All Professional Darts Corporation players are grouped into the highest applicable subcategory:

1. Category:Professional Darts Corporation founding players - for the 16 players that founded the PDC in 1993
2. Category:Professional Darts Corporation current tour card holders - for players with a current tour card
3. Category:Professional Darts Corporation former tour card holders - for players that no longer have a tour card
4. Category:Professional Darts Corporation former pro tour players - for players that played the full pro tour circuit before the tour card system
5. Category:Professional Darts Corporation early era players - for players that played the full PDC circuit before the Pro Tour was introduced
6. Category:Professional Darts Corporation associate players - for players (past and present) that have played in PDC events beyond local qualifiers without having played the circuit full time

This is a container category. Due to its scope, it should contain only subcategories.

The additional subcategories contain extra instances of the players by achievement.