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Robert Stefan Eric Cross (born 21 September 1990) is an English professional darts player who competes in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events, where he is ranked world number twenty; he reached a peak ranking of world number two in 2018 and 2019. Nicknamed " Voltage", Cross is a former PDC World Champion, defeating Phil Taylor in the 2018 World Championship final after turning professional less than a year beforehand. He has won three other PDC major titles: the 2019 World Matchplay and the European Championship in 2019 and 2021. Cross has won a total of 21 PDC titles in his professional career, including five World Series of Darts titles.
Before turning professional he reached the last 32 at the UK Open, losing there to Michael van Gerwen, and won four titles on the PDC Challenge Tour in 2016, which earned him his PDC Tour Card.
Cross reached the final of two events in the 2017 PDC European Tour, the German Darts Grand Prix and the European Darts Trophy, both times losing to Michael van Gerwen. He reached his first premier event final in October at the 2017 European Championship, again losing to van Gerwen.
Cross was tipped by a few pundits to have an off year as they thought that the pressure of being world champion would get to him, despite this he made a good showing on his Premier League debut making it to the semi-finals. However, he only won one players' championship title in comparison to 2017 where he won 4, he won players' championship 13 by defeating Peter Wright in the final and he won his first World Series event which was the Brisbane Darts Masters by defeating Michael Van Gerwen 10–6 in the final. He had made two previous World Series finals that year: Las Vegas and Shanghai.
Cross made his 3rd major final and 6th televised final at the 2019 UK Open in Minehead. Cross was the eventual runner-up at the tournament, as he lost to Nathan Aspinall 11–5.
Cross made his second televised final of the year (4th major, 7th televised) at the 2019 Premier League Darts. After finishing 2nd in the league format, Cross went to the O2 in London for the Play-Offs. He took on James Wade in the semi-final and was successful in victory. He then took on World No. 1, Michael van Gerwen in the final, losing 11–6.
He won the World Matchplay, defeating Michael Smith 18–13 in legs in the final. Cross became only the fourth player to ever win the World Championship and World Matchplay (previously achieved by Phil Taylor, Michael van Gerwen and Gary Anderson). On his way to the final he beat Chris Dobey 10–3, Krzysztof Ratajski 11–5, Stephen Bunting 16–14 and Daryl Gurney 17–15, (from 15–9 down in the semi-finals).
Cross reached his 4th World Series final at the 2019 Brisbane Darts Masters. He lost to Damon Heta in a last leg decider 8–7.
On 27 October, Cross won his 3rd PDC major title, the 2019 European Championship, beating Gerwyn Price 11–6 in the final.
At the World Series of Darts Finals, Cross beat Michael Smith and James Wade en route to the final, before eventually succumbing to Gerwyn Price. Cross and Michael Smith, representing England, reached the final of the World Cup of Darts, where they were defeated 3–0 by Wales (Gerwyn Price and Jonny Clayton).
Cross won his fourth PDC major title at the 2021 European Championship, beating Michael van Gerwen in the final 11–8 to win the tournament for a second time.
Cross was unsuccessful in his defence of the European Championship, losing to James Wade 6–5 in the first round. Cross reached the final of the Players Championship Finals but lost 11–6 to Michael van Gerwen.
After seven previous losses in PDC European Tour finals, Cross won his first European Tour title at the 2023 European Darts Grand Prix, defeating Luke Humphries 8–6 in the final. He also won back-to-back titles on the 2023 World Series of Darts, winning the New Zealand Darts Masters and the New South Wales Darts Masters.
At the Grand Slam, Cross was the runner-up, losing the final to Luke Humphries 16–8.
In May, Cross defeated Luke Humphries 8–6 in the final of the Baltic Sea Darts Open to win his second European Tour title. He also won the US Darts Masters, winning a last-leg decider to beat Gerwyn Price 8–7.
Cross won his fifth World Series title at the 2025 Dutch Darts Masters, defeating Stephen Bunting 8–5 in the final. It was his first World Series title in Europe. He was victorious in the first Pro Tour event of the year, Players Championship 1, with a 7–3 win over Andrew Gilding in the semi-finals before beating Joe Cullen 8–3 in the final. Cross achieved his first televised nine-dart finish on night five of the 2025 Premier League in his 6–5 semi-final loss to Nathan Aspinall. He finished the league stage of the Premier League in seventh place on 14 points.
In June 2025, Cross was disqualified from being a company director for five years for failing to pay more than £450,000 in taxes. The Insolvency Service found that he had withdrawn over £300,000 from his company that should have gone to creditors.
