# Dom Taylor

Dominic Taylor (born 15 April 1998) is an English professional darts player who competes in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events. He obtained a PDC Tour Card at 2024 Q–School. Taylor is a two-time semi-finalist in the PDC's ranked Players Championship events.
He won a Development Tour title in 2021 and a Challenge Tour in 2023.

## Career
### 2019

Taylor began playing in PDC events in 2019, featuring on the PDC Development Tour. He qualified for the 2019 PDC World Youth Championship but failed to get out of his group with Ben Cheeseman and Connor Scutt.

### 2021

His results on the Development Tour in 2020 saw him make his PDC premier event debut at the 2021 UK Open. He won his first round game but was whitewashed 6–0 by Gary Blades in the second round.
Taylor achieved early success on the 2021 UK Development Tour, reaching the final in each of the first four events, including the third event where he won his first Development Tour title, defeating Jack Male 5–4 in legs in the final. He finished the year 4th on the 2021 UK Development Tour Order of Merit.

### 2023

Taylor picked up his first PDC Challenge Tour title in 2023, winning the final 5–2 against Cam Crabtree. Taylor received multiple invitations to play in PDC Players Championship events due to his success on the Challenge Tour in 2023. He reached the semi finals of Players Championship 28, bowing out to eventual champion Ross Smith.

### 2024

Taylor played at 2024 PDC UK Qualifying School (Q-School) in order to obtain a Tour Card. He lost in the Day Two final 6–2 against Robert Grundy. However, he won his tour card outright by winning the Day Four final 6–1 against Joshua Richardson.
Taylor reached the quarter-finals at Players Championship 24, averaging 103.65 in a 6–5 defeat to Gary Anderson who averaged 108.78.

#### Positive drugs test

Taylor was due to play in the Players Championship Finals, where he was supposed to play 2023 World Champion Michael Smith in the first round. However, it was announced before the tournament that the Darts Regulation Authority (DRA) had suspended Taylor as a result of a positive drugs test taken at a Players Championship event. Taylor was replaced in the event by Nick Kenny. He had also qualified for the 2025 PDC World Darts Championship via the Pro Tour Order of Merit, but was replaced by Robert Owen. Taylor received a one-month ban after the banned substance was found to not be performance-enhancing and was ingested out of competition. He was originally expected to return to competition at the 2025 PDC World Masters, but withdrew prior to the preliminary round group stage. Taylor returned for the 2025 PDC Players Championship series.

### 2025

In mid-February, on the 2025 PDC Pro Tour, Taylor made his second Pro Tour semi-final by reaching the last four at Players Championship 4.

## Performance timeline

| Tournament | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
| PDC Ranked televised events ||||||||
| World Championship | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | WD |
| World Masters | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | WD |
| UK Open | DNQ | DNQ | 2R | 1R | 1R | 2R | 3R |
| Players Championship Finals | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | WD | |
| PDC Non-ranked televised events ||||||||
| World Youth Championship | RR | 2R | RR | RR | DNP | DNP | DNP |
| Career statistics ||||||||
| Season-end ranking (PDC) | - | 191 | - | - | 137 | 83 | |
PDC European Tour
| Season | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |
| 2024 | BDO DNQ | GDG DNQ | IDO DNQ | EDG DNQ | ADO 2R | BSD DNQ | DDC 2R | EDO 2R | GDC 2R | FDT DNQ | HDT DNQ | SDT DNQ | CDO DNQ |
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 |
| 2020 | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | BAR 3R | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP |
| 2023 | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | WIG 2R | DNP | DNP | LEI 2R | HIL 2R | HIL 3R | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | BAR 3R | BAR DNP | BAR 3R | DNP | DNP | DNP | BAR SF | BAR DNP | BAR 3R |
| 2024 | WIG 3R | WIG 1R | LEI 1R | LEI 1R | HIL 1R | HIL 4R | LEI 2R | LEI 3R | HIL 1R | HIL 4R | HIL 2R | HIL 4R | MIL 3R | MIL 4R | MIL 1R | MIL 1R | MIL 2R | MIL 2R | MIL 3R | WIG 1R | WIG 1R | MIL 1R | MIL 2R | WIG QF | WIG 2R | WIG 2R | WIG 2R | WIG 2R | LEI 1R | LEI 1R |
| 2025 | WIG 2R | WIG 1R | ROS 3R | ROS SF | LEI 4R | LEI 3R | HIL 1R | HIL SF | LEI | LEI | LEI | LEI | ROS | ROS | HIL | HIL | LEI | LEI | LEI | HIL | HIL | MIL | MIL | MIL | HIL | HIL | LEI | LEI | LEI | WIG | WIG | WIG | WIG | WIG |
* 1 2 Not a Tour card holder
Performance Table Legend :
| W | Won the tournament | F | Finalist | SF | Semifinalist | QF | Quarterfinalist | #R RR Prel. | Lost in # round Round-robin Preliminary round | DQ | Disqualified |
| DNQ | Did not qualify | DNP | Did not participate | WD | Withdrew | NH | Tournament not held | #R RR Prel. | Lost in # round Round-robin Preliminary round | NYF | Not yet founded |