UK Open prize money
The PDC paid £450k to the 159 players at the 2019 UK Open, the open draw, where every round is drawn at random and a tour card holder can come out against a qualifier. Winning it was worth £100,000, and the smallest payment at the event was £1,000.
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 £20,000 and not that plus every band beneath it. Read as single payments the ten bands come to £450,000, which is the pot. Read as a ladder they do not: the champion alone would take £187,000, against the £100,000 Nathan Aspinall was actually paid for the title.
What each finishing place paid
The ten bands the 159 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 | £20,000 | £40,000 |
| Quarter-finalists | 4 | £12,500 | £50,000 |
| Last 16 | 8 | £7,500 | £60,000 |
| Last 32 | 16 | £4,000 | £64,000 |
| Last 64 | 32 | £2,000 | £64,000 |
| Last 96 | 32 | £1,000 | £32,000 |
| Last 128 | 32 | £0 | £0 |
| Last 160 | 31 | £0 | £0 |
| The whole pot | 159 | — | £450,000 |
What each band took between them
How far each band got
Winning it paid 100 times what the last 96 band paid. Below that the UK Open pays nothing: the 31 players who lost the first match left with £0. Inside a band nothing separates one player from another: the 32 players who lost in the round of 64 were all paid £2,000, 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 £450,000, which is what the PDC put up. Add the bands the other way and the champion alone takes £187,000.
Who collected it
Every one of the 159 players, and what the finish was worth
| PLAYER | BAND | PAID |
|---|---|---|
| Nathan Aspinall | Winner | £100,000 |
| Rob Cross | Runner-up | £40,000 |
| Gerwyn Price | Semi-finalists | £20,000 |
| Michael Smith | Semi-finalists | £20,000 |
| Josh Payne | Quarter-finalists | £12,500 |
| Ross Smith | Quarter-finalists | £12,500 |
| Simon Stevenson | Quarter-finalists | £12,500 |
| Steve Beaton | Quarter-finalists | £12,500 |
| Cristo Reyes | Last 16 | £7,500 |
| Dave Chisnall | Last 16 | £7,500 |
| Dimitri Van den Bergh | Last 16 | £7,500 |
| James Wade | Last 16 | £7,500 |
| Jermaine Wattimena | Last 16 | £7,500 |
| Krzysztof Ratajski | Last 16 | £7,500 |
| Simon Whitlock | Last 16 | £7,500 |
| Steve Lennon | Last 16 | £7,500 |
| Daryl Gurney | Last 32 | £4,000 |
| Gabriel Clemens | Last 32 | £4,000 |
| Jamie Hughes | Last 32 | £4,000 |
| Jamie Lewis | Last 32 | £4,000 |
| Jonny Clayton | Last 32 | £4,000 |
| Keegan Brown | Last 32 | £4,000 |
| Kim Huybrechts | Last 32 | £4,000 |
| Luke Woodhouse | Last 32 | £4,000 |
| Madars Razma | Last 32 | £4,000 |
| Martin Schindler | Last 32 | £4,000 |
| Max Hopp | Last 32 | £4,000 |
| Mensur Suljović | Last 32 | £4,000 |
| Mervyn King | Last 32 | £4,000 |
| Mickey Mansell | Last 32 | £4,000 |
| Richard North | Last 32 | £4,000 |
| Steve West | Last 32 | £4,000 |
| Adam Hunt | Last 64 | £2,000 |
| Adrian Lewis | Last 64 | £2,000 |
| Alan Norris | Last 64 | £2,000 |
| Arron Monk | Last 64 | £2,000 |
| Benito van de Pas | Last 64 | £2,000 |
| Brendan Dolan | Last 64 | £2,000 |
| Christian Kist | Last 64 | £2,000 |
| Darren Webster | Last 64 | £2,000 |
| Gary Anderson | Last 64 | £2,000 |
