World Championship Heritage Number Wall introduced at Ally Pally

World Championship Heritage Number Wall

The 2022/23 Cazoo World Darts Championship has seen the launch of heritage numbers to represent the 440 players who have previously competed in the PDC’s flagship tournament.

Sportradar’s Steve Morgan has worked through the tournament’s record-books to determine the order in which all previous competitors have played in the tournament, allocating their heritage numbers accordingly.

Dennis Priestley won the inaugural PDC World Championship in 1994, and he fittingly occupies the number one spot on the heritage list, after taking on Scottish legend Jocky Wilson in the tournament’s opener and throwing the event’s first-ever dart almost three decades ago.

Phil Taylor – a winner of 14 PDC World Championship titles during his illustrious career – occupies the number 11 spot on the heritage list, ahead of the late five-time World Champion Eric Bristow, who is number 19.

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Canadian legend John Part – one of six players to win multiple PDC World Championship titles – was the 35th player to feature in the sport’s showpiece event, having made his debut in 1998.

Gayl King is number 45 after becoming the first woman to feature in the World Championship in 2001, while Fallon Sherrock – the first woman to taste victory, three years ago – comes in at 399 on the list.

Two-time World Champion Adrian Lewis competed in his 18th consecutive World Championship appearance this year, and the Stoke-on-Trent star is 104, having made his debut in the 2005/2006 edition.

Raymond van Barneveld defeated Taylor to lift the title on his debut in the 2006/07 event, and the Dutch great is number 139 on the heritage list.

Van Barneveld’s compatriot Michael van Gerwen – the only other player alongside Taylor to claim a hat-trick of PDC World Championship titles - is 153, having made his debut in 2007/08.

Two-time World Champions Peter Wright and Gary Anderson are 207 and 213 respectively on the heritage list, having made their debut in the same tournament back in the 2009/10 event.

Elsewhere, 2021 World Champion Gerwyn Price is number 289 on the heritage list, while Rob Cross - who lifted the Sid Waddell Trophy on debut in 2018 – is 345.

The full list of 440 players is below, and would be updated following this year’s tournament with the heritage numbers of the 22 debutants in order of when they competed in the first round.

