The 2022/23 World Darts Championship featured 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, and allocated heritage numbers accordingly.
The full list of players is below, and would be updated following this year’s tournament with the heritage numbers of the 22 debutants in order of then they compete in the first round.
PDC World Darts Championship Heritage Numbers
| 1 | Dennis Priestley |
| 2 | Jocky Wilson |
| 3 | John Lowe |
| 4 | Larry Butler |
| 5 | Rod Harrington |
| 6 | Sean Downs |
| 7 | Jerry Umberger |
| 8 | Peter Evison |
| 9 | Gerald Verrier |
| 10 | Bob Anderson |
| 11 | Phil Taylor |
| 12 | Jim Watkins |
| 13 | Steve (US) Brown |
| 14 | Kevin Spiolek |
| 15 | Cliff Lazarenko |
| 16 | Alan Warriner-Little |
| 17 | Graeme Stoddart |
| 18 | Tom Kirby |
| 19 | Eric Bristow |
| 20 | Kevin Burrows |
| 21 | Dave Kelly |
| 22 | Jamie Harvey |
| 23 | Keith Deller |
| 24 | Ritchie Gardner |
| 25 | Shayne Burgess |
| 26 | Dennis Smith |
| 27 | Steve Raw |
| 28 | Nigel Justice |
| 29 | Gary Mawson |
| 30 | Chris Mason |
| 31 | Paul Lim |
| 32 | John Ferrell |
| 33 | Peter Manley |
| 34 | Harry Robinson |
| 35 | John Part |
| 36 | Mick Manning |
| 37 | Alex Roy |
| 38 | Scott Cummings |
| 39 | Dean Allsop |
| 40 | Dan Lauby |
| 41 | Reg Harding |
| 42 | Braulio Roncero |
| 43 | Colin Lloyd |
| 44 | Dave Askew |
| 45 | Richie Burnett |
| 46 | Denis Ovens |
| 47 | Les Fitton |
| 48 | Gary Spedding |
| 49 | Gayl King |
| 50 | Roland Scholten |
| 51 | Kevin Painter |
| 52 | Ronnie Baxter |
| 53 | Andy Jenkins |
| 54 | Steve Beaton |
| 55 | Paul Williams |
| 56 | Matt Chapman |
| 57 | David Platt |
| 58 | Mark Robinson |
| 59 | Mark Holden |
| 60 | Dave Smith |
| 61 | Simon Whitlock |
| 62 | Arjan Moen |
| 63 | Ray Carver |
| 64 | Wayne Mardle |
| 65 | Al Hedman |
| 66 | Lee Palfreyman |
| 67 | Ritchie Buckle |
| 68 | Jan van der Rassel |
| 69 | Erik Clarys |
| 70 | Toru Sano |
| 71 | Wayne Atwood |
| 72 | Colin McGarry |
| 73 | Rory Orvis |
| 74 | Robbie Widdows |
| 75 | Henry O’Neill |
| 76 | Alex Mackay |
| 77 | Barry Jouannet Jr |
| 78 | Steve Maish |
| 79 | Tony Payne |
| 80 | Steve Smith |
| 81 | Norman Madhoo |
| 82 | Mark Walsh |
| 83 | Lionel Sams |
| 84 | Mark Dudbridge |
| 85 | Simon Whatley |
| 86 | Jason Clark |
| 87 | Yasuhiko Matsunaga |
| 88 | Tang Jun |
| 89 | Gerry Convery |
| 90 | Anthony Forde |
| 91 | John Verwey |
| 92 | Darin Young |
| 93 | Josephus Schenk |
| 94 | James Wade |
| 95 | Alan Reynolds |
| 96 | Mark Landers |
| 97 | Wayne Jones |
| 98 | Andy Hamilton |
| 99 | Mark Thomson |
| 100 | Alan Caves |
| 101 | Wes Newton |
| 102 | Terry Jenkins |
| 103 | Steve Alker |
| 104 | Adrian Lewis |
| 105 | Dave Honey |
| 106 | Chengan Liu |
| 107 | Darren Webster |
| 108 | Erwin Extercatte |
| 109 | Warren Parry |
| 110 | Mark Salmon |
| 111 | John Kuczynski |
| 112 | Patrick Bulen |
| 113 | Dave Whitcombe |
| 114 | Gary Welding |
| 115 | Geoff Wylie |
| 116 | John MaGowan |
| 117 | Jimmy Mann |
| 118 | Ken Woods |
| 119 | Matt Clark |
| 120 | Brian Roach |
