Road to the 2025 ADC Global Championship (December 1st - January 2026)

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Nice

[oche balboa]

As discussed elsewhere, The ADC have expanded their Global Championship to include a bigger field and a bigger prize fund with the winner taking home £60,000 (More at the time of going to press then the WDF World Champion £50,000)


Format

1st Phase

8 Groups of 7 players (1 Group per day) - The format for this is likely to be (Best of 7) - Top 4 go through to the 2nd phase

2nd Phase

8 Groups of 4 players (1 Group per day) - Format likely to be the same - Winners go through to the Grand Final - Play each other twice

GRAND FINAL-

8 Players, Which is a knockout format in January - Format likely to be longer than the opening two phase (Best of 13 to 21)

Prize Fund - From Interview with Scott Hunt (ADC) on Weekly Dartscast

Winner - £60,000
Runner-Up - £20,000
Semi Final - £8,000
Quarter Final - £4,000

2nd Group Phase

2nd - £1250
3rd - £900
4th - £800

1st Group Stage

5th - £700
6th - £600
7th - £500


Criteria

Current Global Champion - Devon Petersen

(Italics for the players who are provisionally in these places)

UK & Ireland

Top 4 UK Rankings - Thomas Banks, Mike Huntley, Johnny Haines, Jonny Barnes
Top 4 Winmau Tour - Graham Hall, Christian Perez, Jack Tweddell, Carl Wilson
Top 2 Ireland Tour - Aidan O'Hara, Niall Culleton
The UK & Ireland Classic - N/A
The Vault National Champion - N/A
UK Winmau Tour Champion - N/A

UK & Ireland Regional Title Holders - Not sure this is up to date

England - Adam Mould
Scotland - Gary Stone
Wales - David Davies
Ireland - John O'Shea
Northern Ireland - Barry Copeland
North West - Simon Wilkinson
Yorkshire & Humber - Carl Wilkinson
North East - Jamie Owens
Midlands - James Richardson
South West - Neil Meneer
South East & London - Vacant
East of England - Joe Croft

European Tour

Northern European Tour (Top 2)
Western European Tour Brian Raman, Xanti Van Den Bergh, Danny Van Klompenberg
Top 5 Western European Ranking Table - Timothy Verbrugghe, John Desreumaux, Zereso Zeverboom, Stijn Deklerck, James Vanbesien
Southern European Tour (Top 2)
Eastern European Festival Champion - TBA
Benelux Open Champion - TBA
Benelux Trophy Champion - TBA
DVDB Classic Champion - TBA
2 x Qualifiers

WADC Tour

Angela Kirkwood
Gemma Hayter

Modus Super Series

Series 10 -
Series 11 -
Series 12 -

Global Representation:

2 from Oceania, 1 from South Africa, 1 from North America


UK Qualification Permutations - Routes to take precedent


‣ If a player wins a Major and is currently already qualified via the UK Rankings or Winmau Championship Tour, the Major Win will take precedent and a further spot awarded to the UK Rankings.
‣ If a player is placed in the top 4 of the Winmau Championship Tour & top 4 of UK Rankings, the Winmau Championship Tour will take precedent and a further spot awarded to the UK Rankings.
‣ If a player wins a Major and is currently a Regional Title Holder, the Major win will take precedent and a further spot will be awarded to the UK Rankings.
‣ If a player wins a Regional Title, but is already qualified through the Winmau Championship Tour, the Winmau Championship Tour will take precedent and a further spot awarded to the UK Rankings.
‣ If a player wins a MODUS Super Series Champions Week, but is already qualified through other routes, the MODUS Super Series Win will take precedent and a further spot awarded to the UK Rankings.

Full 56

1 CURRENT GLOBAL CHAMPION - DEVON PETERSEN
2 UK RANKING #1
3 UK RANKING #2
4 UK RANKING #3
5 UK RANKING #4
6 UK WINMAU TOUR #1
7 UK WINMAU TOUR #2
8 UK WINMAU TOUR #3
9 UK WINMAU TOUR #4
10 IRELAND TOUR #1
11 IRELAND TOUR #2
12 UK & IRELAND CLASSIC CHAMPION
13 THE VAULT UK & IRELAND CHAMPION
14 WINMAU UK TOUR CHAMPION
15 ENGLISH TITLE HOLDER
16 SCOTLAND TITLE HOLDER
17 IRELAND TITLE HOLDER
18 WALES TITLE HOLDER
19 NORTHERN IRELAND TITLE HOLDER
20 EAST OF ENGLAND TITLE HOLDER
21 NORTH EAST TITLE HOLDER
22 MIDLANDS TITLE HOLDER
23 NORTH WEST TITLE HOLDER
24 SOUTH WEST TITLE HOLDER
25 SOUTH EAST & LONDON TITLE HOLDER
26 NORTHERN IRELAND QUALIFIER
27 SENIORS QUALIFIER 45+
28 UK QUALIFIER (NORTH)
29 UK QUALIFIER (SOUTH)
30 MODUS SUPER SERIES #10 CHAMPION
31 MODUS SUPER SERIES #11 CHAMPION
32 MODUS SUPER SERIES #12 CHAMPION
33 NORTHERN EUROPEAN TOUR #1
34 NORTHERN EUROPEAN TOUR #2
35 WESTERN EUROPEAN RANKING #1
36 WESTERN EUROPEAN RANKING #2
37 WESTERN EUROPEAN RANKING #3
38 WESTERN EUROPEAN RANKING #4
39 WESTERN EUROPEAN RANKING #5
40 WESTERN EUROPEAN TOUR #1
41 WESTERN EUROPEAN TOUR #2
42 WESTERN EUROPEAN TOUR #3
43 SOUTHERN EUROPEAN TOUR #1
44 SOUTHERN EUROPEAN TOUR #2
45 EASTERN EUROPEAN FESTIVAL #1
46 BENELUX TROPHY CHAMPION
47 DVDB CLASSIC CHAMPION
48 BENELUX OPEN CHAMPION
49 ADC EUROPEAN QUALIFIER #1
50 ADC EUROPEAN QUALIFIER #2
51 WADC TOUR #1
52 WADC TOUR #2
53 OCEANIA QUALIFIER
54 OCEANIA QUALIFIER
55 SOUTH AFRICAN QUALIFIER
56 NORTH AMERICA QUALIFIER

