The 2026 World Grand Prix didn’t disappoint as a tournament. Big names in Luke Littler and Michael van Gerwen suffered first round exits while Luke Humphries and Gerwyn Price set a few new records in the final…
Luke Humphries ended a streak of five Major tournament final losses on Sunday night with a 6-4 win over Gerwyn Price in the final on Sunday night to claim the 2026 World Grand Prix title.
Both players were competing in their fourth career World Grand Prix final. Humphries set a new record for the most consecutive final appearances in tournament history (four) whilst Gerwyn Price made a new highest set average of 132.62.
GERWYN PRICE AVERAGES 132.62 TO TAKE FIRST SET 🤯 12-darter, 10-darter, 12-darter… the best set in World Grand Prix history! 🔥 📺 https://t.co/TMDN8xUQq6 #WGPDarts | Final https://t.co/F45l2xcM6M
— PDC Darts (@OfficialPDC) October 4, 2026
While those achievements and accolades stole the headlines, Humphries also joined an exclusive (and small) group of players to have won the World Grand Prix on multiple occasions.
Since the tournament began in 1998, there have been just FOUR players to lift the title more than once…
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Luke Humphries – 2 World Grand Prix Titles
Winner – 2023, 2026
Runner-up – 2024, 2025
Tournament appearances – 6
Luke Humphries has had one of the most explosive periods of success in darts history.
His first ever Major title was the 2023 World Grand Prix where he beat three world champions in Peter Wright, Michael Smith and Gerwyn Price (in the final) to lift the title. This would prove to be a catalyst moment for Humphries…
In the three seasons since, he has become world champion, world number one, made 17 Major finals and won 9 Major titles during that period.
This title tally puts him FIFTH all-time on the PDC Major titles winners list. The 2026 World Grand Prix title moved him ahead of Gary Andserson and Peter Wright who both have 8 Major titles apiece.
The World Grand Prix looks like it could be a favourite tournament for Cool Hand who has now been to four consecutive finals and didn’t drop a single set until the semi-final in this year’s tournament!
The total also means he moves into the exclusive club on this list of multi-time Grand Prix winners alongside some of darts all-time great players.
James Wade – 2 World Grand Prix Titles
Winner – 2007, 2010
Runner-up – 2014
Tournament appearances – 22
James Wade is re-defining the term longevity in darts.
Over 20+ years in the PDC, The Machine has won the fourth most Major titles of all-time and has won the most ProTour matches at 1,000+.
It’s not just that he’s been consistent over those years, he’s been one of darts elite players, ranked inside the top 3 for several years during his peak and then the top 10 for a dozen years around it.
Following the 2024 World Grand Prix Wade had dropped to 17th in the PDC Order of Merit rankings and looked to finally be on the decline.
Fast forward to the 2026 World Grand Prix though and Wade was back in the semi-final, has made several Major finals over the last few years, won titles on the Euro Tour and ProTour and is up to 5th in the world rankings.
The semi-final run was his best since 2014 when he finished runner-up, however, prior to that Wade twice lifted the trophy in 2007 and 2010.
Wade is also one of just three players to hit a nine-dart finish at the World Grand Prix and it came during a legendary match where both he and Robert Thornton hit one during the same match.
Making the semi-final this year shows how solid Wade is in a double-in format (especially on the D10) and his run was all the more impressive considering he played his 22nd Grand Prix tournament.
The most of any player, further highlighting his longevity and consistency!
Michael van Gerwen – 6 World Grand Prix Titles
Winner – 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2022
Runner-up – 2015
Tournament appearances – 16
This is where there’s a sizable jump in ‘multiple’ World Grand Prix titles.
In his first five years playing PDC Major tournaments, Michael van Gerwen only qualified for the World Grand Prix once in 2009 and lost in his first round match to Kevin Painter.
Then in 2012 MVG would win his first Major title and kickstarted one of the greatest darts careers of all time. Like Humphries, his first Major title came via the World Grand Prix.
Following that initial Major title win and during his career to date, MVG has gone on to make 65 Major tournament finals and won 48 Major titles.
The World Grand Prix is his joint third most successful Major tournament where he’s won the title 6 times and finished runner-up once.
He holds the record for the highest tournament average at a staggering 99.46, a remarkable tournament average to be just shy of 100 with a double-in, double-out format. This also came during 2016, arguably the greatest PEAK year of any darts player…
He also holds two of the top 10 highest match averages.
Unfortunately, MVG has had three straight years of first round exits making it unlikely that he can challenge for top spot on this list.
Still, his performance in this tournament during his prime years will equally be difficult to overtake.
Phil Taylor – 11 World Grand Prix Titles
Winner – 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013
Runner-up – 0
Tournament appearances – 19
Phil Taylor, it should come as no surprise, leads the list when it comes to multiple World Grand Prix titles.
In 19 tournament appearances, Taylor won 11 World Grand Prix titles. Nearly twice as many as the next closest winner in MVG.
Between his first and last title he’d won 11 out of 16 World Grand Prix tournaments, meaning he would win the tournament ⅔ of the time he entered it 🤯
Arguably the strangest stat though is that Taylor never finished runner-up in this tournament.
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The shorter set format early in the tournament combined with the double-in aspect meant there was a rare opportunity for players to beat Taylor early on.
A saying that he and others had was that if you didn’t beat Taylor early in a tournament, you wouldn’t beat him at all once the format got longer…
For the first twelve years of the World Grand Prix this looked to be true. Taylor would win a few consecutive years and then lose in the first round, and this cycle repeated itself three times.
Even if it was a tournament where Taylor could be caught out early, he still dominated it by an unbelievable margin.
Due to the format of the tournament and with only four players winning the title more than once, this is truly a title count that will likely never be topped.
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