| 121 | Tomas Seyler |
| 122 | Winston Cadogan |
| 123 | Andy Smith |
| 124 | Colin Monk |
| 125 | Alan Tabern |
| 126 | Dale Newton |
| 127 | Steve Hine |
| 128 | Andree Welge |
| 129 | Adrian Gray |
| 130 | Wynand Havenga |
| 131 | Mark Lawrence |
| 132 | Mick McGowan |
| 133 | Alan Green |
| 134 | Anton Pein |
| 135 | Dave Jowett |
| 136 | Rico Vonck |
| 137 | Barrie Bates |
| 138 | Brian Cyr |
| 139 | Raymond van Barneveld |
| 140 | Mitchell Clegg |
| 141 | Anthony Fleet |
| 142 | Ian Branks |
| 143 | Dave Ladley |
| 144 | Per Laursen |
| 145 | Warren French |
| 146 | Martin Burchell |
| 147 | Shi Yongsheng |
| 148 | Tetsuya Wada |
| 149 | Bill Davis |
| 150 | Ron Miller |
| 151 | Colin Osborne |
| 152 | Toon Greebe |
| 153 | Michael van Gerwen |
| 154 | Mervyn King |
| 155 | Michael Rosenaur |
| 156 | Akihiro Nagakawa |
| 157 | Miloslav Navrátil |
| 158 | Rizal S Barellano Jr |
| 159 | Jamie Caven |
| 160 | Jason Barry |
| 161 | Kirk Shepherd |
| 162 | Steve (ENG) Brown |
| 163 | Ashfaque Sayed |
| 164 | Alan Bolton |
| 165 | Tony Eccles |
| 166 | Leroy Kwadijk |
| 167 | Jelle Klaasen |
| 168 | Vincent van der Voort |
| 169 | Mensur Suljovic |
| 170 | Steve Evans |
| 171 | Dan Olson |
| 172 | Steve MacArthur |
| 173 | Charles Losper |
| 174 | Carlos Rodriguez |
| 175 | Robert Thornton |
| 176 | Co Stompé |
| 177 | Hannes Schnier |
| 178 | David Fatum |
| 179 | Shane O’Connor |
| 180 | Felix McBrearty |
| 181 | Steve Grubb |
| 182 | Kevin McDine |
| 183 | Sudesh Fitzgerald |
| 184 | Remco van Eijden |
| 185 | Anastasia Dobromyslova |
| 186 | Nick Fullwell |
| 187 | Michael Barnard |
| 188 | Mark Stephenson |
| 189 | Marko Kantele |
| 190 | Lourence Ilagan |
| 191 | Russell Stewart |
| 192 | Tony Ayres |
| 193 | Paul Nicholson |
| 194 | Brendan Dolan |
| 195 | Nándor Bezzeg |
| 196 | Jyhan Artut |
| 197 | Christian Perez |
| 198 | Jarkko Komula |
| 199 | Roman Konchikov |
| 200 | Scott Burnett |
| 201 | Les Francis |
| 202 | Aodhagan O’Neill |
| 203 | Ken MacNeil |
| 204 | Mark Webster |
| 205 | Phillip Hazel |
| 206 | Osmann Kijamet |
| 207 | Gary Anderson |
| 208 | Dylan Duo |
| 209 | Haruki Muramatsu |
| 210 | Krzysztof Kciuk |
| 211 | Magnus Caris |
| 212 | Francisco Ruiz |
| 213 | Peter Wright |
| 214 | Steve Farmer |
| 215 | Juanito Gionzon |
| 216 | Mark Hylton |
| 217 | Veijo Viinikka |
| 218 | Matt Padgett |
| 219 | Morihiro Hashimoto |
| 220 | Boris Krčmar |
| 221 | Nigel Heydon |
| 222 | Scott MacKenzie |
| 223 | Toni Alcinas |
| 224 | Mickey Mansell |
| 225 | Joe Cullen |
| 226 | Preston Ridd |
| 227 | Chris Thompson |
| 228 | Devon Petersen |
| 229 | Shane Tichowitsch |
| 230 | Dietmar Burger |
| 231 | Justin Pipe |
| 232 | Bernd Roith |
| 233 | Paul Barham |
| 234 | Sean Reed |
| 235 | Dennis Nilsson |
| 236 | Michael Smith |
| 237 | Kurt Van de Rijck |
| 238 | Ian White |
| 239 | Lee Choon Peng |
| 240 | Kevin Munch |
| 241 | Kim Huybrechts |
| 242 | Connie Finnan |
| 243 | Dave Chisnall |
| 244 | James Richardson |
| 245 | Petri Korte |
| 246 | Geoff Kime |
| 247 | Arron Monk |
