Darts Open prize money, Australian Darts Masters prize money, Poland Darts Open prize money, Slovak Darts Open prize money, Dutch Darts Masters prize money, Poland Darts Masters prize money, German Darts Masters prize money, Melbourne Darts Masters prize money, Austrian Darts Championship prize money, Belgian Darts Championship prize money, Auckland Darts Masters prize money, Brisbane Darts Masters prize money, New South Wales Darts Masters prize money, Shanghai Darts Masters prize money, Saudi Arabia Darts Masters prize money, Women's World Matchplay prize money, Perth Darts Masters prize money, Queensland Darts Masters prize money and Dubai Duty Free Darts Masters prize money. Darts prize money ranks all 793 players across the £91,450,000 the 268 events paid out. Where a competition pays again at every round rather than once at the end, see Champions League prize money, and for the shape darts shares with football at national level, World Cup prize money.