With more than £25 million in prize money on offer in PDC events this year, a tour card really is the ‘golden ticket’ for darts players, who can earn life-changing sums of money by qualifying for tournaments like the World Darts Championship. The 128 PDC tour card holders for 2026 are now all confirmed following an exciting conclusion to Q-School at the weekend.

A total of 29 two-year tour cards were up for grabs across Q-Schools held in Milton Keynes and Kalkar last week, as 900+ players battled it out to earn their spots on the professional darts circuit for the next two seasons. With an additional four tour cards already snapped up by the top performers on last year’s Development and Challenge Tours, here’s our look at the 33 players who now have two-year tour cards to compete on the ProTour in 2026 and 2027.

Tour cards won via the 2025 Challenge Tour rankings (previous tour card years in brackets)

Stefan Bellmont (NEW)

Darius Labanauskas (2019-2023)

Tour cards won via the 2025 Development Tour rankings

Beau Greaves (NEW)

Owen Bates (2024-2025)

Tour cards won via UK Q-School

Rhys Griffin (2024-2025)

Adam Leek (NEW)

Carl Sneyd (NEW)

Niall Culleton (NEW)

Tom Sykes (NEW)

Shane McGuirk (NEW)

Charlie Manby (NEW)

Samuel Price (NEW)

Stephen Burton (2017-2018, 2023-2025)

Mervyn King (2011-2024)

Tyler Thorpe (NEW)

Stephen Rosney (NEW)

David Sharp (NEW)

Tour cards won via European Q-School

Filip Bereza (NEW)

Arno Merk (NEW)

Jeffrey Sparidaans (2023-2024)

Cristo Reyes (2015-2021)

Matthias Ehlers (NEW)

Yorick Hofkens (NEW)

Jeffrey de Zwaan (2015-2024)

Sietse Lap (NEW)

Jimmy van Schie (NEW)

Chris Landman (2024-2025)

Marvin Kraft (NEW)

Benjamin Pratnemer (NEW)

Adam Gawlas (2021-2024)

Jurjen van der Velde (2023-2024)

Alexander Merkx (NEW)

Pascal Rupprecht (2023-2024)

Beau Greaves will become a full-time member of the PDC ProTour in 2026 after securing a two-year PDC tour card through the Development Tour rankings last year. The three-time WDF women’s world champion won three titles on the Development Tour in 2025 to help her finish second in the rankings, which was enough to see her claim one of the two tour cards on offer in the PDC’s premier youth circuit.

Greaves, who turned 22 last week, does have some experience of competing on the ProTour as a top up player last year. ‘Beau ‘n’ Arrow’ featured in six Players Championship events in 2025, with her best run getting to the last 32 of Players Championship 24, where she narrowly lost out 6-5 to Luke Littler with a 101.92 average.

The Doncaster ace is widely considered the best female darts player on the planet, having won a record 46 PDC Women’s Series events over the last four years, along with a pair of Women’s World Matchplay titles in 2023 and 2024. Greaves made history last year by becoming the first woman to reach the final of the PDC World Youth Championship, where she was beaten by the defending champion Gian van Veen. Greaves had famously knocked out Littler 6-5 in the semi-finals of that event in a high-quality encounter which saw Greaves average 105.02 and Littler 107.40.

The top two players on the Development Tour rankings each season earn two-year PDC tour cards. Cam Crabtree was the Development Tour number one in 2025, winning five titles across the season to top the rankings and earn a debut in the Grand Slam of Darts in November. As Crabtree already held a tour card, following a successful Q-School campaign at the start of 2025, the two tour cards for the Development Tour were awarded to the players who finished second and third in the rankings.

Women’s number one Beau Greaves finished second to seal her place on the PDC circuit, along with Owen Bates, who regained his tour-card status after finishing in third spot. Bates had held a tour card for the past two years, but finished last season 84th on the PDC Rankings Ladder, meaning he will start 2026 with a new two-year tour card via the 2025 Development Tour rankings.

