2009 Players Championship Finals

The 2009 coral.co.uk Players Championship Finals was the inaugural edition of the PDC tournament, the Players Championship Finals, which saw the top 32 players from the 2008 PDC Players Championship Order of Merit taking part. The tournament took place between 30 January–1 February 2009 and was held at the Circus Tavern, Purfleet, England – the former venue of the PDC World Darts Championship.

Prize money
The 2009 Players Championship Finals featured a prize fund of £200,000.

Qualification
The top 32 players from the PDC Players Championship Order of Merit after the last Players Championship of 2008 qualified for the event.

• # 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Phil Taylor (champion)

• # 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 James Wade (semi-finals)

• # 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Alan Tabern (second round)

• # 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Mervyn King (quarter-finals)

• # 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Ronnie Baxter (semi-finals)

• # 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Dennis Priestley (quarter-finals)

• # 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Colin Osborne (first round)

• # 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Colin Lloyd (quarter-finals)

• # 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Andy Hamilton (second round)

• # Raymond van Barneveld (quarter-finals)

• # 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Denis Ovens (first round)

• # 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Terry Jenkins (first round)

• # 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Mark Walsh (first round)

• # Robert Thornton (runner-up)

• # 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Kevin Painter (second round)

• # Vincent van der Voort (second round)

• # 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Chris Mason (first round)

• # 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Alex Roy (first round)

• # 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Mark Dudbridge (first round)

• # 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Wayne Mardle (second round)

• # 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Wayne Jones (second round)

• # 🇨🇦 John Part (second round)

• # 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Andy Jenkins (first round)

• # 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Peter Manley (first round)

• # 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Jamie Caven (first round)

• # 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Andy Smith (second round)

• # 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Steve Maish (first round)

• # 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Tony Eccles (first round)

• # Felix McBrearty (first round)

• # 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Adrian Lewis (first round)

• # 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Steve Beaton (first round)

• # Michael van Gerwen (first round)

Draw
Scores after player's names are three-dart averages (total points scored divided by darts thrown and multiplied by 3)

Television Coverage
ITV4 screened live coverage of the tournament, becoming ITV's third televised tournament after the Grand Slam of Darts and the European Championship. Also, there was nightly highlights shown on ITV1. Again, Matt Smith presented the coverage, with analysis from Chris Mason (once he had lost to van der Voort) and Alan Warriner-Little, commentary from Mason, Stuart Pyke, John Rawling and Warriner-Little, and reports from Ned Boulting.