Nathan Aspinall

Nathan Aspinall, known as The Asp, is an English darts player and a two-time major winner. Born in Stockport, Greater Manchester, on 15 July 1991, he was tenth on the PDC Order of Merit when the rankings were last published on 2 November 2026, with £597,000 in ranking prize money over the two-year period the list covers. The PDC credits him with 12 senior titles, a total the PDC compiles across all of its senior competitions.

Aspinall won a two-year PDC Tour Card through Q-School in 2015, and his first ranking title came in 2018, when he beat Ryan Searle 6-4 to win Players Championship 18. A year later he won his first major, the UK Open, beating Rob Cross 11-5 in the final. He reached the semi-finals of the PDC World Championship in 2019, losing 6-3 to Michael Smith, and again in 2020, losing 6-3 to Michael van Gerwen. On his Premier League debut in 2020 he reached the final, losing 11-8 to Glen Durrant. In 2023 he won the World Matchplay, beating Jonny Clayton 18-6 in the final, and in 2025 he was runner-up at the Players Championship Finals.

In October 2026 he reached the semi-finals of the World Grand Prix, where he lost 5-2 in sets to Gerwyn Price. At the Dutch Darts Championship he beat Michael Smith 6-1 before losing 6-1 to Stephen Bunting, and at the European Championship he beat Cristo Reyes 6-3 and then lost 10-5 to Luke Littler, the world number one, in the last 16. The PDC records eight nine-dart finishes for him across all of its events. He throws 26-gram Target darts and walks on to "Mr Brightside" by The Killers.