Ryan Joyce (born 20 September 1985) is an English professional darts player who competes in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events. A professional since 2018, he has won two PDC ranking titles and also reached the quarter-finals of the PDC World Championship in 2019. Nicknamed "Relentless", Joyce has made two PDC major semi-finals, reaching the last four of the 2023 Players Championship Finals and the 2024 World Grand Prix. He has also reached two PDC European Tour finals.
Career BDO In 2014 he reached the Last 48 of the World Masters. He took part in the 2016 BDO World Trophy, he was knocked out in the first round losing to Jamie Hughes. He qualified for the 2017 BDO World Darts Championship, where he won 3–0 against Dennis Nilsson in the Preliminary round. In the first round, he lost to Martin Adams 3–2 in a sudden death leg, after throwing for the match twice and missing one dart at double 18 to win followed by Adams hitting a 115 checkout to stay in the match, before Joyce himself survived a dart at 5–4 down before hitting a 164 checkout to take the game to the deciding leg.
Outside of the major tournaments he has reached 3 BDO ranked event finals, the first was the 2013 Turkish Open where he lost 5–0 to Martin Phillips, then the Isle of Man Open in 2016, losing 6–4 to Tony O'Shea also the Denmark Masters in 2016 losing 6–4 to Glen Durrant. He has had more success in pairs competitions winning the Turkish open pairs 2013, Welsh open pairs 2015 and losing in the final of the British open pairs 2016 all while partnering Andy Chalmers. He won the Scottish open pairs 2017 title with Kevin McDine. His most recent success came in the BDO Gold cup singles tournament 2017 which he won beating Wayne Warren 6–3 in the final.
PDC 2018 Joyce attended Q-School for the first time in 2018 and earned a two–year PDC Tour Card by finishing 10th on the UK Q-School Order of Merit.
Joyce made his Players Championship Finals debut at the 2018 edition as the 27th seed. He lost to the 38th seed Steve Lennon 6–2 in the first round.
Joyce made his debut at the 2019 PDC World Darts Championship, whitewashing both Anastasia Dobromyslova and Simon Whitlock 3–0, then defeating both Alan Norris and James Wade 4–3 in sets. However, he was beaten in the quarter-finals by the eventual winner Michael van Gerwen 5–1.
2020 In July 2020, at Players Championship 10, the second Players Championship event of the Summer Series, Joyce won his first PDC title, coming back from 7–3 down to defeat Dave Chisnall 8–7 in the final.
2023 On the 2023 PDC Pro Tour, Joyce was the runner-up at Players Championship 16 and Players Championship 24. In October Joyce won his second PDC title, defeating Gerwyn Price 8–7 in the final of Players Championship 26.
In November 2023, Joyce reached a first major televised semi-final at the 2023 Players Championship Finals, losing 11–3 to eventual champion Luke Humphries.
2024
On the 2024 PDC Pro Tour, Joyce was the runner-up at Players Championship 9, losing to Michael Smith 8–6 in the final.
At the 2024 World Grand Prix Joyce reached the semi-finals, defeating Josh Rock 2–0 in sets, Nathan Aspinall 3–2 in a deciding leg in set 5, and Rob Cross also 3–2, before being whitewashed 5–0 by Luke Humphries.
2025 Joyce reached the fourth round of the 2025 World Championship. His run included victories over Danny Noppert and Ryan Searle. He went to a deciding set against eventual champion Luke Littler, but he was beaten 4–3. In March 2025, Joyce reached his first PDC European Tour final at the 2025 European Darts Trophy, where he was defeated 8–4 by Nathan Aspinall. He made his European Championship debut in October, being eliminated by eventual champion Gian van Veen in the quarter-finals.
2026 Joyce was eliminated in the second round of the 2026 World Championship in a 3–1 defeat to Krzysztof Ratajski. He reached his second European Tour final at the Baltic Sea Darts Open in May, where he lost 8–4 to Luke Woodhouse.
Style of play Joyce is known as an accurate double hitter, particularly on the double 16 segment of the board.
Personal life Joyce has admitted suffering from a fear of flying, this impacting on his willingness to attend European Tour events.
