Mario Vandenbogaerde
Mario Vandenbogaerde is a Belgian professional darts player who competes in Professional Darts Corporation events. Before winning his PDC Tour Card in 2022, Vandenbogaerde won 2 British Darts Organisation ranking titles and reached two BDO major semi-finals; at the 2019 World Masters and 2020 Lakeside World Championship. He reached his first PDC ranking final at 2025 Players Championship 28. His best PDC major performance is reaching the last 16 at the 2023 Players Championship Finals.
Career
In 2005, Vandenbogaerde won the Belgium National Championships, in 2018 he won the Luxembourg Masters and in 2019, he won the German Open, before reaching the semi-finals of the World Masters.In September 2019, Vandenbogaerde qualified for the 2020 BDO World Darts Championship, which turned out to be the event's last edition and, as the 11th seed, he reached the semi-finals on debut. He was the first Belgian man to reach the semi-finals of a World Championship and the only to do so at the BDO World Championship.
In January 2022, he competed in the PDC's European Q-School and successfully secured a Tour Card during the third day of its final phase.
Vandenbogaerde qualified for the 2024 PDC World Darts Championship, becoming only the second Belgian to have appeared at both the BDO and PDC World Championship, but lost to Thibault Tricole in the first round. As a result, he failed to retain his Tour Card by being in the top 64 of the Order of Merit. Vandenbogaerde immediately regained a Tour Card at Q-School by finishing ninth in the European Q-School Order of Merit.
In September 2025, Vandenbogaerde reached a maiden PDC ranking final at Players Championship 28, losing 8–6 to Ryan Searle.
World Championship results
BDO
- 2020: Semi-finals
PDC
- 2024: First round
- 2026: First round
Performance timeline
BDOPDC
PDC European Tour
PDC Players Championships
| Season | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 |
| 2022 | BAR 1R | BAR 2R | WIG 2R | WIG 2R | BAR 2R | BAR 4R | NIE 1R | NIE 1R | BAR QF | BAR 2R | BAR 1R | BAR 1R | BAR 1R | WIG 1R | WIG 4R | NIE 1R | NIE 1R | BAR 4R | BAR 1R | BAR 2R | BAR 1R | BAR 1R | BAR 2R | BAR 1R | BAR 2R | BAR 1R | BAR 2R | BAR 1R | BAR 2R | BAR 2R | - | - | - | - |
| 2023 | BAR 4R | BAR 2R | BAR 2R | BAR 2R | BAR 2R | BAR 1R | HIL 4R | HIL 2R | WIG 2R | WIG 2R | LEI 3R | LEI 1R | HIL 3R | HIL QF | LEI 1R | LEI 1R | HIL 2R | HIL 1R | BAR 2R | BAR 3R | BAR 4R | BAR 2R | BAR 3R | BAR 2R | BAR 1R | BAR 3R | BAR 2R | BAR 1R | BAR 2R | BAR 4R | - | - | - | - |
| 2024 | WIG 2R | WIG 2R | LEI 3R | LEI 3R | HIL 1R | HIL 1R | LEI 1R | LEI 1R | HIL 2R | HIL 2R | HIL 3R | HIL 3R | MIL 1R | MIL 4R | MIL 2R | MIL 1R | MIL 2R | MIL 2R | MIL 3R | WIG 1R | WIG 3R | LEI 2R | LEI 1R | WIG 1R | WIG 1R | WIG 2R | WIG 2R | WIG 1R | LEI 1R | LEI 3R | - | - | - | - |
| 2025 | WIG 1R | WIG 1R | ROS 1R | ROS 1R | LEI 3R | LEI 1R | HIL 1R | HIL 4R | LEI 2R | LEI 1R | LEI 2R | LEI 4R | ROS 4R | ROS 3R | HIL 1R | HIL 2R | LEI 3R | LEI 1R | LEI 2R | LEI 3R | LEI 2R | HIL 1R | HIL 1R | MIL 1R | MIL 2R | HIL 1R | HIL 1R | LEI F | LEI 1R | LEI 2R | WIG 2R | WIG 3R | WIG 1R | WIG 1R |