Luke Littler

In 2019, Littler won the England Youth Grand Prix and the Isle of Man Masters youth competition, where he was able to defend his title in 2020. The 2020 JDC tour featured two titles from Littler. Littler won the youth title at the England Open in September 2021 and finished second in the British Pentathlon.

In November 2021, Littler won his first seniors title at the Irish Open defeating Barry Copeland 6–2 in legs. This qualified Littler for the 2022 WDF World Darts Championship, at the age of 14. At the end of November, during the JDC MVG Masters tournament, he hit a nine-dart finish.

Littler won the JDC Super 16 in Milton Keynes at the end of January 2022, beating Eleanor Cairns in the final. In March 2022, he won the youth competition at the Isle Of Man Open and advanced to the finals of the Isle of Man Classic. At the 2022 WDF World Darts Championship, Littler started as a seeded player from second round and won his first match against Ben Hazel 3–2 in sets. He was then beaten 3–0 in sets by Richard Veenstra, who set a record average for a World Championship match at Lakeside.

During the Welsh Open warm-up tournament, Littler hit a 121.86 three-dart average in one of his matches. A day later, he won the final for another senior tournament win in his career. In June 2022, he also won the Romanian Classic, beating Jelle Klaasen in the final by 5–1 in legs. At the 2022 WDF Europe Cup Youth, he won the gold medal in three men's competitions (singles, team and overall). His best achievement was defeating Archie Self in the finals of the singles competition, 6–1 in legs. In the pair competition, together with Archie Self, he lost in the semi-finals, 4–1 in legs to Thomas Banks and Charlie Manby.

At the end of September 2022, Littler 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 quarter-finals of the pairs competition where he played alongside James Hurrell. They lost to Sam Canket and Nick Kenny from Wales, 4–1 in legs. On the third day of the tournament, he advanced to the quarter-finals of the singles competition, where he lost to Andy Baetens 5–4 in legs. In the team competition, he won the gold medal. In the points classification, as a representative of England, he contributed to winning a gold medal.

Littler won the JDC World Darts Championship in London at the end of December 2022, beating Harry Gregory 5–0 in legs.

Littler continued to play on the World Darts Federation circuit in 2023. He won the British Classic, whitewashing Carl Wilkinson 5–0 in the final. On the same weekend Littler also won the British Open, defeating Peter Jacques 5–2 in the final.

Littler made his debut at a PDC major event at the 2023 UK Open, qualifying for the tournament via an amateur qualifying event organised by Rileys. Littler reached the fourth round, the best showing of a Rileys qualifier at the tournament alongside Thomas Banks. Littler lost his fourth-round match to eventual semi-finalist Adam Gawlas 10–8.

Littler competed in the 2023 PDC Development Tour series. He won event three – defeating Jurjen van der Velde 5–1 in the final, event five – defeating Kevin Troppmann 5–3 in the final, and event sixteen – defeating Bradly Roes 5–2 in the final. Littler also won event twenty, where he achieved a three-dart average of 115.22 in his last-32 win against Lewy Williams, hit a nine-dart finish in his last-16 win against Rune van Damme and defeated Gian van Veen 5–4 in the final. Littler won his fifth Development Tour title at event 24, defeating Cameron Crabtree 5–1 in the final. Littler finished second on the 2023 Development Tour Order of Merit with £20,175.

On 26 November, Littler beat Gian van Veen 6–4 in the 2023 PDC World Youth Championship final. The next month Littler retained his JDC World Darts Championship title, defeating Álmos Kovács 5–3 in the final.

In May 2023, Littler won the third season of the MODUS Super Series, defeating Jacob Taylor 4–1 in legs in the final. In August 2023, he won the fourth season of the MODUS Super Series, defeating Colin Osborne 4–2 in the final.

Littler made his first World Championship appearance at the 2024 PDC World Darts Championship, held from 15 December 2023 to 3 January 2024, qualifying as a result of his placement in the PDC Development Tour. He started off as an outsider with 66/1 odds. In the fourth round, he beat five-time world champion Raymond van Barneveld 4–1. Littler then defeated former world champion Rob Cross 6–2 in the semi-final. In the final, Littler lost 4‍–‍7 to Luke Humphries. This made him the youngest player to reach the PDC World Darts Championship final, as he was aged 16 years and 347 days.

In January Littler made his World Series of Darts debut at the Bahrain Darts Masters. He hit his first televised nine-dart finish in his quarter-final win, becoming the youngest player to do so. He won 8–5 against Michael van Gerwen in the final. Littler made another World Series final at the Dutch Darts Masters. In a rematch of the Bahrain event's final, Littler was defeated by van Gerwen 8–6.

As he had gained a PDC Tour Card, Littler played at his first Players Championship series, winning three titles. Littler also won two titles on the European Tour. Littler hit his third nine-dart finish of the year in his victory at the 2024 Belgian Darts Open (ET1). He also won the 2024 Austrian Darts Open (ET5). On 15 September, Littler won the World Series Finals, defeating Michael Smith 11–4 in the final.

On 20 October at 2024 Czech Darts Open (ET13), Littler set his highest PDC three-dart average of his career averaging 116.51 defeating Damon Heta 6–3. On 17 November Littler defeated Martin Lukeman 16–3, securing the Grand Slam of Darts title on debut and winning his first ranking major title. Also in November, he defeated Ross Smith 11–9 to reach his third ranking PDC major final at the 2024 Players Championship Finals. He lost the final to Luke Humphries 11–7.

Following the World Championship, Littler was announced to be part of the 2024 Premier League Darts as one of the four chosen wildcards. Littler won his debut match against Luke Humphries 6–2, but lost his semi-final match 6–5. Littler reached the final in week two, but lost to Michael van Gerwen 6–5.

Night nine saw Littler win a Premier League night for the first time, beating Nathan Aspinall 6–4 in the final. Littler then won three more nights to top the table in the league phase after the 16 weeks. This meant that in the play-offs Littler played Michael Smith, who he defeated 10–5 in the semi-final. He then won his first major title, beating Humphries 11–7 in the final. He became the youngest player to win a major PDC tournament. Littler also hit a nine-darter in the final.

Littler qualified for the 2025 PDC World Darts Championship as the fourth seed. He received a bye to the second round as a top-32-seeded player. In the second round, Littler defeated Ryan Meikle 3–1 in sets, breaking the record for the highest set average in a World Championship match by averaging 140.91 in the fourth and final set, missing double 12 for a nine-darter in the second leg of set 4. Littler qualified for the final by defeating Meikle, Ian White, Ryan Joyce, Nathan Aspinall and Stephen Bunting. In the final on 3 January 2025, Littler defeated three-time world champion Michael van Gerwen 7–3 in sets. Aged 17 years and 347 days, Littler became the youngest ever PDC World Darts Champion, breaking the record previously held by van Gerwen, who had been 24 when he won his first world title in 2014. Littler also won the Ballon d'Art trophy for the most 180s scored in the World Championship. He broke £1,000,000 on the PDC Order of Merit for the first time and moved up to a career highest ranking of second in the world, behind Luke Humphries.