Mervyn King prize money
Mervyn King has been paid £728,750 by the 268 darts events on this site, which ranks 34th of the 793 players they paid. The biggest of it was £50,000 at the 2022 PDC World Championship, where Mervyn King lost in the quarter-finals.
Every figure here is a single payment. A darts tournament pays for where the run ended and not for each round on the way to it, so the £50,000 at the 2022 PDC World Championship is one payment with nothing behind it. That is the opposite of a football run, where a club collects again at every round it reaches.
Tournament by tournament
What each one has paid Mervyn King across every edition
| TOURNAMENT | PLAYED | TITLES | BEST PAYDAY | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PDC World Championship | 10 | — | Quarter-finalist | £226,000 |
| Players Championship Finals | 9 | — | Runner-up | £89,000 |
| World Matchplay | 6 | — | Quarter-finalist | £72,500 |
| World Grand Prix | 7 | — | Quarter-finalist | £59,500 |
| European Championship | 7 | — | Last 16 | £42,000 |
| Masters | 3 | — | Runner-up | £32,500 |
| UK Open | 7 | — | Quarter-finalist | £30,000 |
| Dutch Darts Masters (European Tour) | 5 | — | Quarter-finalist | £18,500 |
| European Darts Open | 4 | — | Runner-up | £18,000 |
| German Darts Championship | 6 | — | Semi-finalist | £16,500 |
| World Series of Darts Finals | 1 | — | Quarter-finalist | £15,000 |
| Grand Slam of Darts | 2 | — | Third in group | £12,500 |
| Austrian Darts Open | 4 | — | Quarter-finalist | £10,000 |
| International Darts Open | 5 | — | Last 16 | £9,750 |
| Gibraltar Darts Trophy | 4 | — | Quarter-finalist | £9,500 |
| European Darts Grand Prix | 5 | — | Last 32 | £9,000 |
| European Darts Matchplay | 4 | — | Last 16 | £8,500 |
| European Darts Trophy | 4 | — | Quarter-finalist | £8,500 |
| Dutch Darts Championship | 2 | — | Quarter-finalist | £8,000 |
| German Darts Open | 2 | — | Quarter-finalist | £7,000 |
| Belgian Darts Championship | 1 | — | Quarter-finalist | £5,000 |
| Czech Darts Open | 1 | — | Quarter-finalist | £5,000 |
| Danish Darts Open | 2 | — | Quarter-finalist | £5,000 |
| German Darts Grand Prix | 2 | — | Last 32 | £4,000 |
| German Darts Masters (European Tour) | 2 | — | Last 32 | £3,500 |
| Belgian Darts Open | 1 | — | Last 32 | £2,000 |
| Slovak Darts Open | 1 | — | Last 48 | £2,000 |
| 27 tournaments | 107 | — | — | £728,750 |
PDC World Championship has paid Mervyn King £226,000 of the £728,750, which is 31% of the career on this site from ten appearances. The chart draws the 16 biggest of the 27; the table above has all of them.
Every payment
Where each run ended, and what the band paid for it
The 107 figures add up because none of them contains another: a band is paid once, so £728,750 is 107 separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.8% of the £91,450,000 the 268 events paid out between them. The site holds 53 tournaments and Mervyn King has been paid at 27 of them. The biggest of the 26 that have not paid him are Premier League Darts, PDC World Masters and Baltic Sea Darts Open.
Year by year
2015 to 2026, in the order it was won
| YEAR | EVENTS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 17 | UK Open | £68,500 |
| 2016 | 12 | World Matchplay | £62,500 |
| 2017 | 17 | PDC World Championship | £78,250 |
| 2018 | 19 | PDC World Championship | £74,500 |
| 2019 | 13 | PDC World Championship | £111,000 |
| 2020 | 7 | Players Championship Finals | £104,500 |
| 2021 | 9 | PDC World Championship | £113,000 |
| 2022 | 6 | PDC World Championship | £64,000 |
| 2023 | 2 | PDC World Championship | £30,000 |
| 2024 | 2 | Players Championship Finals | £4,250 |
| 2025 | — | — | — |
| 2026 | 3 | PDC World Championship | £18,250 |
season running total
2021 is the biggest year of it, £113,000 from nine events. We hold no event that paid Mervyn King in 2025, so that column stands at nothing. The dimmer column behind each year is the running total, which reaches £728,750.
