2021 PDC Pro Tour


RankPlayerEarnings
1£98,000
2£76,750
3£68,750
4£66,250
5£60,750
6£59,250
7£57,500
8£56,750
9£54,000
10£47,250
11£46,250
12£44,250
13£43,000
14£42,750
15£41,250
16£41,000
17£40,000
18£39,500
19£39,000
20£38,500
21£36,500
22£33,000
23£30,750
24£28,500
25£28,000
26£26,250
27£26,000
28£25,750
29£24,750
29£24,750
31£24,250
32£24,000

The 2021 PDC Pro Tour was a series of non-televised darts tournaments organised by the Professional Darts Corporation. Players Championships and European Tour events are the events that make up the Pro Tour. There were 32 PDC Pro Tour events held, 30 Players Championships and 2 European Tour events, and in a change to previous years, the Challenge and Development Tours were split with 12 UK and European editions each.

Prize money

The prize money for the Players Championship and European Tour events was unchanged from the 2020 levels.
This is how the prize money is divided:
Stage
Winner£25,000£10,000£2,000£1,000
Runner-up£10,000£6,000£1,000£600
Semi-finalists£6,500£3,000£500£400
£5,000£2,250£300£250
Last 16£3,000£1,500£200£100
Last 32£2,000£1,000£100£50
Last 48£1,000N/AN/AN/A
Last 64N/A£500£50N/A
Total£140,000£75,000£10,000£5,000

PDC Tour Card

128 players are granted Tour Cards, which enables them to participate in all Players Championships events, the UK Open and qualifiers for all European Tour and select other televised events.

Tour cards

The 2021 Tour Cards are awarded to:
Afterwards, the playing field will be complemented by the highest qualified players from the Q-School Order of Merit until the maximum number of 128 Pro Tour Card players had been reached. In 2021, that means that a total of 21 additional players will qualify this way.

Q-School

The PDC Pro Tour Qualifying School were split into a UK and European Q-School. Players that are not from Europe could choose which Q-School they wanted to compete in.
In a change from previous years, Q-School were split into two stages; with all players who lost their tour cards after the 2021 World Championship and the top sixteen players from the 2020 Challenge Tour and Development Tour Orders of Merit exempted to the final stage. The first stage would consist of two blocks of three days with the last four players from each block qualifying into the final stage. A ranking of other players will also be produced with players qualifying via that ranking to produce a full list of 128 players for each final stage.
Stage One took place in two blocks between 8–10 February & 11–13 February; with the Final Stage held between 14 and 17 February. The winner of each day's play were given a PDC Tour Card.
The UK Q-School was held at the Marshall Arena, Milton Keynes, England; with the European Q-School held at the H+ Hotel, Niedernhausen, Germany.
An Order of Merit was also created for each Q School. For every win after the Last 64 the players will be awarded 1 point.
To complete the field of 128 Tour Card Holders, places will be allocated down the final Qualifying School Order of Merits in proportion to the number of participants, with 13 cards going to the UK Q-School and 8 going to the European Q-School.
The following players picked up Tour Cards as a result:
UK Q-School Order of Merit
European Q-School Order of Merit

  8. Players Championships

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic still being active, Players Championship events were again put into blocks, this time of 4 events, as opposed to 5 in 2020, with the first 20 Players Championship events being referred to as PDC Super Series 1–5. The final 10 events were split into 3 Super Series events, with 4 events in Super Series 7 and 3 in Super Series 6 and 8.
No.DateVenueWinnerLegsRunner-upRef.
1Bolton Whites Hotel,
nowrap|PDCFlagR|Joe Cullen|b=1|avg=nowrap|8 – 7PDCFlag|Jonny Clayton|avg=

European Tour

The PDC announced the first two European Tour events of 2021 on 1 July 2021, with events to be held in Hungary, which was planned to make its debut as a host in 2020 before cancellation, and Gibraltar, returning after a year's absence.
No.DateEventLocationWinnerLegsRunner-upRef.
1 Budapest, László Papp Budapest Sports ArenaPDCFlagR|Gerwyn Price|avg=|b=1nowrap|8 – 2PDCFlag|Michael Smith|avg=nowrap|1=24–26 Septembernowrap|1=Gibraltar Darts Trophynowrap|

PDC Challenge Tour

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic still being active, the Challenge Tour was split into UK and European events. The winner of each of the UK and European Orders of Merit at the end of 2021 received a PDC Tour Card, a place at the World Championships and a place at the Grand Slam of Darts.

UK Challenge Tour

No.DateVenueWinnerLegsRunner-upRef.
1Friday 6 AugustMarshall Arena,
PDCFlagR|Darren Beveridge|avg=|b=1PDCFlag|Martin Thomas|avg=|b=

European Challenge Tour

No.DateVenueWinnerLegsRunner-upRef.
1Friday 2 JulyH+ Hotel,
PDCFlagR|Matt Campbell|avg=|b=1PDCFlag|Gino Vos|avg=

PDC Development Tour

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic still being active, the Development Tour was split into UK and European events. The winner of each of the UK and European Orders of Merit at the end of 2021 received a PDC Tour Card and a place at the Grand Slam of Darts and the 2022 PDC World Darts Championship.
As Bradley Brooks already qualified for the Grand Slam following his World Youth championship victory, the second placed player of the UK Development Tour, Nathan Rafferty, was granted the Grand Slam spot.
The European Development Tour Winner, Rusty-Jake Rodriguez already qualified for the World Championship via Pro Tour Order of Merit, therefore the second placed player qualified instead. German player Fabian Schmutzler debuted in PDC darts tournaments at the seventh event of the European Development Tour, and qualified for the 2022 PDC World Darts Championship.

UK Development Tour

No.DateVenueWinnerLegsRunner-upRef.
1Friday 20 AugustMarshall Arena,
PDCFlagR|Reece Colley|avg=|b=1PDCFlag|Dom Taylor|avg=

European Development Tour

No.DateVenueWinnerLegsRunner-upRef.
1Friday 20 AugustH+ Hotel,
PDCFlagR|Jurjen van der Velde|avg=|b=1PDCFlag|Bradly Roes|avg=|b=

PDC Women's Series

The PDC Women's Series comprised 12 events held over two weekends. The woman who finishes top of the rankings and the runner-up after all 12 events will qualify for the 2022 PDC World Darts Championship.
Originally, the women who finished top of Events 5–8 and 9–12 were each going to qualify for the 2021 Grand Slam of Darts.
However, due to a lack of entrants for the opening weekend in Niedernhausen, the first four events were cancelled and reintegrated into the two weekends held in the United Kingdom. So, instead the winners of Events 1–6 and Events 7–12 each received a spot at the Grand Slam of Darts.
With three victories in five finals, Fallon Sherrock topped the Order of Merit after the first six events to book her Grand Slam entry.
After the ninth event of the series on 23 October, it was confirmed that Sherrock and Ashton, the only players to have won events thus far, were guaranteed to top the order of merit and locked in their return to the World Championship. Though Sherrock also topped the Event 7–12 Order of Merit, Ashton was granted the second Grand Slam spot as the highest ranked player not yet qualified.
No.DateVenueWinnerLegsRunner-upRef.
1Saturday
25 September		Marshall Arena,
PDCFlagR|Lisa Ashton|avg=|b=1PDCFlag|Rhian O'Sullivan|avg=|org=WDF Women's