# Wesley Plaisier

Wesley Plaisier (born 4 March 1990) is a Dutch professional darts player who competes in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events. He previously participated in World Darts Federation (WDF) tournaments, winning the World Masters twice. He finished as the runner-up at the 2024 Dutch Open. He reached the quarter-finals at the 2023 WDF Lakeside World Championship.
Plaisier won 4 titles on the PDC Challenge Tour and became the fourth player to win a PDC ranking title without being a PDC Tour Card holder by winning 2024 Players Championship 28. He gained a Tour Card for the first time through his placing on the 2024 Challenge Tour ranking.

## Career
### 2019

Plaisier attended European Q-School in 2019, but never got further than the last 32, missing out on a Tour Card. He did then qualify as one of the Association Member qualifiers for the 2019 European Darts Open in Leverkusen, Germany. He lost 6–3 to James Wade in the second round.
He also qualified for the 2019 Dutch Darts Masters, but he lost 6–1 to Brendan Dolan. A third European Tour qualification of 2019 was secured at the 2019 European Darts Matchplay, but Jamie Hughes beat him 6–5.

### 2022

Plaisier performed well at the 2022 German Darts Grand Prix, beating Jim Williams, Joe Cullen and Dirk van Duijvenbode to reach the quarter-final stage, where he was beaten in a deciding leg by the tournament's eventual winner, Luke Humphries.
Plaiser won the 2022 Six Nations Charity Singles beating Scott Taylor in the final 5–4.
Plaisier won the 2022 World Masters, defeating Barry Copeland 7–2 in the final. He became the first Dutch player to win the event since Michael van Gerwen in 2006.

### 2023

Plaisier qualified for the 2023 German Darts Open. In the tournament he defeated George Killington 6–4 in the first round, Ross Smith 6–2 in the second round, Luke Humphries 6–5 in the third round and Brian Raman 6–3 in the quarters. Stephen Bunting won the semi final 7–6.

### 2024

Plaisier competed in the 2024 PDC Challenge Tour series, the secondary tier of the 2024 PDC Pro Tour. He reached the final of Challenge Tour 10 (CT10), being whitewashed 5–0 by Lee Cocks. Plaisier then reached the final in back to back events at Challenge Tours 15 and 16. Plaisier won the former, defeating Damian Mol 5–4 in a deciding leg and lost the latter final 5–3 to Alexander Merkx. Plaisier reached another final at event 19, defeating Lee Cocks 5–3 in the final to win his fourth Challenge Tour event in his career.
Plaisier received call–ups for 2024 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. Plaisier reached the final at events 13, 14 and 28. At PC13 Plaisier lost the final to Ross Smith 8–7. At PC14 he lost the final to Jonny Clayton 8–5. At PC28 Plaisier defeated Josh Rock 8–7 in the final, surviving six missed match darts from Rock. This meant he became the fourth player to win a Players Championship event without being a PDC Tour Card holder.
Plaisier finished second in the 2024 PDC Challenge Tour Order of Merit which granted him a two-year PDC Tour Card for the first time in his career.
In the World Darts Federation (WDF), Plaisier retained the World Masters title that he won in 2022 with a 7–3 win over Kai Gotthardt in the final.

### 2025

Plaisier qualified for the 2025 PDC World Darts Championship, making his debut in the tournament. He won his first round match 3–1 against Ryusei Azemoto but lost to Peter Wright 3–1 in the second round.

## World Championship results
### WDF

* 2023: Quarter-finals (lost to Dennis Nilsson 1–4)

### PDC

* 2025: Second round (lost to Peter Wright 1–3)

## Performance timeline

WDF
| Tournament | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
| WDF Major/platinum events ||||
| World Championship | DNP | QF | PDC |
| World Masters | W | NH | W |
PDC
| Tournament | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
| PDC Ranked televised events |||||
| World Championship | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | 2R |
| World Masters | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | Prel. |
| UK Open | 1R | DNP | 3R | 1R |
| Players Championship Finals | DNQ | DNQ | 2R | |
| Career statistics |||||
| Season-end ranking (PDC) | 113 | 133 | 68 | |
PDC European Tour
| Season | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |
| 2019 | EDO 2R | Did not qualify | Did not qualify | Did not qualify | Did not qualify | Did not qualify | DDM 1R | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | EDM 1R | DNQ | DNQ |
| 2020 | BDC 2R | Did not qualify | Did not qualify | Did not qualify |
| 2022 | IDO DNP | GDC DNQ | GDG QF | ADO 2R | Did not qualify | Did not qualify | Did not qualify | Did not qualify | EDM 3R | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | GDT 3R |
| 2023 | Did not qualify | Did not qualify | Did not qualify | Did not qualify | Did not qualify | Did not qualify | Did not qualify | Did not qualify | Did not qualify | Did not qualify | GDO SF | DNQ | 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 |
| 2022 | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | BAR 2R | BAR 1R | BAR 2R | BAR 3R | DNP | DNP |
| 2023 | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | HIL 1R | HIL 3R | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | BAR 1R | BAR 2R | BAR 2R | BAR 1R | BAR 3R | BAR 2R |
| 2024 | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | HIL 1R | HIL 1R | DNP | DNP | HIL 1R | HIL 1R | HIL 2R | HIL 3R | MIL F | MIL F | MIL 1R | MIL 4R | MIL 1R | MIL 3R | MIL 3R | WIG 2R | WIG 1R | DNP | DNP | WIG 1R | WIG 1R | WIG 1R | WIG 1R | WIG W | LEI 1R | LEI 3R |
| 2025 | WIG 1R | WIG 2R | ROS 1R | ROS 3R | LEI 2R | LEI 1R | HIL 1R | HIL | 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 3 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 |