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Jonny Clayton (born 4 October 1974) is a Welsh professionaldarts player who competes inProfessional Darts Corporation (PDC) events, where he is currently rankedworld number five. Nicknamed "the Ferret", he won four PDC major singles titles in 2021: theMasters,Premier League,World Series Finals andWorld Grand Prix. He has also won thePDC World Cup of Darts on two occasions in2020 and2023, representingWales alongsideGerwyn Price. He has won a total of 17 PDC titles in his professional career, including threeEuropean Tour titles.

He is a one-time World Championship quarter-finalist, reaching the last eight at the2023 PDC World Championship.

Career

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2015

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Clayton joined thePDC Pro Tour in 2015 after winning a Tour Card on the final day of Qualifying School.^[2] His first quarter-final came at the sixthPlayers Championship event and he lost 6–1 toBenito van de Pas.^[3]Clayton qualified for theGrand Slam of Darts later that year, but despite winning his opening match againstTerry Jenkins, he went on to finish bottom of his group.^[4]

2016

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Clayton's first appearance at the UK Open came in the2016 edition, but he was defeated 6–3 byJames Wilson in the second round.^[5] Clayton recorded a quarter-final showing at the eighthPlayers Championship and reached his first semi-final at the 12th event, but waswhitewashed 6–0 byGary Anderson.^[6] A 2–0 victory over Tony Darlow saw Clayton claim the non-ranking Worthingtons Darts Champion of Champions title.^[7] He lost 6–3 toDarren Webster in round one of thePlayers Championship Finals.^[8]

2017

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Clayton made hisPDC World Championship debut in the2017 event, and came from a set down to beat fellow WelshmanGerwyn Price 3–1 in the first round.^[9] He lost 4–1 toIan White in the second round.^[10]

Clayton won his first PDC ranking title with Players Championship 22 after beatingJames Wilson 6–1 in the final.^[11]

Clayton got to his first PDC major final at the2017 Players Championship Finals. He beatJeffrey de Graaf, Price,Stephen Bunting,Steve Beaton and number 1 seedRob Cross, before losing out toMichael van Gerwen.^[12]

2018

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His run to the final saw him break into the top 32 of thePDC Order of Merit, meaning that he was a seed at the2018 PDC World Darts Championship, where he was eliminated by fellow countrymanJamie Lewis.^[13]

He went on to win the2018 Austrian Darts Open by defeatingGerwyn Price 8–5 in the final.^[14] This meant that he was the first Welsh winner on thePDC European Tour.

2019

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Clayton won Players Championship 10 by defeatingGabriel Clemens 8–4 in the final. This was Jonny's 3rd ranking title.^[15]

2020: World Cup Champion

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At this point a three-time PDC ranking title winner, Clayton was selected as a 'challenger' for the2020 Premier League night inCardiff, but lost 7–1 to an inspiredMichael Smith.^[16]

Clayton kicked off his 2020 season by defeating world number oneMichael van Gerwen 10–6 in the opening round of the2020 Masters.^[17]

He went on to win the2020 PDC World Cup of Darts for Wales withGerwyn Price as his teammate, defeating the English side ofRob Cross andMichael Smith 3–0.^[18]

2021: First individual major title, Premier League and Grand Prix champion

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At theMasters Clayton beatJosé de Sousa,Michael van Gerwen,James Wade andPeter Wright en route to the final where he facedMervyn King. Clayton won the match 11–8 to win his first major individual televised title. In his match against Wade, he was successful in checking out 10 times out of 11 for a success rate of 91%, which the PDC claimed to be a possible world record.^[19]

He won two Players Championship events,PC4^[20]^[21]^[22] andPC7^[23]^[24]^[25] early in 2021.

Upon winning the Masters tournament, Clayton was invited to participate in the2021 Premier League Darts, where on the third night of his debut season he hit anine-dart finish on the way to beatingJosé de Sousa.

