Steve Lennon

Steve Lennon
Steve Lennon
	Lennon in 2019
Personal information
Full name	Stephen Brendan Lennon
Nickname	"Scuba Steve"
Born	25 November 1993 (age 30); Carlow, Ireland
Home town	County Carlow, Ireland
Darts information
Playing darts since	2011
Darts	23 Gram Bull's Germany Signature
Laterality	Right-handed
Walk-on music	"Mr. Blue Sky" by Electric Light Orchestra
Organisation (see split in darts)
BDO	2014–2017
PDC	2017– ; (Tour Card: 2017-)
Current world ranking	96 (17 November 2024)
WDF major events – best performances
World Masters	Last 80: 2016
PDC premier events – best performances
World Ch'ship	Last 32: 2022
World Matchplay	Last 32: 2018
World Grand Prix	Last 32: 2018
UK Open	Last 16: 2019
Grand Slam	Last 16: 2017
European Ch'ship	Last 32: 2018, 2020
Premier League	Challenger: 2019
PC Finals	Quarter Final: 2018
Other tournament wins
Ireland Players Championship	2014
PDC Development Tour England	2016
PDC UK Q School	2024
Other achievements
	2019 Breaks into the top 32 on the Order of Merit for the first time

Stephen Brendan Lennon (born 25 November 1993) is an Irish professional darts player who plays in events of the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC).

Career

Lennon played county darts for Kilkenny and Kildare. Lennon has played professional darts since 2011. He first won a tournament in the Ireland Players Championship, beating Stephen Byrne 6–1 in the Final. In 2016, he made it to the Final of Finnish Masters, beating Dennis Nilsson.^[2]

Lennon entered the Professional Darts Corporation's Qualifying School in 2017, and picked up a Tour Card on the third day.^[3]

He made his World Championship debut in 2018 but lost 2–3 to Michael Smith in the first round.

Lennon made it to the final of the 2018 Dutch Darts Masters, where he lost out to Michael van Gerwen. He reached the quarter-final of the 2018 Players Championship Finals, again losing to van Gerwen.

Following Gary Anderson's withdrawal from the 2019 Premier League, Lennon was selected as one of nine 'contenders' to replace him. He played Peter Wright on Night 3, in Dublin. Lennon took a 3–0 lead, only to lose 7–5.

In June 2019, Lennon alongside William O'Connor made it all the way to the final of the 2019 PDC World Cup of Darts where they eventually lost to Scotland 3–1.^[4]

He enjoyed one of his finest days in the PDC on 22 February 2020 when he got to the semi-finals of Players Championship 5, only to lose narrowly to Gerwyn Price. Lennon had three averages of over 100.^[5] He hit his first PDC nine-dart finish in his last 32 game against Kai Fan Leung.^[6]

Unable to qualify for any ranking major apart from UK Open in 2022, Lennon dropped down in ranking. He missed his first World Championship in six years, but managed to stay within top 64 of PDC Order of Merit and continued on the Pro Tour in 2023.

In 2023 Lennon continued to struggle, missing out on PDC World Cup of Darts for the first time since 2017. He qualified for 2023 Grand Slam of Darts, but did not qualify from the round robin. He was also able to qualify for 2023 Players Championship Finals and was eliminated in Second Round. After one year absence he returned to Alexandra Palace for 2024 PDC World Darts Championship. Lennon came back from 0–2 on sets against Owen Bates in the First Round and won 3–2, giving him chance to keep his Tour card. However, he lost in Second round against Jonny Clayton 1–3 and finished the season on 66th place in PDC Order of Merit.^[7]^[8]^[9]

Lennon lost his Tour card after 2023 season, but managed to win his Tour card back on first day of UK Q-School 2024, defeating William Borland 6–4 and securing his position for seasons 2024 and 2025. In the 2024 PDC Players Championship series, Lennon made the quarter-finals of event 3, defeating Adam Warner 6–5, Gerwyn Price 6–3, Dimitri Van den Bergh 6–3 and Ritchie Edhouse 6–4 before losing to Michael van Gerwen 6–5.