PDC World Darts Championship Heritage Numbers

Number Player Name Debut Appearances
1 Dennis Priestley 1993/94 19
2 Jocky Wilson 1993/94 2
3 John Lowe 1993/94 12
4 Larry Butler 1993/94 4
5 Rod Harrington 1993/94 10
6 Sean Downs 1993/94 5
7 Jerry Umberger 1993/94 2
8 Peter Evison 1993/94 12
9 Gerald Verrier 1993/94 7
10 Bob Anderson 1993/94 15
11 Phil Taylor 1993/94 25
12 Jim Watkins 1993/94 2
13 Steve Brown (US) 1993/94 11
14 Kevin Spiolek 1993/94 8
15 Cliff Lazarenko 1993/94 10
16 Alan Warriner-Little 1993/94 15
17 Graeme Stoddart 1993/94 8
18 Tom Kirby 1993/94 3
19 Eric Bristow 1993/94 7
20 Kevin Burrows 1993/94 1
21 Dave Kelly 1993/94 2
22 Jamie Harvey 1993/94 13
23 Keith Deller 1993/94 12
24 Ritchie Gardner 1993/94 5
25 Shayne Burgess 1994/95 9
26 Dennis Smith 1994/95 16
27 Steve Raw 1995/96 6
28 Nigel Justice 1995/96 3
29 Gary Mawson 1995/96 7
30 Chris Mason 1996/97 8
31 Paul Lim 1996/97 14
32 John Ferrell 1998 3
33 Peter Manley 1998 13
34 Harry Robinson 1998 2
35 John Part 1998 18
36 Mick Manning 1998 8
37 Alex Roy 1999 13
38 Scott Cummings 1999 3
39 Dean Allsop 1999 2
40 Dan Lauby 1999 4
41 Reg Harding 1999 5
42 Braulio Roncero 2000 1
43 Colin Lloyd 2000 15
44 Dave Askew 2001 8
45 Richie Burnett 2001 10
46 Denis Ovens 2001 13
47 Les Fitton 2001 4
48 Garry Spedding 2001 1
49 Gayl King 2001 1
50 Roland Scholten 2001 12
51 Kevin Painter 2002 17
52 Ronnie Baxter 2002 14
53 Andy Jenkins 2002 10
54 Steve Beaton 2002 21
55 Paul Williams 2002 4
56 Matt Chapman 2002 1
57 David Platt 2003 3
58 Mark Robinson 2003 1
59 Mark Holden 2003 3
60 Dave Smith 2003 1
61 Simon Whitlock 2003 14
62 Arjan Moen 2003 1
63 Ray Carver 2003 3
64 Wayne Mardle 2003 8
65 Al Hedman 2003 1
66 Lee Palfreyman 2003 1
67 Ritchie Buckle 2004 1
68 Jan van der Rassel 2004 5
69 Erik Clarys 2004 2
70 Toru Sano 2004 1
71 Wayne Atwood 2004 2
72 Colin McGarry 2004 2
73 Rory Orvis 2004 1
74 Robbie Widdows 2004 1
75 Henry O'Neill 2004 1
76 Alex Mackay 2004 1
77 Barry Jouannet Jr 2004 2
78 Steve Maish 2004 7
79 Tony Payne 2004 1
80 Steve Smith 2004 2
81 Norman Madhoo 2004 3
82 Mark Walsh 2004 11
83 Lionel Sams 2004 4
84 Mark Dudbridge 2004 10
85 Simon Whatley 2004 2
86 Jason Clark 2005 3
87 Yasuhiko Matsunaga 2005 2
88 Tang Jun 2005 1
89 Gerry Convery 2005 4
90 Anthony Forde 2005 2
91 John Verwey 2005 1
92 Darin Young 2005 10
93 Josephus Schenk 2005 2
94 James Wade 2005 18
95 Alan Reynolds 2005 1
96 Mark Landers 2005 1
97 Wayne Jones 2005 13
98 Andy Hamilton 2005 13
99 Mark Thomson 2005 1
100 Alan Caves 2005 3
101 Wes Newton 2005 12
102 Terry Jenkins 2005 13
103 Steve Alker 2006 1
104 Adrian Lewis 2006 17
105 Dave Honey 2006 1
106 Chengan Liu 2006 2
107 Darren Webster 2006 10
108 Erwin Extercatte 2006 2
109 Warren Parry 2006 4
