Where is the World Series Darts Finals? The World Series of Darts Finals is held at the AFAS Live, in Amsterdam

The World Series of Darts Finals is the season finale of the annual World Series global roadshow, with 32 of the world’s best players competing for £400,000 in prize money. First held in 2015, the World Series of Darts Finals is put on by the PDC (Professional Darts Corporation) every September and sees the top performers from the World Series facing off with a selection of PDC invited players and tour card holder qualifiers in Amsterdam.

The 2025 edition of the World Series of Darts Finals marks the 11th staging of the competition and will take place in the Dutch capital over three days from September 12-14. This year’s tournament will feature the 2024 winner Luke Littler, five-time champion Michael van Gerwen and previous winners James Wade, Gerwyn Price and Jonny Clayton.

The World Series Darts Finals tournament has been held every year since 2015 and is a non-ranking event, with prize money earned not counting towards the PDC’s world rankings. The Finals marks the conclusion of the World Series of Darts for the year, with the 2025 schedule having featured seven competitions during the season.

During 2025, the PDC’s top stars have competed in World Series tournaments held in Bahrain, the Netherlands, Denmark, USA, Poland, Australia and New Zealand. The World Series Finals brings the curtain down on the World Series roadshow for another year, as the highest-ranked players on the World Series rankings battle it out with a mix of additional qualifiers for the £80,000 top prize in Amsterdam.

Luke Littler celebrates during his 11-4 semi-final victory against Michael van Gerwen in last year’s World Series of Darts Finals

The World Series Darts Finals format has remained the same since its inception back in 2015. The tournament is played over the legs format, with the first player to reach the target number of legs the winner.

The opening two rounds of the competition are played over the best of 11 legs (first to six legs), before the format increases on finals day. The quarter-finals are a race to 10 legs and then the semi-finals and final are both the first to 11 legs.

Here is a breakdown of the World Series of Darts Finals’ current format:-

• Round 1 - first to 6 legs
• Round 2 - first to 6 legs
• Quarter-finals - first to 10 legs
• Semi-finals - first to 11 legs
• Final - first to 11 legs

The World Series of Darts Finals is restricted to just 32 players, with the majority of the field made up of the top performers during the World Series of Darts season. The top eight players on the World Series Rankings are seeded in the draw, and the rest of the 24 players are then drawn randomly into the rest of the bracket.

Stephen Bunting enters the 2025 tournament as the number one seed, having won the Bahrain Darts Masters and Nordic Darts Masters this year, as well as finishing runner-up in both the Dutch Darts Masters and Poland Darts Masters. Last year’s World Series Finals champion Luke Littler enters his title defence as the second seed, after signing off his World Series campaign with back-to-back tournament victories in Australia and New Zealand.

The next 14 highest-ranked players on the World Series Rankings have also been invited to the season-finale in Amsterdam, along with the next four highest-ranked players in the PDC world rankings. The last six spots are reserved for a tour card holder qualifier, which is open to all non-qualified PDC tour card holders.

Michael Smith pocketed £40,000 for his run to the final of the World Series of Darts Finals last year

The prize money for the World Series of Darts Finals has risen several times during its 10-year history. The first edition of the tournament in 2015 had a prize fund of £155,000, including £30,000 for the winner. The total prize money has changed over time with many increases, the latest one coming in 2024 when the prize fund increased to £400,000, with £80,000 going to the champion.

All of the prize money won from this competition is not added to the PDC World Rankings as it is classed as a non-ranking event.

Below is the World Series of Darts Finals prize money breakdown for 2025:-

Winner - £80,000

Runner-up - £40,000

Semi-finalists - £25,000

Quarter-finalists - £17,500

Round 2 (last 16) - £10,000

Round 1 (last 32) - £5,000

The World Series of Darts Finals has a short but intriguing history in darts. The inaugural staging of the tournament was held in 2015 and saw Michael van Gerwen beat Peter Wright 11-10 to win the title.

Van Gerwen dominated the early years of the World Series Finals, winning the next two editions in 2016 and 2017, along with a fourth triumph in 2019. There was a period of Welsh dominance between 2020 and 2022, with Gerwyn Price (two) and Jonny Clayton lifting the title.

