2017 PDC World Darts Championship
The 2017 William Hill World Darts Championship was the 24th World Championship organised by the Professional Darts Corporation since it separated from the British Darts Organisation. The event took place at Alexandra Palace in London from 15 December 2016 to 2 January 2017.
Phil Taylor made a 28th successive appearance at a World Championship, equalling the record of John Lowe.
For the first time in the history of the World Darts Championship, no Englishman progressed to the semi-finals. It was also the first time since 2009 that the final was contested by the top 2 seeds.
Michael van Gerwen set a new record for the highest World Darts Championship 3-dart average in his semi-final victory over Raymond van Barneveld, breaking a 15-year record that had been held by Phil Taylor since 2002 ; Van Barneveld himself set a new record for the highest losing 3-dart average in the same tie, just 5 days after Cristo Reyes had broken the record in his second round match, also against Van Gerwen.
Van Gerwen won his second World Championship title by defeating two-times defending champion Gary Anderson 7–3 in the final.
Format
The field consisted of 72 players, including 16 in a Preliminary Round. Therefore, 64 players were entered into Round 1. The schedule was announced on 15 July 2016.The 72 players consist of:
- Top 32 players in the PDC Main Order of Merit
- Top 16 Pro Tour Order of Merit players
- Top 4 European players from the Pro Tour Order of Merit
- 16 International qualifiers
- 4 PDPA qualifiers
Qualifiers
Order of Merit
Pro Tour
- James Wilson
- Steve West
- Chris Dobey
- Robbie Green
- Josh Payne
- Jermaine Wattimena
- Ronny Huybrechts
- Joe Murnan
- Darren Webster
- Devon Petersen
- Christian Kist
- Jonny Clayton
- Ricky Evans
- Andrew Gilding
- Kevin Painter
PDPA Qualifier
First Round Qualifier
Preliminary Round Qualifiers
International Qualifiers
First Round Qualifiers
Preliminary Round Qualifiers
- Corey Cadby
- Masumi Chino
- Jerry Hendriks
- Dragutin Horvat
- Boris Koltsov
- Warren Parry
- David Platt
- Tengku Shah
- Ross Snook
- Sun Qiang
- Gilbert Ulang
- Kim Viljanen
Prize money
Preliminary round
Best of three sets.| Player | Score | Player | ||
| 86.63 | Jerry Hendriks  | 2 – 0 |  Warren Parry | 85.42 |
| 83.44 | Tengku Shah  | 2 – 1 |  Masumi Chino | 80.18 |
| 76.40 | Ross Snook  | 0 – 2 |  Kim Viljanen | 83.57 |
| 76.05 | Kevin Simm  | 2 – 0 |  Gilbert Ulang | 73.00 |
| 88.96 | John Bowles | 0 – 2 |  David Platt | 86.92 |
| 68.04 | Sun Qiang  | 0 – 2 | Corey Cadby | 102.48 |
| 76.51 | Boris Koltsov  | 1 – 2 |  Dragutin Horvat | 75.58 |
| 90.35 | Zoran Lerchbacher  | 2 – 1 | Simon Stevenson | 85.44 |
Main draw
Final
Statistics
| Player | Eliminated | Played | Sets Won | Sets Lost | Legs Won | Legs Lost | Leg Breaks | 100+ | 140+ | 170+ | 180s | High Checkout | Checkout Av.% | Average |
| Michael van Gerwen | Winner | 6 | 170 | 42.74 | 106.32 | |||||||||
 Gary Anderson | Runner-up | 6 | 157 | 40.97 | 103.45 | |||||||||
| Semi Finals | 5 | 167 | 42.95 | 100.62 | ||||||||||
| Peter Wright | Semi Finals | 5 | 144 | 46.26 | 102.45 | |||||||||
 Daryl Gurney | Quarter Finals | 4 | 161 | 34.23 | 95.76 | |||||||||
| Phil Taylor | Quarter Finals | 4 | 167 | 39.39 | 97.92 | |||||||||
| Dave Chisnall | Quarter Finals | 4 | 130 | 39.86 | 97.53 | |||||||||
| James Wade | Quarter Finals | 4 | 155 | 49.04 | 96.59 | |||||||||
| Darren Webster | Third Round | 3 | 157 | 41.18 | 99.43 | |||||||||
 Mark Webster | Third Round | 3 | 129 | 31.71 | 89.89 | |||||||||
| Adrian Lewis | Third Round | 3 | 161 | 44.74 | 97.98 | |||||||||
 Kim Huybrechts | Third Round | 3 | 138 | 47.06 | 95.09 | |||||||||
| Benito van de Pas | Third Round | 3 | 143 | 45.78 | 96.42 | |||||||||
| Jelle Klaasen | Third Round | 3 | 140 | 50.79 | 92.57 | |||||||||
| Michael Smith | Third Round | 3 | 143 | 32.31 | 95.04 | |||||||||
| Ian White | Third Round | 3 | 130 | 50.91 | 91.99 | |||||||||
 Cristo Reyes | 2 | 130 | 60.53 | 100.81 | ||||||||||
| Simon Whitlock | Second Round | 2 | 170 | 38.46 | 99.10 | |||||||||
| Mensur Suljović | Second Round | 2 | 120 | 27.63 | 89.87 | |||||||||
| Robert Thornton | Second Round | 2 | 124 | 27.54 | 89.65 | |||||||||
| Joe Cullen | Second Round | 2 | 117 | 37.84 | 91.81 | |||||||||
| Alan Norris | Second Round | 2 | 64 | 26.53 | 94.32 | |||||||||
| Kevin Painter | Second Round | 2 | 124 | 31.11 | 87.83 | |||||||||
| Max Hopp | Second Round | 2 | 102 | 41.67 | 91.08 | |||||||||
| Andrew Gilding | Second Round | 2 | 143 | 44.19 | 88.58 | |||||||||
| Terry Jenkins | Second Round | 2 | 140 | 39.13 | 94.18 | |||||||||
| Chris Dobey | Second Round | 2 | 112 | 42.86 | 90.71 | |||||||||
| Brendan Dolan | Second Round | 2 | 142 | 51.61 | 94.23 | |||||||||
| Steve Beaton | Second Round | 2 | 124 | 35.56 | 93.15 | |||||||||
| Mervyn King | Second Round | 2 | 148 | 36.14 | 90.55 | |||||||||
| Jamie Lewis | Second Round | 2 | 110 | 43.33 | 91.22 | |||||||||
| Jonny Clayton | Second Round | 2 | 120 | 30.65 | 88.13 | |||||||||
| Kim Viljanen | First Round | 2 | 120 | 41.18 | 82.54 | |||||||||
| Dimitri Van den Bergh | First Round | 1 | 98 | 40.00 | 99.11 | |||||||||
| Stephen Bunting | First Round | 1 | 118 | 37.93 | 91.02 | |||||||||
| Dragutin Horvat | First Round | 2 | 101 | 20.51 | 81.88 | |||||||||
| Ron Meulenkamp | First Round | 1 | 116 | 33.33 | 88.56 | |||||||||
| Joe Murnan | First Round | 1 | 70 | 36.36 | 88.84 | |||||||||
| Zoran Lerchbacher | First Round | 2 | 75 | 27.91 | 86.08 | |||||||||
| Jermaine Wattimena | First Round | 1 | 90 | 29.41 | 91.90 | |||||||||
 Magnus Caris | First Round | 1 | 60 | 28.57 | 80.64 | |||||||||
| Corey Cadby | First Round | 2 | 152 | 60.87 | 100.55 | |||||||||
| Robbie Green | First Round | 1 | 86 | 28.57 | 90.08 | |||||||||
 John Michael | First Round | 1 | 141 | 57.89 | 86.05 | |||||||||
| David Platt | First Round | 2 | 156 | 38.10 | 86.93 | |||||||||
| Jamie Caven | First Round | 1 | 60 | 27.27 | 81.51 | |||||||||
| James Wilson | First Round | 1 | 40 | 25.00 | 94.69 | |||||||||
| Vincent van der Voort | First Round | 1 | 90 | 20.00 | 88.79 | |||||||||
| Mark Frost | First Round | 1 | 73 | 25.00 | 73.74 | |||||||||
| John Henderson | First Round | 1 | 121 | 50.00 | 88.19 | |||||||||
| Tengku Shah | First Round | 2 | 101 | 29.55 | 85.65 | |||||||||
| Josh Payne | First Round | 1 | 75 | 37.50 | 88.94 | |||||||||
| Rowby-John Rodriguez | First Round | 1 | 85 | 34.78 | 94.90 | |||||||||
| Justin Pipe | First Round | 1 | 78 | 20.59 | 85.94 | |||||||||
| Jeffrey de Graaf | First Round | 1 | 127 | 38.10 | 89.79 | |||||||||
| Christian Kist | First Round | 1 | 105 | 33.33 | 88.67 | |||||||||
| Ronny Huybrechts | First Round | 1 | 69 | 50.00 | 87.72 | |||||||||
 Devon Petersen | First Round | 1 | 100 | 33.33 | 79.29 | |||||||||
| Ricky Evans | First Round | 1 | 120 | 34.78 | 93.20 | |||||||||
| Steve West | First Round | 1 | 109 | 37.14 | 86.66 | |||||||||
| Jerry Hendriks | First Round | 2 | 156 | 40.00 | 86.59 | |||||||||
 Mick McGowan | First Round | 1 | 95 | 36.84 | 87.01 | |||||||||
| Kevin Simm | First Round | 2 | 100 | 26.19 | 79.11 | |||||||||
| Gerwyn Price | First Round | 1 | 53 | 26.92 | 86.89 | |||||||||
| Warren Parry | Prelim. Round | 1 | 102 | 33.33 | 85.42 | |||||||||
| Masumi Chino | Prelim. Round | 1 | 117 | 26.32 | 80.18 | |||||||||
| Ross Snook | Prelim. Round | 1 | 38 | 25.00 | 76.40 | |||||||||
| Gilbert Ulang | Prelim. Round | 1 | 56 | 28.57 | 73.00 | |||||||||
| John Bowles | Prelim. Round | 1 | 110 | 28.57 | 88.96 | |||||||||
| Sun Qiang | Prelim. Round | 1 | 0 | 0/0 | 68.04 | |||||||||
| Boris Koltsov | Prelim. Round | 1 | 97 | 40.00 | 76.51 | |||||||||
| Simon Stevenson | Prelim. Round | 1 | 76 | 29.41 | 85.44 |
Top averages
This table shows the highest averages achieved by players throughout the tournament.Representation from different countries
This table shows the number of players by country in the World Championship, the total number including the preliminary round. Twenty-two countries were represented in the World Championship, one less than in the previous championship.Media coverage
The tournament was available in the following countries on these channels:| Country | Channel |
 United Kingdom Ireland | Sky Sports Darts † |
| Netherlands | RTL7 RTL7 Darts Radio |
| Germany | Sport 1 and DAZN |
 Denmark | TV3 Sport1/TV3 Sport2 |
 Norway | Viasport 3 |
| Baltic States | Viasat Sport |
Australia Greece Turkey Cyprus Malta Israel Italy | Fox Sports |
| New Zealand | Sky Sport |
 Czech Republic Slovakia Bulgaria | Nova Sport |
 Hungary | Sport1 or Sport2 |
 United States Brazil | ESPN 3/WatchESPN |
| Belgium | Eleven Sport Network |
| MENA | OSN Sports |
| Sub-Saharan Africa | Kwesé Sports 1 or 2 |
| China | CCTV5+ |
† Sky Sports F1 was renamed as Sky Sports Darts for the duration of the tournament.