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The PDC Order of Merit is a world ranking system used by one of the darts organisations, the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC). Following the 2007 PDC World Darts Championship it superseded a world ranking system based on points being awarded for performances in ranking tournaments.
PDC Order of Merit as of 2 August 2024. [1]Players ranked 1 - 32: Rank Change Player Earnings 1 Luke Humphries £1,647,250 2 Michael Smith £1,060,750 3 Michael van Gerwen £964,500
The top 64 in the PDC Order of Merit all receive Tour Cards automatically, and those who won a two-year card in 2023 still have a valid card for 2024. The top two players from the 2023 Challenge Tour and Development Tour received cards automatically.
The top 2 players on the Order of Merit get a PDC Tour Card and a place at the 2025 PDC World Darts Championship, while the winner of the Order of Merit gets a spot at the 2024 Grand Slam of Darts as well. The Challenge Tour rankings are additionally used to top up Players Championship events should not all 128 Tour Card holders choose to enter.
The European Championship is a tournament that allows the top players in Europe to compete against the top players in the PDC Order of Merit. In 2016 it changed to the top 32 in the European tour Order of Merit. It started in 2008 and for the first six years had a £200,000 prize fund. It has increased since then.
The top 64 in the PDC Order of Merit all receive Tour Cards automatically, and those who won a two-year card in 2021 still had a valid card for 2022. The top player from the European and UK branches of the 2021 Challenge Tour and Development Tour received cards automatically.
The PDC announced the 8 players who will represent them at the event on 7 May. Both Michael van Gerwen and Nathan Aspinall declined their invites for family reasons. [2]The seedings were based on the World Series Order of Merit following the first 6 events.
If the list of qualifiers from the main tournaments produced fewer than the required number of players (16), the field will be filled from the reserve lists. The first list consisted of the winners from 2024 European Tour events, in which the winners were ordered firstly by number of wins, then Order of Merit position order at the cut-off date.