| Gavin Carlin | Last 64 | £2,000 |
| Geert Nentjes | Last 64 | £2,000 |
| Ian White | Last 64 | £2,000 |
| James Wilson | Last 64 | £2,000 |
| Jan Dekker | Last 64 | £2,000 |
| Jeffrey de Zwaan | Last 64 | £2,000 |
| Jelle Klaasen | Last 64 | £2,000 |
| Joe Cullen | Last 64 | £2,000 |
| Joe Murnan | Last 64 | £2,000 |
| John Henderson | Last 64 | £2,000 |
| Kyle Anderson | Last 64 | £2,000 |
| Luke Humphries | Last 64 | £2,000 |
| Michael van Gerwen | Last 64 | £2,000 |
| Peter Hudson | Last 64 | £2,000 |
| Peter Wright | Last 64 | £2,000 |
| Raymond van Barneveld | Last 64 | £2,000 |
| Reece Robinson | Last 64 | £2,000 |
| Ricky Evans | Last 64 | £2,000 |
| Ryan Joyce | Last 64 | £2,000 |
| Ryan Searle | Last 64 | £2,000 |
| Scott Taylor | Last 64 | £2,000 |
| Stephen Bunting | Last 64 | £2,000 |
| William O'Connor | Last 64 | £2,000 |
| Adam Huckvale | Last 96 | £1,000 |
| Alan Tabern | Last 96 | £1,000 |
| Andy Boulton | Last 96 | £1,000 |
| Chris Dobey | Last 96 | £1,000 |
| Danny Noppert | Last 96 | £1,000 |
| Davy Van Baelen | Last 96 | £1,000 |
| Devon Petersen | Last 96 | £1,000 |
| Dirk van Duijvenbode | Last 96 | £1,000 |
| George Killington | Last 96 | £1,000 |
| Glen Durrant | Last 96 | £1,000 |
| Harry Ward | Last 96 | £1,000 |
| James Richardson | Last 96 | £1,000 |
| Jamie Bain | Last 96 | £1,000 |
| José Justicia | Last 96 | £1,000 |
| Justin Pipe | Last 96 | £1,000 |
| Kirk Shepherd | Last 96 | £1,000 |
| Mario Robbe | Last 96 | £1,000 |
| Mark Dudbridge | Last 96 | £1,000 |
| Mark Webster | Last 96 | £1,000 |
| Matthew Edgar | Last 96 | £1,000 |
| Michael Rasztovits | Last 96 | £1,000 |
| Nathan Derry | Last 96 | £1,000 |
| Robert Owen | Last 96 | £1,000 |
| Robert Thornton | Last 96 | £1,000 |
| Ron Meulenkamp | Last 96 | £1,000 |
| Ronny Huybrechts | Last 96 | £1,000 |
| Scott Baker | Last 96 | £1,000 |
| Toni Alcinas | Last 96 | £1,000 |
| Vincent Kamphuis | Last 96 | £1,000 |
| Vincent van der Voort | Last 96 | £1,000 |
| Yordi Meeuwisse | Last 96 | £1,000 |
| Zoran Lerchbacher | Last 96 | £1,000 |
| Adrian Gray | Last 128 | £0 |
| Andy Jenkins | Last 128 | £0 |
| Barrie Bates | Last 160 | £0 |
| Barry Lynn | Last 160 | £0 |
| Bradley Brooks | Last 128 | £0 |
| Brian Raman | Last 160 | £0 |
| Callan Rydz | Last 160 | £0 |
| Cameron Menzies | Last 128 | £0 |
| Carl Wilkinson | Last 160 | £0 |
| Chris Lacey | Last 160 | £0 |
| Christian Bunse | Last 160 | £0 |
| Cody Harris | Last 128 | £0 |
| Conan Whitehead | Last 128 | £0 |
| Daniel Day | Last 160 | £0 |
| Darius Labanauskas | Last 160 | £0 |
| Darren Beveridge | Last 128 | £0 |
| David Evans | Last 160 | £0 |
| David Pallett | Last 160 | £0 |
| Dawson Murschell | Last 128 | £0 |
| Dennis Nilsson | Last 160 | £0 |
| Diogo Portela | Last 128 | £0 |
| Eddie Dootson | Last 160 | £0 |
| Gary Eastwood | Last 128 | £0 |
| Ian McFarlane | Last 160 | £0 |
| Jarred Cole | Last 128 | £0 |
| Jason Cullen | Last 160 | £0 |
| John Davey | Last 160 | £0 |
| John Goldie | Last 128 | £0 |
| John Michael | Last 128 | £0 |
| Jonathan Worsley | Last 160 | £0 |
| José de Sousa | Last 128 | £0 |
| Kevin Burness | Last 128 | £0 |
| Kevin Thoburn | Last 128 | £0 |
