| Women's World Matchplay | |
|---|---|
| Tournament information | |
| Venue | Winter Gardens |
| Location | Blackpool,England |
| Established | 2022 |
| Organisation(s) | PDC |
| Format | Legs |
| Prize fund | £25,000 (2025) |
| Month(s) Played | July |
| Current champion(s) | |
 Lisa Ashton | |
TheWomen's World Matchplay is a televised darts tournament organised by theProfessional Darts Corporation (PDC) and the only televised PDC event open exclusively to women. Since its inception in 2022, the Women's World Matchplay has been hosted at theWinter Gardens inBlackpool, the same venue as theWorld Matchplay, which is not restricted to players of one gender.
The tournament is a straight knockout tournament featuring the eight players ranked highest on the Women's World Matchplay Order of Merit, which tracks total prize money earned on thePDC Women's Series over an approximately twelve-month period prior to the event.[1] Matches in the quarter-finals are played over the best of 7 legs, while the semi-finals and final are played over the best of 9 and best of 11 legs respectively.[2] Unlike theWorld Matchplay, matches do not have to be won by two legs.
Following the demise of theBritish Darts Organisation in 2020, there were few events for women's darts.[3] In response, the PDC established the Women's Series, originally as weekend-long qualifying event as for the PDC World Championship and then as an annual tour from 2021.[4][5] In 2022, to further expand their presence in the women's game, the PDC announced the founding of the Women's World Matchplay. This became the first televised PDC women's tournament (though the final of the one-off2010 Women's World Darts Championship was televised, also during the World Matchplay).[6][7][8]
Thefirst Women's World Matchplay was won byFallon Sherrock, who beatAileen de Graaf 6–3 in a final that had been initially tight before Sherrock was able to pull away. Following the 2022 World Matchplay,Beau Greaves began to play PDC events, winning every post-Matchplay event on the2022 Women's Series and leading the qualification for the2023 Women's World Matchplay.[9][10] Greaves lived up to her top seed status by winning the 2023 tournament, comfortably beatingMikuru Suzuki in the final.[11] At the 2023 tournament,Noa-Lynn van Leuven became the firsttransgender woman to play in a televised darts tournament, but was unable to win a leg, losing to Greaves 4–0 in the quarter-final.[12][13]
In2024, Greaves became the first player to defend the Women's World Matchplay title, averaging 98.75 in the final to comfortably defeat a valiant Sherrock 6–3.[14] However, she could not repeat the feat in2025, incurring her first defeat at the Winter Gardens in the semi-final toLisa Ashton.[15] Ashton would go on to win the tournament in a tense final, surviving 11 match darts thrown by her opponent, Fallon Sherrock.[16]
| Year | Winner(average in final) | Score | Runner-up(average in final) | Prize money | Venue | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | Winner | Runner-up | |||||
| 2022 | Fallon Sherrock(82.14) | 6–3[17] |  Aileen de Graaf(76.30) | £25,000 | £10,000 | £5,000 | Winter Gardens,Blackpool |
| 2023 | Beau Greaves(79.85) | 6–1[18] |  Mikuru Suzuki(72.12) | ||||
| 2024 | Beau Greaves(98.75) | 6–3[19] | Fallon Sherrock(87.60) | ||||
| 2025 | Lisa Ashton(85.49) | 6–5[20] | Fallon Sherrock(89.61) | ||||
Statistics up to and including the 2025 tournament.
| Player | Apps. | Debut | W | RU | SF | QF | Highest average |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beau Greaves | 3 | 2023 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 98.75 |
| Fallon Sherrock | 4 | 2022 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 89.61 |
| Lisa Ashton | 4 | 2022 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 85.49 |
| Mikuru Suzuki | 2 | 2023 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 92.16 |
| Aileen de Graaf | 2 | 2022 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 84.13 |
| Noa-Lynn van Leuven | 3 | 2023 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 78.36 |
| Lorraine Winstanley | 2 | 2022 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 76.93 |
 Robyn Byrne | 2 | 2023 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 81.68 |
| Katie Sheldon | 2 | 2022 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 73.78 |
 Rhian O'Sullivan | 2 | 2023 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 83.48 |
 Chloe O'Brien | 1 | 2022 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 61.17 |
| Laura Turner | 1 | 2022 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 69.84 |
| Rhian Griffiths | 1 | 2022 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 71.26 |
 Anastasia Dobromyslova | 1 | 2024 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 73.22 |
| Gemma Hayter | 1 | 2025 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 81.29 |
 Kirsi Viinikainen | 1 | 2025 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 73.44 |