| Matthew Edgar | |||||||||
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 Edgar in 2022 | |||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||
| Nickname | "Prime Time" | ||||||||
| Born | (1986-08-28)28 August 1986 (age 39) Doncaster, England | ||||||||
| Home town | Daventry, England | ||||||||
| Darts information | |||||||||
| Playing darts since | 2001 | ||||||||
| Darts | 21g Mission Signature "Edgar TV" | ||||||||
| Laterality | Right-handed | ||||||||
| Walk-on music | "Sweet Child o' Mine" byGuns N' Roses previously "Buck Rogers" byFeeder | ||||||||
| Organisation (seesplit in darts) | |||||||||
| PDC | 2011–2022 (Tour Card 2012–2013, 2015–2016, 2018–2021) | ||||||||
| WDF | 2023– | ||||||||
| Current world ranking | (WDF)NR (7 November 2025)[1] | ||||||||
| WDF major events – best performances | |||||||||
| World Championship | Last 48:2024 | ||||||||
| World Masters | Last 32: 2024 | ||||||||
| PDC premier events – best performances | |||||||||
| World Championship | Last 64:2021 | ||||||||
| UK Open | Last 32:2011,2018,2020 | ||||||||
| PC Finals | Last 64:2016,2018,2019 | ||||||||
| Other tournament wins | |||||||||
WDF Events (x2)
PDC Challenge Tour (x2)
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Matthew Edgar (born 28 August 1986) is an Englishdarts player who competes inWorld Darts Federation (WDF) andProfessional Darts Corporation (PDC) events. Nicknamed "Prime Time", Edgar has won 2 WDF ranking titles and has won two titles on thePDC Challenge Tour. A formerPDC Tour Card holder, he has played in tenUK Opens, and four World Championships (threePDC and oneWDF).
Edgar joined the PDC in 2011, and qualified for the2011 UK Open. He defeatedNigel Heydon, Andy Pearce and Martyn Turner on the way to the last 32, where he lost toAndy Boulton 9–5.
In January 2012, he entered theProfessional Darts CorporationPro Tour 'Q School' qualifying tournament.On the first day, Edgar lost to Darren Whittingham 6–4 at the final stage.[2]After four days playing in the event in Barnsley, Edgar gained his professional tour card for the 2012 and 2013 seasons. His best results of 2012 came in two UK Open Qualifiers, where he lost in the last 16 to Johnny Haines andRichie Howson respectively.[3] These results helped him to reach theUK Open for the second time where he was beaten in the second round byKevin McDine.[4] He could not advance beyond the last 32 in any of the rest of the events he played in the year.[3]
Edgar went into 2013 ranked world number 81,[5] and reached his first PDC quarter-final at the eighthUK Open Qualifier where he was edged out 5–6 byAdrian Lewis. He was seeded 50th for theUK Open itself, meaning he began at the second round stage, with a 5–4 win overColin Osborne.[6] He faced reigning championRobert Thornton in the third round and led 6–4, before going on to lose 7–9.[7] Edgar also qualified for two European Tour events during the year, losing in the first round of theGibraltar Darts Trophy and beatingStuart Kellett 6–1 at theGerman Darts Championship before being defeated 6–2 byPaul Nicholson in the second round.[8]
Edgar began 2014 outside of the world's top 64 and entered Q School in an attempt to win his place back, coming closest on the third day when he advanced to the last 32 but lost 5–2 to Darron Brown.[9][10] Edgar only had PDPA Associate Member status for the year ahead which allowed him to compete in UK Open and European Tour qualifiers as well as the Challenge Tour.[11] He qualified for theUK Open and lost 5–3 to Spain'sAntonio Alcinas in the second round.[12] Edgar was a runner-up in the firstChallenge Tour event of the year when he lost 5–4 to Jamie Robinson, but he went one better in the fourth event by claiming the title with a deciding leg victory overMark Frost.[13][14] He came within a match of qualifying for both the2014 Grand Slam of Darts and2015 World Championship but was beaten on both occasions.[15]
On the second day of 2015 Q School, Edgar won seven matches ending with a 5–0 whitewash ofAndy Boulton to earn a new two-year tour card.[15] He reached the quarter-finals of the thirdUK Open Qualifier, but was edged out 6–5 byAdrian Lewis.[16] Edgar also suffered a narrow defeat in the second round of theUK Open, 5–4 against Jason Mold.[17] The only European Tour event he could qualify for was the2015 International Darts Open and he beatDarren Webster 6–5, but was whitewahsed byDave Chisnall 6–0 in the second round.[18]
A last 16 showing in the finalqualifier saw Edgar enter theUK Open at the second round stage and he beat Mark Wilson 6–4, before losing 9–3 toMark Webster.[19][20] He had two last 16 finishes inPlayers Championship events, before reaching the quarter-finals for the only time this season at the final one by defeatingJelle Klaasen,Wayne Jones,Cristo Reyes andRobbie Green, before losing toBenito van de Pas 6–2.[21] It was this result which saw Edgar make his debut in thePlayers Championship Finals and he lost toSimon Whitlock 6–3 in the first round.[22]
With his tour card status now expired, Edgar enteredQ–School. He finished 13th on the Order of Merit, just one point shy of reclaiming his place.[23] A host of injuries including a broken hand restricted the amount of entries available through the year which meant he did not qualify for2017 UK Open, the first time in Edgar's career he did not qualify. There were positive signs in the Summer when Edgar won a second Challenge Tour title came beatingBarrie Bates 5–2 in the final.
Edgar re-gained his PDC Tour Card atQ–School, finishing 9th on the UK Q–School Order of Merit.
