Dirk van Duijvenbode

Dirk van Duijvenbode, known as Aubergenius, is a Dutch darts player based in 's-Gravenzande. Born in Katwijk aan Zee on 30 June 1992, he was 22nd on the PDC Order of Merit when the rankings were last published on 2 November 2026, with £424,250 in ranking prize money over the two-year period the list covers. The PDC credits him with six senior titles, all of them won in Players Championship events, and he took up the game in 2006.

Van Duijvenbode reached his first major final at the 2020 World Grand Prix, beating Gary Anderson 3-1 and Simon Whitlock 4-1 in sets before losing 5-2 to Gerwyn Price. His first ranking title came at Players Championship 11 in 2021, where he beat Martijn Kleermaker 8-6. He lost to Price again in the final of the 2022 World Series of Darts Finals, this time 11-10, and won three Players Championship titles in 2023, the last of them with an 8-3 win over Jose de Sousa. He has been runner-up at three European Tour events, including 8-7 defeats to Price at the 2023 European Darts Open and to Luke Humphries at the 2023 European Darts Matchplay. In July 2026 he reached the semi-finals of the World Matchplay, beating Gary Anderson 16-13 in the quarter-finals before a 17-5 defeat to Luke Littler.

In October 2026 he reached the quarter-finals of the Swiss Darts Trophy, beating James Wade 6-5 and Michael Smith 6-3 before a 6-1 defeat to Mensur Suljovic. He then lost 6-5 to Ryan Searle at the Dutch Darts Championship and 6-3 to Luke Woodhouse in the first round of the European Championship. The PDC records six nine-dart finishes for him across all of its events, five of them in senior competition. He throws 24-gram Bull's NL darts and walks on to "Just Like You" by Radical Redemption.