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Joe Murnan
Personal information
Nickname"Midnight" (2020-), "Shaggy" (-2020)
Born (1983-09-28) 28 September 1983 (age 41)
Hindley, Greater Manchester, England
Home townHalliwell, Greater Manchester, England
Darts information
Playing darts since1993
Darts22gram mission signature
LateralityRight-handed
Walk-on music"Cotton Eye Joe" by Rednex
Organisation (see split in darts)
BDO2006–2011
PDC2011–
(Tour Card: 2012-2014, 2016-2023)
WDF major events – best performances
World MastersLast 40: 2010
PDC premier events – best performances
World Ch'shipLast 32: 2016
World MatchplayLast 32: 2015
UK OpenLast 32: 2011, 2014, 2016
Grand SlamGroup Stage: 2017, 2018
European Ch'shipLast 32: 2021
PC FinalsLast 32: 2015
Other tournament wins
PDC Challenge Tour England 2015 (x2)
Romanian International Darts Open 2011

Players Championships

Players Championship (CRA) 2015

Joe Murnan (born 28 September 1983) is an English darts player who plays in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events.

Career

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Murnan reached the last 40 of the 2010 Winmau World Masters, losing 3–0 to Filipino Ronald L. Briones.[1]

Murnan qualified for the 2011 UK Open where he reached the last 32. He defeated Mark Dudbridge 9–8 in a close affair, before losing to the 1995 BDO World Darts Champion Richie Burnett 9–6.[2]

In March 2014, he reached the last 32 of the UK Open again, this time being beaten 9–3 by Raymond van Barneveld.[3] Later in the month he progressed to the last 16 of a PDC event for the first time as he beat the likes of Dean Winstanley and Dave Chisnall at the first Players Championship, before losing 6–4 to Andy Hamilton.[4] He won through to the same stage of the third event where he was defeated 6–1 by Gary Anderson.[5] Murnan also qualified for the German Darts Masters, but was eliminated 6–2 by Andy Smith in the first round.[6]

In February 2015 at the German Darts Championship, Murnan beat Michael Barnard 6–5, Ian White 6–4 (averaged 99.72) and Brendan Dolan 6–4 to play in his first PDC quarter-final. He fell 4–0 down to world number one Michael van Gerwen, before closing to 4–3 with a 12 dart leg, but went on to lose 6–4.[7]

In May 2015, at the 10th Players Championship in Crawley, Murnan won his first PDC title and the £10,000 first prize. His run included 6–3 and 6–4 victories over Premier League players Stephen Bunting and Dave Chisnall in the quarter-finals and final, respectively.[8] The win saw him qualify for the World Matchplay for the first time and he trailed Adrian Lewis 7–2 in the opening round. Murnan won four successive legs, but went on to be beaten 10–7 on his televised debut.[9] He was whitewashed 6–0 by Dave Chisnall on his Players Championship Finals debut.[10]

Murnan's title saw him finish the third highest of the non-qualified players on the Pro Tour Order of Merit for the 2016 World Championship.[11] He played 2012 runner-up Andy Hamilton in the first round and, having trailed 2–1 in sets (missing five darts to lead 2–1 himself) and 2–0 down in legs, Murnan managed to pull off a comeback victory to set up a second round match with Alan Norris, which he lost 4–1.[12][13] He was knocked out in the fourth round of the UK Open 9–8 by Jelle Klaasen.[14] Murnan's first quarter-final of 2016 was at the 11th Players Championship event and he was edged out 6–5 by Joe Cullen.[15] He qualified for the World Series of Darts Finals and again lost 6–5 to Cullen.[16] He was also knocked out in the first round of the Players Championship Finals 6–0 by Jermaine Wattimena.[17]

Mark Webster defeated Murnan 3–0 in the opening round of the 2017 World Championship.[18]

Murnan lost his PDC Tour Card at the end of 2018 despite managing to qualify for the Grand Slam of Darts for the second consecutive year. However, he won it straight back at UK Q-School in January 2019 via the Order of Merit, sealing at least another two years on the ProTour.