| Lee Budgen | Last 160 | £0 |
| Lee Harris | Last 160 | £0 |
| Lloyd Browning | Last 128 | £0 |
| Maik Kuivenhoven | Last 128 | £0 |
| Mark Barilli | Last 160 | £0 |
| Mark Frost | Last 160 | £0 |
| Mark McGeeney | Last 128 | £0 |
| Mark Wilson | Last 128 | £0 |
| Marko Kantele | Last 128 | £0 |
| Martin Atkins | Last 160 | £0 |
| Matt Clark | Last 128 | £0 |
| Matthew Dennant | Last 160 | £0 |
| Michael Barnard | Last 160 | £0 |
| Michael Burgoine | Last 160 | £0 |
| Mike van Duivenbode | Last 160 | £0 |
| Niels Zonneveld | Last 160 | £0 |
| Rob Collins | Last 128 | £0 |
| Robert Marijanović | Last 128 | £0 |
| Rowby-John Rodriguez | Last 160 | £0 |
| Ryan Harrington | Last 128 | £0 |
| Ryan Meikle | Last 128 | £0 |
| Shaun Fox | Last 160 | £0 |
| Simon Preston | Last 128 | £0 |
| Ted Evetts | Last 128 | £0 |
| Terry Temple | Last 160 | £0 |
| Tony Newell | Last 128 | £0 |
| Tytus Kanik | Last 128 | £0 |
| Vincent van der Meer | Last 128 | £0 |
| Wayne Jones | Last 128 | £0 |
| Wes Newton | Last 160 | £0 |
Nathan Aspinall was paid £100,000 for winning it rather than that on top of every band beneath, which is what makes the ten bands add up to £450,000, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| PDC World Championship 2019 | Michael van Gerwen | 96 | £2,500,000£2.5m |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Czech Darts Open 2019 | Jamie Hughes | 48 | £140,000 |
| Danish Darts Open 2019 | Dave Chisnall | 48 | £140,000 |
| Dutch Darts Masters (European Tour) 2019 | Ian White | 48 | £140,000 |
| European Darts Grand Prix 2019 | Ian White | 48 | £140,000 |
| European Darts Matchplay 2019 | Joe Cullen | 48 | £140,000 |
The 20 events on this site played closest in time to this one, oldest first. Together with the 2019 UK Open they paid out £7,430,000.
Frequently asked questions
How much did the 2019 UK Open winner get?
£100,000, and Nathan Aspinall 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 UK Open prize money in 2019?
£450,000 across the 159 players. It is split into ten bands by finishing place, from £100,000 down to £1,000, and the bands add up to the pot exactly.
What is the smallest payment at the UK Open?
£1,000. That is the last 96 band, which covers 32 players who lost in the round of 96. Below it the draw pays nothing at all: the 31 players who lost the first match were paid £0.
Does UK Open 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 £20,000 and not that plus every band beneath it. Add the ten bands up as single payments and they come to £450,000, which is the pot; add them as a ladder and the champion alone would take £187,000.
Which band pays out the most at the UK Open?
Winner, at £100,000. Nobody else at the event is paid more in one payment.
Where to next
The rest of the darts money
Nathan Aspinall took £100,000 here and £1,882,250 in all. UK Open prize money puts this edition beside the other 7 we hold. For the other tournaments, see PDC World Championship prize money, World Matchplay prize money, Grand Slam of Darts prize money, Players Championship Finals prize money, World Grand Prix prize money, European Championship 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.