After the fifth evening of league action, Clayton was placed at the top of the league. He slipped to as low as 8th, before going into 4th position for night 16. He had to achieve at least a draw to secure his place in the playoffs. He managed to do so and won his game againstDimitri Van den Bergh winning 8–6.

In the playoffs he beatMichael van Gerwen 10–8 in their semi-final. He went on to defeatJosé de Sousa 11–5 in the final. In doing so he became the first Welsh winner of the Premier League and the first player to finish 4th in the league phase and win the title.^[26]^[27]

Clayton participated in theWorld Grand Prix in which he reached the final after beatingCallan Rydz,José de Sousa,Krzysztof Ratajski andDanny Noppert along the way. In the final Clayton prevailed over World No. 1Gerwyn Price with a 5–1 victory winning him his third major tournament of the year.^[28]^[29] Three weeks later, Clayton picked up his fourth TV title of the year with an 11–6 victory over Dimitri Van den Bergh in the final of theWorld Series of Darts Finals.^[30]

2022

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At the2022 World Championship, Clayton reached the fourth round where he lost to eventual finalistMichael Smith 4–3.^[31] He reached the semi-finals of theMasters but was unable to defend his title, losing 11–6 to runner-upDave Chisnall.^[32]

Clayton entered the2022 Premier League as defending champion and secured qualification for the play-offs following his night 13 win inGlasgow.^[33] He finished first in the league phase with four nightly wins.^[34] He faced fourth-placedJoe Cullen in the play-off semi-finals and lost 10–4.^[35]

The Welsh team of Clayton andGerwyn Price reached the final of theWorld Cup of Darts but were defeated 3–1 byDamon Heta andSimon Whitlock of Australia.^[36] Clayton won his firstWorld Series of Darts title at theNew South Wales Darts Masters inWollongong, beatingJames Wade 8–1 in the final.^[37]

2023

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At the2023 World Championship, Clayton whitewashedDanny van Trijp 3–0 in his second-round tie,^[38] then defeatedBrendan Dolan 4–1 in the third round^[39] before beatingJosh Rock 4–3 to reach the quarter-finals for the first time in his career.^[40] He lost his quarter-final match toDimitri Van den Bergh 5–3.^[41]

Clayton was selected for thePremier League following his world championship campaign. He achieved back-to-back nightly wins on night nine and night ten, defeating reigning world championMichael Smith in the final of night nine before adding another final win overPeter Wright the next week.^[42]^[43] He qualified for the play-offs by finishing in fourth place in the league phase.^[44] This meant he faced league leaderGerwyn Price in the play-off semi-finals, who defeated Clayton 10–2.^[45]

In June, Clayton teamed with Price at theWorld Cup of Darts, with the Welsh pair winning their second World Cup title after a 10–2 victory over Scotland (Peter Wright andGary Anderson) in the final.^[46] The next month, Clayton reached the final of theWorld Matchplay but suffered a 18–6 defeat toNathan Aspinall.^[47]

2024

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At the2024 World Championship, Clayton won his second-round match 3–1 againstSteve Lennon,^[48] then defeatedKrzysztof Ratajski before being whitewashed 4–0 byRob Cross in the fourth round.^[49] He reached the final of theDutch Darts Championship in May, but lost 8–4 toJosh Rock.^[50] In July, he won his only title of the year atPlayers Championship 14 by defeatingWesley Plaisier 8–5 in the final.^[51]

2025

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Clayton reached the fourth round of the2025 World Championship, where he was defeated byGerwyn Price 4–2.^[52] Clayton produced his highest televisedthree-dart average in his first-round match againstMartin Schindler at theWorld Masters, averaging 112.77 to beat Schindler 3–1 in sets.^[53] He reached the final of the tournament, where he facedLuke Humphries. Clayton recovered from 5–2 down to level the match at 5–5, but ultimately lost 6–5 in a deciding leg.^[54] He defeatedGary Anderson and Michael Smith en route to the semi-finals of theUK Open, where he lost 11–6 toLuke Littler. This run saw him rise to world number five on the PDC Order of Merit.^[55]^[56]