World Championship results
BDO 2017: First round: (lost to Martin Adams 2–3)
PDC 2019: Quarter-finals (lost to Michael van Gerwen 1–5) 2020: First round (lost to Jan Dekker 2–3) 2021: Second round (lost to Krzysztof Ratajski 0–3) 2022: Second round (lost to Mervyn King 2–3) 2023: First round (lost to Scott Williams 1–3) 2024: Second round (lost to Stephen Bunting 0–3) 2025: Fourth round (lost to Luke Littler 3–4) 2026: Second round (lost to Krzysztof Ratajski 1–3)
Performance timeline Joyce's performance timeline is as follows:
BDO Tournament 2014 2016 2017BDO Ranked televised events World ChampionshipDNP1R World TrophyDNP1RDNP World Masters4R1R3RCareer statisticsYear-end ranking18336104
PDC Tournament 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026PDC Ranked televised events World ChampionshipDNP QF 1R 2R 2R 1R 2R 4R 2R World MastersDid not qualify Prel. 1R UK OpenDNQ 4R 4R 4R 4R 3R 3R 6R 5R World MatchplayDNQ 1RDNQ 1R 1R 1R World Grand PrixDNQ 2RDNQ SF 1R QF European ChampionshipDid not qualify QF Grand SlamDNQ RR 2RDNQ 2RDNQ 1R 1R 1R 2R 3R SF QF 2RPDC Non-ranked televised events World Series FinalsDNQQFDNQDNPCareer statisticsYear-end ranking5142443444373324
PDC European Tour
Season 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 2018Did not qualifyDDM2RGDTDNQDDO2REDM2RGDC2RDDCDNQIDODNQEDT2R 2019Did not qualifyDDM1RDDO2RCDODNQADCDNQEDM1RIDODNQGDT2R 2022IDOWDDid not qualifyEDG1RDid not qualifyGDT3R 2023BSD1REDO2RDid not qualifyEDGWDEDM3RGDODNQHDTDNQGDC1R 2024BDO3RGDG3RIDODNPEDGDNPADO1RBSD1RDDC1REDOWDGDC2RFDT3RHDTWDSDTWDCDOWD 2025BDO1REDTFIDODNQGDGQFADOSFEDG1RDDC2REDO2RBSDWDFDT3RCDO2RHDT2RSDT3RGDC3R 2026PDO1REDT1RBDOQFGDG2REDGWDADO3RIDOQFBSDFSDO3REDO3RHDT2RCDO2RFDTQFSDTDDC
PDC Players Championships Season 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 2018BARSFBARQFBAR3RBAR2RMIL3RMIL4RBAR4RBAR4RWIG4RWIG1RMIL4RMIL2RWIG3RWIG1RBAR1RBAR4RBAR3RBAR2RDUB1RDUB1RBAR2RBAR1R 2019WIG2RWIG3RWIG3RWIG1RBAR3RBAR4RWIG2RWIG3RBAR1RBAR2RBAR1RBAR1RBAR1RBARQFBAR2RBAR1RWIG1RWIG1RBARQFBAR1RHIL1RHIL3RBAR1RBAR1RBAR3RBAR3RDUBSFDUB1RBAR1RBAR1R 2020BAR1RBAR3RWIG3RWIG1RWIG4RWIG2RBAR1RBAR1RMIL1RMILWMIL1RMIL2RMIL2RNIE1RNIE1RNIE1RNIE1RNIE3RCOV1RCOV4RCOV3RCOV1RCOVQF 2021BOL1RBOL3RBOL2RBOL2RMILQFMIL2RMIL1RMIL3RNIE1RNIE1RNIE2RNIE2RMIL2RMIL2RMIL3RMIL3RCOV4RCOV1RCOVSFCOV3RBAR3RBAR2RBAR4RBAR3RBAR2RBAR3RBAR3RBAR4RBAR3RBAR2R 2022BAR2RBAR1RWIG1RWIG4RBAR2RBAR2RNIEDNPBAR2RBAR3RBAR2RBAR3RBAR2RWIG3RWIGSFNIEDNPBAR1RBAR3RBAR2RBAR1RBAR1RBAR2RBAR1RBAR1RBAR2RBAR3RBAR1RBAR2RBAR2R 2023BAR1RBAR2RBAR2RBAR1RBAR3RBAR2RHIL1RHIL2RWIG1RWIG1RLEI4RLEI2RHILDNPLEI2RLEIFHIL3RHIL3RBARSFBAR2RBAR1RBAR3RBAR4RBARFBAR3RBARWBAR4RBAR2RBAR2RBAR2R 2024WIG2RWIG4RLEI1RLEI2RHILDNPLEI1RLEI2RHILFHIL4RHILDNPMIL1RMILSFMIL1RMIL4RMIL4RMIL2RMIL1RWIG3RWIG1RLEI1RLEI2RWIG2RWIGQFWIG3RWIG2RWIGQFLEI2RLEI2R 2025WIG1RWIG1RROS1RROS4RLEI1RLEI4RHIL1RHIL2RLEI2RLEI1RLEI2RLEI2RROSDNPHIL4RHIL1RLEI1RLEI1RLEI4RLEI1RLEI3RHIL1RHILQFMIL3RMIL2RHILDNPLEI3RLEI3RLEI4RWIG3RWIG2RWIGSFWIG2R 2026HIL1RHIL1RWIG3RWIG3RLEI1RLEI2RLEI1RLEI1RWIG1RWIG3RMIL1RMIL1RHILDNPHIL1RLEI2RLEI2RLEI1RLEI4RMIL3RMIL1RWIG1RWIG3RLEI2RLEI2RHILDNPLEI2RLEI3RROSDNPROSROSLEILEI
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