Update on the list of potential qualifiers

[TheMalteseDart]

That many vile Dutch and Belgian jobbers is really not required

[Emulsfier]

47 DVDB CLASSIC CHAMPION

Dimitri van den Bergh Classic? Is that a joke?

[The Thorn]

47 DVDB CLASSIC CHAMPION

Dimitri van den Bergh Classic? Is that a joke?

Nope, it also happened last year, won by John Desreumaux.

https://www.dartsatlas.com/tournaments/EMzp1yKdQCf8

[Emulsfier]

47 DVDB CLASSIC CHAMPION

Dimitri van den Bergh Classic? Is that a joke?

Nope, it also happened last year, won by John Desreumaux.

https://www.dartsatlas.com/tournaments/EMzp1yKdQCf8

[oche balboa]

Yeah. He put some money towards the ADC iirc and they rewarded him with a tournament named after him

[The Thorn]

Yeah. He put some money towards the ADC iirc and they rewarded him with a tournament named after him

We have to also begrudgingly admit he is the greatest Belgian darts player of all time.

[oche balboa]

Yeah. He put some money towards the ADC iirc and they rewarded him with a tournament named after him

We have to also begrudgingly admit he is the greatest Belgian darts player of all time.

100%.

[The Thorn]

Yeah. He put some money towards the ADC iirc and they rewarded him with a tournament named after him

We have to also begrudgingly admit he is the greatest Belgian darts player of all time.

100%.

Is also his blood alcohol level

[oche balboa]

Long way to go but

1 Devon Petersen - Reigning & Defending ADC Global Champion
2 UK RANKING #1
3 UK RANKING #2
4 UK RANKING #3
5 UK RANKING #4
6 UK WINMAU TOUR #1
7 UK WINMAU TOUR #2
8 UK WINMAU TOUR #3
9 UK WINMAU TOUR #4
10 IRELAND TOUR #1
11 IRELAND TOUR #2
12 UK & IRELAND CLASSIC CHAMPION
13 THE VAULT UK & IRELAND CHAMPION
14 WINMAU UK TOUR CHAMPION
15 ENGLISH TITLE HOLDER
16 SCOTLAND TITLE HOLDER
17 IRELAND TITLE HOLDER
18 WALES TITLE HOLDER
19 NORTHERN IRELAND TITLE HOLDER
20 EAST OF ENGLAND TITLE HOLDER
21 NORTH EAST TITLE HOLDER
22 MIDLANDS TITLE HOLDER
23 NORTH WEST TITLE HOLDER
24 SOUTH WEST TITLE HOLDER
25 SOUTH EAST & LONDON TITLE HOLDER
26 NORTHERN IRELAND QUALIFIER
27 SENIORS QUALIFIER 45+
28 UK QUALIFIER (NORTH)
29 UK QUALIFIER (SOUTH)
30 Jenson Walker - Modus Super Series 10 Champion
31 MODUS SUPER SERIES #11 CHAMPION
32 MODUS SUPER SERIES #12 CHAMPION
33 NORTHERN EUROPEAN TOUR #1
34 NORTHERN EUROPEAN TOUR #2
35 WESTERN EUROPEAN RANKING #1
36 WESTERN EUROPEAN RANKING #2
37 WESTERN EUROPEAN RANKING #3
38 WESTERN EUROPEAN RANKING #4
39 WESTERN EUROPEAN RANKING #5
40 WESTERN EUROPEAN TOUR #1
41 WESTERN EUROPEAN TOUR #2
42 WESTERN EUROPEAN TOUR #3
43 SOUTHERN EUROPEAN TOUR #1
44 SOUTHERN EUROPEAN TOUR #2
45 EASTERN EUROPEAN FESTIVAL #1
46 BENELUX TROPHY CHAMPION
47 DVDB CLASSIC CHAMPION
48 BENELUX OPEN CHAMPION
49 ADC EUROPEAN QUALIFIER #1
50 ADC EUROPEAN QUALIFIER #2
51 WADC TOUR #1
52 WADC TOUR #2
53 OCEANIA QUALIFIER
54 OCEANIA QUALIFIER
55 SOUTH AFRICAN QUALIFIER
56 NORTH AMERICA QUALIFIER