Clayton earned his sole Players Championship title of the year atPlayers Championship 14 by winning the final 8–2 against Dominik Grüllich.^[57] In May, he won his third European Tour title at theDutch Darts Championship, earning wins overDanny Noppert in the quarter-finals and Luke Humphries in the semi-finals before defeatingNiko Springer 8–6 in the final.^[58] He representedWales at theWorld Cup of Darts alongside Gerwyn Price and the duo reached the final, but they were narrowly defeated in the final 10–9 byNorthern Ireland.^[59] He subsequently reached the semi-finals of theWorld Matchplay and theWorld Grand Prix, being denied a second 2025 major final byJames Wade and Luke Littler.^[60]^[61]

Personal life

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Clayton has a wife, Ellen, and two children.^[62]^[63] Before becoming a professional darts player, Clayton worked as aplasterer forCarmarthenshire County Council. He continued to work his plastering job for several years into his darts career. In 2022, he quit plastering to focus on darts full-time.^[64]

Clayton was ascrum-half and captain of amateurrugby union clubPontyberem RFC.^[65] A lounge named "The Ferret Lounge" has been established at the club in Clayton’s honour.^[66] He is a supporter of English football clubLiverpool.^[67] He has the number 97 under the back of his collar on his shirt, as a mark of respect for the people who died in theHillsborough disaster.^[68]

Clayton's father, John, died in July 2023. He considered quitting darts as a result. During a post-match press conference in December 2024, Clayton said, "It was over, I won’t lie to you. I had no interest, I didn’t want to play the game, I didn’t want to travel. It meant nothing to me… When I lost my dad, it hurt. He was my inspiration to keep playing. I said, 'That is it – I don’t want to do it any more.'"^[69]

World Championship results

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PDC

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2017: Second round (lost toIan White 1–4)
2018: First round (lost toJamie Lewis 0–3)
2019: Second round (lost toDimitri Van den Bergh 1–3)
2020: Third round (lost toStephen Bunting 0–4)
2021: Third round (lost toJoe Cullen 3–4)
2022: Fourth round (lost toMichael Smith 3–4)
2023: Quarter-finals (lost toDimitri Van den Bergh 3–5)
2024: Fourth round (lost toRob Cross 0–4)
2025: Fourth round (lost toGerwyn Price 2–4)

Career finals

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PDC major finals: 7 (4 titles)

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Legend
World Matchplay (0–1)
Premier League (1–0)
World Grand Prix (1–0)
World Masters (1–1)
Players Championship Finals (0–1)
World Series of Darts Finals (1–0)

Outcome	No.	Year	Championship	Opponent in the final	Score^{[N 1]}	Ref.
Runner-up	1.	2017	Players Championship Finals	Michael van Gerwen	2–11 (l)	^[12]
Winner	1.	2021	Masters	Mervyn King	11–8 (l)	^[70]
Winner	2.	2021	Premier League	José de Sousa	11–5 (l)	^[27]
Winner	3.	2021	World Grand Prix	Gerwyn Price	5–1 (s)	^[28]
Winner	4.	2021	World Series of Darts Finals	Dimitri Van den Bergh	11–6 (l)	^[30]
Runner-up	2.	2023	World Matchplay	Nathan Aspinall	6–18 (l)	^[47]
Runner-up	3.	2025	World Masters	Luke Humphries	5–6 (s)	^[54]

PDC team finals: 4 (2 titles)

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Outcome	No.	Year	Championship	Country	Teammate	Opponents in the final	Score^{[N 1]}
Winner	1.	2020	World Cup of Darts	Wales	Gerwyn Price	England –Michael Smith andRob Cross	3–0 (m)
Runner-up	1.	2022				Australia –Damon Heta andSimon Whitlock	1–3 (m)
Winner	2.	2023				Scotland – Peter Wright and Gary Anderson	10–2 (l)
Runner-up	2.	2025				Northern Ireland –Daryl Gurney andJosh Rock	9–10 (l)