During UK Open 2020, he defeated Harald Leitinger and Karel Sedláček, making it again to the fourth round. There he lost 4-10 to Ricky Evans. He did not qualify for any other major tournaments and after losing in the deciding match and deciding leg to Ciaran Teehan during UK Qualification for PDC World Darts Championship 2021 he lost a chance to maintain his Tour card.[19]

Murnan again immediately obtained his Tour card back in UK Q-School 2021. During the season he qualified for 2021 European Championship, making his debut at this major event. In the First round he los 4-6 with Adam Gawlas. At the end of the year, Murnan qualified for 2022 PDC World Darts Championship, returning to this venue for the first time from 2017. He won his First round match against Paul Lim 3-2, but lost in the Second round 2-3 with Nathan Aspinall.[20]

Despite appearing only at 2022 UK Open, where he lost in the Second round, Murnan was able to hold his Tour card after finishing the season in top 64 at 63rd place, without qualifying for the World Championship.

In 2023 he played only at 2023 UK Open, losing in the Third round against Adrian Lewis 0-6. Throughout the year Murnan qualified for only one European Tour event and ended up outside of top 64 at the end of the year 2023, therefore he lost his Tour card. Having succeeded four times previously, Joe Murnan failed to get through Q School 2024 and missed out on a card for only the second season in 13 years.[21]

World Championship results

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PDC

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Performance timeline

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Tournament 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
PDC Ranked televised events
PDC World Championship BDO DNQ 2R 1R DNQ 2R DNQ
UK Open BDO 4R 2R DNQ 4R 3R 4R DNQ 4R 4R 2R 2R 3R
World Matchplay BDO DNQ 1R DNQ
European Championship BDO Did not qualify 1R DNQ
Grand Slam of Darts DNQ RR RR DNQ
Players Championship Finals BDO DNQ 1R 1R 1R DNQ
PDC Non-ranked televised events
World Series of Darts Finals NH DNQ 1R DNQ
BDO Ranked televised events
BDO World Championship DNP DNQ PDC NH PDC
Winmau World Masters 4R 2R PDC NH PDC NH
Career statistics
PDC Year-end ranking - - 117
[nb 1]
103 79
[nb 1]
43 37 55 100 111
[nb 1]
88 83
[nb 1]
63 95

PDC European Tour

Season 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
2012 ADO
DNQ
GDC
DNQ
EDO
DNQ
GDM
DNQ
DDM
DNQ
2013 UKM
DNQ
EDT
DNQ
EDO
DNQ
ADO
1R
GDT
1R
GDC
DNQ
GDM
1R
DDM
DNQ
2014 GDC
DNQ
DDM
DNQ
GDM
1R
ADO
DNQ
GDT
DNQ
EDO
DNQ
EDG
DNQ
EDT
DNQ
2015 GDC
QF
GDT
1R
GDM
DNQ
DDM
DNQ
IDO
DNQ
EDO
DNQ
EDT
DNQ
EDM
1R
EDG
DNQ
2016 DDM
DNQ
GDM
DNQ
GDT
3R
EDM
1R
ADO
DNQ
EDO
DNQ
IDO
DNQ
EDT
1R
EDG
3R
GDC
DNQ
2017 GDC
DNQ
GDM
1R
GDO
DNQ
EDG
DNQ
GDT
DNQ
EDM
DNQ
ADO
DNQ
EDO
DNQ
DDM
DNQ
GDG
DNQ
IDO
DNQ
EDT
DNQ
2018 EDO
DNQ
GDG
DNQ
GDO
DNQ
ADO
DNQ
EDG
DNQ
DDM
DNQ
GDT
DNQ
DDO
DNQ
EDM
DNQ
GDC
DNQ
DDC
DNQ
IDO
DNQ
EDT
DNQ
2019 EDO
DNQ
GDC
DNQ
GDG
DNQ
GDO
DNQ
ADO
DNQ
EDG
DNQ
DDM
DNQ
DDO
DNQ
CDO
DNQ
ADC
DNQ
EDM
DNQ
IDO
3R
GDT
DNQ
2020 BDC
DNQ
GDC
DNQ
EDG
DNQ
IDO
DNQ
2021 HDT
2R
GDT
2R
2022 IDO
DNQ
GDC
1R
GDG
DNQ
ADO
DNQ
EDO
DNQ
CDO
DNQ
EDG
3R
DDC
DNQ
EDM
1R
HDT
DNQ
GDO
2R
BDO
DNQ
GDT
DNQ
2023 BSD
DNQ
EDO
WD
IDO
DNQ
GDG
DNQ
ADO
DNQ
DDC
DNQ
BDO
DNP
CDO
DNP
EDG
DNQ
EDM
DNP
GDO
DNQ
HDT
1R
GDC
DNQ