Personal life

Lennon previously studied business at Waterford Institute of Technology.^[10]

World Championship results

PDC

2018: First round (lost to Michael Smith 2–3)
2019: Second round (lost to Alan Norris 2–3)
2020: First round (lost to Callan Rydz 2–3)
2021: Second round (lost to Devon Petersen 1–3)
2022: Third round (lost to Mervyn King 0–4)
2024: Second round (lost to Jonny Clayton 1–3)

Career finals

PDC team finals: 1 (1 runner-up)

Outcome	No.	Year	Championship	Country	Teammate	Opponents in the final	Score^{[N 1]}
Runner-up	1.	2019	World Cup of Darts	Ireland	William O'Connor	Scotland – Peter Wright and Gary Anderson	1–3 (m)

^ (l) = score in legs, (s) = score in sets, (m) = score in matches.

Performance timeline

Tournament	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
PDC Ranked televised events
PDC World Championship	DNQ				1R	2R	1R	2R	3R	DNQ	2R
UK Open	DNP			2R	DNQ	6R	3R	4R	4R	3R	2R
World Matchplay	DNQ				1R	DNQ
World Grand Prix	DNQ				1R	DNQ
European Championship	DNP			DNQ	1R	DNQ	1R	DNQ
Grand Slam of Darts	DNQ			2R	DNQ	RR	DNQ			RR	DNQ
Players Championship Finals	DNP			2R	QF	1R	1R	1R	DNQ	2R	DNQ
PDC Non-ranked televised events
Premier League Darts	DNP					C	DNP
PDC World Cup of Darts	DNP				1R	F	1R	1R	2R	DNP
PDC World Youth Championship	1R	1R	QF	1R	DNP
BDO Ranked televised events
World Masters	2R	1R	3R	No longer a BDO Player
Career statistics
Year-end ranking	-	-	-	71	41	41	45	44	61	66

PDC European Tour

Season	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13
2017	GDC DNQ	GDM DNQ	GDO 1R	EDG 1R	GDT DNQ	EDM DNQ	ADO DNQ	EDO DNQ	DDM 1R	GDG DNQ	IDO 2R	EDT DNQ
2018	EDO DNQ	GDG 2R	GDO 2R	ADO 2R	EDG 1R	DDM F	GDT 1R	DDO DNQ	EDM DNQ	GDC DNQ	DDC DNQ	IDO 2R	EDT DNQ
2019	EDO DNQ	GDC DNQ	GDG DNQ	GDO 2R	ADO 2R	EDG DNQ	DDM DNQ	DDO 1R	CDO DNQ	ADC DNQ	EDM 1R	IDO DNQ	GDT DNQ
2020	BDC 2R	GDC 2R	EDG 2R	IDO DNQ
2021	HDT DNQ	GDT DNQ
2022	IDO DNQ	GDC DNQ	GDG DNQ	ADO DNQ	EDO DNQ	CDO DNQ	EDG DNQ	DDC 1R	EDM 1R	HDT DNQ	GDO DNQ	BDO DNQ	GDT DNQ
2023	BSD DNQ	EDO 1R	IDO 2R	GDG DNQ	ADO DNQ	DDC DNQ	BDO DNQ	CDO DNQ	EDG DNQ	EDM DNQ	GDO 1R	HDT DNQ	GDC 2R
2024	BDO DNQ	GDG 2R	IDO DNQ	EDG DNQ	ADO DNQ	BSD DNQ	DDC DNQ	EDO DNQ	GDC DNQ	FDT DNQ	HDT DNQ	SDT DNQ	CDO DNQ

