Matthew Dennant (born 25 June 1991) is an English professional darts player who competes in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events. Nicknamed "the Scholar", Dennant won a two-year PDC Tour Card at UK Qualifying School in both 2016 and 2024. He has won three titles in the PDC secondary tours.
Career 2012–2013: First secondary tour title Matthew Dennant reached a final on the PDC Development Tour for the first time in 2012. A year later he made his debut at the 2013 UK Open. After two wins he was eliminated in the third round by Adrian Lewis. Dennant won event seventeen on the 2013 Challenge Tour, defeating Max Hopp in the final.
2016–2017: First stint as a Tour Card holder At the beginning of 2016, Dennant was able to win a PDC Tour Card for the first time through the PDC Qualifying School. In 2016 PDC Players Championship series events, Dennant was able to reach the third round (last 32) stage on two occasions. At the 2016 European Darts Trophy he made his PDC European Tour debut. He lost to Devon Petersen 6–5 in the first round. By reaching the last 16 at 2017 UK Open Qualifier 1, Dennant qualified for the UK Open for the second time. At the 2017 edition, he started in the second round where he beat Zoran Lerchbacher before losing to Benito van de Pas in the third round. Due to poor results in 2017 on the PDC Pro Tour– not reaching a last 32 in a 2017 Players Championship event and only one making one European Tour appearance at the Gibraltar Darts Trophy– Dennant was not able to reach the top 64 of the Order of Merit at the end of 2017 and therefore he lost his Tour Card.
2018–2021: Two Challenge Tour titles and Euro Tour appearances After losing his Tour Card, Dennant made appearances on the 2018 PDC Challenge Tour and qualified for the 2018 International Darts Open but lost his first round game for the third time on the European Tour. He qualified for the 2019 UK Open via his ranking on the 2018 PDC Challenge Tour but lost in the first round to amateur player Kevin Thoburn. At the opening European Tour event of the 2019 PDC Pro Tour, the 2019 European Darts Open, Dennant was able to defeat Madars Razma to win a match on the European Tour for the first time. He then lost to Mensur Suljović 6–4 in the second round. On the 2020 Challenge Tour, he won the third event by defeating Nathan Rafferty 6–4 in the final. The following year, he took part in the 2021 UK Open but lost in the first round. In September, he won his third PDC secondary tours title at UK Challenge Tour 8.
2024–2025: Second stint as a Tour Card holder In 2024, Dennant won a PDC Tour Card for the second time at PDC Qualifying School by topping the UK Q-School Order of Merit. Dennant lost in the last 96 stage of the 2024 UK Open. He qualified for two events on the 2024 PDC European Tour– the 2024 Baltic Sea Darts Open and 2024 European Darts Open– as a Tour Card holder qualifier. However, he lost to Moritz Hilger and Karel Sedláček respectively in the first round. In August, Dennant reached the fourth round (last 16) of Players Championship 19. On the 2025 PDC Pro Tour, Dennant qualified for the Belgian Darts Open and missed match darts in a deciding leg loss to Ricardo Pietreczko 6–5. In March, Dennant lost in the last 96 at the 2025 UK Open. He reached the last 16 at Players Championship 10 before reaching his first two Pro Tour quarter-finals at events 11 and 22. At the Austrian Darts Open and 2025 Hungarian Darts Trophy, he reached the second round on the European Tour for the second and third time on the European Tour by defeating Rowby-John Rodriguez in the former and Andrew Gilding in the latter. He then lost to Martin Schindler and Michael van Gerwen in the respective second round matches.
Despite qualifying for his debut at the PDC World Darts Championship at the 2026 edition via the 2025 PDC Pro Tour, Dennant lost his Tour Card following a lost to Kevin Doets 3–1 in the first round.
Performance timeline Matthew Dennant's performance timeline is as follows: Tournament2013201720192021202420252026PDC Ranked televised eventsWorld ChampionshipDid not qualify1RA non-ranked event until 2025Did not qualifyPrel.DNQUK Open3R3R1R1R3R3R
PDC Players Championships Season 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 2013Did not participateWIG1RWIG2RBARDNP 2016BAR1RBAR 1RBAR 1RBAR3RBAR1RBAR 1RBAR 1RCOV3RCOV 1RBAR 1RBAR 1RBAR2RBAR 1RBAR 1RBAR 1RBAR 1RDUB2RDUB 1RBAR 1RBAR1R 2017BAR2RBAR2RBAR 1RBAR 1RMIL2RMIL 1RBAR 1RBAR2RWIG 1RWIG 1RMIL 1RMIL 1RWIG 1RWIG 1RBAR2RBAR 1RBAR2RBAR 1RDUB 1RDUB 1RBAR2RBAR 1R 2018Did not participateBAR1RDid not participate 2019Did not participateBAR1RBAR1R 2020BARDNPWIG2RWIG1RWIG1RWIG1RBARDNPMIL2RMIL2RMIL1RMIL1RMIL2RNIEDid not participateCOV1RCOV2RCOV2RCOV3RCOV1R 2023Did not participateLEI1RDid not participate 2024WIG2RWIG 1RLEI2RLEI2RHIL 1RHIL2RLEI 1RLEI 1RHIL 1RHIL 1RHIL 1RHIL 1RMIL 1RMIL2RMIL 1RMIL 1RMIL 1RMIL3RMIL4RWIG2RWIG 1RLEI 1RLEI2RWIG3RWIG1RWIG2RWIG1RWIG3RLEI1RLEI1R 2025WIGDNPWIG1RROS1RROS2RLEI3RLEI1RHIL2RHIL2RLEI 1RLEI4RLEIQFLEI3RROS 1RROS 1RHIL2RHIL 1RLEI 1RLEI 1RLEI2RLEI2RLEI 1RHILQFHIL 1RMIL2RMIL3RHIL 1RHIL2RLEI2RLEI1RLEI1RWIG 1RWIG3RWIG3RWIG2R
PDC Challenge Tour Season 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2026
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Titles PDC secondary tours PDC Challenge Tour 2020: 3 2021 UK: 8 PDC Development Tour 2013: 17
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