| Robert Owen | |||||
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 Owen at the2025 World Championship | |||||
| Personal information | |||||
| Full name | Robert Owen | ||||
| Nickname | "Stack Attack" | ||||
| Born | (1984-09-23)September 23, 1984 (age 41)[1] Ogmore Valley, Wales[2] | ||||
| Home town | Lewistown, Bridgend, Wales | ||||
| Darts information | |||||
| Playing darts since | 2008 | ||||
| Darts | 23g Red Dragon | ||||
| Laterality | Right-handed | ||||
| Walk-on music | "Jumping All Over the World" byScooter | ||||
| Organisation (seesplit in darts) | |||||
| PDC | 2014–2020, 2022– (Tour Card: 2014–2019, 2023–) | ||||
| WDF | 2021–2022 | ||||
| Current world ranking | (PDC) 58 (23 November 2025)[3] | ||||
| PDC premier events – best performances | |||||
| World Championship | Last 16:2025 | ||||
| UK Open | Semi-final:2018 | ||||
| PC Finals | Last 64:2017 | ||||
| Other tournament wins | |||||
WDF Ranked
PDC Challenge Tour
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Robert Owen (born 23 September 1984) is aWelsh professionaldarts player competes inProfessional Darts Corporation (PDC) events. He reached his first PDC major semi-final at the2018 UK Open. Owen won his first secondary tour title at2022 PDC Challenge Tour 16. His placing on the Challenge Tour ranking re-gained him aPDC Tour Card, which he has held since 2023, having previously had one from 2014 to 2019. Owen previously competed inWorld Darts Federation (WDF) events, winning the 2022England Classic.
His best World Championship performance is reaching the last 16 at the2025 PDC World Championship.
Owen secured himself a Tour card in 2014 with a one-day win in PDC Q-School. During the first two years, he was not able to earn enough prize money on the PDC Pro Tour to get into top 64 and had to play Q-School again in 2016. This time he earned a Tour Card via the points ranking. Later in the year, he only managed to qualify once for an event on the European Darts Tour with the2016 European Darts Grand Prix.
In February 2017 he reached the quarter-finals of Players Championship 2 and qualified for three tournaments on the European Tour. Owen reached the quarter finals of the2017 Dutch Darts Masters after defeating Jamie Bain,Cristo Reyes andSimon Whitlock, but was narrowly defeated in 6–5 byMichael Smith.[4]
He made his televised debut at the2017 Players Championship Finals, but was defeated top seedRob Cross 6–2 in the first round.[5]
Despite his results in 2017, he had to compete again at Q-School in 2018, where he secured a Tour card for the third time by winning the second day. Owen qualified for the2018 UK Open, where starting at the second round stage, he defeatedMichael Burgoine,Jamie Lewis,Nathan Rafferty,Ian White andJohn Part to reach the semi finals in only his second televised event, but was defeated byCorey Cadby.[6]
However, Owen lost his Tour card after failing to qualify for the2020 PDC World Darts Championship. He was unable to earn his card back at Q-School. Owen therefore competed in tournaments on the PDC Challenge Tour for the first time. He reached the2020 UK Open via a Rileys Qualifier, where he was eliminated in the first round byLewis Williams.
In January 2022, he reached the final atPDC Challenge Tour 1 but lost toScott Williams 5–2.[7][8]In July, he reached a second final at Challenge Tour 13 but lost toJurjen van der Velde 5–3.[9] In September, however, he prevailed in the Challenge Tour 16 final against theChristian Kist 5–2, securing his first title in the PDC. Owen was the runner-up on the2022 PDC Challenge Tour series Order of Merit, which qualified him for the2023 PDC World Darts Championship and secured him a Tour card for the 2023 and 2024 seasons. He was eliminated in the first round byAndrew Gilding 3–2.[10]
On 5 September 2023 Owen hit anine-dart finish againstRitchie Edhouse atPlayers Championship 21.[11]
In 2024 Owen qualified for three PDC European Tour events in the later part of the year, making it into the second round for the first time since 2017 at both the2024 German Darts Championship and the2024 Flanders Darts Trophy.[12]
Owen initially did not qualify for2025 PDC World Darts Championship, having finished in 33rd place on the Pro Tour Order of Merit race, one place below the cut-off. However, afterDom Taylor received a suspension due to failed drug test, Owen took his place instead, giving him still possibility to retain his Tour card.[13] He won againstNiels Zonneveld 3–1 in the first round, then defeatedGabriel Clemens 3–1 in the second round. Due to other players competing for places in the top 64 on the Order of Merit also winning games, Owen still needed to win at least one more match to keep his Tour card. He did so by defeatingRicky Evans 4–2 in the third round, securing his tour card for the 2025 season and reaching the last 16 in the World Championship for the first time. In the fourth round he lost toCallan Rydz 4–3 in a deciding set. Owen finished the 2024 season in 59th place on the Order of Merit.[14]
Owen studied at Ogmore Comprehensive School and Bridgend College. His wife Robyn works with the NHS, while Owen himself still works part time as a delivery driver forIceland.[15][16]
| Tournament | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | ||||||||
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| PDC Ranked televised events | |||||||||||||||
| PDC World Championship | Did not qualify | 1R | DNQ | 4R | |||||||||||
| UK Open | DNQ | SF | 3R | 1R | 1R | 3R | 6R | ||||||||
| Players Championship Finals | 1R | Did not qualify | |||||||||||||
| Career statistics | |||||||||||||||
| Year-end ranking (PDC) | 80 | 76 | 74 | - | 116 | 59 | |||||||||
PDC European Tour
| Season | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Did not qualify | EDG 1R | GDC DNQ | |||||||||||
| 2017 | GDC DNQ | GDM 1R | Did not qualify | DDM QF | GDG 1R | DNQ | ||||||||
| 2018 | Did not qualify | EDG 1R | DNQ | EDM 1R | Did not qualify | |||||||||
| 2019 | Did not qualify | EDG 1R | Did not qualify | |||||||||||
| 2023 | DNQ | GDG 1R | DNQ | BDO 1R | Did not qualify | HDT 1R | GDC DNQ | |||||||
| 2024 | Did not qualify | GDC 2R | FDT 2R | DNQ | CDO 1R | |||||||||
| 2025 | DNQ | IDO 1R | Did not qualify | HDT 2R | DNQ | |||||||||
PDC Players Championships
| 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 | NYF | Not yet founded | ||