Around Mervyn King on the money list
Ranks 14 to 54
| # | PLAYER | BEST FINISH | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | Daryl Gurney | Winner | £1,604,000£1.6m |
| 15 | Joe Cullen | Winner | £1,351,750£1.4m |
| 16 | Dimitri Van den Bergh | Winner | £1,325,250£1.3m |
| 17 | Danny Noppert | Semi-finalist | £1,287,250£1.3m |
| 18 | Chris Dobey | Semi-finalist | £1,244,500£1.2m |
| 19 | Gian van Veen | Runner-up | £1,144,750£1.1m |
| 20 | Mensur Suljović | Runner-up | £1,127,000£1.1m |
| 21 | Raymond van Barneveld | Semi-finalist | £1,074,750£1.1m |
| 22 | Krzysztof Ratajski | Quarter-finalist | £1,042,250£1.0m |
| 23 | Ryan Searle | Semi-finalist | £1,025,750£1.0m |
| 24 | Ross Smith | Winner | £954,750 |
| 25 | Simon Whitlock | Runner-up | £943,250 |
| 26 | Dirk van Duijvenbode | Semi-finalist | £929,000 |
| 27 | Josh Rock | Eighth | £910,250 |
| 28 | Damon Heta | Last 32 | £901,750 |
| 29 | Ian White | Last 64 | £898,000 |
| 30 | Phil Taylor | Runner-up | £830,500 |
| 31 | Jermaine Wattimena | Runner-up | £792,500 |
| 32 | Adrian Lewis | Runner-up | £780,500 |
| 33 | Martin Schindler | Last 32 | £749,750 |
| 34 | Mervyn King | Quarter-finalist | £728,750 |
| 35 | Kim Huybrechts | Last 16 | £683,000 |
| 36 | Brendan Dolan | Quarter-finalist | £670,000 |
| 37 | Andrew Gilding | Winner | £655,500 |
| 38 | Gabriel Clemens | Semi-finalist | £622,500 |
| 39 | Ryan Joyce | Quarter-finalist | £595,750 |
| 40 | José de Sousa | Winner | £588,750 |
| 41 | Luke Woodhouse | Last 16 | £551,250 |
| 42 | Vincent van der Voort | Last 16 | £537,000 |
| 43 | Mike De Decker | Winner | £524,250 |
| 44 | Ricky Evans | Last 32 | £462,000 |
| 45 | Steve Beaton | Last 16 | £459,250 |
| 46 | Jelle Klaasen | Semi-finalist | £448,000 |
| 47 | William O'Connor | Last 64 | £437,250 |
| 48 | Robert Thornton | Winner | £398,000 |
| 49 | Glen Durrant | Quarter-finalist | £392,000 |
| 50 | Ritchie Edhouse | Winner | £374,000 |
| 51 | Callan Rydz | Quarter-finalist | £369,000 |
| 52 | Ricardo Pietreczko | Last 32 | £366,000 |
| 53 | Max Hopp | Last 64 | £363,000 |
| 54 | Benito van de Pas | Last 16 | £353,000 |
A slice of the same list the hub ranks in full. Mervyn King is 34th of the 793 players the 268 events on this site paid, on £728,750.
Paid the same, at the same stage
A band pays every player in it the identical figure
PDC World Championship 2022 paid £50,000 to each of the 4 players in its quarter-finalists band, Mervyn King among them. Also on that figure: Callan Rydz, Gerwyn Price and Luke Humphries.
PDC World Championship 2021 paid £35,000 to each of the 8 players in its last 16 band, Mervyn King among them. Also on that figure: Ryan Searle, Vincent van der Voort, Devon Petersen, Dimitri Van den Bergh, Gabriel Clemens, Glen Durrant and Joe Cullen.
PDC World Championship 2023 paid £25,000 to each of the 16 players in its last 32 band, Mervyn King among them. Also on that figure: Nathan Aspinall, Peter Wright, Raymond van Barneveld, Ross Smith, Ryan Searle, Vincent van der Voort, Brendan Dolan and Damon Heta.
Frequently asked questions
How much prize money has Mervyn King won?
£728,750 across the 268 darts events on this site, which ranks 34th of the 793 players they paid. That is 107 payments between 2015 and 2026.
What is Mervyn King's biggest payday?
£50,000, at the 2022 PDC World Championship, where Mervyn King lost in the quarter-finals. That is one payment and the whole of it, because a darts tournament pays for where the run ended rather than for each round on the way to it.
Which tournament has paid Mervyn King the most?
PDC World Championship, £226,000 from ten appearances. That is 31% of everything Mervyn King has been paid here.
Which darts tournaments has Mervyn King not been paid at?
26 of the 53, among them Premier League Darts, PDC World Masters and Baltic Sea Darts Open. This page holds 53 tournaments and 268 editions of them, so Mervyn King appears against the 27 tournaments that have paid him and no others.
Where to next
The rest of the darts money
Darts prize money ranks all 793 players across the £91,450,000 the 268 events on this site paid out. One place above Mervyn King is Martin Schindler on £749,750, and one below Kim Huybrechts on £683,000. For the band tables themselves, see PDC World Championship prize money, Players Championship Finals prize money, World Matchplay prize money, World Grand Prix prize money, European Championship prize money and Masters prize money, and the other 21 in the table above.