Provisional field for 2022 PDC World Darts Championship after end of Pro Tour season

The provisional field for the 2021/22 PDC World Darts Championship has been confirmed after the conclusion of the ProTour season.

The top 32 in the PDC Order of Merit is of course led by Gerwyn Price, Peter Wright, Michael van Gerwen and then Dimitri van den Bergh with the Belgian set for a career high if money drops off.

This goes down to Chris Dobey, Damon Heta and Kim Huybrechts who this year will be seeded after previously being top ProTour seeds in the case of the former two.

In terms of the ProTour Order of Merit, Scott Mitchell, Alan Soutar, Jason Heaver, Lewy Williams and Florian Hempel after brilliant opening years on the PDC Tour will make their debut. As will Martijn Kleermaker finally after catching Covid-19 last year which prevented him making it onto the Ally Pally stage last minute.

While non Tour Card holders in Rowby-John and Rusty-Jake Rodriguez as well as Chas Barstow who have made up the numbers for most of the year in ProTours have played well enough to claim their spot with only the latter not 100% confirmed at this time.

He joins Ryan Meikle, Ted Evetts and Adam Hunt in players who are nearly there but would get displaced if players that aren't current Pro Tour qualifiers reach the top 32.

This means that the Grand Slam qualifier and the requisite tournament will hold the key for these players but they are nearly certainly in barring any miracles.

Jason Lowe who at the moment isn't qualified suffered last minute heartbreak at the ProTour with Hunt taking the last spot but could still be in himself.

Should one of Callan Rydz, Keane Barry, Lewis Williams, Rusty-Jake Rodriguez or Ted Evetts win the World Youth Championship, he will be in with the winner qualifying.

These ProTour players will face the International qualifiers in the first round which currently include the likes of Martin Schindler, Jim Williams, Matt Campbell, Madars Razma, Fallon Sherrock, Lisa Ashton and Danny Lauby.

Still to come include the winners of the European Development Tour with Niels Zonneveld potentially primed to take advantage with again Rusty-Jake Rodriguez, the current leader already qualified.

While, European (West, East, South-West and South-East) and the PDPA Qualifier offer the final route through for many. As well as the CDC Continental Cup with the winner claiming the spot after the Thai qualifier was cancelled.

With Jeff Smith, Danny Lauby, Matt Campbell and John Norman all set to play, Jacob Taylor or Leonard Gates in different scenarios would benefit in this situation as the field closes in on being confirmed.

Field 2022 PDC World Darts Championship

Top 32 PDC Order of Merit (cut-off November 28)

1. Gerwyn Price

2. Peter Wright

3. Michael van Gerwen

4. Dimitri van den Bergh

5. James Wade

6. Gary Anderson

7. José de Sousa

8. Jonny Clayton

9. Nathan Aspinall

10. Michael Smith

11. Rob Cross

12. Krzysztof Ratajski

13. Joe Cullen

14. Dave Chisnall

15. Stephen Bunting

16. Dirk van Duijvenbode

17. Danny Noppert

18. Simon Whitlock

19. Luke Humphries

20. Mervyn King

21. Glen Durrant

22. Ryan Searle

23. Daryl Gurney

24. Gabriel Clemens

25. Ian White

26. Devon Petersen

27. Brendan Dolan

28. Mensur Suljovic

29. Vincent van der Voort

30. Chris Dobey

31. Damon Heta

32. Kim Huybrechts

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33. Darius Labanauskas

34. Ross Smith

35. Adrian Lewis

36. Jermaine Wattimena

37. Callan Rydz

38. Jeffrey de Zwaan

39. Jamie Hughes

40. Ricky Evans

Top 32 Pro Tour Order of Merit

1. Callan Rydz

2. Ross Smith

3. Raymond van Barneveld

4. Ryan Joyce

5. Adrian Lewis

6. Scott Mitchell

7. Alan Soutar

8. Martijn Kleermaker

9. Darius Labanauskas

10. Ritchie Edhouse

11. Luke Woodhouse

12. Jamie Hughes

13. Maik Kuivenhoven

14. Rowby-John Rodriguez

15. Steve Beaton

16. William O'Connor

17. Jeff Smith

18. Ricky Evans

19. Keane Barry

20. Jason Heaver

21. William Borland

22. Ron Meulenkamp

23. Steve Lennon

24. Rusty-Jake Rodriguez

25. Lewis Williams

26. Florian Hempel

27. Jermaine Wattimena

28. Joe Murnan

29. Ryan Meikle

30. Chas Barstow

31. Ted Evetts

32. Adam Hunt

International Qualifiers

Martin Schindler

Jim Williams

Matt Campbell

Madars Razma

Daniel Larsson

Danny Lauby

Lourence Ilagan

Yuki Yamada

Diogo Portela

Ben Robb

John Norman Jnr

Charles Losper

Fallon Sherrock

Lisa Ashton

Lihao Wen

Ky Smith

Raymond Smith

Boris Koltsov

Bradley Brooks

Remaining international qualifiers

Asian Tour Qualifier - Japan

Indian Qualifier

EU Development Tour winner

West Europe Qualifier

East Europe Qualifier

Asian Tour Qualifier - Hong Kong

Asian Tour Qualifier - Singapore

CDC Continental Cup winner

South-West Europe Qualifier

South-East Europe Qualifier

World Youth Championship winner

PDPA Qualifier 1

PDPA Qualifier 2