The 2019 PDC Unicorn World Youth Championship was the ninth edition of the PDC World Youth Championship, a tournament organised by the
Professional Darts Corporation
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for darts players aged between 16 and 23.
The group stage and knock-out phase from the last 32 to the semi-finals were played at Robin Park Centre,
Wigan
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, on 4 November 2019. The final took place on 24 November 2019 at
Butlin's Minehead
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, before the final of the
2019 Players Championship Finals.
Belgium's Dimitri Van den Bergh was the two-time defending champion after defeating
Martin Schindler of
Germany
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6–3 in the
2018
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final, but he was unable to defend his title, as he was over the age limit.
Luke Humphries
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won the tournament for the first time with a 6–0 win over
Adam Gawlas in the final.
Prize money
Qualifiers
72 players from the final 2019 PDC Development Tour Order of Merit were set to qualify, as were 23 international qualifiers and
Max Hopp, who was ranked in the top 32 of the main PDC Order of Merit at the start of the year and therefore took the top seeding place.
,
Liam Gallagher
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,
Brad Phillips,
Martin Schindler and
Jurjen van der Velde qualified through the Development Tour Order of Merit as well as through an International Qualifier, while Development Tour #15
Corey Cadby and International Qualifiers
Jaime Nunez and
Sarthak Patel withdrew prior to the event, meaning the players ranked 73 to 80 qualified as well.
PDC Order of Merit Qualifiers:
#
Max Hopp
Development Tour Qualifiers:
International qualifiers:
*
Maxim Aldoshin
*
Gauke van der Boon
*
Tremaine Gallagher
*
Tomoya Goto
*
Kieran Guina
*
Jamai van den Herik
*
Justin Hewitt
*
Patrik Kovács
*
Axel Ljungquist
*
Hampus Norrström
*
Erik Pu
*
Jamie Rundle
*
Evan Suderman
*
Dolreich Tongcopanon Jr.
*
Jacob Womack
*
Xiaochen Zong
Draw
Group stage
Group 1
Group 2
Group 3
Group 4
Group 5
Group 6
Group 7
Group 8
Group 9
Group 10
Group 11
Group 12
Group 13
Group 14
Group 15
Group 16
Group 17
Group 18
Group 19
Group 20
Group 21
Group 22
Group 23
Group 24
Group 25
Group 26
Group 27
Group 28
Group 29
Group 30
Group 31
Group 32
Knockout Phase
References
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