PDC Players Championship

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
2012 ALI
1R
ALI
1R
REA
1R
REA
2R
CRA
2R
CRA
4R
BIR
1R
BIR
1R
CRA
1R
CRA
1R
BAR
2R
BAR
1R
DUB
1R
DUB
2R
KIL
2R
KIL
1R
CRA
1R
CRA
1R
BAR
1R
BAR
1R
2013 WIG
1R
WIG
1R
WIG
1R
WIG
4R
CRA
1R
CRA
4R
BAR
2R
BAR
2R
DUB
1R
DUB
2R
KIL
1R
KIL
PR
WIG
1R
WIG
1R
BAR
1R
BAR
2R
2014 BAR
4R
BAR
3R
CRA
4R
CRA
2R
WIG
1R
WIG
1R
WIG
2R
WIG
1R
CRA
2R
CRA
1R
COV
3R
COV
1R
CRA
2R
CRA
1R
DUB
1R
DUB
2R
CRA
1R
CRA
2R
COV
1R
COV
1R
2015
[nb 2]
BAR
4R
BAR
2R
BAR
1R
BAR
1R
BAR
1R
COV
1R
COV
1R
COV
2R
CRA
1R
CRA
W
BAR
3R
BAR
3R
WIG
4R
WIG
1R
BAR
1R
BAR
2R
DUB
3R
DUB
1R
COV
4R
COV
1R
2016 BAR
4R
BAR
3R
BAR
1R
BAR
1R
BAR
2R
BAR
3R
BAR
2R
COV
1R
COV
3R
BAR
3R
BAR
QF
BAR
2R
BAR
2R
BAR
3R
BAR
3R
BAR
3R
DUB
2R
DUB
3R
BAR
2R
BAR
2R
2017 BAR
3R
BAR
2R
BAR
1R
BAR
1R
MIL
2R
MIL
1R
BAR
1R
BAR
1R
WIG
4R
WIG
1R
MIL
2R
MIL
2R
WIG
2R
WIG
3R
BAR
3R
BAR
2R
BAR
1R
BAR
1R
DUB
1R
DUB
3R
BAR
2R
BAR
3R
2018 BAR
1R
BAR
1R
BAR
2R
BAR
1R
MIL
1R
MIL
2R
BAR
1R
BAR
1R
WIG
2R
WIG
3R
MIL
1R
MIL
1R
WIG
1R
WIG
1R
BAR
1R
BAR
1R
BAR
1R
BAR
1R
DUB
2R
DUB
1R
BAR
2R
BAR
1R
2019 WIG
1R
WIG
2R
WIG
1R
WIG
2R
BAR
1R
BAR
1R
WIG
2R
WIG
2R
BAR
2R
BAR
3R
BAR
2R
BAR
3R
BAR
1R
BAR
1R
BAR
1R
BAR
1R
WIG
1R
WIG
2R
BAR
1R
BAR
1R
HIL
2R
HIL
2R
BAR
1R
BAR
2R
BAR
2R
BAR
1R
DUB
2R
DUB
2R
BAR
4R
BAR
1R
2020 BAR
1R
BAR
1R
WIG
4R
WIG
2R
WIG
2R
WIG
1R
BAR
1R
BAR
3R
MIL
2R
MIL
1R
MIL
1R
MIL
2R
MIL
2R
NIE
1R
NIE
1R
NIE
1R
NIE
2R
NIE
1R
COV
1R
COV
1R
COV
1R
COV
3R
COV
2R
2021 BOL
1R
BOL
1R
BOL
2R
BOL
1R
MIL
1R
MIL
2R
MIL
3R
MIL
2R
NIE
2R
NIE
1R
NIE
1R
NIE
2R
MIL
1R
MIL
2R
MIL
2R
MIL
1R
COV
2R
COV
2R
COV
2R
COV
1R
BAR
2R
BAR
4R
BAR
2R
BAR
1R
BAR
2R
BAR
1R
BAR
2R
BAR
1R
BAR
1R
BAR
2R
2022 BAR
1R
BAR
1R
WIG
QF
WIG
2R
BAR
1R
BAR
2R
NIE
2R
NIE
1R
BAR
2R
BAR
1R
BAR
2R
BAR
1R
BAR
1R
WIG
2R
WIG
1R
NIE
1R
NIE
3R
BAR
2R
BAR
1R
BAR
1R
BAR
3R
BAR
1R
BAR
2R
BAR
1R
BAR
1R
BAR
2R
BAR
4R
BAR
2R
BAR
1R
BAR
1R
2023 BAR
1R
BAR
1R
BAR
1R
BAR
2R
BAR
1R
BAR
2R
HIL
DNP
HIL
DNP
WIG
1R
WIG
1R
LEI
QF
LEI
1R
HIL
2R
HIL
3R
LEI
1R
LEI
1R
HIL
2R
HIL
1R
BAR
1R
BAR
1R
BAR
DNP
BAR
1R
BAR
1R
BAR
1R
BAR
1R
BAR
1R
BAR
1R
BAR
1R
BAR
1R
BAR
1R
Performance Table Legend
W Won the tournament F Finalist SF Semifinalist QF Quarterfinalist #R
RR
Prel.
Lost in # round
Round-robin
Preliminary round
DQ Disqualified
DNQ Did not qualify DNP Did not participate WD Withdrew NH Tournament not held NYF Not yet founded
  1. ^ a b c d Received Tour card through Q School and started the season without ranking points
  2. ^ Not a Tour card holder

