How Many World Titles Has Luke Littler Won? Both Ally Pally Crowns Explained

Luke Littler world titles is the question the whole sport keeps coming back to, and the answer is still small enough to be startling: two. Two PDC World Championships, won back to back at Alexandra Palace, by a player who is not yet 20. The number is going to get bigger. What matters is how quickly it got to two in the first place.

How many world titles has Luke Littler won?

Two. Littler won the PDC World Darts Championship in January 2025 and retained it in January 2026, and he goes into the 2026/27 edition as the reigning champion. He is also the current PDC World No.1, sitting on an Order of Merit pile of roughly £3.1m — a lead over the rest of the field that no player has enjoyed since Phil Taylor’s pomp.

Those two titles sit inside a much bigger haul. By the time the 2026 season reached its summer break, Littler had won the World Championship, the World Masters, the UK Open, the Premier League and the World Matchplay in the same calendar year. The world titles are the crown jewels, but they are not the whole cabinet.

The first: Ally Pally 2025

Littler’s maiden world title came on 3 January 2025, when he beat Michael van Gerwen 7–3 in the final. He was 17. It made him the youngest world champion the sport has ever had, breaking a mark that had belonged to Michael van Gerwen, who was 24 when he won his first in 2014.

It was also a correction. Twelve months earlier, as a 16-year-old qualifier nobody had planned for, Littler had reached the 2024 final and lost it to Luke Humphries. That run turned him into a household name overnight; the 2025 final turned him into a world champion. We have broken down the record itself in full in our piece on the youngest darts world champion.

The second: Ally Pally 2026

The follow-up was more brutal than the breakthrough. On 3 January 2026, Littler beat Gian van Veen 7–1 to retain the title. Van Veen had been the story of the tournament — the Dutchman’s run to the final launched him towards world No.2 and confirmed him as the most credible long-term rival Littler has — and he was dismantled in the space of an hour.

Back-to-back world titles put Littler in rare company. Taylor did it repeatedly. Michael van Gerwen, for all his dominance, never did — his titles came in 2014, 2017 and 2019, with Rob Cross gatecrashing in between — and very few players have successfully defended the Sid Waddell Trophy at all. Our full list of PDC World Championship winners shows just how short the repeat-champion club is.

How two compares to the all-time list

Two is a long way from the summit, and that is the honest framing. Phil Taylor won 16 world titles — two under the old BDO banner and 14 in the PDC — a number that will almost certainly never be matched. Van Gerwen has three. Littler is, on this measure alone, level with the likes of Adrian Lewis and Gary Anderson rather than ahead of them.

The difference is the clock. Taylor did not win his first world title until he was 29. Van Gerwen was 24. Littler had two before his 19th birthday. If he keeps winning one Ally Pally in every three attempts — a rate most champions would take gratefully — he reaches Van Gerwen’s three inside a couple of years and is still in his mid-twenties when the serious comparisons start. That is the argument underpinning our look at the greatest darts player of all time debate.

Every major Littler has won

Beyond the two world titles, Littler’s 2026 has been close to total: the World Masters (beating Humphries 6–5), the UK Open (11–7 against James Wade), the Premier League (an 11–10 thriller with Humphries at The O2 in May) and the World Matchplay in Blackpool, where Gerwyn Price was beaten 18–9. Five majors, one year, and a clean-sweep conversation that has not gone away.

What could make it three

The next chance is the 2026/27 PDC World Darts Championship, which runs from 10 December to 3 January at Alexandra Palace, with Littler defending. Before that come the autumn majors — the World Grand Prix and its double-start format from 28 September, the European Championship in October, the Grand Slam of Darts in November and the Players Championship Finals to close the ranking calendar. None of them has been played yet, and none of them is a world title, but each one shapes the seedings and the momentum Littler carries into Ally Pally.

Two world titles, then. The number is accurate, it is already historic for a player of his age, and it is the least interesting thing about him — because the only serious question in darts right now is how high it finishes.

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