PDC World Series finals: 2 (1 title)

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Outcome	No.	Year	Championship	Opponent in the final	Score
Winner	1.	2022	New South Wales Darts Masters	James Wade	8–1 (l)
Runner-up	1.	2022	New Zealand Darts Masters	Gerwyn Price	4–8 (l)

Career statistics

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Performance Table Legend
W	Won the tournament	F	Finalist	SF	Semifinalist	QF	Quarterfinalist	#R RR Prel.	Lost in # round Round-robin Preliminary round	DQ	Disqualified
DNQ	Did not qualify	DNP	Did not participate	WD	Withdrew	NH	Tournament not held	#R RR Prel.	Lost in # round Round-robin Preliminary round	NYF	Not yet founded

Performance timeline

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Tournament	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
PDC Ranked televised events
PDC World Championship	DNQ		2R	1R	2R	3R	3R	4R	QF	4R	4R
PDC World Masters	Did not qualify				1R	QF	W	SF	QF	1R	F
UK Open	1R	2R	3R	4R	5R	SF	6R	6R	6R	6R	SF
World Matchplay	Did not qualify			1R	1R	1R	2R	1R	F	2R	SF
World Grand Prix	Did not qualify			1R	1R	2R	W	2R	1R	QF	SF
European Championship	DNQ		2R	1R	2R	SF	DNQ	2R	1R	2R	1R
Grand Slam of Darts	RR	DNQ		QF	DNQ	2R	QF	2R	RR	DNQ	RR
Players Championship Finals	DNQ	1R	F	QF	1R	2R	SF	SF	2R	1R	1R
PDC Non-ranked televised events
Premier League Darts	Did not participate					C	W	SF	SF	DNP
PDC World Cup of Darts	DNP			QF	1R	W	SF	F	W	2R	F
World Series of Darts Finals	DNQ		1R	DNQ	QF	DNQ	W	SF	2R	1R	2R
Career statistics
Year-end ranking	74	60	31	15	16	17	8	7	9	7

PDC European Tour

Season	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14
2015	GDC DNP	GDT DNP	GDM DNQ	DDM 1R	IDO 2R	Did not qualify			EDG 2R
2016	Did not qualify			EDM 2R	ADO 2R	EDO 2R	IDO DNQ	EDT DNQ	EDG 3R	GDC DNQ
2017	GDC DNQ	GDM 2R	GDO DNQ	EDG 2R	GDT 2R	EDM DNQ	ADO 2R	Did not qualify				EDT 3R
2018	EDO 1R	GDG 2R	GDO DNQ	ADO W	EDG DNQ	DDM 1R	GDT QF	DDO 2R	EDM 2R	GDC 2R	DDC 2R	IDO 3R	EDT 3R
2019	EDO 3R	GDC 3R	GDG 2R	GDO 2R	ADO 2R	EDG 3R	DDM 2R	DDO SF	CDO 2R	ADC 2R	EDM QF	IDO 3R	GDT 2R
2020	BDC 1R	GDC F	EDG DNQ	IDO DNQ
2021	HDT 2R	GDT 2R
2022	IDO SF	GDC QF	GDG QF	ADO 3R	EDO 3R	CDO 2R	EDG 3R	DDC DNP	EDM 2R	HDT 2R	GDO 3R	BDO SF	GDT 3R
2023	BSD SF	EDO 2R	IDO QF	GDG 2R	ADO W	DDC 2R	BDO QF	CDO QF	EDG 2R	EDM 2R	GDO DNP	HDT 3R	GDC 2R
2024	BDO QF	GDG 2R	IDO 2R	EDG 3R	ADO 3R	BSD 2R	DDC F	EDO WD	GDC 2R	FDT 1R	HDT 2R	SDT 1R	CDO QF
2025	BDO QF	EDT 2R	IDO 2R	GDG 2R	ADO 2R	EDG 2R	DDC W	EDO SF	BSD QF	FDT 2R	CDO 3R	HDT WD	SDT QF	GDC 3R

