Players Championship Finals prize money
The PDC paid £460k to the 64 players at the 2018 Players Championship Finals, the top of the Pro Tour Order of Merit, so the field is earned over a season of floor events rather than ranked all-time. Winning it was worth £100,000, and the smallest payment at the event was £2,500.
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 £23,000 and not that plus every band beneath it. Read as single payments the seven bands come to £460,000, which is the pot. Read as a ladder they do not: the champion alone would take £191,000, against the £100,000 Daryl Gurney was actually paid for the title.
What each finishing place paid
The seven bands the 64 players are divided into
| FINISHING PLACE | PLAYERS | EACH | THE BAND |
|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | 1 | £100,000 | £100,000 |
| Runner-up | 1 | £40,000 | £40,000 |
| Semi-finalists | 2 | £23,000 | £46,000 |
| Quarter-finalists | 4 | £12,500 | £50,000 |
| Last 16 | 8 | £8,000 | £64,000 |
| Last 32 | 16 | £5,000 | £80,000 |
| Last 64 | 32 | £2,500 | £80,000 |
| The whole pot | 64 | — | £460,000 |
What each band took between them
How far each band got
Winning it paid 40 times what the last 64 band paid. Inside a band nothing separates one player from another: the 32 players who lost the first match were all paid £2,500, 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 £460,000, which is what the PDC put up. Add the bands the other way and the champion alone takes £191,000.
Who collected it
Every one of the 64 players, and what the finish was worth
| PLAYER | BAND | PAID |
|---|---|---|
| Daryl Gurney | Winner | £100,000 |
| Michael van Gerwen | Runner-up | £40,000 |
| Danny Noppert | Semi-finalists | £23,000 |
| Gary Anderson | Semi-finalists | £23,000 |
| Chris Dobey | Quarter-finalists | £12,500 |
| Jonny Clayton | Quarter-finalists | £12,500 |
| Stephen Bunting | Quarter-finalists | £12,500 |
| Steve Lennon | Quarter-finalists | £12,500 |
| Brendan Dolan | Last 16 | £8,000 |
| Gabriel Clemens | Last 16 | £8,000 |
| James Wade | Last 16 | £8,000 |
| Joe Cullen | Last 16 | £8,000 |
| Krzysztof Ratajski | Last 16 | £8,000 |
| Peter Wright | Last 16 | £8,000 |
| Ricky Evans | Last 16 | £8,000 |
| Stephen Burton | Last 16 | £8,000 |
| Adrian Lewis | Last 32 | £5,000 |
| Cristo Reyes | Last 32 | £5,000 |
| Darren Webster | Last 32 | £5,000 |
| Dave Chisnall | Last 32 | £5,000 |
| Ian White | Last 32 | £5,000 |
| James Wilson | Last 32 | £5,000 |
| Jeffrey de Zwaan | Last 32 | £5,000 |
| Keegan Brown | Last 32 | £5,000 |
| Madars Razma | Last 32 | £5,000 |
| Max Hopp | Last 32 | £5,000 |
| Mervyn King | Last 32 | £5,000 |
| Michael Smith | Last 32 | £5,000 |
| Nathan Aspinall | Last 32 | £5,000 |
| Ryan Searle | Last 32 | £5,000 |
| Simon Whitlock | Last 32 | £5,000 |
| Steve Beaton | Last 32 | £5,000 |
| Adam Hunt | Last 64 | £2,500 |
| Alan Tabern | Last 64 | £2,500 |
| Andrew Gilding | Last 64 | £2,500 |
| Benito van de Pas | Last 64 | £2,500 |
| Dimitri Van den Bergh | Last 64 | £2,500 |
| Gerwyn Price | Last 64 | £2,500 |
| Jamie Lewis | Last 64 | £2,500 |
| Jan Dekker | Last 64 | £2,500 |
| Jeffrey de Graaf | Last 64 | £2,500 |
| Jelle Klaasen | Last 64 | £2,500 |
| Jermaine Wattimena | Last 64 | £2,500 |
| John Henderson | Last 64 | £2,500 |
| Josh Payne | Last 64 | £2,500 |
| Kim Huybrechts | Last 64 | £2,500 |
| Kyle Anderson | Last 64 | £2,500 |
| Mark Webster | Last 64 | £2,500 |
| Martin Schindler | Last 64 | £2,500 |