In a 2025 interview, Cross revealed he has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
| World Championship (1–0) |
| World Matchplay (1–0) |
| Grand Slam (0–1) |
| Premier League (0–1) |
| UK Open (0–1) |
| Masters (0–1) |
| European Championship (2–1) |
| Players Championship Finals (0–1) |
| World Series of Darts Finals (0–1) |
| 1. | 2017 | 7–11 (l) | ||||
| Winner | 1. | 2018 | World Championship | 7–2 (s) | ||
| 2. | 2019 | UK Open | 5–11 (l) | |||
| Runner-up | 3. | 2019 | Premier League | 5–11 (l) | ||
| Winner | 2. | 2019 | World Matchplay | 18–13 (l) | ||
| Winner | 3. | 2019 | 11–6 (l) | |||
| Runner-up | 4. | 2020 | World Series of Darts Finals | 9–11 (l) | ||
| Winner | 4. | 2021 | (2) | 11–8 (l) | ||
| Runner-up | 5. | 2022 | Players Championship Finals | 6–11 (l) | ||
| Runner-up | 6. | 2023 | Masters | 7–11 (l) | ||
| Runner-up | 7. | 2023 | Grand Slam | 8–16 (l) |
| Runner-up | 1. | 2018 | US Darts Masters | 4–8 (l) | |
| Runner-up | 2. | 2018 | Shanghai Darts Masters | 2–8 (l) | |
| Winner | 1. | 2018 | Brisbane Darts Masters | 11–6 (l) | |
| Runner-up | 3. | 2019 | Brisbane Darts Masters | 7–8 (l) | |
| Winner | 2. | 2023 | New Zealand Darts Masters | 8–7 (l) | |
| Winner | 3. | 2023 | New South Wales Darts Masters | 8–1 (l) | |
| Winner | 4. | 2024 | US Darts Masters | 8–7 (l) | |
| Runner-up | 4. | 2024 | Nordic Darts Masters | 5–8 (l) | |
| Runner-up | 5. | 2024 | Poland Darts Masters | 3–8 (l) | |
| Winner | 5. | 2025 | Dutch Darts Masters | 8–5 (l) | |
| Runner-up | 6. | 2025 | Nordic Darts Masters (2) | 4–8 (l) |
| 1. | 2020 | 0–3 (m) |
| PDC Ranked televised events | ||||||||||||||||
| PDC World Championship | DNP | W | 4R | 2R | 2R | 4R | 4R | SF | 2R | 4R | ||||||
| PDC World MastersBefore 2025 this was a non-ranked event. | DNP | QF | 1R | 1R | 2R | 2R | F | 2R | 1R | 2R | ||||||
| UK Open | 4R | 5R | QF | F | QF | 5R | 4R | QF | QF | 6R | ||||||
| World Matchplay | DNP | 2R | 2R | W | 1R | 2R | 2R | 1R | QF | 1R | ||||||
| World Grand Prix | DNP | 1R | 1R | 2R | 1R | 2R | 1R | 1R | QF | 2R | ||||||
| European Championship | DNP | F | QF | W | 1R | W | 1R | 2R | 1R | 1R | ||||||
| Grand Slam of Darts | DNP | QF | 2R | 2R | 2R | QF | 2R | F | QF | DNQ | ||||||
| DNP | SF | 1R | 3R | 2R | 3R | F | 2R | 1R | 1R | |||||||
| PDC Non-ranked televised events | ||||||||||||||||
| Premier League Darts | DNP | SF | F | 9th | 9th | DNP | 6th | 7th | DNP | |||||||
| Champions League of Darts | DNP | DNQ | RR | RR | Not held | |||||||||||
| PDC World Cup of Darts | DNQ | QF | 2R | F | DNQ | QF | DNQ | |||||||||
| World Series of Darts Finals | DNQ | QF | 2R | 2R | F | DNP | QF | QF | 2R | |||||||
| Career statistics | ||||||||||||||||
| Season-end ranking | 173 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 20 | ||||||
PDC European Tour
| 2017 | GDC DNQ | GDM DNQ | GDO QF | EDG QF | GDT QF | EDM DNQ | ADO 2R | EDO QF | DDM 3R | GDG F | IDO 2R | EDT F | ||
| 2018 | EDO 3R | GDG QF | GDO SF | ADO QF | EDG 3R | DDM WD | GDT QF | DDO 3R | EDM 2R | GDC QF | DDC DNP | IDO DNP | EDT QF | |
| 2019 | EDO F | GDC 3R | GDG SF | GDO SF | ADO 3R | EDG 2R | DDM WD | DDO 2R | CDO DNP | ADC DNP | EDM QF | IDO F | GDT 3R | |
| 2020 | BDC 3R | GDC 3R | EDG QF | IDO 2R | ||||||||||
| 2021 | HDT 3R | GDT 2R | ||||||||||||