Over on the Challenge Tour, Stefan Bellmont and Darius Labanauskas were the two players to earn two-year tour cards after finishing first and second on the rankings. Bellmont won three Challenge Tour titles in 2025 to top the rankings and become the first player from Switzerland to become a PDC tour card holder. Meanwhile, Lithuania’s number one Labanauskas clinched his return to the PDC tour after a two-year absence after finishing second in the rankings. ‘Lucky D’ famously hit a nine darter in the PDC World Darts Championship and reached the quarter-finals at Alexandra Palace back in 2020.

Charlie Manby was one of the headline names to win a PDC tour card at UK Q-School last week. The 20-year-old caught the eye with a run to the last 16 on his debut at the PDC World Darts Championship last month, recording wins over Cameron Menzies, Adam Sevada and Ricky Evans, before bowing out to the eventual runner-up Gian van Veen in the fourth round.

‘Champagne’ won his tour card outright on the final day of UK Q-School in Milton Keynes yesterday, racking up six wins on the spin to confirm his place on the ProTour for at least the next two years. Manby hit the headlines in February last year when he posted an astonishing 130.70 average on the Development Tour - the highest ever recorded average in a match on the PDC’s youth circuit.

Joining Manby on the PDC tour is the 2024 WDF men’s world champion Shane McGuirk. The 30-year-old made history two years ago when he won Lakeside and became the first senior world champion from the Republic of Ireland. ‘The Arrow’ won his tour card on Saturday as one of the two daily winners, defeating Manby 6-2 in the final round.

Of the 13 players to claim tour cards at UK Q-School, 10 of them have never previously been a PDC tour card holder. Along with Manby and McGuirk, Adam Leek, Carl Sneyd, Niall Culleton, Tom Sykes, Samuel Price, Tyler Thorpe, Stephen Rosney and David Sharp are all new tour card holders for 2026.

The legendary Mervyn King regained his PDC tour card after a remarkable run on the final day of UK Q-School yesterday. The six-time PDC major finalist, who will turn 60 in March this year, dropped off the professional circuit at the end of 2024. ‘The King’ had held a tour card ever since the introduction of tour cards at the start of 2011 but had also been competing on the PDC tour since switching over from the BDO in 2007.

After spending 2025 playing on the Challenge Tour, World Seniors Tour and MODUS Super Series, the veteran returned to the big stage last month when he featured in the first round of the PDC World Darts Championship. King earned a spot at Alexandra Palace after finishing fourth on the Challenge Tour rankings, with his first-round clash against Ian White marking his 28th appearance in a World Championship across the BDO and PDC.

‘The King’ went into the final day of UK Q-School yesterday with five points on the board but needing at least four wins to stand a chance of regaining his tour card on the Order of Merit. King showed his battling qualities to win through back-to-back last-leg deciders against Jenson Walker and Derek Maclean in the last 32 and last 16, which moved him onto nine points. A 6-2 win over Tyler Thorpe in the last eight was enough to get King over the line, taking him up to 10 points and a tour card for finishing second on the final UK Q-School rankings.

Whilst the majority of tour-card winners at UK Q-School are new to the tour, King is one of three returning faces along with Rhys Griffin and Stephen Burton. The duo lost their tour cards following the World Championship, after finishing the season outside the top 64 in the rankings, but both clinched an immediate return. Griffin won his tour card back on the first day of the final stage and Burton topped the UK Q-School rankings with an impressive 14 points to his name.

The reigning WDF world champion Jimmy van Schie sealed his place on the PDC tour at European Q-School yesterday. The tall Dutchman narrowly missed out on a tour card at Q-School 12 months ago, finishing just a point outside of the spots on the Order of Merit, but rebounded in 2025 with a trophy-laden year that saw him win the WDF’s two premier titles.

After bagging the World Masters in Hungary in November, van Schie went to Lakeside as one of the big favourites to go all the way in the Open tournament. The number one seed lived up to the billing as he dropped just four sets on his way to the final, where he fought back from 3-0 down in sets to defeat the teenage star Mitchell Lawrie 6-3 to be crowned the champion.

