Mario Vandenbogaerde

Mario Vandenbogaerde (born 1 June 1973) is a Belgian professional darts player who competes in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events. Before winning his PDC Tour Card in 2022, Vandenbogaerde won two British Darts Organisation (BDO) ranking titles and reached two BDO major semi-finals at the 2019 World Masters and the 2020 Lakeside World Championship. He has reached two PDC ranking finals, finishing runner-up at Players Championship 28 in 2025 and Players Championship 26 in 2026. His best PDC major performance is reaching the last 16 at the 2023 Players Championship Finals.

Career In 2005, Vandenbogaerde won the Belgium National Championships, in 2018 he won the Luxembourg Masters and in 2019, he won the German Open, before reaching the semi-finals of the World Masters.

In September 2019, Vandenbogaerde qualified for the 2020 BDO World Darts Championship, which turned out to be the event's last edition and, as the 11th seed, he reached the semi-finals on debut. He was the first Belgian man to reach the semi-finals of a World Championship and the only to do so at the BDO World Championship.

In January 2022, he competed in the PDC's European Q-School and successfully secured a Tour Card during the third day of its final phase (finishing first on the European Q-School Order of Merit).

Vandenbogaerde qualified for the 2024 PDC World Darts Championship, becoming only the second Belgian to have appeared at both the BDO and PDC World Championship (following Eric Clarys), but lost to Thibault Tricole in the first round. As a result, he failed to retain his Tour Card by being in the top 64 of the Order of Merit. Vandenbogaerde immediately regained a Tour Card at Q-School by finishing ninth in the European Q-School Order of Merit.

In September 2025, Vandenbogaerde reached a maiden PDC ranking final at Players Championship 28, losing 8–6 to Ryan Searle. At the 2026 PDC World Championship, he lost 3–0 to David Davies in the first round. He reached his second PDC ranking final at Players Championship 26 in July 2026, where he was beaten 8–6 by Sebastian Białecki.

World Championship results BDO 2020: Semi-finals (lost to Jim Williams 4–6) PDC 2024: First round (lost to Thibault Tricole 1–3) 2026: First round (lost to David Davies 0–3)

Performance timeline BDO

PDC

PDC European Tour

PDC Players Championships