110 Mark Salmon 2006 1
111 John Kuczynski 2006 2
112 Patrick Bulen 2006 1
113 Dave Whitcombe 2006 1
114 Gary Welding 2006 2
115 Geoff Wylie 2006 1
116 John MaGowan 2006 2
117 Jimmy Mann 2006 1
118 Ken Woods 2006 1
119 Matt Clark 2006 6
120 Brian Roach 2006 1
121 Tomas Seyler 2006 4
122 Winston Cadogan 2006 1
123 Andy Smith 2006 10
124 Colin Monk 2006 4
125 Alan Tabern 2006 8
126 Dale Newton 2006 1
127 Steve Hine 2006 4
128 Andree Welge 2006 5
129 Adrian Gray 2007 3
130 Wynand Havenga 2007 1
131 Mark Lawrence 2007 1
132 Mick McGowan 2007 4
133 Alan Green 2007 1
134 Anton Pein 2007 1
135 Dave Jowett 2007 1
136 Rico Vonck 2007 1
137 Barrie Bates 2007 5
138 Brian Cyr 2007 1
139 Raymond van Barneveld 2007 15
140 Mitchell Clegg 2007 1
141 Anthony Fleet 2007 1
142 Ian Branks 2007 1
143 Dave Ladley 2007 1
144 Per Laursen 2007 8
145 Warren French 2007 3
146 Martin Burchell 2007 1
147 Shi Yongsheng 2007 3
148 Tetsuya Wada 2007 1
149 Bill Davis 2007 2
150 Ron Miller 2007 1
151 Colin Osborne 2007 8
152 Toon Greebe 2008 2
153 Michael van Gerwen 2008 15
154 Mervyn King 2008 15
155 Michael Rosenaur 2008 1
156 Akihiro Nagakawa 2008 2
157 Miloslav Navrátil 2008 1
158 Rizal S Barellano Jr 2008 1
159 Jamie Caven 2008 10
160 Jason Barry 2008 1
161 Kirk Shepherd 2008 4
162 Steve Brown (ENG) 2008 6
163 Ashfaque Sayed 2008 1
164 Alan Bolton 2008 1
165 Tony Eccles 2008 4
166 Leroy Kwadijk 2008 1
167 Jelle Klaasen 2008 12
168 Vincent van der Voort 2008 15
169 Mensur Suljovic 2008 14
170 Steve Evans 2008 2
171 Dan Olson 2008 1
172 Steve MacArthur 2008 1
173 Charles Losper 2008 2
174 Carlos Rodriguez 2009 3
175 Robert Thornton 2009 11
176 Co Stompé 2009 5
177 Hannes Schnier 2009 1
178 David Fatum 2009 1
179 Shane O'Connor 2009 1
180 Felix McBrearty 2009 1
181 Steve Grubb 2009 1
182 Kevin McDine 2009 4
183 Sudesh Fitzgerald 2009 1
184 Remco van Eijden 2009 1
185 Anastasia Dobromyslova 2009 2
186 Nick Fullwell 2009 1
187 Michael Barnard 2009 2
188 Mark Stephenson 2009 1
189 Marko Kantele 2009 4
190 Lourence Ilagan 2009 6
191 Russell Stewart 2009 1
192 Tony Ayres 2009 1
193 Paul Nicholson 2009 8
194 Brendan Dolan 2009 14
195 Nándor Bezzeg 2009 1
196 Jyhan Artut 2010 5
197 Christian Perez 2010 3
198 Jarkko Komula 2010 3
199 Roman Konchikov 2010 1
200 Scott Burnett 2010 1
201 Les Francis 2010 1
202 Aodhagan O'Neill 2010 1
203 Ken MacNeil 2010 1
204 Mark Webster 2010 9
205 Phillip Hazel 2010 1
206 Osmann Kijamet 2010 1
207 Gary Anderson 2010 13
208 Dylan Duo 2010 1
209 Haruki Muramatsu 2010 4
210 Krzysztof Kciuk 2010 1
211 Magnus Caris 2010 5
212 Francisco Ruiz 2010 1
213 Peter Wright 2010 13
214 Steve Farmer 2011 2
215 Juanito Gionzon 2011 1
216 Mark Hylton 2011 2
217 Veijo Viinikka 2011 1
218 Matt Padgett 2011 1
219 Morihiro Hashimoto 2011 2