| 2022 | IDO 1R | GDC F | GDG 3R | ADO QF | EDO 2R | CDO F | EDG F | DDC 2R | EDM QF | HDT 2R | GDO 3R | BDO 3R | GDT SF | |
| 2023 | BSD 2R | EDO SF | IDO QF | GDG 2R | ADO 3R | DDC 2R | BDO 3R | CDO SF | EDG W | EDM 3R | GDO 2R | HDT 2R | GDC QF | |
| 2024 | BDO F | GDG 3R | IDO 3R | EDG SF | ADO 2R | BSD W | DDC DNP | EDO 2R | GDC DNP | FDT DNP | HDT 3R | SDT 3R | CDO WD | |
| 2025 | BDO 2R | EDT 3R | IDO WD | GDG 3R | ADO DNP | EDG 3R | DDC WD | EDO WD | BSD 2R | FDT 2R | CDO 3R | HDT 3R | SDT QF | GDC 2R |
PDC World Series of Darts
| 2018 | GER QF | USA F | SHA F | AUC QF | MEL QF | BRI W | |
| 2019 | USA QF | GER QF | BRI F | MEL SF | NZE SF | ||
| 2021 | NOR DNP | ||||||
| 2022 | Did not participate | ||||||
| 2023 | BAH SF | NOR QF | USA SF | POL 1R | NSW W | NZE W | |
| 2024 | BAH QF | DUT 1R | USA W | NOR F | POL F | AUS QF | NZE QF |
| 2025 | BAH 1R | DUT W | NOR F | USA 1R | POL SF | AUS DNP | NZE DNP |
PDC Players Championships
| 2017 | BAR 1R | BAR 3R | BAR W | BAR 3R | MIL 4R | MIL 3R | BAR 1R | BAR 3R | WIG 3R | WIG 3R | MIL SF | MIL W | WIG SF | WIG SF | BAR 3R | BAR 4R | BAR 2R | BAR 2R | DUB W | DUB 4R | BAR W | BAR 3R | ||||||||||||
| 2018 | BAR QF | BAR 2R | BAR 4R | BAR 2R | MIL 1R | MIL QF | BAR 3R | BAR DNP | WIG 3R | WIG 3R | MIL DNP | WIG W | WIG F | BAR QF | BAR 3R | BAR QF | BAR 2R | DUB 4R | DUB SF | BAR 1R | BAR 2R | |||||||||||||
| 2019 | WIG 2R | WIG 4R | WIG 3R | WIG SF | BAR 4R | BAR 3R | WIG 4R | WIG DNP | BAR 2R | Did not participate | BAR 2R | BAR QF | HIL DNP | BAR 4R | BAR 1R | BAR 1R | BAR 4R | DUB 4R | DUB 2R | BAR DNP | ||||||||||||||
| 2020 | BAR 4R | BAR 1R | WIG 1R | WIG 2R | WIG QF | WIG 1R | BAR 3R | BAR 3R | MIL 4R | MIL 2R | MIL 1R | MIL F | MIL 1R | NIE 2R | NIE 2R | NIE 3R | NIE 3R | NIE 3R | COV 3R | COV 3R | COV 1R | COV 1R | COV DNP | |||||||||||
| 2021 | BOL QF | BOL 1R | BOL 2R | BOL 2R | MIL 3R | MIL 1R | MIL 2R | MIL 3R | NIE 2R | NIE 2R | NIE QF | NIE 1R | MIL 1R | MIL 4R | MIL SF | MIL QF | COV 1R | COV 2R | COV 3R | COV 2R | BAR QF | BAR 2R | BAR 2R | BAR QF | BAR 4R | BAR W | BAR SF | BAR SF | BAR 2R | BAR 3R | ||||
| 2022 | BAR 2R | BAR QF | WIG 1R | WIG QF | BAR QF | BAR 3R | NIE SF | NIE 4R | BAR 4R | BAR 3R | BAR SF | BAR 1R | BAR QF | WIG 1R | WIG 4R | NIE 2R | NIE QF | BAR 1R | BAR 1R | BAR 1R | BAR 3R | BAR 2R | BAR 4R | BAR W | BAR 1R | BAR 1R | BAR W | BAR 3R | BAR QF | BAR 3R | ||||
| 2023 | BAR 3R | BAR 3R | BAR 3R | BAR 3R | BAR 1R | BAR 2R | HIL 1R | HIL 1R | WIG 1R | WIG 2R | LEI W | LEI 4R | HIL 1R | HIL 2R | LEI 3R | LEI 2R | HIL 3R | HIL QF | BAR 3R | BAR QF | BAR 2R | BAR DNP | BAR QF | BAR 3R | BAR 3R | BAR 2R | BAR SF | BAR 4R | ||||||
| 2024 | WIG 2R | WIG 2R | LEI 1R | LEI 1R | HIL DNP | LEI 2R | LEI 4R | Did not participate | MIL 2R | MIL 1R | MIL 2R | MIL DNP | WIG 4R | WIG 1R | LEI 4R | LEI 4R | WIG 4R | WIG 2R | WIG 3R | WIG 4R | WIG 2R | LEI 3R | LEI 1R | |||||||||||
| 2025 | WIG W | WIG 1R | ROS QF | ROS 2R | LEI 1R | LEI 4R | HIL DNP | LEI 2R | LEI 2R | Did not participate | LEI SF | LEI 2R | HIL DNP | MIL QF | MIL 4R | HIL DNP | LEI 1R | LEI 2R | LEI DNP | WIG 2R | WIG 4R | WIG 1R | WIG 1R | |||||||||||
| + Rob Cross's televised nine-dart finishes ! Date ! Opponent ! Tournament ! Method ! | ||||
| 6 March 2025 | 2025 Premier League Darts | 3 x T20; 3 x T20; T19, T16, D18 |
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