2017 PDC World Youth Championship

The 2017 PDC Unicorn World Youth Championship was the seventh edition of the PDC World Youth Championship, a tournament organised by the Professional Darts Corporation for darts players aged between 16 and 23.

The knock-out stages from the last 64 to the semi-finals were played in Wigan on 6 November 2017. The final took place on 26 November 2017, before the final of the 2017 Players Championship Finals, which was shown live on ITV4.

Australia's Corey Cadby was the defending champion after defeating Dutch player Berry van Peer 6–2 in the 2016 final, but he lost 6–3 to English player Josh Payne in the semi-finals.

Belgium's Dimitri Van den Bergh became the new World Youth champion, by defeating Josh Payne 6–3 in the final.

Qualification
The tournament will feature 64 players. The top 46 players in the PDC Development Tour Order of Merit automatically qualify for the tournament. They will be joined by 15 international qualifiers. Participation will also be possible for any age-qualified players from the top 32 of the main PDC Order of Merit. The remaining two qualifying places are offered to Junior Darts Corporation representatives.

Should an international qualifier also be ranked high enough in the Development Tour Order of Merit to qualify, further places would be allocated from the Development Tour Order of Merit.

The participants are (with the top 8 being seeded):

1-47 • # Benito van de Pas (PDC Top 32)

• # 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Luke Humphries

• # 🇧🇪 Dimitri Van den Bergh

• # 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Adam Hunt

• # 🇧🇪 Kenny Neyens

• # 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Ted Evetts

• # Mike van Duivenbode

• # 🇧🇪 Mike De Decker

• # 🇦🇹 Rowby-John Rodriguez

• # 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Ryan Meikle

• # 🇮🇪 Steve Lennon

• # 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Harry Ward

• # 🇩🇪 Martin Schindler

• # 🇦🇹 Rusty-Jake Rodriguez

• # Justin van Tergouw

• # 🇨🇦 Dawson Murschell

• # 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Adam Smith-Neale

• # 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Josh Payne

• # 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Rhys Griffin

• # Jeffrey de Zwaan

• # 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Rhys Hayden

• # 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Jake Jones

• # 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Kurt Parry

• # 🇧🇪 Brian Raman

• # Berry van Peer

• # 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Ronnie Roberts

• # Sven Groen

• # 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Dan Read

• # Stephen Rosney

• # 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Scott Dale

• # 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Thomas Lovely

• # 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Rob Hewson

• # Kevin de Vries

• # 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 John Brown

• # Jimmy Hendriks

• # Geert Nentjes

• # 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Reece Colley

• # 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Joe Davis

• # 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Lee Budgen

• # Andrew Davidson

• # 🇩🇪 Nico Ziemann

• # 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Sam Hewson

• # 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Sam Head

• # 🇩🇪 Christian Bunse

• # 🇩🇪 Nico Blum

• # 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Conor Mayes

• # 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Jarred Cole

International qualifiers • 🇺🇸 Dominik Pundt

• 🇨🇦 Keifer Durham

• 🇨🇳 Qingyu Zhan

• 🇦🇺 Corey Cadby

• 🇦🇺 Kalani Hillman

• 🇩🇪 Max Hopp

• Melvin de Fijter

• 🇭🇺 Gergely Lakatos

• 🇪🇸 David Medina Puyol

• 🇬🇮 Jarvis Bautista

•  Daniel Jensen

•  Nathan Rafferty

• 🇳🇿 Jordan Christie

• 🇭🇰 Man Lok Leung

• 🇷🇺 Maxim Aldoshin

Representatives from the Junior Darts Corporation • 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Luke Durham

• 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Jack Ryder