220 Boris Krčmar 2011 3
221 Nigel Heydon 2011 2
222 Scott MacKenzie 2011 3
223 Antonio Alcinas 2011 4
224 Mickey Mansell 2011 6
225 Joe Cullen 2011 12
226 Preston Ridd 2011 1
227 Chris Thompson 2011 1
228 Devon Petersen 2011 9
229 Shane Tichowitsch 2011 2
230 Dietmar Burger 2011 2
231 Justin Pipe 2011 9
232 Bernd Roith 2011 1
233 Paul Barham 2012 1
234 Sean Reed 2012 1
235 Dennis Nilsson 2012 1
236 Michael Smith 2012 11
237 Kurt Van de Rijck 2012 1
238 Ian White 2012 11
239 Lee Choon Peng 2012 1
240 Kevin Munch 2012 2
241 Kim Huybrechts 2012 11
242 Connie Finnan 2012 1
243 Dave Chisnall 2012 11
244 James Richardson 2012 4
245 Petri Korte 2012 1
246 Geoff Kime 2012 1
247 Arron Monk 2012 4
248 Oliver Ferenc 2012 1
249 John Henderson 2012 9
250 Scott Rand 2012 2
251 José de Sousa 2012 5
252 Leung Chun Nam 2013 1
253 Gino Vos 2013 2
254 Jerry Hendriks 2013 2
255 Robert Marijanović 2013 3
256 Daryl Gurney 2013 9
257 James Hubbard 2013 1
258 Charl Pietersen 2013 1
259 Max Hopp 2013 8
260 Mark Jones 2013 1
261 Jani Haavisto 2013 2
262 John Bowles 2013 2
263 Peter Hudson 2013 2
264 Kyle Anderson 2013 7
265 Jamie Lewis 2013 8
266 Johnny Haines 2013 1
267 Dean Winstanley 2013 4
268 Dave Harrington 2013 1
269 Mohd Latif Sapup 2013 2
270 Stuart Kellett 2013 3
271 Mareno Michels 2014 1
272 Rob Szabo 2014 2
273 Ian Moss 2014 1
274 Julio Barbero 2014 1
275 Dennis Lindskjold 2014 1
276 Ricky Evans 2014 7
277 Ronny Huybrechts 2014 5
278 Beau Anderson 2014 1
279 Zoran Lerchbacher 2014 4
280 Ben Ward 2014 1
281 Ross Smith 2014 5
282 Royden Lam 2014 3
283 Keegan Brown 2015 6
284 Cristo Reyes 2015 6
285 Christian Kist 2015 4
286 Dave Richardson 2015 1
287 Kim Viljanen 2015 4
288 Sascha Stein 2015 1
289 Gerwyn Price 2015 8
290 Laurence Ryder 2015 2
291 Andrew Gilding 2015 3
292 Scott Kirchner 2015 1
293 Mark McGrath 2015 1
294 John Weber 2015 1
295 Benito van de Pas 2015 6
296 Boris Koltsov 2015 5
297 Ron Meulenkamp 2015 6
298 John Michael 2015 4
299 Ryan de Vreede 2015 1
300 Jason Hogg 2015 1
301 Alex Hon 2015 1
302 Nolan Arendse 2015 1
303 Rowby-John Rodriguez 2015 6
304 Jermaine Wattimena 2015 8
305 David Pallett 2015 2
306 Stephen Bunting 2015 8
307 Andy Boulton 2016 3
308 Qiang Sun 2016 2
309 Eidams, René 2016 1
310 Thanawat Gaweenuntavong 2016 1
311 Sven Groen 2016 1
312 Koha Kokiri 2016 1
313 Dimitri Van den Bergh 2016 7
314 Alex Tagarao 2016 1
315 Keita Ono 2016 1
316 Michael Rasztovits 2016 1
317 Joe Murnan 2016 3
318 Aleksandr Oreshkin 2016 2
319 Dirk van Duijvenbode 2016 3
320 Warwick Scheffer 2016 1
321 Alan Norris 2016 4
322 Jeffrey de Zwaan 2016 4
323 Jan Dekker 2016 3
324 Mark Frost 2017 1
325 Jonny Clayton 2017 6
326 Masumi Chino 2017 1
327 Tengku Shah 2017 1
328 Josh Payne 2017 3
329 Ross Snook 2017 1