| Matthew Edgar | Last 64 | £2,500 |
| Michael Barnard | Last 64 | £2,500 |
| Mickey Mansell | Last 64 | £2,500 |
| Richard North | Last 64 | £2,500 |
| Rob Cross | Last 64 | £2,500 |
| Robert Thornton | Last 64 | £2,500 |
| Ron Meulenkamp | Last 64 | £2,500 |
| Ross Smith | Last 64 | £2,500 |
| Rowby-John Rodriguez | Last 64 | £2,500 |
| Ryan Joyce | Last 64 | £2,500 |
| Scott Taylor | Last 64 | £2,500 |
| Simon Stevenson | Last 64 | £2,500 |
| Steve West | Last 64 | £2,500 |
| Toni Alcinas | Last 64 | £2,500 |
| Vincent van der Voort | Last 64 | £2,500 |
Daryl Gurney was paid £100,000 for winning it rather than that on top of every band beneath, which is what makes the seven bands add up to £460,000, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| International Darts Open 2017 | Peter Wright | 48 | £135,000 |
| Auckland Darts Masters 2017 | Kyle Anderson | 16 | £60,000 |
| German Darts Masters 2017 | Peter Wright | 16 | £60,000 |
| Melbourne Darts Masters 2017 | Phil Taylor | 16 | £60,000 |
| Perth Darts Masters 2017 | Gary Anderson | 16 | £60,000 |
| Shanghai Darts Masters 2017 | Michael van Gerwen | 16 | £60,000 |
| US Darts Masters 2017 | Michael van Gerwen | 16 | £60,000 |
| Dubai Duty Free Darts Masters 2017 | Gary Anderson | 8 | £50,000 |
| PDC World Championship 2018 | Rob Cross | 72 | £1,800,000£1.8m |
| World Matchplay 2018 | Gary Anderson | 32 | £500,000 |
| Grand Slam of Darts 2018 | Gerwyn Price | 32 | £450,000 |
| European Championship 2018 | James Wade | 32 | £400,000 |
| World Grand Prix 2018 | Michael van Gerwen | 32 | £400,000 |
| UK Open 2018 | Gary Anderson | 128 | £350,000 |
| World Series of Darts Finals 2018 | James Wade | 24 | £250,000 |
| Masters 2018 | Michael van Gerwen | 16 | £200,000 |
| Austrian Darts Open 2018 | Jonny Clayton | 48 | £135,000 |
| Danish Darts Open 2018 | Mensur Suljović | 48 | £135,000 |
| Dutch Darts Championship 2018 | Ian White | 48 | £135,000 |
| Dutch Darts Masters (European Tour) 2018 | Michael van Gerwen | 48 | £135,000 |
The 20 events on this site played closest in time to this one, oldest first. Together with the 2018 Players Championship Finals they paid out £5,895,000.
Frequently asked questions
How much did the 2018 Players Championship Finals winner get?
£100,000, and Daryl Gurney 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 Players Championship Finals prize money in 2018?
£460,000 across the 64 players. It is split into seven bands by finishing place, from £100,000 down to £2,500, and the bands add up to the pot exactly.
What is the smallest payment at the Players Championship Finals?
£2,500. That is the last 64 band, which covers 32 players who lost the first match. No player at the 2018 event collected less.
Does Players Championship Finals 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 £23,000 and not that plus every band beneath it. Add the seven bands up as single payments and they come to £460,000, which is the pot; add them as a ladder and the champion alone would take £191,000.
Which band pays out the most at the Players Championship Finals?
Winner, at £100,000. Nobody else at the event is paid more in one payment.
Where to next
The rest of the darts money
Daryl Gurney took £100,000 here and £1,604,000 in all. Players Championship Finals prize money puts this edition beside the other 10 we hold. For the other tournaments, see PDC World Championship prize money, World Matchplay prize money, Grand Slam of Darts 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.