| 248 | Oliver Ferenc |
| 249 | John Henderson |
| 250 | Scott Rand |
| 251 | José de Sousa |
| 252 | Chun Nam Leung |
| 253 | Gino Vos |
| 254 | Jerry Hendriks |
| 255 | Robert Marijanović |
| 256 | Daryl Gurney |
| 257 | James Hubbard |
| 258 | Charl Pietersen |
| 259 | Max Hopp |
| 260 | Mark (W.Mids) Jones |
| 261 | Jani Haavisto |
| 262 | John Bowles |
| 263 | Peter Hudson |
| 264 | Kyle Anderson |
| 265 | Jamie Lewis |
| 266 | Johnny Haines |
| 267 | Dean Winstanley |
| 268 | Dave Harrington |
| 269 | Mohd Latif Sapup |
| 270 | Stuart Kellett |
| 271 | Mareno Michels |
| 272 | Rob Szabo |
| 273 | Ian Moss |
| 274 | Julio Barbero |
| 275 | Dennis Lindskjold |
| 276 | Ricky Evans |
| 277 | Ronny Huybrechts |
| 278 | Beau Anderson |
| 279 | Zoran Lerchbacher |
| 280 | Ben Ward |
| 281 | Ross Smith |
| 282 | Royden Lam |
| 283 | Keegan Brown |
| 284 | Cristo Reyes |
| 285 | Christian Kist |
| 286 | Dave Richardson |
| 287 | Kim Viljanen |
| 288 | Sascha Stein |
| 289 | Gerwyn Price |
| 290 | Laurence Ryder |
| 291 | Andrew Gilding |
| 292 | Scott Kirchner |
| 293 | Mark McGrath |
| 294 | John Weber |
| 295 | Benito van de Pas |
| 296 | Boris Koltsov |
| 297 | Ron Meulenkamp |
| 298 | John Michael |
| 299 | Ryan de Vreede |
| 300 | Jason Hogg |
| 301 | Alex Hon |
| 302 | Nolan Arendse |
| 303 | Rowby-John Rodriguez |
| 304 | Jermaine Wattimena |
| 305 | David Pallett |
| 306 | Stephen Bunting |
| 307 | Andy Boulton |
| 308 | Qiang Sun |
| 309 | René Eidams |
| 310 | Thanawat Gaweenuntavong |
| 311 | Sven Groen |
| 312 | Koha Kokiri |
| 313 | Dimitri Van den Bergh |
| 314 | Alex Tagarao |
| 315 | Keita Ono |
| 316 | Michael Rasztovits |
| 317 | Joe Murnan |
| 318 | Aleksandr Oreshkin |
| 319 | Dirk van Duijvenbode |
| 320 | Warwick Scheffer |
| 321 | Alan Norris |
| 322 | Jeffrey de Zwaan |
| 323 | Jan Dekker |
| 324 | Mark Frost |
| 325 | Jonny Clayton |
| 326 | Masumi Chino |
| 327 | Tengku Shah |
| 328 | Josh Payne |
| 329 | Ross Snook |
| 330 | Kevin Simm |
| 331 | Gilbert Ulang |
| 332 | Chris Dobey |
| 333 | Corey Cadby |
| 334 | Steve West |
| 335 | Dragutin Horvat |
| 336 | Robbie Green |
| 337 | Simon Stevenson |
| 338 | Jeffrey de Graaf |
| 339 | James Wilson |
| 340 | William O’Connor |
| 341 | Krzysztof Ratajski |
| 342 | Ted Evetts |
| 343 | Seigo Asada |
| 344 | Gordon Mathers |
| 345 | Rob Cross |
| 346 | Alan Ljubić |
| 347 | Jeff Smith |
| 348 | Luke Humphries |
| 349 | Kenny Neyens |
| 350 | Peter Jacques |
| 351 | Cody Harris |
| 352 | Willard Bruguier |
| 353 | Kai Fan Leung |
| 354 | Richard North |
| 355 | Xiaochen Zong |
| 356 | Bernie Smith |
| 357 | Steve Lennon |
| 358 | Martin Schindler |
| 359 | Diogo Portela |
| 360 | Nitin Kumar |
| 361 | Lisa Ashton |
| 362 | Raymond Smith |
| 363 | Kevin Burness |
| 364 | Jim Long |
| 365 | Danny Noppert |
| 366 | Craig Ross |
| 367 | Ryan Searle |
| 368 | Stephen Burton |
| 369 | Karel Sedlacek |
| 370 | Gabriel Clemens |
| 371 | Aden Kirk |
| 372 | Yordi Meeuwisse |
| 373 | Yuanjun Liu |
| 374 | Adam Hunt |
