The Players Championship Finals is the last ranking tournament each year before the biggest and highest paying tournament takes place in the PDC World Championship.
World number one Luke Littler continued his dominance in 2025 by winning his sixth PDC major ranking title of the year.
An 11-8 win over Nathan Aspinall in the final of the 2025 Players Championship Finals on Sunday evening means that Littler has had a darting season that is up there alongside the likes of Phil Taylor and Michael van Gerwen for the best of all time (in terms of titles won).
Luke Littler's nine major titles means he's now up to fourth in the all-time list after less than two seasons as a pro.
— Chris Hammer (@ChrisHammer180) November 23, 2025
Taylor – 79
MVG – 48
Wade – 11
Littler – 9 pic.twitter.com/MdVEylhbor
A first round exit for Luke Humphries who was defending both his title and winning prize money from two years earlier means that The Nuke has been able to further the gap at the top of the Order of Merit rankings.
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The Players Championship Finals is up there as one of the highest paying tournaments of the season in terms of prize money with a £600,000 fund.
It also has one of the larger participant fields though with 64 players, meaning the higher earnings are skewed more towards the final 4…
Below we highlight some of the highest earning players from the 2025 Players Championship Finals.
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Luke Littler Earns Top Prize Money for SIXTH Time in 2025
Luke Littler went into this tournament for the first time as the world number one having earned £1,850,500 in ranking money in less than two years as a professional darts player.
A record breaking tournament average of 105.66 where he didn’t have a single match with an average <100 is both a remarkable and unplayable standard, even at the elite level in darts.
It therefore wasn’t surprising that Littler would take home the title and earn a further £120,000 in winning prize money. That puts Littler almost £400k clear at the top of the PDC OoM rankings and just shy of £2 million in earnings.
His closest rival in Luke Humphries has an unfortunate first round exit to Gian van Veen. His £3,000 earned for a first round exit pales in comparison to the back-to-back £120,000 he’d won the previous two years…
A dark horse in this tournament was Nathan Aspinall who made it to his first major ranking final since winning the 2023 World Matchplay.
The Asp had tumbled down the ranking table in 2025, however, a number of Euro Tour titles and the £60,000 earned as runner-up at the PC Finals has moved him up to 15th in the rankings and in a better position to push towards the top 10 again.
Gerwyn Price made it to his second consecutive ranking major semi-final.
The Iceman put in a strong performance against Luke Littler with a 101.9 average and 57.14% on checkouts, however, it still wasn’t enough to beat the 18-year-old.
This even had Price heaping praise on the youngster following their match. Something you don’t often see him do!
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This semi-final finish saw Gerwyn Price collect £30,000 in prize money.
The other semi-finalist was Jermaine Wattimena who beat seasoned players in Ryan Joyce, Ryan Searle and James Wade during his run. Like Price, Wattimena earned £30,000 in prize money which moved him into the top 20 for the first time in his career.
Having won his first ranking title earlier this year, Wattimena is in a strong position to push for a top 16 position in 2026.
Players Who Exceeded Expectation and Also Those Who Crashed Out
With a 64 players field, some of the lower ranked PDC players had a good opportunity to progress to latter stages and many took the opportunity.
Adam Lipscombe and James Hurrell were two players ranked outside the top 32 who managed to progress to the third round and collect £10,000 in prize money which gave them both a good boost in the rankings.
James Wade, Josh Rock and Chris Dobey are all in and around the top 10 in rankings and all made the quarter-finals so didn’t see a major jump in rankings. They all earned £20,000 for their deep runs.
The player who benefited most from the quarter-final run is Daryl Gurney. His loss against perpetual rival Gerwyn Price in the QF would have been disappointing but the £20,000 earned boosted him 3 places up the rankings to 22nd.
Gurney has admitted it’s been hard to try and move up the rankings and get back into the top 16 but this will be a great boost for the Northern Irishman.
Players who will be disappointed with their tournament (outside of Luke Humphries) include Rob Cross, Dave Chisnall and Damon Heta.
All were top 10 players this time last year but have dropped significantly down the rankings now. A first round exit for all three with £3,000 earned has seen them fall even further from the top now.
- Damon Heta down 3 places to 16th
- Rob Cross down 1 place to 17th
- Dave Chisnall down 3 places to 21st
Most of the above were the main talking points as far as player earnings from the 2025 Players Championship Finals.
Below we’ve provided the earnings for the players who made it as far as the last 16 (third round).
| Player | Prize Money |
| Luke Littler | £120,000 |
| Nathan Aspinall | £60,000 |
| Gerwyn Price | £30,000 |
| Jermainne Wattimena | £30,000 |
| Josh Rock | £20,000 |
| James Wade | £20,000 |
| Chris Dobey | £20,000 |
| Daryl Gurney | £20,000 |
| Martin Schindler | £10,000 |
| Adam Lipscombe | £10,000 |
| Ricardo Pietreczko | £10,000 |
| James Hurrell | £10,000 |
| Danny Noppert | £10,000 |
| Krzysztof Ratajski | £10,000 |
| Andrew Gilding | £10,000 |
| Ryan Searle | £10,000 |
The next tournament will be one of the most anticipated in darts history.
For relevance to this article, the 2026 World Championship gets underway in just a few weeks and will have a record breaking prize fund of £5,000,000. This is double last year with the winner set to receive £1,000,000.
There’s also the nine-dart finish bonus prize still in place which will pay £60,000 for any player that takes out the maximum. This was achieved twice last year by Christian Kist and Damon Heta.
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