Van Schie’s 2026 Q-School campaign saw him win through the first stage on Monday, before topping the final stage rankings with 12 points on Sunday to seal his first PDC tour card. ‘The Dutch Sequoia’ made the last 16 in each of the first two days of the final stage, before reaching the final on Saturday which was enough to confirm his tour card via the rankings and with a day to spare.

For eight of the 16 tour card winners at European Q-School this year it will be their first time as PDC tour card holders. Yorick Hofkens, at just 18 years of age, is the youngest player from the class of 2026 to join the ProTour, with the German teenager securing a two-year tour card as one of the outright winners in Kalkar on Saturday.

Hofkens made a big impression on his European Tour debut last summer, taking out a pair of 100+ finishes and checking out at 63 per cent in a 6-5 defeat to Cameron Menzies in the first round of the Baltic Sea Darts Open. The 2023 WDF Europe Youth Cup boys’ singles champion can now look forward to plenty more tussles on the professional tour after going all the way at European Q-School at the weekend.

On Saturday, Hofkens won three last-leg shootouts, including in the final round against Jimmy van Schie, to become a PDC tour card holder for the first time in his young career. Hofkens is one of five Germans to win a tour card last week, along with Arno Merk, Matthias Ehlers, Marvin Kraft and Pascal Rupprecht.

Cristo Reyes made a surprising return to the world of darts last November after winning the Mediterranean qualifier for the PDC World Darts Championship. It was a first appearance at Alexandra Palace in six years for ‘The Spartan’, who lost 3-1 to Gian van Veen in the first round, but averaged 96.16 in defeat and did not look to have lost a beat in his four-year absence from the PDC tour.

The Spaniard had previously held a tour card from 2015 to 2021 but before returning for the World Championship qualifiers had not been seen in a PDC event since the Challenge Tour in early 2022. Reyes is now back on the PDC tour after claiming a tour card outright at European Q-School on Friday. The 38-year-old reeled off six wins in a row to secure a two-year tour card and a second stint on the ProTour.

Reyes is one of seven returning faces to the PDC tour from this year’s European Q-School tour card winners, along with Jeffrey Sparidaans, Jeffrey de Zwaan, Chris Landman, Adam Gawlas, Jurjen van der Velde and Pascal Rupprecht. Amongst the other newcomers joining the PDC main circuit for the first time are Filip Bereza, Sietse Lap, Alexander Merkx and Benjamin Pratnemer - the latter being the first player from Slovenia to hold a tour card.

Andreas Harrysson was one of the star names to miss out on a tour card at Q-School in 2026. The Swedish ace enjoyed an impressive debut in the PDC World Darts Championship last month where he knocked out Ross Smith on his way to reaching the last 16. ‘Dirty Harry’ lost out 4-2 to Jonny Clayton in the fourth round at Alexandra Palace, in a match which had he won would have moved him into the top 64 in the PDC world rankings and earned him a tour card.

As a result of that defeat, the PDC Nordic & Baltic number one was among the entries at European Q-School in Germany last week. Harrysson’s Q-School bid fell agonisingly short, with a 6-5 defeat to Jeffrey de Zwaan in the last 16 yesterday seeing him finish ninth on the final Order of Merit. With only the top eight on the rankings earning tour cards, ‘Dirty Harry’ missed out on a tour card on legs difference behind Pascal Rupprecht.

At UK Q-School, only the top five players on the final Order of Merit were eligible for tour cards and it resulted in a dramatic and close race on the last day yesterday. Seven players finished tied on nine points from third to ninth in the rankings, with Tyler Thorpe and Stephen Rosney taking third and fourth by virtue of a better legs difference. The fifth and final spot went to David Sharp, who finished level on points and legs difference with Derek Coulson, but ahead on the third tie break of legs won, with Sharp winning 70 legs to Coulson’s 63.