Dragutin Horvat

Dragutin Horvat (born 8 January 1976) is a German professional darts player who competes in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events. He has won two titles on the PDC's secondary tour, the Challenge Tour. He made his first PDC European Tour quarter-final at the 2016 International Darts Open.

Dragutin Horvat
Personal information
Nickname	Hercules
Born	(1976-01-08) 8 January 1976 (age 49) Kassel, Germany
Darts information
Playing darts since	2007
Darts	21g Bull's
Laterality	Right-handed
Walk-on music	"Freed from Desire" by Gala
Organisation (see split in darts)
PDC	2012–
Current world ranking	(PDC) 164 4 (30 July 2025)[1]
PDC premier events – best performances
World Championship	Last 64: 2017
Other tournament wins
PDC Challenge Tour 2023, 2025 PDC Europe Next Gen 2025

Career

Horvat reached the quarter-finals of the 2016 International Darts Open, defeating Ricky Evans, Gerwyn Price and Ian White before being eliminated by Kim Huybrechts.^[2]

Horvat qualified for the 2017 PDC World Darts Championship after defeating Stefan Stoyke 10–6 in the final of the Superleague Germany finals event.^[3] He beat Russia's Boris Koltsov in a sudden-death leg in the preliminary round, but was then beaten 3–0 by Simon Whitlock in the first round.^[4][5]

World Championship results

PDC

• 2017: First round (lost to Simon Whitlock 0–3)
• 2024: First round (lost to Mike De Decker 0–3)

Performance timeline

PDC

Tournament	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
World Championship	1R	DNQ						1R
Career statistics
Year-end ranking	140	133	191	168	–	159	–	175

PDC European Tour

Season	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14
2013	UKM DNP	EDT 1R	EDO DNQ	ADO DNQ	GDT DNP	GDC DNQ	GDM 1R	DDM DNP
2014	GDC DNQ	DDM DNP	GDM DNQ	ADO DNP	GDT DNP	EDO DNP	EDG DNP	EDT DNP
2015	GDC DNP	GDT DNP	GDM DNP	DDM DNP	IDO DNQ	EDO DNP	EDT DNP	EDM DNP	EDG DNP
2016	DDM DNP	GDM DNP	GDT DNP	EDM DNQ	ADO DNP	EDO DNP	IDO QF	EDT DNQ	EDG 1R	GDC DNP
2017	GDC DNP	GDM 2R	GDO DNQ	EDG DNQ	GDT DNQ	EDM DNQ	ADO DNQ	EDO 1R	DDM DNP	GDG DNP	IDO 1R	EDT DNQ
2018	EDO DNQ	GDG DNQ	GDO 1R	ADO DNQ	EDG DNQ	DDM 2R	GDT DNQ	DDO 1R	EDM 1R	GDC DNQ	DDC DNQ	IDO DNQ	EDT DNQ
2019	EDO DNQ	GDC DNQ	GDG 1R	GDO DNQ	ADO DNP	EDG 1R	DDM DNQ	DDO DNQ	CDO DNQ	ADC DNP	EDM DNQ	IDO DNQ	GDT DNP
2020	BDC DNP	GDC 2R	EDG DNQ	IDO DNP
2021	HDT DNP	GDT DNP
2022	IDO 1R	GDC DNQ	GDG 1R	ADO DNP	EDO DNQ	CDO DNP	EDG 1R	DDC DNP	EDM 1R	HDT DNP	GDO DNQ	BDO DNP	GDT DNP
2023	Did not qualify			GDG 2R	Did not qualify
2024	Did not qualify								GDC 1R	Did not qualify
2025	Did not qualify							EDO 1R	Did not qualify

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
2023[nb 1]	Did not participate												HIL 1R	HIL 1R	LEI DNP		HIL 1R	HIL 1R	Did not participate
2024[nb 1]	Did not participate																			WIG 2R	WIG 1R	Did not participate							LEI 1R	LEI 1R
2025[nb 1]	Did not participate												ROS 1R	ROS 1R	HIL 1R	HIL 1R	Did not participate							MIL	MIL	HIL	HIL	LEI	LEI	LEI	WIG	WIG	WIG	WIG

1. Not a Tour card holder

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