The World Series of Darts Finals is held at the AFAS Live, in Amsterdam. The venue in the Dutch capital first staged the tournament in 2019, before becoming the event’s regular home from 2021.

The Braehead Arena, in Glasgow, staged the first three editions of the World Series Finals from 2015 to 2017, before the tournament moved to the Multiversum Schewchat, in Vienna, in 2018. The World Series Finals returned to Austria two years later when it was held at the Salzburgarena in 2020, before heading back to the AFAS Live in 2021, where it has stayed ever since.

Here is a list of World Series of Darts Finals winners since its first staging in 2015. Michael van Gerwen dominated the tournament during its early years, winning four of the first five editions, before adding a record-extending fifth title to his collection in 2023.

James Wade joined the roll of honour in 2018, beating Michael Smith in a last-leg decider in the final, before Gerwyn Price (2020 and 2022), Jonny Clayton (2021) and Luke Littler (2024) became the third, fourth and fifth different winners with their recent successes on the big stage.

World Series of Darts Finals roll of honour

2015 – Michael van Gerwen

2016 – Michael van Gerwen

2017 – Michael van Gerwen

2018 – James Wade

2019 – Michael van Gerwen

2020 – Gerwyn Price

2021 – Jonny Clayton

2022 – Gerwyn Price

2023 – Michael van Gerwen

2024 – Luke Littler

The 2025 World Series of Darts has produced five different title winners this year, with Stephen Bunting (pictured above) and Luke Littler the two players to celebrate a brace of tournament victories during the campaign.

In January, Bunting opened his World Series title account with a victory in the Bahrain Darts Masters, beating Gerwyn Price 8-4 in the final. Rob Cross then returned to the winners’ circle by lifting the Dutch Darts Masters, defeating Bunting 8-5 in the decider.

In June, Bunting doubled his tally by winning the Nordic Darts Masters, as he avenged his defeat to Cross with an 8-4 success in Copenhagen. Later that month, Luke Humphries lifted the US Darts Masters crown at Madison Square Garden, seeing off Nathan Aspinall 8-6 in the final.

Gerwyn Price added to his trophy cabinet with a victory at the Poland Darts Masters in July, edging past Bunting 8-7 in a last-leg decider. The reigning PDC world champion Littler then signed off the season in style by winning both the Australian Darts Masters and New Zealand Darts Masters titles a month later. The teenager defeated World Series newcomer Mike De Decker 8-4 in Wollongong, before getting the better of Humphries by the same scoreline in the Auckland finale.

Luke Littler said he felt ‘unbeatable’ after winning the World Series of Darts Finals on his debut in 2024. ‘The Nuke’ posted five averages of 102 and above on his way to lifting the title in Amsterdam last year, and finished with a tournament average of 103.79 after sweeping aside Michael Smith 11-4 in the final.

The teenager had to overcome a scare in the first round, surviving two match darts in the decider against Ross Smith, in a thrilling clash which saw Littler fight back from 3-1 down to lead 5-3, before being taken to a deciding leg by the former European champion. Littler then defeated Dutch icon Raymond van Barneveld 6-4 to move through to the final day of action.

The top seed continued his run to glory with a 10-7 victory over Chris Dobey in the quarter-finals, before averaging 107 in an 11-4 triumph against the defending champion Michael van Gerwen to advance to the final. ‘The Nuke’ proved too strong for Michael Smith in the final, averaging 102 to his opponent’s 92 as he ran out an 11-4 winner to clinch the title.

The next instalment of the World Series of Darts Finals is almost upon us as 32 of the world’s best players get ready to battle it out in the Dutch capital. The 2025 World Series Darts Finals takes place from September 12-14 at the AFAS Live, in Amsterdam and will be broadcast live on ITV in the UK.

The first-round draw has thrown together some exciting clashes as the world number one Luke Humphries faces the in-form James Wade, and five-time World Series Finals champion Michael van Gerwen takes on Wessel Nijman in an all-Dutch clash. Luke Littler begins his title defence against Australian darts icon Simon Whitlock, while the number one seed Stephen Bunting faces home favourite Danny Noppert.

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Pictures: Kelly DeckersPDC