Professional Darts Corporation secondary tours

(left) and Rob Cross, the two PDC World Champions who have won Challenge Tour events. The PDC Challenge Tour (currently known for sponsorship reasons as the PDC Winmau Challenge Tour) is open to all players who attended that season's Q-School but failed to win a Tour Card. The Challenge Tour maintains an Order of Merit which tracks the prize money won across all tournaments in a calendar year, with the Challenge Tour winner being the player that wins the most money. Additionally, the UK Open and the preliminary stage of the World Masters offers places to the top eight players from the previous season's Challenge Tour who do not have a Tour Card by the time the competition is held. The first winner of a Challenge Tour tournament was Jamie Robinson, who beat Matthew Edgar 5–4 in the final of the first event. In 2016, Rob Cross became the first future PDC World Champion to win a Challenge Tour event, though former BDO World Champion and PDC World Matchplay runner-up Richie Burnett won an event in 2015. Luke Humphries, Nathan Aspinall and Ritchie Edhouse have all won Challenge Tour events before winning PDC titles. Additionally, BDO World Champions Scott Mitchell and Scott Waites, PDC World Championship runners-up Kirk Shepherd and Andy Hamilton and PDC World Cup winner John Henderson all won Challenge Tour titles in the later years of their careers while no longer holding PDC Tour Cards. In 2024, Noa-Lynn van Leuven became the first woman to win a Challenge Tour event, while Beau Greaves became the first woman to win multiple Challenge Tour events in 2025. To the end of the 2024 season, 34 nine-dart finishes had been hit on the Challenge Tour, with Matt Dicken the first to achieve the feat in the tour's inaugural season. Fallon Sherrock's nine-darter in Event 9 of the 2023 season made her the first woman to achieve the feat in a PDC competition. == Development Tour ==

was the first winner of the PDC Development Tour (then the PDC Youth Tour). The PDC Development Tour (currently known for sponsorship reasons as the PDC Winmau Development Tour) is open to all players over the age of 16 who were aged under 24 the day after the previous season's World Championship. The first winner of a Development (then Youth) Tour event was Adam Hunt, who beat Josh Jones 4–2 in the final of the first event in 2011. Michael van Gerwen won four titles and the Order of Merit in the inaugural season, and later went on to become one of the most successful players of all time. In 2012, Michael Smith became the next Youth Tour event winner who would go on to become a PDC World Champion, followed by Luke Humphries in 2017 and Luke Littler in 2023. Other PDC major winners that won events on the Development Tour before winning senior major titles are Joe Cullen, Dimitri Van den Bergh, Mike De Decker and Josh Rock. To the end of the 2024 season, 24 nine-dart finishes had been hit on the Development Tour, with the first being hit by Michael Smith in the second event of the tour's first edition. == Women's Series ==

has won events in every edition of the Women's Series. The PDC Women's Series is open to all female players over the age of 16. Like the Development Tour, female Tour Card holders are eligible to play so long as they are outside the top 64 of the PDC Order of Merit. Unlike the Challenge Tour and Development Tour, no Tour Cards are awarded to the best performers of the Women's Series, though the top eight players are invited to the first stage of Q-School and are exempt from the entry fee. This occurred at the same time as the demise of the British Darts Organisation, which previously organised the majority of women's darts events. The Women's Series became a full Tour in 2021, expanding to 12 events in two locations (though three were originally planned). It further expanded to 20 events in 2022 and its current 24 events in 2023. Initially, Lisa Ashton and Fallon Sherrock dominated the Women's Series, winning all but two of the 2020 and 2021 events between them, with Deta Hedman and Mikuru Suzuki winning the other two events. However, after starting to participate midway through the 2022 season, Beau Greaves has dominated the Women's Series. Despite missing the first 12 events in 2022, Greaves won all eight remaining events to qualify for the 2023 World Championship. In 2023, Greaves won half the events, a feat which she bettered in 2025 by winning 18 events, including an 86-match winning streak across the last 13 events of the season. In 2024, Noa-Lynn van Leuven challenged the Greaves-Ashton-Sherrock triumvirate, becoming the first transgender player to win Women's Series events, collecting four titles and qualifying for the World Championship. Other than Greaves, Sherrock, Ashton and van Leuven, Mikuru Suzuki, Gemma Hayter and Robyn Byrne are the only players to win multiple Women's Series titles. == Secondary tour winners ==

The Affiliate Tours are mostly regional tours sanctioned, but not directly run by, the PDC. With the exception of the Junior Darts Corporation, an organisation offering multiple tours for players under the age of 18, most share the format of the secondary tours, where multiple knockout tournaments are held through the year and prize money won contributes to a single Order of Merit. The Next-Gen Europe tour (which serves German-speaking Europe) differs slightly, offering prize money both for the stage reached in a tournament and performance-based bonus money for high scores, high checkouts and short legs. Additionally, both the Next-Gen Europe and Championship Darts Corporation (for American and Canadian players) use modified tournament formats on their tours. These include set-play rather than legs, double-in double-out and the addition of a group stage. Alongside their tours, some PDC affiliates also organise standalone affiliate events, which are often televised in their region. ==Notes==