330 Kevin Simm 2017 1
331 Gilbert Ulang 2017 1
332 Chris Dobey 2017 6
333 Corey Cadby 2017 1
334 Steve West 2017 5
335 Dragutin Horvat 2017 1
336 Robbie Green 2017 1
337 Simon Stevenson 2017 2
338 Jeffrey de Graaf 2017 2
339 James Wilson 2017 5
340 William O'Connor 2018 5
341 Krzysztof Ratajski 2018 5
342 Ted Evetts 2018 4
343 Seigo Asada 2018 3
344 Gordon Mathers 2018 3
345 Rob Cross 2018 5
346 Alan Ljubić 2018 1
347 Jeff Smith 2018 4
348 Luke Humphries 2018 5
349 Kenny Neyens 2018 1
350 Peter Jacques 2018 1
351 Cody Harris 2018 2
352 Willard Bruguier 2018 1
353 Kai Fan Leung 2018 1
354 Richard North 2018 2
355 Xiaochen Zong 2018 2
356 Bernie Smith 2018 1
357 Steve Lennon 2018 5
358 Martin Schindler 2018 3
359 Diogo Portela 2018 5
360 Nitin Kumar 2019 3
361 Lisa Ashton 2019 3
362 Raymond Smith 2019 2
363 Kevin Burness 2019 2
364 Jim Long 2019 1
365 Danny Noppert 2019 4
366 Craig Ross 2019 1
367 Ryan Searle 2019 4
368 Stephen Burton 2019 1
369 Karel Sedlacek 2019 2
370 Gabriel Clemens 2019 4
371 Aden Kirk 2019 1
372 Yordi Meeuwisse 2019 1
373 Yuanjun Liu 2019 1
374 Adam Hunt 2019 3
375 Matthew Edgar 2019 3
376 Darius Labanauskas 2019 4
377 Ryan Joyce 2019 4
378 Daniel Larsson 2019 3
379 James Bailey 2019 2
380 Chuck Puleo 2019 1
381 Nathan Aspinall 2019 4
382 Geert Nentjes 2019 2
383 Noel Malicdem 2019 2
384 Ryan Meikle 2020 3
385 Yuki Yamada 2020 2
386 Luke Woodhouse 2020 3
387 Matt Campbell 2020 3
388 Mark McGeeney 2020 1
389 Jamie Hughes 2020 3
390 Ciaran Teehan 2020 2
391 José Justicia 2020 1
392 Daniel Baggish 2020 2
393 Mikuru Suzuki 2020 1
394 Callan Rydz 2020 3
395 Keane Barry 2020 3
396 Robbie King 2020 1
397 Ritchie Edhouse 2020 2
398 Damon Heta 2020 3
399 Fallon Sherrock 2020 2
400 Ben Robb 2020 2
401 Madars Razma 2020 3
402 Harry Ward 2020 1
403 Nico Kurz 2020 2
404 Benjamin Pratnemer 2020 1
405 Glen Durrant 2020 3
406 Amit Gilitwala 2021 1
407 David Evans 2021 1
408 Niels Zonneveld 2021 1
409 Toru Suzuki 2021 1
410 Mike De Decker 2021 2
411 Edward Foulkes 2021 1
412 Ryan Murray 2021 1
413 Danny Lauby 2021 2
414 Huapai Puha 2021 1
415 Bradley Brooks 2021 2
416 Scott Waites 2021 1
417 Di Zhuang 2021 1
418 Deta Hedman 2021 1
419 Derk Telnekes 2021 1
420 Nick Kenny 2021 2
421 Jason Lowe 2021 2
422 Dmitriy Gorbunov 2021 1
423 Maik Kuivenhoven 2021 2
424 Cameron Carolissen 2021 1
425 Chris Landman 2022 1
426 Scott Mitchell 2022 1
427 Chas Barstow 2022 1
428 John Norman Jr 2022 1
429 Fabian Schmutzler 2022 1
430 Roman Benecky 2022 1
431 William Borland 2022 1
432 Jim Williams 2022 1
433 Ky Smith 2022 1
434 Jason Heaver 2022 1
435 Florian Hempel 2022 1
436 Alan Soutar 2022 1
437 Martijn Kleermaker 2022 1
438 Rusty-Jake Rodriguez 2022 1
439 Toyokazu Shibata 2022 1
440 Lewy Williams 2022 1