Home / Sport / Darts / _Defunct Darts Teams / _Retired Darts / Phil Taylor

Name

Phil Taylor

(The Power)
(0 users)

Thumb

Image Source


Data Complete 60%

Born
1960 (65 years old)
Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom

Position
Darts Player

Status
Retired

Ethnicity
White

Team Number


Outfitter

Kit

Side
Right

Wage Year

Player Cutout

Archive

Player Cartoon


Full Body Render


Sport
Darts

Team
_Retired Darts

League
_Defunct Darts Teams

Creative Commons Artwork
Yes

Description

Philip Douglas Taylor (born 13 August 1960) is an English former professional darts player. Nicknamed "The Power", he dominated darts across three decades and is widely considered the greatest darts player of all time, having won 214 professional tournaments, including a record 85 major titles and a record 16 World Championships. In 2015, the BBC rated Taylor among the ten greatest British sportsmen of the last 35 years.

Taylor took up darts seriously in his mid-twenties and was sponsored and mentored in his early professional career by five-time world champion Eric Bristow. An unseeded 125/1 outsider at the 1990 BDO World Darts Championship, he defeated Bristow 6–1 in the final to win his first world title at age 29. In 1992, he won his second world title in dramatic fashion, defeating Mike Gregory 6–5 in a tiebreak leg after Gregory had missed six championship darts. In 1993, Taylor was among 16 top players who broke away from the British Darts Organisation (BDO) to form the World Darts Council, later renamed the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC). He won eight consecutive World Championships from 1995 to 2002, reached 14 consecutive finals from 1994 to 2007 and reached 21 world finals overall, all of which are records. He held the world number one ranking for thirteen years in total, including eight in a row from 2006 to 2013. He won 70 PDC Pro Tour events, which was a record until Michael van Gerwen surpassed it in February 2019. Taylor hit a record 11 televised nine-dart finishes (and 22 overall). He was also the first person to hit two nine-dart finishes in the same match.

Trophies

World Matchplay	_Retired Darts	2017
Grand Slam of Darts	_Retired Darts	2014
World Matchplay	_Retired Darts	2014
Grand Slam of Darts	_Retired Darts	2013
World Matchplay	_Retired Darts	2013
UK Open	_Retired Darts	2013
World Championship	_Retired Darts	2013
Premier League	_Retired Darts	2012
World Matchplay	_Retired Darts	2012
Grand Slam of Darts	_Retired Darts	2011
World Matchplay	_Retired Darts	2011
Premier League	_Retired Darts	2010
World Matchplay	_Retired Darts	2010
UK Open	_Retired Darts	2010
World Championship	_Retired Darts	2010
Grand Slam of Darts	_Retired Darts	2009
World Matchplay	_Retired Darts	2009
UK Open	_Retired Darts	2009
World Championship	_Retired Darts	2009
Premier League	_Retired Darts	2008
Grand Slam of Darts	_Retired Darts	2008
World Matchplay	_Retired Darts	2008
Premier League	_Retired Darts	2007
Grand Slam of Darts	_Retired Darts	2007
Premier League	_Retired Darts	2006
World Matchplay	_Retired Darts	2006
World Championship	_Retired Darts	2006
Premier League	_Retired Darts	2005
UK Open	_Retired Darts	2005
World Championship	_Retired Darts	2005
World Matchplay	_Retired Darts	2004
World Championship	_Retired Darts	2004
World Matchplay	_Retired Darts	2003
UK Open	_Retired Darts	2003
World Matchplay	_Retired Darts	2002
World Championship	_Retired Darts	2002
World Matchplay	_Retired Darts	2001
World Championship	_Retired Darts	2001
World Matchplay	_Retired Darts	2000
World Championship	_Retired Darts	2000
World Championship	_Retired Darts	1999
World Championship	_Retired Darts	1998
World Matchplay	_Retired Darts	1997
World Championship	_Retired Darts	1997
World Championship	_Retired Darts	1996
World Matchplay	_Retired Darts	1995
World Championship	_Retired Darts	1995
World Matchplay	_Retired Darts

Milestones

No records found

Former Youth Teams

No records found

Former Senior Teams

BDO Darts Mens	1987-1993	Permanent	-	-
PDC Mens	1993-2018	Permanent	-	-

Former Club Staff

No records found

Contracts

No records found

Fanart


Player Poster

Banner



News Reports
None found...

Collections
None found...


Statistics
None Found...


Other Links

WikiData