After his rise to fame at the 2024 World Darts Championship and becoming an overnight success, 16-year-old darts sensation Luke Littler has become the first player to his 1 million Instagram followers. Read on to find out who the five most followed darts players on Instagram are.
Luke Littler Becomes First First Darts Player To Hit 1M Instagram Followers
Having shot to fame almost overnight at the 2024 World Darts Championship, Luke Littler has become the first darts player to his one million Instagram followers.
Prior to the tournament, most people were unaware of the talents that ‘The Nuke’ possessed with a dart in his hand. Who is Luke Littler? Well, the world certainly knows now!
The 16-year-old darting sensation made it all the way to the World Darts Championship Final on debut. It wasn’t to be a fairy tale ending however for former World Youth Champion, who was defeated 7-4 in the final by Luke Humphries.
However, that can’t take away from the fact that Luke Littler has become the single most popular darts player in the world. This argument is backed up by the fact that he has become the first darts player in history to gain one million Instagram followers.
What makes this statistic even more mind-boggling, is that Littler had just 4,000 followers on the social media platform prior to the 2024 World Darts Championship. Littler’s rise to fame is certainly the biggest in the sport, and one he thoroughly deserves.
He is evidently a world class darts player, who will hang about the upper echelons of the sport for decades to come. He is a future world champion, of that there is no doubt. His popularity will continue to grow month after month, especially if he can have a strong run in the 2024 Premier League Darts.
5 Most Followed Darts Players On Instagram
The 2024 World Darts Championship has proved to be a breakthrough tournament for the sport of darts. It became the most watched darts event in history, with the Humphries vs Littler final seeing a record 3.75m viewers.
Arrows prodigy Littler, who is already favourite to win the 2024 SPOTY award, didn’t quite become the youngest PDC darts world champion in history, however his stock most certainly rose. Even that is an understatement!
He is now the most popular darts player in the world, which is backed up by his social media followers. Littler now has 1 million+ followers on his Instagram account @lukethenukelittler, as well as boasting 137,000+ followers on Twitter.
This makes the teenage darting sensation the most popular darts player by social media followers by a country mile. In fact, he has over double the amount of followers as the next most popular player, Michael van Gerwen.
‘MVG’, the three-time world champion boasts around 455,000 followers on Instagram, with Gerwyn Price the third most popular darts player in terms of Instagram followers with 276,000. German dartist Gabriel Clemens is fourth with 268k Instagram followers, with Michael Smith fifth boasting 211k.
Luke Littler is the first darts player ever to reach 1 MILLION FOLLOWERS on Instagram 🌍🌟
What a number! pic.twitter.com/Ftdy668qjm
— houseofdarts (@houseofdarts180) January 9, 2024
Luke Littler is already the second favourite to win next years worlds, according to the latest 2025 World Darts Championship odds. He is also amongst the favourites with UK bookmakers to secure a spot in the Top 4 of the 2024 Premier League as well.
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Top 10 Most Followed Darts Players On Instagram
| Darts Player | Instagram followers |
|---|---|
| Luke Littler | 1 million+ |
| Michael van Gerwen | 455,000 |
| Gerwyn Price | 276,000 |
| Gabriel Clemens | 268,000 |
| Michael Smith | 211,000 |
| Peter Wright | 178,000 |
| Luke Humphries | 177,000 |
| Raymond van Barneveld | 167,000 |
| Fallon Sherrock | 155,000 |
| Stephen Bunting | 117,000 |
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