On the2018 PDC Pro Tour, he competed in the2018 UK Open Qualifiers.[24]
At UK Open Qualifier 1 he defeatedAdam Hunt 6–5 in a deciding leg,Mick McGowan 6–1,Mark Webster 6–5 in a deciding leg andMervyn King 6–2 to reach the fourth round (Last 16), where he was beaten byKyle Anderson, who averaged 107.32 to Edgar's 95.40, 6–2.[25]
At UK Open Qualifier 2, Edgar defeated Charlie Jackson 6–5 in a deciding leg and Philip Borthwick 6–4, then bothAndrew Gilding andCristo Reyes 6–5 in last-leg deciders. This meant Edgar reached the Last 16 in successive UK Open qualifiers, where he lost toJustin Pipe 6–5 in another deciding leg.[26]
Edgar became the 23rd seed for the2018 UK Open and entered in the third round. There, he achieved a 10–4 win overJohn Henderson, reaching the fourth round for the second time in his career, but lost toSteve West 10–7 in round 4.
In April Edgar made his return to thePDC European Tour at the2018 German Darts Open, where he lost toSteve West 6–2 in the first round.
Edgar did enough on the Players Championship circuit to qualify for the2018 Players Championship Finals where he metMichael van Gerwen in the first round and lost 6–2. He also managed to qualify for the2019 PDC World Darts Championship through the ProTour.
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In the2019 PDC World Darts Championship, Edgar playedDarius Labanauskas in the first round and lost 3–1 despite winning the first set.
Edgar started the year off placed world number 68, so to maintain his tour card for next season he needed to jump 4 places in the rankings. He played in the2019 UK Open where he made the third round before losing toRyan Searle 6–3. He qualified again for thePlayers Championship Finals that year and played Dave Chisnall in the first round. He lost 6–2.
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Edgar had not managed to do enough on the tour to qualify for the2020 PDC World Championship. He entered the last chance Tour Card Holder qualifier and managed to come through it with wins overTytus Kanik, Gary Eastwood andChristian Bunse, before beating Adam Hunt 7–4 to book his place at Alexandra Palace. However, he lost toDarius Labanauskas once again.
He was unable to achieve qualification for a 3rd year running for thePlayers Championship Finals, however the day after the Players Championship Final at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry, he qualified for the2021 PDC World Darts Championship via the UK Tour Card Holder Qualifiers, beating Josh Payne 7–2 in the last 8 to confirm his place in his 3rd successive PCC World Championship.
Edgar finally progressed past the first round of the World Championship in the2021 edition bywhitewashingMaik Kuivenhoven 3–0 in sets. In round 2, he lost toMensur Suljović 3–1.[27]
Matthew returned to PDC Q-School looking to regain his tour card. During the first 3 days, Edgar picked up 0 points, which left him needing to reach the Final on Day 4 as a minimum. The day brought the best out in Edgar, and he progressed to the Semi-Finals, the highlight being a 106.35 average againstKai Fan Leung in the Last 64. Unfortunately for Matt, he lost againstNathan Rafferty 6–3 in the Semi-Final, leaving him outside of the Tour Card spots in the Q-School Order of Merit.[28][29]
In 2023 Edgar won 2 WDF ranking events, the Iceland Masters and the Slovenian Open.
Edgar was the runner-up at the 2024Welsh Open, he lost to Andy Davidson 5–1 in the final.[30]
Edgar qualified for the2024 WDF World Darts Championship at theLakeside Country Club virtue of being ranked 20th on their World Championship rankings race.[31] He was drawn to playDutch Open champion Jarno Bottenberg in the first round, who defeated him 2–0 in sets.[32]
Edgar practices with former world championship runner-upKevin Painter. He has previously worked forNorthampton Town as a sports coach.[33] Edgar also runs a YouTube channel dedicated to darts called "Edgar TV Darts", where he regularly answers questions raised by followers and chronicles his journeys through various PDC and WDF competitions.[34]
Before starting his darts career, Edgar was aprofessional wrestler and trained inmixed martial arts.[35]
The Online Betting Guide,OLBG, began sponsoring Matthew Edgar in 2011 and have since sponsored the darts player intermittently for over 13 years. In 2024 they supported his journey to qualify for Lakeside 2024 at the WDF World Championships.[36]
PDC
| Tournament | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | |||
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| PDC Ranked televised events | |||||||||||||
| PDC World Championship | Did not qualify | 1R | 1R | 2R | |||||||||
| UK Open | 4R | 2R | 3R | 2R | 2R | 3R | 4R | 3R | 5R | 3R | |||
| Players Championship Finals | Did not qualify | 1R | 1R | 1R | DNQ | ||||||||
| Career statistics | |||||||||||||
| PDC Year-end ranking | 96 | 102 | 81 | 141 | 107 | 77 | 86 | 66 | 66 | 62 | |||
WDF
| Tournament | 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| WDF World Championship | 1R | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| WDF World Masters | 4R | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| WDF Year-end ranking | 37 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
PDC European Tour
| Season | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |
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| 2013 | Did not qualify | GDT 1R | GDC 2R | DNQ | |||||||||
| 2015 | Did not qualify | IDO 2R | Did not qualify | ||||||||||
| 2018 | DNQ | GDO 1R | Did not qualify | EDT 3R | |||||||||
| 2019 | EDO 1R | Did not qualify | EDG 1R | DNQ | EDM 1R | DNQ | |||||||
PDC Players Championships
| Performance Table Legend | |||||||||||
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| W | Won the tournament | F | Finalist | SF | Semifinalist | QF | Quarterfinalist | #R RR L# | Lost in # round Round-robin Last # stage | DQ | Disqualified |
| DNQ | Did not qualify | DNP | Did not participate | WD | Withdrew | NH | Tournament not held | NYF | Not yet founded | ||