Provisional field for the 2020/21 PDC World Darts Championship

The PDC Winter Series ended the PDC ProTour season and for the most part the World Championship field is now confirmed with only the Grand Slam of Darts and Players Championship Finals able to change this now.

The provisional list takes into account prize money being removed from the respective tournaments two years ago and first round money for both added, so it could change but ever so slightly.

Michael van Gerwen is currently top seed but it has already been duly noted that the likelihood of him remaining World Number One is fairly unlikely with Peter Wright likely to take over the top spot at the end of 2020.

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But he will be at least for the World Championship with Wright in second. Gerwyn Price is currently third as he looks to defend the first of his two Grand Slam titles. He is ahead by some distance though to Michael Smith and Rob Cross who are fourth and fifth.

Nathan Aspinall, Dave Chisnall, James Wade and Ian White round out the top 10 going into the World Championship.

While the likes of Gary Anderson and Glen Durrant sit on the fringes with the latter in particular heading towards the top 10 in only his second year.

Further down, Devon Petersen and Jose de Sousa are two players who have also had excellent years and especially in the case of the former, he will qualify through the Order of Merit likely for the first time after years of having his Tour Card potentially on the line at the season ending event.

The ProTour Qualifiers list is also stacked with Damon Heta leading the way after a superb first year which has seen him claim a maiden PDC title albeit with not being able to take part in a section of the season due to the Coronavirus travel restrictions.

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First time winners Ryan Searle and Ryan Joyce also find themselves high on the list. While Dirk van Duijvenbode, a major finalist will make his return for the first time since his infamous game against Raymond van Barneveld in 2016 when he busted 180.

Martijn Kleermaker, Jeff Smith, Derk Telnekes, Scott Waites have all come through their first year in the PDC with a spot after for the most part barring Smith all playing at the BDO version a year ago.

The last player currently qualified is John Henderson and this will only not be the case if Justin Pipe who is set to appear at the Grand Slam of Darts wins the tournament.

In terms of the International Qualifiers, the likes of Challenge Tour standout David Evans will make his debut, Keane Barry will return and Lisa Ashton and Deta Hedman will be involved after winning the Women's Series.

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There are also returns for CDC duo Matt Campbell and Danny Baggish. While German ace Nico Kurz was one of the first to qualify at the restart through the German Superleague.

The ever improving multiple Soft Tip World Champion, Boris Krcmar nearly was in the ProTour spots but has qualified anyway. With other players such as Ryan Meikle and Haupai Puha also on the list.

There are still 13 players still to be confirmed which include spots designated for the PDC Asian Tour which couldn't take place so there is still some interesting developments to come on that side.

Provisional top-32 PDC Order of Merit (order can still change)

Position - Name - Prize money

1 Michael van Gerwen £1.377.750

2 Peter Wright £985.000

3 Gerwyn Price £800.500

4 Michael Smith £569.750

5 Rob Cross £527.500

6 Nathan Aspinall £514.250

7 Dave Chisnall £381.250

8 James Wade £378.000

9 Ian White £345.000

10 Dimitri Van den Bergh £338.250

11 Daryl Gurney £333.500

12 Glen Durrant £322.750

13 Gary Anderson £312.750

14 Krzysztof Ratajski £278.500

15 Joe Cullen £259.000

16 Mensur Suljovic £249.750

17 Jonny Clayton £244.500

18 Adrian Lewis £228.750

19 Chris Dobey £219.000

20 Simon Whitlock £210.000

21 Jeffrey de Zwaan £203.500

22 Mervyn King £200.750

23 Jermaine Wattimena £199.000

24 Danny Noppert £194.750

25 Stephen Bunting £192.500

26 Vincent van der Voort £175.500

27 Jamie Hughes £171.250

28 Brendan Dolan £168.250

29 Devon Petersen £161.250

30 Jose de Sousa £160.750

31 Steve Beaton £160.750

32 Ricky Evans £160.000

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33 Gabriel Clemens £159.000

34 Keegan Brown £152.250

35 Luke Humphries £149.000

36 William O'Connor £149.000

37 Ryan Joyce £135.250

38 Kim Huybrechts £133.750

39 Max Hopp £133.750

40 John Henderson £133.500

41 Ryan Searle £128.000

42 Ross Smith £113.500

43 Steve West £109.250

45 Dirk van Duijvenbode £105.500

46 Darius Labanauskas £101.250

47 Steve Lennon £85.000

48 Justin Pipe £80.250

55 Luke Woodhouse £69.000

71 Damon Heta £36.250

73 Maik Kuivenhoven £33.500

74 Martijn Kleermaker £33.250

78 Jason Lowe £23.000

Pro Tour Qualifiers

Damon Heta

Ryan Searle

Gabriel Clemens

Dirk van Duijvenbode

Ross Smith

Madars Razma

Ryan Joyce

Martijn Kleermaker

Kim Huybrechts

Jeff Smith

William O'Connor

Steve Lennon

Jason Lowe

Maik Kuivenhoven

Derk Telnekes

Darius Labanauskas

Mickey Mansell

Adam Hunt

Max Hopp

Scott Waites

Andy Boulton

Ryan Murray

Keegan Brown

Luke Woodhouse

Luke Humphries

Callan Rydz

Mike De Decker

Ron Meulenkamp

Steve West

Wayne Jones

Andy Hamilton

(John Henderson)

International Qualifiers (19/32)

Lisa Ashton

Danny Baggish

James Bailey

Keane Barry

Matt Campbell

Cameron Carolissen

David Evans

Dmitriy Gorbunov

Deta Hedman

Boris Krcmar

Nico Kurz

Daniel Larsson

Danny Lauby

Chengan Liu

Gordon Mathers

Ryan Meikle

Haupai Puha

Edward Shoji

Kim Viljanen