Scott Williams (born 18 January 1990) is an English professional darts player who competes in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events. He won his first ranking title at 2022 Players Championship 17, becoming the third player to win a PDC ranking event without being a PDC Tour Card holder. Williams topped the 2022 Challenge Tour Order of Merit, winning four titles. A Tour Card holder since 2023, he made his first major semi-final by reaching the last four at the 2024 PDC World Championship. He reached his second major quarter-final at the 2024 Players Championship Finals.
Career
Williams qualified for the 2020 BDO World Darts Championship as one of the Playoff qualifiers. He defeated Wes Newton and Andrew Kateley to secure his place in the tournament. He was whitewashed 3–0 by Justin Thompson in the preliminary round.
In 2022, Williams won his first PDC Challenge Tour title at Challenge Tour 1 in Milton Keynes. On his way to the final, Williams defeated Conor Heneghan in the last 64, Jimmy Bristow 5–1 in the last 32, Darryl Pilgrim 5–2 in the round of 16, Darren Johnson 5–3 in the quarter-finals and Danny Lauby Jr. 5–1 in the semi-finals. He defeated Robert Owen in the final 5–2. Later the same day, Williams won his second Challenge Tour title at Challenge Tour 2. Williams won 5–2 against Lee Evans in the final.
On the 2022 PDC Pro Tour, Williams received call–ups for 2022 PDC Players Championship series events filling in as a reserve for an absent tour card holder virtue of his ranking on the Challenge Tour Order of Merit. Williams won Players Championship 17 in June, beating Nathan Aspinall 8–5 in the final. This meant he became the third player, after Joe Murnan and Krzysztof Ratajski, to win a Players Championship event without being a PDC Tour Card holder.
At the end of September 2022, he was selected by the national federation to participate in the 2022 WDF Europe Cup. On the second day of the tournament, he advanced to the finals of the pairs competition where he played together with Joshua Richardson. On the way to the final, they defeated rivals from Wales, Romania and Czech Republic. Finally, on 1 October, they beat Polish duo Sebastian Białecki and Dariusz Marciniak 6–2 in legs. He also won a gold medal in the men's team event, as well as contributing to England's overall gold medal.
Williams finished 2022 with four Challenge Tour titles. He topped the 2022 Challenge Tour Order of Merit, securing qualification for the 2022 Grand Slam of Darts, his debut at the tournament. He also secured a debut at the 2023 PDC World Darts Championship, but was already qualified via the Pro Tour Order of Merit. At the Grand Slam, he finished third in his group and was eliminated. At the World Championship, he won his opening match against Ryan Joyce 3–1 with an average of 100.32. In the match, Williams and Joyce broke the record for number of 180s hit in a first-round World Championship match, with 17 between them. Williams lost to Rob Cross 3–1 in the second round.
Williams played his first year as a PDC Tour Card holder in 2023. He reached the semi-finals of the 2023 Hungarian Darts Trophy, missing out on the final by losing to eventual champion Dave Chisnall 7–5.
At the 2024 PDC World Championship, Williams beat Haruki Muramatsu 3–1 in the first round before eliminating seventh seed Danny Noppert in the second round, defeating Noppert 3–0. Williams caused controversy following his next win over Martin Schindler, joking about England winning "two World Wars and one World Cup" after his victory against his German opponent. Sky Sports apologised for Williams' remarks on the air and Williams later apologised himself, calling the comment 'stupid'. In the quarter-finals, Williams faced three-time World Champion Michael van Gerwen. Williams managed a surprise win over van Gerwen, defeating him 5–3 to progress to his first major semi-final. Williams' run came to an end when he was whitewashed 6–0 by eventual champion Luke Humphries.
Williams found form again at the 2024 Players Championship Finals, earning victories over Gian van Veen, Kim Huybrechts and Jeffrey de Graaf to reach the quarter-finals, where he lost to Ross Smith 10–3. At the 2025 PDC World Darts Championship, Williams defeated Niko Springer 3–1 in the first round. He played Rob Cross in a rematch of their 2023 meeting, but this time Williams beat the former World Champion 3–1. Williams lost to Ricardo Pietreczko 4–1 in the third round.
World Championship results BDO 2020: Preliminary round (lost to Justin Thompson 0–3)
PDC 2023: Second round (lost to Rob Cross 1–3) 2024: Semi-finals (lost to Luke Humphries 0–6) 2025: Third round (lost to Ricardo Pietreczko 1–4) 2026: Second round (lost to Jermaine Wattimena 2–3)
Performance timeline Source:
BDO Tournament 2019 2020BDO Ranked televised events DNP Prel.World Masters2RNH
PDC Tournament 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026PDC Ranked televised events PDC World ChampionshipDNQ2RSF3R2R PDC World MastersDid not qualify Prel. Prel. UK OpenDNQ3R4R4R3R Grand Slam of Darts RRDNQ 3R 1R QF 2RCareer statisticsSeason-end ranking (PDC)57303644
PDC European Tour Season 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 2022Did not qualifyEDO3RDNQEDM3RHDTDNQGDO1RDNQ 2023DNQIDO1RDid not qualifyHDTSFGDCDNQ 2024DNQEDG3RDid not qualifyFDT2RHDT3RDNQ 2025DNQGDG2RDid not qualify 2026DNQBDO1RDid not qualifyDDC
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 2021Not a Tour card holderDid not participateNIE1RNIE2RNIE1RNIE1RMILDNPMIL1RDid not participateBAR2R 2022BAR4RBAR2RWIG4RWIG1RBAR3RBAR4RNIEQFNIE1RBARDNPBAR2RBAR2RWIG1RWIG2RNIE1RNIEWBAR2RBAR1RBAR2RBAR1RBAR2RBAR3RBAR1RBAR2RBAR2RBAR1RBAR2RBAR2RBAR3R 2023BAR1R BAR1RBAR3RBAR1RBAR1RBAR3RHIL1RHIL3RWIG2RWIG1RLEI4RLEI4RHIL3RHIL2RLEI3RLEI2RHIL1RHIL1RBAR1RBAR3RBAR1RBAR3RBAR2RBAR1RBAR1RBAR2RBAR1RBAR3RBAR1RBAR2R 2024WIG1RWIG2RLEI1RLEIQFHIL3RHIL1RLEI2RLEI1RHIL4RHILQFHIL4RHIL1RMIL1RMIL3RMIL3RMIL1RMIL3RMIL4RMIL1RWIG3RWIG2RMIL2RMIL2RWIG1RWIG2RWIG2RWIG2RWIG1RLEI1RLEI1R 2025WIG2RWIG2RROS2RROS2RLEI4RLEI1RHIL2RHIL2RLEI2RLEISFLEI1RLEI1RROS2RROSDNPHILSFHIL2RLEI1RLEI1RLEIFLEI1RLEI2RHIL1RHIL3RMILSFMIL3RHIL1RHILSFLEI1RLEI2RLEI2RWIG1RWIGDNPWIG1RWIG2R 2026HIL2RHIL2RWIG1RWIG2RLEI2RLEI1RLEI1RLEI1RWIG2RWIG4RMIL1RMIL1RHIL1RHIL1RLEIDNPLEI1RLEI1RMIL1RMIL2RWIG1RWIG2RLEI1RLEI4RHIL1RHIL2RLEI1RLEI2RROS3RROSFROSROSLEILEI
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