PDC Challenge tour order of merit

PDC Challenge tour order of merit

Massive opportunities beckon for the top performing players on the PDC challenge tour order of merit. How the PDC Challenge tour works has been covered in a previous article in detail.

25 events spread over 5 challenge tour weekends sees the players competing for prize money which all counts towards the order of merit, with the top 2 finishers earning a 2 year PDC tourcard.

2025 OOM table

Keep checking back to this article to keep up to date with the pdc challenge tour OOM throughout the season as I will be updating the ranking and recapping the events of the 5 weekends of play. Latest update 16th March 2025

PDC Challenge tour order of merit 2025 updated 18th August after CT 20

Weekend 2 of PDC Challenge tour 2025 roundup

With the leader of the tour after weekend 1 Beau Greaves electing to skip events 6-10 players will have smelled an opportunity to power up the rankings. After the 5 events however only 1 player managed to pass Beau in the order of merit and she remains on course for an unprecedented season as she still tops the Development and Womens tours and sits in second place on the challenge tour.

The weekend’s winners were Darius Labanauskas who picked up events 7 and 8 which saw him take the top spot in the ranking after weekend 2. Dargutin Horvat won the opening event of the weekend and was joined by Ted Evetts and Scott Campell in the winners circle.

Weekend 1 roundup

Weekend 1 of the pdc challenge tour saw huge fields competing as is traditional for the tour. How a player performs in the first round of tournaments can have a significant impact of the darting calendar for the form players due to the order of merit being used for top ups on the pro tour. An increase in numbers entered was seen on the two events held on Saturday and this is sure to have been due to events 1 and 2 taking place on what for most is a working day.

296 dart players lined up for event 1, with events 2-5 seeing 298, 306, 305 and 285 darters entering the fray. Of these players more than half picked up prizemoney towards the rankings and will feel like they have got the season off to a good start.

Greaves and Bellmont top the rankings

Teenage sensation Beau Greaves showed that darts is a sport for all as one of 2 female players competing in the first set of tournaments and dominating the rankings at the end of it! Beau won her very first PDC challenge tour title in her first event and went on to repeat the performance taking down event 3.

Swiss star Stefan Bellmont proved his 2024 form was carrying over into the new season by finishing runner up to Greaves in Event 1 and picking up a title of his own in Event 6.

Weekend 1 of the challenge tour also saw wins for Carl Sneyd in event 2 and former PDC pro Darius Labanauskas in events 4.

What darts Beau Greaves uses

Statistics from the PDC challenge tour

With permission we are providing some key statisticas from the challenge tour throughout the season as gathered by Colin from FebsData. We can strongly recomend giving Colin a follow on BlueSky if you love stats you might not find elsewhere.

Results for the top 32 on weekend 1:

Key statistics from weekend 1 of the challenge tour: