2020 BDO World Darts Championship


The 2020 BDO World Professional Darts Championship was the 43rd World Championship organised by the British Darts Organisation, and the 1st staging at the Indigo at The O2 in London. It was the first BDO World Darts Championship not held at the Lakeside Country Club since 1985.
Gabriel Pascaru and Thibault Tricole became the first players from Romania and France respectively to play in a World Darts Championship.
Three-time men's defending champion Glen Durrant was absent from the event, having switched to the Professional Darts Corporation in January 2019.
The reigning women's champion was Mikuru Suzuki. She successfully retained her title, by defeating Lisa Ashton 3–0 in the final.
Wayne Warren won his first world title with a 7–4 win over fellow Welshman Jim Williams in the final. He became the oldest player ever to win a world title.

Prize money

On 30 December 2019, less than a week before the tournament was due to start, it was announced that due to ticket sales of only 15%, the prize money would be 'reduced somewhat'.. A reduction from £359,000 to £150,000 was reported in the media but prize money aside from the winners was unconfirmed.. It was thought that the prize money would be reduced by half in most cases, although this was unconfirmed.
On 15 January 2020, the prize fund was finally revealed with the men's champion portion dropping from £100,000 last year to only £23,000 this year.
On 11 February 2020, it was reported that players had still not received any prize money, despite payment being due by 9 February, 28 days after the tournament ended..
Men's
Women's

Men's

Format and qualifiers

1–16 in BDO Rankings
Seeded in First round
  1. Wesley Harms '
  2. Jim Williams '
  3. Richard Veenstra '
  4. Dave Parletti '
  5. Wayne Warren
  6. Nick Kenny '
  7. Martijn Kleermaker '
  8. Willem Mandigers '
  9. Scott Mitchell '
  10. Adam Smith-Neale '
  11. Mario Vandenbogaerde '
  12. Andy Hamilton '
  13. Gary Robson '
  14. David Evans '
  15. Ryan Hogarth '
  16. Scott Waites '
17–24 in BDO Rankings
First round
25–27 in BDO Rankings
Preliminary round
World Master
Preliminary round
Regional Table Qualifiers
Preliminary round
Playoff Qualifiers
Preliminary round

Preliminary round

All matches are the first to 3 sets.
PlayerScorePlayer
83.78 Justin Thompson 3 – 0 Scott Williams 82.41
87.30 Darren Herewini 3 – 1 Simon Stainton86.22
86.19 Thibault Tricole 3 – 293.08
86.27 Joe Chaney 2 – 3 Ben Hazel 86.22
80.983 – 275.38
88.51 Paul Hogan 3 – 1 Brian Raman89.22
81.90 Gabriel Pascaru 1 – 3 Justin Hood 90.24
86.71 David Cameron 1 – 3 Nick Fullwell 90.44

Last 32

Women's

Format and qualifiers

1–8 in BDO Rankings
Seeded in First Round
  1. Lisa Ashton '
  2. Mikuru Suzuki
  3. Aileen de Graaf '
  4. Fallon Sherrock
  5. Deta Hedman '
  6. Beau Greaves '
  7. Anastasia Dobromyslova '
  8. Lorraine Winstanley '
9–16 in BDO Rankings
First Round
Playoff Qualifiers

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