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
2011	HAL DNP	HAL DNP	DER DNP	DER DNP	CRA DNP	CRA DNP	VIE DNP	VIE DNP	CRA DNP	CRA DNP	BAR DNP	BAR DNP	NUL DNP	NUL DNP	ONT DNP	ONT DNP	DER DNP	DER DNP	NUL DNP	NUL DNP	DUB DNP	DUB DNP	KIL 1R	GLA DNP	GLA DNP	ALI DNP	ALI DNP	CRA DNP	CRA DNP	WIG DNP	WIG DNP
2012 ^{[nb 1]}	ALI DNP	ALI DNP	REA DNP	REA DNP	CRA DNP	CRA DNP	BIR DNP	BIR DNP	CRA DNP	CRA DNP	BAR DNP	BAR DNP	DUB DNP	DUB DNP	KIL PR	KIL PR	CRA DNP	CRA DNP	BAR DNP	BAR DNP
2013 ^{[nb 1]}	WIG DNP	WIG DNP	WIG DNP	WIG DNP	CRA DNP	CRA DNP	BAR DNP	BAR DNP	DUB DNP	DUB DNP	KIL 1R	KIL PR	WIG DNP	WIG DNP	BAR DNP	BAR DNP
2017	BAR 1R	BAR 1R	BAR 2R	BAR 2R	MIL 3R	MIL 1R	BAR QF	BAR 2R	WIG 1R	WIG 2R	MIL 4R	MIL 4R	WIG 1R	WIG 2R	BAR 4R	BAR 2R	BAR 4R	BAR 1R	DUB QF	DUB 2R	BAR 1R	BAR 2R
2018	BAR 1R	BAR 1R	BAR 2R	BAR 1R	MIL 3R	MIL 1R	BAR 2R	BAR 2R	WIG 1R	WIG 2R	MIL 3R	MIL 3R	WIG 3R	WIG 2R	BAR 3R	BAR 3R	BAR 2R	BAR QF	DUB 4R	DUB 3R	BAR 3R	BAR 1R
2019	WIG 3R	WIG 4R	WIG 2R	WIG 1R	BAR 2R	BAR 2R	WIG 1R	WIG 2R	BAR 3R	BAR 3R	BAR 3R	BAR 1R	BAR 2R	BAR 1R	BAR 1R	BAR 2R	WIG 1R	WIG 1R	BAR 1R	BAR 3R	HIL 1R	HIL 1R	BAR 1R	BAR 3R	BAR 2R	BAR 1R	DUB 2R	DUB 2R	BAR 3R	BAR 1R
2020	BAR 1R	BAR 1R	WIG 1R	WIG 2R	WIG SF	WIG 3R	BAR 1R	BAR 1R	MIL 1R	MIL 2R	MIL 2R	MIL 2R	MIL 2R	NIE 1R	NIE 3R	NIE 1R	NIE 1R	NIE 1R	COV 2R	COV 3R	COV 1R	COV 3R	COV 2R
2021	BOL 3R	BOL 1R	BOL 2R	BOL 1R	MIL 2R	MIL 1R	MIL 4R	MIL QF	NIE 4R	NIE QF	NIE 2R	NIE 2R	MIL 1R	MIL 1R	MIL 1R	MIL 2R	COV 1R	COV 3R	COV 1R	COV 1R	BAR 2R	BAR 3R	BAR 2R	BAR 1R	BAR 1R	BAR 1R	BAR 1R	BAR 1R	BAR 2R	BAR 1R
2022	BAR 1R	BAR 1R	WIG 2R	WIG 1R	BAR 2R	BAR 1R	NIE 2R	NIE 1R	BAR 1R	BAR 3R	BAR 3R	BAR 2R	BAR 2R	WIG 1R	WIG 2R	NIE 2R	NIE 1R	BAR 1R	BAR 3R	BAR 1R	BAR 3R	BAR 2R	BAR 2R	BAR 1R	BAR 1R	BAR 3R	BAR 2R	BAR 1R	BAR 4R	BAR 3R
2023	BAR 2R	BAR 4R	BAR 3R	BAR 1R	BAR 2R	BAR 1R	HIL 1R	HIL 3R	WIG 3R	WIG 1R	LEI 2R	LEI 4R	HIL 1R	HIL 1R	LEI 2R	LEI 2R	HIL 1R	HIL 2R	BAR 1R	BAR 3R	BAR 3R	BAR 4R	BAR 2R	BAR 2R	BAR 3R	BAR 1R	BAR 1R	BAR 2R	BAR 1R	BAR 3R
2024	WIG 1R	WIG 3R	LEI QF	LEI 3R	HIL 1R	HIL 2R	LEI 1R	LEI 1R	HIL 1R	HIL 1R	HIL 1R	HIL 1R	MIL 2R	MIL 1R	MIL 2R	MIL 1R	MIL 1R	MIL 1R	MIL 2R	WIG 2R	WIG 1R	MIL 3R	MIL 2R	WIG 1R	WIG 1R	WIG 1R	WIG 1R	WIG 2R	LEI 2R	LEI 4R