References

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  1. ^ "2010 World Masters Results".
  2. ^ "Joe Murnan Player Profile".
  3. ^ "Coral UK Open - Saturday Afternoon". PDC. Retrieved 3 December 2014.
  4. ^ "Anderson Wins Third Title Of The Year". PDC. Retrieved 3 December 2014.
  5. ^ "Anderson Pips Taylor In Crawley". PDC. Archived from the original on 24 March 2014. Retrieved 3 December 2014.
  6. ^ "2014 PDC German Darts Masters Results". Darts Database. Retrieved 3 December 2014.
  7. ^ "Mighty Mike's Epic Win In Germany". PDC. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
  8. ^ "Debut PDC Title For Super Murnan". PDC. Retrieved 17 May 2015.
  9. ^ "BetVictor World Matchplay Day One". PDC. Archived from the original on 20 July 2015. Retrieved 19 July 2015.
  10. ^ "Cash Converters PCF - Day One". PDC. Retrieved 2 December 2015.
  11. ^ "2016 PDC World Championship Qualifiers". Darts Database. Archived from the original on 28 December 2017. Retrieved 2 December 2015.
  12. ^ "News | PDC". www.pdc.tv. Archived from the original on 22 December 2015.
  13. ^ "William Hill World Championship Day Ten". PDC. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
  14. ^ "2016 Coral UK Open Fourth Round". PDC. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
  15. ^ "White Denies Cullen For Barnsley Win". PDC. Retrieved 26 November 2016.
  16. ^ "2016 World Series Of Darts Finals Results". Darts Database. Retrieved 26 November 2016.
  17. ^ "2016 Players Championship Finals Results". Darts Database. Retrieved 26 November 2016.
  18. ^ "William Hill World Championship Day Four". PDC. Archived from the original on 22 December 2016. Retrieved 18 December 2016.
  19. ^ "PDPA World Championship Qualifiers confirmed: Lewis, Edgar and Sedlacek among players through". 30 November 2020.
  20. ^ "Aspinall survives scare to advance to round three". PDC TV. Retrieved 2 February 2024.
  21. ^ "Stats Analysis: New names & returning faces to star on 2024 PDC ProTour". PDC TV. Retrieved 2 February 2024.
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