The 2025 World Grand Prix concluded last night as Luke Littler claimed his SEVENTH career major title and continued to close in on the top sport in the world rankings.
Littler has now won the last three major ranking titles in 2025 (UK Open, World Matchplay and World Grand Prix) after beating close rival and current world number 1, Luke Humphries, 6-1 in the final.
The moment we crowned our new BOYLE Sports World Grand Prix champion…🏆#WGPDarts pic.twitter.com/NCq0uFXFER
— PDC Darts (@OfficialPDC) October 12, 2025
With a £600,000 prize fund and £120,000 going to the winner, the World Grand Prix is one of the tournaments that can shake up the rankings and this has been true for many of the top 32 players this year.
Below we take a look at the biggest winners, losers and changes in the PDC Order of Merit ranking system – officially known as The Werner Rankings Ladder.
Data for the full ranking changes sourced from dartsrankings.com
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Order of Merit Changes: Losers
Peter Wright: Down 2 Places
When Peter Wright made it to the quarter-finals of the 2025 World Championship, many fans thought he would kick on and get back to his best form this year. Unfortunately, Wright seems to be struggling more than ever before.
The year isn’t over yet but to date, this is the first year of his professional career dating back to 2012 that he hasn’t won a ranking title of any sort.
Wright made it to the quarter-final of the 2023 World Grand Prix but a first round exit to last year’s winner, Mike De Decker, has seen him drop out of the top 16 as he now sits in 18th position.
De Decker even went as far as claiming that Wright now ‘buckles under pressure’.
Peter Wright won the 2023 European Championship so another early exit could see him tumble even further down the rankings in the coming months…
Gerwyn Price: Down 4 Places
Gerwyn Price has been one of the form players of 2025 with several ranking titles and numerous runs in the latter stages of major tournaments.
After beating Josh Rock 3-0 in the second round, Price went into the quarter-finals against Luke Littler in serious form and even took an early 2-0 lead.
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Unfortunately, he couldn’t close out the match and would lose 3-2 to the eventual tournament winner.
Despite a decent run, Price was runner-up in the 2023 World Grand Prix so was unable to defend that prize money and has dropped 4 places to 11th in the rankings.
He isn’t defending any big wins at the back end of the season though so it’s likely he’ll move back into the top 10 again relatively quickly.
Joe Cullen: Down 5 Places
After a first round win over James Wade, Joe Cullen revealed that he’d been struggling mentally since being left out of the Premier League line-up two years prior.
The 2022 World Masters winner faced some online backlash for these comments as they were taken out of context and people thought he was just ‘moaning’.
A 3-0 whitewash against Gary Anderson in the next round followed and this result has been disastrous for Cullen.
He reached the semi-final in 2023 so this loss has seen The Rockstar drop 5 places in the rankings and he is now 32nd.
Falling outside the top 32 will just mean tougher draws against seeded players in the big tournaments so Cullen is now in a very tricky position in terms of rankings.
He’s currently 35th on the European Tour rankings with the top 32 qualifying for the European Championship and only one European Tour event left to qualify (German Darts Championship).
Unlike Price, we could see Cullen drop even further down the rankings as this the season goes on 👀
Michael Smith: Down 6 Places
The biggest ranking drop following the 2025 World Grand Prix is for a player who didn’t actually play.
Michael Smith is having one of the quickest and most impactful downfalls we’ve ever seen in dart!
The 2023 World Champion and 2023 World Grand Prix semi-finalist didn’t qualify for the event this year as he didn’t pick up enough ranking points on the ProTour.
This is the second ranking major that he hasn’t qualified for this year and it’s already confirmed that he hasn’t qualified for the European Championship later this month.
Smith has had numerous issues over the last few years with form and injuries impacting the former world number 1 and he hasn’t been able to stop the landslide down the rankings.
This latest drop of 6 places sees Bully Boy now 27th in the rankings with further drops seeming inevitable after giving an update on ‘multiple injuries’ around 6 weeks ago.
