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Welcome to Flight Club^®

We've reinvented darts for the 21st century, developing a range of fast and exciting multi-player games built to bring people together and designed to keep you unexpectedly hooked, insatiably entertained and full of joy. Whether you're an expert darts sniper or a total beginner, everyone has a chance to win when they play Social Darts!

Humble beginnings

In 2012 Co-Founders Steve Moore and Paul Barham were catching up in a Devon pub where a young crowd were going crazy over a game of darts in the corner; this wasn't like traditional darts; it was loud, fast and exciting – and they saw an opportunity.
Forever on the hunt for new and exciting experiences to share with their friends, Flight Club gave them a chance to combine the warmth and nostalgia of the traditional British pubs that they loved with the high energy of Social Darts.

Years of Development

But how do you begin to get a business like this off the ground – especially with no experience in the hospitality or technology industries which it will straddle?
Steve and Paul surrounded themselves with people who knew what they didn't. From the technology to the fundraising - they forged relationships with the most impressive people they could find, called in favours and roped in old school buddies.

A group of people celebrating at Social Darts at Flight Club

Built with friends for friends

As well as investing their money, their friends were generous with their time. Over 200 of them threw 1 million test darts. Thanks to them, our first customers, Flight Club transformed from an experience which only existed in Steve's garden shed to beautiful venues packed with unexpected, ridiculous, joy!

Our customers are at the core of who we are. Thanks to this passionate community, our journey continues – with more spectacular venues filled with guests going wild in the oche, making incredible memories with their friends.

Big Ambitions

Since opening Flight Club Shoreditch in 2015, we've witnessed the excitement of Social Darts coming to life, with groups of friends going wild in the oche and every throw as energised as the last. Throughout the UK, we've opened unique venues from Cardiff to Edinburgh to Birmingham to London, each with the same electrifying atmosphere as the first!

And that's not all; we've taken the Social Darts global! With our franchise partners, State of Play Hospitality and NightOwl Entertainment, we've opened incredible venues in the USA and Australia. The joy of Social Darts continues, with 2024 marking a significant achievement with 500M darts thrown since our launch, with many more to come!

A group of women celebrating at Flight Club

An illustration of an oche space in Flight Club

And next up on our journey is... Liverpool!

We want to bring the joy of Social Darts to people all over the world, and our next stop is Liverpool!

As a UNESCO-recognised city of music and a rich and diverse hospitality scene, we're thrilled to join it. If you'd like to stay up-to-date with all the latest news about Liverpool, you can sign up for our newsletter here. We can't wait to see you there!