PDC Players Championships

Season	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33
2015	BAR 1R	BAR 2R	BAR 1R	BAR 2R	BAR 2R	COV QF	COV 1R	COV 2R	CRA 1R	CRA 3R	BAR DNP		WIG 1R	WIG 1R	BAR 3R	BAR 1R	DUB 4R	DUB 1R	COV 2R	COV 1R
2016	BAR 1R	BAR 1R	BAR 4R	BAR 4R	BAR 1R	BAR 4R	BAR 1R	COV QF	COV 1R	BAR 1R	BAR 1R	BAR SF	BAR 2R	BAR 3R	BAR 1R	BAR 2R	DUB 4R	DUB 1R	BAR 2R	BAR 2R
2017	BAR 1R	BAR 1R	BAR 2R	BAR 2R	MIL 1R	MIL 2R	BAR 3R	BAR 1R	WIG 4R	WIG QF	MIL QF	MIL QF	WIG 3R	WIG 1R	BAR QF	BAR 2R	BAR 3R	BAR 4R	DUB 1R	DUB 1R	BAR 3R	BAR W
2018	BAR 3R	BAR 2R	BAR 1R	BAR 2R	MIL 2R	MIL 1R	BAR 2R	BAR 1R	WIG QF	WIG F	MIL 1R	MIL QF	WIG QF	WIG 4R	BAR 3R	BAR 2R	BAR 4R	BAR 1R	DUB 2R	DUB 1R	BAR 1R	BAR 1R
2019	WIG QF	WIG SF	WIG 1R	WIG 4R	BAR 4R	BAR 4R	WIG 3R	WIG SF	BAR 1R	BAR W	BAR QF	BAR QF	BAR 1R	BAR 1R	BAR 2R	BAR 4R	WIG 1R	WIG 1R	BAR 1R	BAR 3R	HIL 4R	HIL 2R	BAR 2R	BAR 3R	BAR 1R	BAR SF	DUB 2R	DUB 4R	BAR 4R	BAR QF
2020	BAR 1R	BAR 3R	WIG 3R	WIG 2R	WIG 1R	WIG 1R	BAR 1R	BAR 2R	MIL 3R	MIL QF	MIL 4R	MIL 1R	MIL 1R	NIE 1R	NIE 2R	NIE 2R	NIE 4R	NIE 2R	COV 3R	COV 2R	COV 4R	COV QF	COV 2R
2021	BOL F	BOL F	BOL QF	BOL W	MIL 2R	MIL 3R	MIL W	MIL 1R	NIE Did not participate				MIL SF	MIL 3R	MIL QF	MIL 4R	COV 4R	COV 4R	COV 4R	COV 2R	BAR 2R	BAR 4R	BAR F	BAR Did not participate				BAR 2R	BAR 4R	BAR QF
2022	BAR QF	BAR 1R	WIG 1R	WIG 4R	BAR 3R	BAR 4R	NIE DNP		BAR 4R	BAR 3R	BAR 3R	BAR QF	BAR 4R	DNP			NIE 3R	BAR 1R	BAR 1R	BAR QF	BAR F	BAR DNP			BAR 2R	BAR 2R	BAR 3R	BAR 4R	BAR 1R	BAR 1R
2023	BAR SF	BAR 3R	BAR 4R	BAR 4R	BAR 3R	BAR 3R	HIL 2R	HIL 2R	WIG SF	WIG 4R	LEI 1R	LEI W	HIL DNP		LEI QF	LEI QF	HIL DNP		BAR 1R	BAR 1R	BAR 1R	BAR 2R	BAR QF	BAR SF	BAR 1R	BAR 2R	BAR 3R	BAR 2R	BAR 1R	BAR 3R
2024	WIG 1R	WIG 3R	LEI 3R	LEI 4R	HIL 4R	HIL 4R	LEI 1R	LEI 4R	HIL 3R	HIL 3R	HIL DNP		MIL QF	MIL W	MIL 3R	MIL 3R	MIL 1R	MIL 3R	MIL 1R	WIG 3R	WIG 4R	LEI QF	LEI QF	WIG 3R	WIG 3R	WIG DNP	WIG QF	WIG QF	LEI 1R	LEI F
2025	WIG 4R	WIG 3R	ROS 4R	ROS 1R	LEI 3R	LEI 1R	HIL DNP		LEI 3R	LEI 1R	LEI 1R	LEI QF	ROS SF	ROS W	HIL DNP		LEI 1R	LEI 4R	LEI 3R	LEI QF	LEI 4R	HIL DNP		MIL 3R	MIL F	HIL DNP		LEI QF	LEI QF	LEI 3R	WIG 2R	WIG 2R	WIG DNP