^ ^a ^b 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	#R RR Prel.	Lost in # round Round-robin Preliminary round	NYF	Not yet founded

References

^ "PDC Order of Merit". PDPA. 17 November 2024. Retrieved 17 November 2024.
^ dartsdatabase.co.uk Steve Lennon player profile
^ "2017 PDC Qualifying School Day Three". PDC. Archived from the original on 21 January 2017. Retrieved 21 January 2017.
^ "Scotland beat Republic of Ireland to win the 2019 World Cup of Darts". Sky Sports. 9 June 2019. Retrieved 11 June 2019.
^ "PDC Players Championship 05 - Steve Lennon". Dart Connect. 22 February 2020. Retrieved 22 February 2020.
^ "PDC Players Championship 05 - Steve Lennon vs Kai Fan Leung". Dart Connect. 22 February 2020. Retrieved 26 October 2022.
^ "I am lost for words Steve Lennon superb comeback seals Round Two spot". Sky Sports. Retrieved 11 January 2024.
^ O'Keeffe, Shane. ""I was even thinking of pulling out" Steve Lennon produces remarkable comeback at PDC World Darts Championship". Scoreline. Retrieved 11 January 2024.
^ Delaney, Luke. "Steve Lennon crashes out of PDC Championship". Q102. Retrieved 11 January 2024.
^ Glennon, Michael (18 December 2017). "Carlow's Lennon ready to stand up to the Bully Boy". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

External links

Media related to Steve Lennon at Wikimedia Commons
Steve Lennon player profile at Darts Orakel

[score-11] (l) = score in legs, (s) = score in sets, (m) = score in matches.

[NTC-12] Not a Tour card holder

[PDC_Rankings-1] "PDC Order of Merit". PDPA. 17 November 2024. Retrieved 17 November 2024.

[2] rtsdatabase.co.uk Steve Lennon player profile

[3] "2017 PDC Qualifying School Day Three". PDC. Archived from the original on 21 January 2017. Retrieved 21 January 2017.

[4] "Scotland beat Republic of Ireland to win the 2019 World Cup of Darts". Sky Sports. 9 June 2019. Retrieved 11 June 2019.

[5] "PDC Players Championship 05 - Steve Lennon". Dart Connect. 22 February 2020. Retrieved 22 February 2020.

[6] "PDC Players Championship 05 - Steve Lennon vs Kai Fan Leung". Dart Connect. 22 February 2020. Retrieved 26 October 2022.

[7] "I am lost for words Steve Lennon superb comeback seals Round Two spot". Sky Sports. Retrieved 11 January 2024.

[8] O'Keeffe, Shane. ""I was even thinking of pulling out" Steve Lennon produces remarkable comeback at PDC World Darts Championship". Scoreline. Retrieved 11 January 2024.

[9] Delaney, Luke. "Steve Lennon crashes out of PDC Championship". Q102. Retrieved 11 January 2024.

[10] Glennon, Michael (18 December 2017). "Carlow's Lennon ready to stand up to the Bully Boy". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

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