Steve West (born 5 June 1975) is an Englishdarts player. He is the younger brother of 2003World MasterTony West.

West showed signs of a promising career quickly by reaching the final of the 2005 French Open, losing to local Dominique le Roy. He also reached the last 32 of the 2005 World Masters where he lost toGary Anderson. In 2007, West reached another Open final in the 2007 Dutch Open, one of the BDO's biggest Open tournaments. Amongst his scalps were DutchmenCo Stompé and Edwin Max before losing in the final toScott Waites. Following this and three further quarter-finals, he qualified for the2007 International Darts League, but was knocked out at the Preliminary Group Stage.

West then won his first Open title, winning the 2007 Denmark Open, beating the Netherlands'Niels de Ruiter in the semi-finals and then beat fellow EnglishmanJames Wilson in the final. His performances earned him qualification for the2008 BDO World Championship. He faced former World ChampionTed Hankey in the first round and lost 3–2 despite leading 2–1. West bounced back from his Lakeside defeat to win the 2008 German Gold Cup beatingAndree Welge in the final. He then won the Finnish Open, beating local favourite and former Masters finalistJarkko Komula in the semi-finals and then beat Norway'sRobert Wagner in the final. He also made two semi-final showings in the Belgium Open and the French Open and reached the quarter-finals of the Northern Ireland Open. These performances helped West qualify automatically for the2009 BDO World Championship at theLakeside, where he was the number 13 seed. However, he was outclassed byAlan Norris 3–0 in the first round. West could not better this in 2010 either, as once again he relinquished a 2–1 lead this time to Irish débutante Martin McCloskey. In 2011, West once more lost in the first round to 2010 finalistDave Chisnall after missing three darts at double top to win before Chisnall came back to force a tiebreak in the final set and eventually win. In 2012, West lost in the first round of the BDO World Championship for the fifth year in a row against former runner-up and world #1Tony O'Shea. This levelled him with Davy Richardson andTony Payne for the record of most first-round losses at the World Championship before finally winning.

It was announced at the end of the 2012 BDO World Championship that Steve would be one of many players to compete in the rival PDC's 'Q School' the following season, including his brother Tony.

Steve won a PDC tour card in the second day of 2012 qualifiers, defeatingGino Vos in the last round a day after Tony had earned his card.^[1] However, he did not play the full schedule of PDC ProTour events due to major hip surgery and could not advance beyond the last 64 in any of the ones he did play.^[2][3] He returned in 2013 to play in each of the eightUK Open Qualifiers where his best result came in event five, losing in the last 16 toJelle Klaasen.^[4] West was placed 44th on theUK Open Order of Merit to enter the event in the second round, where he beat Jake Pennington 5–3.^[5] Further wins followed overIan White andRichie Burnett to set up a fifth round meeting againstPeter Wright, which he lost 9–4.^[6][7] The furthest he advanced during the rest of the season came in twoPlayers Championships where he lost in the last 32 toPaul Nicholson and Wright both by 6–4 scorelines.^[8]

West's two-year PDC tour card expired after the2014 World Championship and he finished outside the top 64 on the Order of Merit so therefore entered Q School in January 2014 to retain his place.^[9][10] He was successful on the final day by defeatingMareno Michels 5–3 in his last match, revealing afterwards that he has changed his throwing action due to a hip replacement and bone graft he received in late 2012.^[2] He qualified for theUK Open where he lost 5–4 against Tony Randall in the second round.^[11] West played in two European Tour events during the campaign, theGerman Darts Masters andEuropean Darts Trophy, and was defeated byDave Chisnall andSimon Whitlock both in the second round.^[12][13]

West began 2015 just outside the top 64 in the world rankings as he was number 66 and so once again entered Q School. On the third day he came through the event for the third time by beating Tim Martin 5–2 in the final round to earn a fresh two-year tour card.^[14] He was eliminated in the last 16 stage of fourPlayers Championships during the year and lost 6–5 toTerry Jenkins in the second round of theEuropean Darts Trophy after leading 4–1.^[15][16] West made his debut in theGrand Slam of Darts this year after overcomingDean Winstanley,Wes Newton, Robert Owen and Eddie Dootson in the qualifying event.^[17] He finished third in his group after losing 5–2 and 5–3 toKim Huybrechts andMichael van Gerwen and recording a 5–0 whitewash over Mark Oosterhuis.^[18]

In 2016 West's best results came in the second half of the year. Wins overMike Zuydwijk,William O'Connor,Jeffrey de Zwaan,Simon Whitlock,Cristo Reyes andRicky Evans at the 16thPlayers Championship event saw him play in his first PDC final. West was 4–2 down toMichael van Gerwen, but took out a 116 finish to lead 5–4. He threw for the title in a deciding leg and was unable to take out 110 as Van Gerwen won it 6–5.^[19] A semi-final followed in the 18th event after beatingAdrian Lewis 6–3 and he lost 6–1 to Whitlock.^[20] The result qualified him for theWorld Grand Prix and he pulled off what he called the biggest moment of his darting life by knocking out 11-time winner of the eventPhil Taylor 2–1.^[21] He lost 3–0 toDaryl Gurney in the second round with each set going to a deciding leg.^[22] He met his brotherTony in the first round of theGerman Darts Championship and averaged 109.98 in a 6–0 whitewash.^[23] West went on to see offStephen Bunting 6–2 andKim Huybrechts 6–5, before being defeated 6–2 byAlan Norris in the quarter-finals.^[24] He qualified for his firstEuropean Championship and lost the first five legs againstJelle Klaasen in the opening round and went on to be eliminated 6–3.^[25]

On hisPDC World Championship debut, West won the opening two sets and was on 36 for the match in the third, whenMervyn King took out 136, went on to win the set and level at 2–2. In the decider, West missed two match darts and was knocked out 3–2.^[26]

After a solid 2017 in which West reached a Pro Tour final (losing toMichael van Gerwen in a deciding leg) and won several matches in televised majors, West finally picked up his first ever victory at either version of the world championship at the seventh time of asking, by defeatingBenito van de Pas 3–1 in the first round. He followed this with a win over another Dutchman,Jermaine Wattimena, 4–1 after surviving several darts to go 1–0 down. He was defeated by two-time championGary Anderson 4–2 in the last 16.West lost his tour card following the 2023 World Championship.

• 2008: First round (lost toTed Hankey 2–3)
• 2009: First round (lost toAlan Norris 0–3)
• 2010: First round (lost to Martin McCloskey 2–3)
• 2011: First round (lost toDave Chisnall 2–3)
• 2012: First round (lost toTony O'Shea 0–3)

• 2017: First round (lost toMervyn King 2–3)
• 2018: Third round (lost toGary Anderson 2–4)
• 2019: Third round (lost toDevon Petersen 2–4)
• 2020: Second round (lost toRyan Searle 0–3)
• 2021: Second round (lost toPeter Wright 1–3)

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