Every final, every upset, every record — from the first BDO World Championship in 1978 through to Lakeside’s final years. Year-by-year breakdowns, match reports, and statistical analysis.
Eric Bristow hunting a sixth world title, Jocky Wilson with fire in his eyes — the 1989 final captured everything that made Lakeside great.
The BDO collapsed in September 2020. Two years later the WDF revived the world championship — back at Frimley Green. An honest look at what the new era has managed, and what it can't get back.
From Trina Gulliver's seven consecutive titles to Mikuru Suzuki's historic 2020 win, the BDO Women's World Darts Championship produced two decades of fierce competition — and deserved better than it got.
On 9 January 1990, Paul Lim threw nine perfect darts at Lakeside — the only nine-darter ever completed at the BDO World Darts Championship. This is what happened, who he was, and why £52,000 caused as much conversation as the feat itself.
In 1993, sixteen of darts' biggest names walked away from the BDO and never came back. This is how it happened, what the BDO did about it, and why the sport still lives with the consequences.
The complete list of every BDO World Darts Championship winner from 1978 to 2020 — men’s and women’s — with finalists, scores, and notes on the moments that actually mattered.
From a Nottingham nightclub in 1978 to the final curtain at the O2 in 2020, the BDO World Darts Championship was British sport at its most unfiltered. This is the complete history of how it began, what it became at Lakeside, and how it ended.