Luke Littler

Luke Littler, known as The Nuke, is an English darts player and a two-time PDC world champion. Born in Warrington on 21 January 2007, he was first on the PDC Order of Merit when the rankings were last published on 2 November 2026, with £3,141,000 in ranking prize money over the two-year period the list covers. The PDC credits him with 30 senior titles, a total it compiles across all of its senior competitions. He won the 2023 PDC World Youth Championship, beating Gian van Veen 6-4 in the final, and reached the final of the 2024 World Championship on his debut, losing to Luke Humphries.

His first senior title came at the 2024 Bahrain Darts Masters, where he beat Michael van Gerwen 8-5 in the final, and later that year he won the Premier League with an 11-7 win over Humphries in the final. He became world champion in January 2025 by beating Van Gerwen 7-3 in sets, at 17 years and 347 days the youngest in the history of the sport. He retained the title in January 2026 with a 7-1 win over Van Veen in the final. In 2026 he has also won the World Masters, the UK Open, where he beat James Wade 11-7, the Premier League, where he beat Humphries 11-10 in the final, and the World Matchplay, where he beat Gerwyn Price 18-9.

He won the Czech Darts Open in September 2026, beating Humphries 8-6 in the final, then lost 2-1 in sets to Luke Woodhouse in the first round of the World Grand Prix. At the European Championship in Dortmund he beat William O'Connor 6-3 and Nathan Aspinall 10-5 before a 10-6 defeat to Krzysztof Ratajski in the quarter-finals. The PDC records eight nine-dart finishes for him in its senior events and nine across all of its events. He throws 23-gram Target darts and walks on to "Greenlight" by Pitbull.