European Tour Order of Merit Update: James Wade surges over 20 spots into top 10 after Antwerp title, Michael van Gerwen and Luke Humphries fall

Monday, 14 September 2026 at 06:00

The European Tour Order of Merit has been updated for another weekend after the PDC's top names found their way into contention in Antwerp at the Flanders Darts Trophy.

There a certain James Wade managed to secure the title, defeating Ross Smith in the final, which saw 'Smudger', albeit not winning the event, extend his stranglehold atop the Order of Merit, which he claimed when he won Budapest a few weeks ago. He now sits on £148,000 compared to £116,000 of Wessel Nijman. These two are the leading lights, with Krzysztof Ratajski third at £84,500. Luke Littler is back in fifth with £75,000.

This is, ironically, not playing many events in the first place. But it was James Wade who actually was the big winner this weekend. He has surged a mammoth 22 spots to ninth in the European Tour Order of Merit, ironically from only just inside the spots for Dortmund to basically qualifying for it already.

He is from 31st to 9th place and sits just inside the top 10, which in itself has meant falls for some big names who either didn't play or went out early. Michael van Gerwen is down from 13th to 16th in the Order of Merit. While Luke Humphries is the main player to fall out of the top 10 down to 14th. Nathan Aspinall, after a good weekend, rises up to 4th from 5th spot.

Nathan Aspinall further into the top five.

Race for Dortmund for Reyes, Chisnall, Michael Smith and Gary Anderson

Gian van Veen too is also safer, up three spots to 13th from 16th. Rob Cross, despite being in good form as of late, also falls out of the top 20 to 21st, while Damon Heta, after a semi-final run, is up to 18th up two spots. Rise also for Chris Dobey into the top 20.

Stephen Bunting too has managed to get himself into contention in the 32nd and final spot. Karel Sedlacek and Kim Huybrechts are also winners, with 'Evil Charlie' up to 35th, and so he sits just outside, while Huybrechts is now way inside, up two spots to 28th.

This also spells bad news for Cristo Reyes, Dave Chisnall, Daryl Gurney and Michael Smith. All of whom are either on the edge in Reyes and Chisnall's case down to the 30th and 31st or outside even more now in Smith (36th) and Gurney (37th)'s case.

While Gary Anderson's bid to make it to Dortmund will need more events as he sits in 41st. So Basel and/or Maastricht could be in his future. Albeit, given the way he has picked and chosen this year, he might not bother with either.

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The biggest jumps too, though, were players further down, with Gabriel Clemens getting money on the board and rising up 52 spots to 76th as a result, and Brendan Dolan up 30 to 70th, and Andy Baetens up 15 to 46th, among others. While not enough to get them into Dortmund, it is very much a start and is money on the rankings as we head towards the final two events.

European Tour Order of Merit after ET13

(as per dartsrankings.com)