PDC World Series of Darts

Season	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
2021	NOR SF
2022	USA QF	NOR DNP	DUT 1R	QUE 1R	NSW W	NZE F
2023	BAH QF	NOR SF	USA DNP	POL DNP	NSW DNP	NZE DNP
2025	BAH DNP	DUT DNP	NOR QF	USA DNP	POL 1R	AUS DNP	NZE DNP

Performance Table Legend
W	Won the tournament	F	Finalist	SF	Semifinalist	QF	Quarterfinalist	#R RR Prel.	Lost in # round Round-robin Preliminary round	DQ	Disqualified
DNQ	Did not qualify	DNP	Did not participate	WD	Withdrew	NH	Tournament not held	#R RR Prel.	Lost in # round Round-robin Preliminary round	NYF	Not yet founded

Nine-dart finishes

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Jonny Clayton's televised nine-dart finishes
Date	Opponent	Tournament	Method
7 March 2020	Chris Dobey	UK Open	3 x T20; 3 x T20; T20, T19, D12
7 April 2021	José de Sousa	Premier League	3 x T20; 3 x T20; T20, T19, D12

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Media related toJonny Clayton at Wikimedia Commons
Jonny Clayton player profile at Darts Orakel

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Premier tournament winners	Phil Taylor (79) Michael van Gerwen (48) James Wade (11) Luke Littler (9) Gary Anderson (8) Luke Humphries (8) Peter Wright (8) Gerwyn Price (7) Raymond van Barneveld (6) Jonny Clayton (4) Rob Cross (4) Adrian Lewis (4) John Part (3) Nathan Aspinall (2) Daryl Gurney (2) Rod Harrington (2) Colin Lloyd (2) Michael Smith (2) Robert Thornton (2) Dimitri Van den Bergh (2) Stephen Bunting Larry Butler Joe Cullen Mike De Decker Chris Dobey Glen Durrant Ritchie Edhouse Peter Evison Andrew Gilding Peter Manley Paul Nicholson Danny Noppert Colin Osborne Kevin Painter Dennis Priestley Roland Scholten Ross Smith José de Sousa Mensur Suljović Gian van Veen Scott Waites Alan Warriner-Little Simon Whitlock
World Series event winners	Michael van Gerwen (16) Phil Taylor (8) Gary Anderson (6) Rob Cross (5) Luke Littler (4) Gerwyn Price (4) Peter Wright (4) Michael Smith (3) Stephen Bunting (2) Luke Humphries (2) Dimitri Van den Bergh (2) Kyle Anderson Nathan Aspinall Jonny Clayton Damon Heta Adrian Lewis Mensur Suljović
World Cup winners	Raymond van Barneveld (4) Adrian Lewis (4) Phil Taylor (4) Michael van Gerwen (3) Jonny Clayton (2) Gerwyn Price (2) Peter Wright (2) Gary Anderson Daryl Gurney John Henderson Damon Heta Luke Humphries Josh Rock Michael Smith Co Stompé Simon Whitlock

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