Order of Merit Changes: Winners
Josh Rock: Up 2 Places
Josh Rock continued his ascent up the darts rankings as the young darts ace moved into the top 10 for the first time in his career.
Despite a second round loss to Price, Rock moved up 2 places to 8th in the rankings.
Many were expecting more going into this tournament after back-to-back semi-final finishes in the last two major ranking tournaments so Rocky will likely be disappointed with this result but it’s still steady progress.
He’s reluctant to class himself as an elite player until he makes it into the Premier League but alongside Gian van Veen and Luke Littler he’s showing that he’ll be one of the top players in darts over the next decade.
Danny Noppert: Up 4 Places
Danny Noppert has been having a very steady season and has maybe been flying under the radar after mentioned as much in an interview last week.
After finishing runner-up at the Hungarian Darts Trophy last month, a semi-final finish at the World Grand Prix (combined with a semi-final finish at the 2025 World Masters) has seen Noppert move up 4 places to 10th in the rankings.
Noppert has been ever present in the top 16 since winning the 2022 UK Open and has a number of semi-final finishes in major tournaments on his resume.
Wins over Jermaine Wattimena, Stephen Bunting and Gary Anderson were big results but the Dutchman was unable to get past Luke Humphries losing 5-3 in the semi-final.
With his consistent form, it wouldn’t be too surprising if he was to pick up a major title in the near future…
Cameron Menzies: Up 4 Places
Cameron Menzies finally quit his day job earlier this year after trying to juggle life as a plumber and professional darts players.
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Since this announcement, Menzies has had a publicised breakup with former partner and darts player Fallon Sherrock and a first round exit at the 2025 World Matchplay.
It was therefore not the ideal start to his life as a full-time professional darts player but after making the 2025 World Grand Prix quarter-finals, Cammy has finally broken into the top 32 in the rankings.
Up 4 places to 29th, Menzies had comfortable wins over Chris Dobey and Rob Cross (both top 10 ranked players) before losing 3-1 to Luke Humphries in the quarter-finals.
Menzies now has a good platform to build on as he will look to cement himself as a potential top 16 player over the coming year.
Luke Littler: Unchanged
Despite having no change to his rankings, Luke Littler is by far the biggest winner.
This is now the seventh major title to his name despite not even having a full two years as a professional player yet.
Of the 8 major tournaments in 2025, Littler has been to the final in 6 of them. He’s also won 80% of the ranking major titles (⅘) with the 2025 World Masters the only ranking major title he’s failed to win so far this season.
The £120,000 in prize money puts his OoM earnings at £1,665,500. He’s now just £70,750 away from Luke Humphries who holds the current top spot in the rankings.
£70k is not a small sum of money but Humphries is defending prize money from 2023 Grand Slam of Darts and Players Championship Finals wins whereas Luke Littler isn’t defending any prize money (as he wasn’t even a pro back then) so can only add to his tally in the coming months.
It therefore seems highly likely or even inevitable that Luke Littler will be the world number 1 heading into the 2026 World Darts Championship.
Elsewhere, there were still some noticeable movements in the rankings.
While Luke Humphries position was unchanged, he won the 2023 World Grand Prix. A runner-up position was solid but he still dropped prize money from his overall rankings.
Nico Springer who turned professional this year and won the Hungarian Darts Trophy recently moved up 6 places to 61st in the rankings after making the first round but losing 2-0 to Stephen Bunting.
Ross Smith dropped 2 places to 14th after a first round loss to Daryll Gurner while Damon Heta dropped 1 place to 12th after his first round loss to Luke Woodhouse.
Andrew Gilding losing to Jonny Clayton in the first round saw him drop 2 places to 31st, very close to potentially dropping out of the top 32.
Jonny Clayton made his third consecutive major tournament semi-final. The Welshman is still nestled in 6th place though as he has put himself a comfortable £70k above the top 10 places but is still trailing James Wade in 5th by just over £50k.
To see the full rankings as the stand, check out the official Order of Merit provided by the PDC here
Also If you missed it, check out the highlights from the final provided by the PDC below:
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