Rk	Name	Prize Money
1	Ross Smith	148
2	Wessel Nijman	116
3	Krzysztof Ratajski	84.5
4	Nathan Aspinall	82
5	Luke Littler	75
6	Luke Woodhouse	73
7	Danny Noppert	72
8	Josh Rock	71
9	James Wade	66
10	Gerwyn Price	65
11	Kevin Doets	65
12	Ryan Joyce	64.5
13	Gian van Veen	61
14	Luke Humphries	60
15	Jermaine Wattimena	58
16	Michael van Gerwen	56
17	Niels Zonneveld	52.5
18	Damon Heta	52
19	Jonny Clayton	51
20	Chris Dobey	49
21	Rob Cross	49
22	Ryan Searle	45
23	Andrew Gilding	43
24	William O'Connor	42.5
25	Niko Springer	42
26	Cameron Menzies	37
27	Dirk van Duijvenbode	36
28	Kim Huybrechts	34.5
29	Martin Schindler	34.5
30	Cristo Reyes	34
31	Dave Chisnall	33.5
32	Stephen Bunting	33
33	Joe Cullen	29.5
34	Sebastian Bialecki	26
35	Karel Sedlacek	23
36	Michael Smith	22
37	Daryl Gurney	22
38	Keane Barry	19.5
39	Ricky Evans	19
40	Madars Razma	16
41	Gary Anderson	15
42	Mickey Mansell	14.5
43	Tom Sykes	13.5
44	Jeffrey de Graaf	13
45	Bradley Brooks	12.5
46	Andy Baetens	11.5
47	Maik Kuivenhoven	11.5
48	James Hurrell	11.5
49	Mike De Decker	11.5
50	Ian White	11.5
51	Connor Scutt	11
52	Mensur Suljovic	10.5
53	Richard Veenstra	10
54	Mario Vandenbogaerde	9.5
55	Lukas Wenig	9.5
56	Paul Krohne	9.5
57	Rob Owen	9
58	Ritchie Edhouse	9
59	Ricardo Pietreczko	8.5
60	Boris Krcmar	8.5
61	Jimmy van Schie	8
62	Beau Greaves	7.5
63	Stephen Burton	7.5
64	Chris Landman	7.5
65	Callan Rydz	7.5
66	Jonas Masalin	7.5
67	Adam Gawlas	7.5
68	Jeffrey De Zwaan	7.5
69	Jim Long	7
70	Brendan Dolan	7
71	Jan Schmidt	7
72	Justin Hood	7
73	Patrik Kovacs	7
74	Raymond van Barneveld	6
75	Johan Engstrom	6
76	Gabriel Clemens	5.5
77	Nandor Major	5.5
78	Max Hopp	5.5
79	Dragutin Horvat	5.5
80	Charlie Manby	5.5
81	Darius Labanauskas	5.5
82	Tyler Thorpe	5.5
83	Alan Soutar	5.5
84	Marcel Hausotter	5.5
85	Michael Unterbuchner	5.5
86	Gyorgy Jehirszki	4
86	Tom Bissell	4
88	Jani Haavisto	4
88	Sietse Lap	4
90	Samuel Price	4
91	Daniel Klose	4
92	Christian Kist	4
93	Finn Behrens	4
94	Anton Ostlund	4
95	Thomas Lovely	4
96	Laszlo Kadar	3.5
97	Benjamin Pratnemer	3.5
98	Dimitri Van den Bergh	3.5
99	Peter Wright	3.5
100	Oskar Lukasiak	3.5
100	Valters Melderis	3.5
102	Ryan Meikle	3.5
103	Darryl Pilgrim	3.5
104	Jaimy Jacobs	2
104	Jeroen Caron	2
104	Kevin Lankhuizen	2
104	Michael Hansen	2
104	Petr Tous	2
109	David Rosi	2
109	Jiri Brejcha	2
109	Martin Homola	2
112	Adam Leek	2
112	Andras Borbely	2
112	David Pisek	2
112	Milan Biro	2
116	Dominik Gruellich	2
116	Jaimy Van de Weerd	2
116	Michal Smejda	2
116	Mio Varila	2
116	Rhys Griffin	2
121	Adrian Dudek	2
121	Gabriel Varaljay	2
121	Jan Sliacky	2
121	Juraj Holub	2
121	Mervyn King	2
121	Owen Bates	2
121	Peter Kelemen	2
128	Jason Riedtke	2
128	Teemu Harju	2
130	Jeffrey Sparidaans	2
130	Liam Maendl-Lawrance	2
132	Aaron Hardy	2
132	Nick Kenny	2
132	Nick Zwittnigg	2
132	Zoran Lerchbacher	2
136	Jurjen van der Velde	2
136	Michael Hurtz	2
136	Petr Krivka	2
136	Robin Masino	2
140	Adam Lipscombe	2
140	Cor Dekker	2
140	Kevin Troppmann	2
143	Francois Schweyen	2
143	Pascal Devroey	2
143	Scott Williams	2
143	Thibault Tricole	2
147	Cam Crabtree	2
147	Florian Hempel	2
147	Florian Preis	2
147	Kai Gotthardt	2
147	Shane McGuirk	2
147	Wojciech Brulinski	2
153	Andreas Harrysson	2
153	Carl Sneyd	2
153	Dawid Robak	2
153	Krzysztof Kciuk	2
153	Marvin Kraft	2
153	Miroslaw Grudziecki	2
153	Piotr Maciejczak	2

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