| 375 | Matthew Edgar |
| 376 | Darius Labanauskas |
| 377 | Ryan Joyce |
| 378 | Daniel Larsson |
| 379 | James Bailey |
| 380 | Chuck Puleo |
| 381 | Nathan Aspinall |
| 382 | Geert Nentjes |
| 383 | Noel Malicdem |
| 384 | Ryan Meikle |
| 385 | Yuki Yamada |
| 386 | Luke Woodhouse |
| 387 | Matt Campbell |
| 388 | Mark McGeeney |
| 389 | Jamie Hughes |
| 390 | Ciaran Teehan |
| 391 | José Justicia |
| 392 | Daniel Baggish |
| 393 | Mikuru Suzuki |
| 394 | Callan Rydz |
| 395 | Keane Barry |
| 396 | Robbie King |
| 397 | Ritchie Edhouse |
| 398 | Damon Heta |
| 399 | Fallon Sherrock |
| 400 | Ben Robb |
| 401 | Madars Razma |
| 402 | Harry Ward |
| 403 | Nico Kurz |
| 404 | Benjamin Pratnemer |
| 405 | Glen Durrant |
| 406 | Amit Gilitwala |
| 407 | David Evans |
| 408 | Niels Zonneveld |
| 409 | Toru Suzuki |
| 410 | Mike De Decker |
| 411 | Edward Foulkes |
| 412 | Ryan Murray |
| 413 | Danny Lauby |
| 414 | Huapai Puha |
| 415 | Bradley Brooks |
| 416 | Scott Waites |
| 417 | Di Zhuang |
| 418 | Deta Hedman |
| 419 | Derk Telnekes |
| 420 | Nick Kenny |
| 421 | Jason Lowe |
| 422 | Dmitriy Gorbunov |
| 423 | Maik Kuivenhoven |
| 424 | Cameron Carolissen |
| 425 | Chris Landman |
| 426 | Scott Mitchell |
| 427 | Chas Barstow |
| 428 | John Norman Jr |
| 429 | Fabian Schmutzler |
| 430 | Roman Benecky |
| 431 | William Borland |
| 432 | Jim Williams |
| 433 | Ky Smith |
| 434 | Jason Heaver |
| 435 | Florian Hempel |
| 436 | Alan Soutar |
| 437 | Martijn Kleermaker |
| 438 | Rusty-Jake Rodriguez |
| 439 | Toyokazu Shibata |
| 440 | Lewy Williams |
| 441 | Grant Sampson |
| 442 | Nathan Rafferty |
| 443 | Mal Cuming |
| 444 | Beau Greaves |
| 445 | Martin Lukeman |
| 446 | Nobuhiro Yamamoto |
| 447 | Adam Gawlas |
| 448 | Josh Rock |
| 449 | Cameron Menzies |
| 450 | Prakash Jiwa |
| 451 | Vladyslav Omelchenko |
| 452 | Scott Williams |
| 453 | Robert Owen |
| 454 | Paolo Nebrida |
| 455 | Danny Jansen |
| 456 | Leonard Gates |
| 457 | David Cameron |
| 458 | Danny van Trijp |
| 459 | Sebastian Bialecki |
| 460 | Jimmy Hendriks |
| 461 | John O'Shea |
| 462 | Xicheng Han |
| 463 | Kevin Doets |
| 464 | Stowe Buntz |
| 465 | Sandro Eric Sosing |
| 466 | Lee Evans |
| 467 | Connor Scutt |
| 468 | Darren Penhall |
| 469 | Jules van Dongen |
| 470 | Reynaldo Rivera |
| 471 | Simon Adams |
| 472 | Dylan Slevin |
| 473 | Mario Vandenbogaerde |
| 474 | Thibault Tricole |
| 475 | Gian van Veen |
| 476 | Man Lok Leung |
| 477 | Tomoyo Goto |
| 478 | Wessel Nijman |
| 479 | Ricardo Pietreczko |
| 480 | Radek Szaganski |
| 481 | Owen Bates |
| 482 | Bhav Patel |
| 483 | Alex Spellman |
| 484 | Richard Veenstra |
| 485 | Luke Littler |
| 486 | Berry van Peer |
| 487 | Joe Comito |
| 488 | Stefan Bellmont |
| 489 | Wesley Plaisier |
| 490 | Ryusei Azemoto |
| 491 | Kai Gotthardt |
| 492 | James Hurrell |
| 493 | Noa-Lynn van Leuven |
| 494 | Rashad Sweeting |
| 495 | Lok Yin Lee |
| 496 | Romeo Grbavac |
| 497 | Niko Springer |
| 498 | Alexander Merkx |
| 499 | Rhys Griffin |
| 500 | Alexis Toylo |