Dave Chisnall

Dave Chisnall, known as Chizzy, is an English darts player from St Helens who is based in Morecambe. Born in St Helens on 12 September 1980, he was 31st on the PDC Order of Merit when the rankings were last published on 2 November 2026, with £287,750 in ranking prize money over the two-year period the list covers. The PDC credits him with 26 senior titles, all of them won on the Pro Tour.

Chisnall was runner-up at the 2010 BDO World Championship before moving to the PDC, where he won his first ranking title at Players Championship 29 in 2011, beating Justin Pipe 6-4 in the final. He won five Players Championship events in 2012 and his first European Tour title at the 2013 German Darts Championship, beating Peter Wright 6-2. He has been runner-up at the World Grand Prix in 2013 and 2019, the Grand Slam of Darts in 2014 and the Masters in 2016 and 2022, losing the last of those finals 11-9 to Joe Cullen. His best World Championship run came in 2021, when he beat Michael van Gerwen 5-0 in the quarter-finals before losing 6-3 to Gary Anderson in the semi-finals. Between 2022 and 2024 he won 11 more Pro Tour events, among them European Tour titles at the Baltic Sea Darts Open, the Dutch Darts Championship and the Hungarian Darts Trophy in 2023.

In the autumn of 2026 he lost 2-0 in sets to Luke Humphries in the first round of the World Grand Prix. He beat Alan Soutar 6-5 at the Swiss Darts Trophy before losing 6-5 to Josh Rock, beat Jonas Masalin 6-4 at the Dutch Darts Championship before a 6-4 defeat to Danny Noppert, and lost 6-2 to Krzysztof Ratajski in the first round of the European Championship. The PDC records 15 nine-dart finishes for him across all of its events. He throws 22-gram Harrows darts and walks on to "Dizzy" by Vic Reeves and The Wonder Stuff.