World Darts Championship 2025

15 Dec 2024-3 Jan 2025

Alexandra Palace, London

Defending Champion: Luke Humphries

SID WADDELL TROPHY

Live on Sky Sports

4/2/25: Sky Sports & PDC extend partnership until 2030

Format

Rounds 1 & 2 - Best of 5 sets

Rounds 3 & 4 - Best of 7 sets

Q-Final - Best of 9 sets

S-Final - Best of 11 sets

Final - Best of 13 sets

Each set is best of 5 legs

Tie-Break (Round 2 and beyond)

Applies to the last set of each match

The set has to be won with at least two legs except at leg 11 which is sudden-death

Live Broadcast (check locally)

UK & Ireland - Sky Sports

AMC SPORT1 - Hungary

ARENA SPORT - Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Slovenia

DAZN - Germany, USA

FOX SPORT - Australia

L’EQUIPE - France

NOVA SPORT - Czech Republic, Slovakia

RIGOUR - China

SARAN - Turkey
SKY - New Zealand

SPORT1 - Germany

SPTV - Croatia

STARHUB - Singapore

SUPERSPORT - Sub Saharan Africa

VIAPLAY - Iceland, Netherlands, Scandinavia

VTM2 - Belgium

Prize Fund

Winner

R-Up

S-Final

Q-Final

Round 4

Round 3

Round 2

Round 1

Total £

500,000

200,000

100,000

50,000

35,000

25,000

15,000

7,500

2.5M

9-darter bonus: £60,000

Same amount is awarded to a random fan and charity

Participants

PDC OOM Top 32 (seeded to Round 2)

PDC Order of Merit x32
Second Round (Seeded)

Luke Humphries, Michael Smith, Michael van Gerwen, Luke Littler, Rob Cross, Dave Chisnall, Jonny Clayton, Stephen Bunting,

Damon Heta, Gerwyn Price, Dimitri van den Bergh, Nathan Aspinall, Danny Noppert, Gary Anderson, Chris Dobey, James Wade,

Peter Wright, Josh Rock, Ross Smith, Ryan Searle, Andrew Gilding, Martin Schindler, Joe Cullen, Mike de Decker,

Dirk van Duijvenbode, Daryl Gurney, Gabriel Clemens, Gian van Veen, Ritchie Edhouse, Brendan Dolan, Krzysztof Ratajski, Raymond van Barneveld

Pro Tour Order of Merit x32
First Round

Cameron Menzies, Wessel Nijman, Jermaine Wattimena, Ricardo Pietreczko, Luke Woodhouse, Ryan Joyce, Niels Zonneveld, Alan Soutar,

Madars Razma, Callan Rydz, Wesley Plaisier, Martin Lukeman, Kevin Doets, Richard Veenstra, Scott Williams, Kim Huybrechts,

William O'Connor, Karel Sedlacek, Stephen Burton, Thibault Tricole, Connor Scutt, Mensur Suljovic, Ian White, Jeffrey de Graaf,

Jim Williams, Florian Hempel, Ryan Meikle, Chris Landman, Nick Kenny, James Hurrell, Mickey Mansell, Ricky Evans

Rest of the world

African Darts Group Qualifier - Cameron Carolissen

CDC Main Tour Top American - Leonard Gates

CDC Main Tour Top Canadian - Jim Long

CDC Top-Ranked Non-Qualified Player - Stowe Buntz

CLDC Tour OOM Winner - Rashad Sweeting

DPA Oceanic Masters Winner - Gordon Mathers

DPA ProTour Champion - Joe Comito

DPNZ Qualifier Winner - Ben Robb

East Europe Qualifier - Romeo Grbavac

Indian Qualifier - Nitin Kumar

PDC Asian Championship Qualifier - Lee Lok Yin

PDC Asian Championship Runner-Up - Sandro Eric Sosing

Rest of the world ...continued

PDC Asian Tour OOM - Alexis Toylo, Lourence Ilagan, Paolo Nebrida, Ryusei Azemoto

PDC China Championship Winner - Zong Xiaochen

PDC Europe Superleague Champion - Kai Gotthardt

PDCNB ProTour OOM - Jeffrey de Graaf, Darius Labanauska

Steel Darts Japan Tour Winner - Tomoya Goto

Tour Card Holder Qualifier - Matt Campbell, Rhys Griffin, Dylan Slevin, Jeffrey de Zwaan

West Europe Qualifier - Stefan Bellmont

Winmau Challenge Tour OOM - Christian Kist, Alexander Merkx

Winmau Development Tour OOM - Niko Springer, Keans Barry

Women's Series Qualifier - Noa-Lynn Leuven, Fallon Sherrock

Women's World Matchplay Champion - Beau Greaves *

* Beau Greaves chose to participate in the WDF World Championships

Sandro Eric Sosing withdrew due to medical reason

WDC Roll of Honour

Rounds 1 & 2:

Sun15 Dec 7pm GMT 1-4

16 Dec 12:30 5-8 7pm 9-12

17 Dec 12:30 13-16 7pm 17-20

Wed 18 Dec 7pm 21-24

19 Dec 12:30 25-28 7pm 29-32

20 Dec 12:30 33-36 7pm 37-40

21 Dec 12:30 41-44 7pm 45-48

22 Dec 12:30 49-52 7pm 53-56

23 Dec 12:30 57-60 7pm 61-64

Round 1 <----- Best of 5 sets -----> Round 2

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29

2

5

7

22

10

6

19

35

15

30

31

18

11

27

14

42

33

41

37

38

3

34

13

25

17

21

23

9

39

26

Thibault Tricole

Nick Kenny

Jermaine Wattimena

Wesley Plaisier

Alan Soutar

Madars Razma

Connor Scutt

Luke Woodhouse

Ryan Meikle

Ian White

Ryan Joyce

Mensur Suljovic

Scott Williams

Ricardo Pietreczko

Cameron Menzies

Martin Lukeman

Kevin Doets

Richard Veenstra

Stephen Burton

Karel Sedlacek

Mickey Mansell

Florian Hempel

Kim Huybrechts

Wessel Nijman

James Hurrell

Chris Landman

Jeffrey de Graaf

Jim Williams

Ricky Evans

Niels Zonneveld

William O'Connor

Callan Rydz

3-0

3-1

3-2

1-3

3-1

3-0

3-2

bye

3-1

2-3

3-1

3-0

1-3

3-1

0-3

3-1

1-3

3-2

3-0

1-3

3-1

2-3

3-2

1-3

3-0

Joe Comito

Stowe Buntz

Stefan Bellmont

Ryusei Azemoto

Kai Gotthardt

Christian Kist

Ben Robb

Lourence Ilagan

Fallon Sherrock

Sandro Eric Sosing *

Darius Labanauskas

Matt Campbell

Niko Springer

Zong Xiaochen

Leonard Gates

Nitin Kumar

Noa-Lynn van Leuven

Alexis Toylo

Alexander Merkx

Rhys Griffin

Tomoya Goto

Jeffrey de Zwaan

Keane Barry

Cameron Carolissen

Jim Long

Lee Lok Yin

Rashad Sweeting

Paolo Nebrida

Gordon Mathers

Robert Owen

Dylan Slevin

Romeo Grbavac

Luke Humphries (1)

Raymond van Barneveld (32)

James Wade(16)

Peter Wright (17)

Stephen Bunting (8)

Dirk van Duijvenbode (25)

Damon Heta (9)

Mike de Decker (24)

Luke Littler (4)

Ritchie Edhouse (29)

Danny Noppert (13)

Ryan Searle (20)

Rob Cross (5)

Gian van Veen (28)

Nathan Aspinall (12)

Andrew Gilding (21)

Michael Smith (2)

Krzysztof Ratajski (31)

Chris Dobey (15)

Josh Rock (18)

Jonny Clayton (7)

Daryl Gurney (26)

Gerwyn Price (10)

Joe Cullen (23)

Michael van Gerwen (3)

Brendan Dolan (30)

Gary Anderson (14)

Ross Smith (19)

Dave Chisnall (6)

Gabriel Clemens (27)

Dimitri van den Bergh (11)

Martin Schindler (22)

3-0

1-3

0-3

3-1

1-3

3-1

1-3

3-1

1-3

3-0

1-3

3-1

2-3

3-1

3-0

3-2

3-0

0-3

2-3

1-3

3-0

0-3

Thibault Tricole

Nick Kenny

Jermaine Wattimena

Wesley Plaisier

Kai Gotthardt

Madars Razma

Connor Scutt

Luke Woodhouse

Ryan Meikle

Ian White

Ryan Joyce

Matt Campbell

Scott Williams

Ricardo Pietreczko

Leonard Gates

Martin Lukeman

Kevin Doets

Alexis Toylo

Alexander Merkx

Rhys Griffin

Mickey Mansell

Florian Hempel

Keane Barry

Wessel Nijman

James Hurrell

Lee Lok Yin

Jeffrey de Graaf

Paolo Nebrida

Ricky Evans

Robert Owen

Dylan Slevin

Callan Rydz

4

46

8

20

36

50

48

16

47

52

45

49

64

61

24

58

32

57

44

59

60

62

12

51

40

43

55

54

63

28

56

53

9-darter: Christian Kist

Round 3 Best of 7 sets

Fri 27 Dec

12:30 1-3 7pm 4-6

28 Dec

12:30 7-9 7pm 10-12

29 Dec

12:30 13-15 7pm 16 + R4

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5

3

1

12

7

8

9

Luke Humphries (1)

Jermaine Wattimena

Stephen Bunting (8)

Damon Heta (9)

Luke Littler (4)

Ryan Joyce

Scott Williams

Nathan Aspinall (12)

4-0

2-4

4-1

3-4

4-1

4-3

1-4

4-0

Nick Kenny

Peter Wright (17)

Madars Razma

Luke Woodhouse

Ian White

Ryan Searle (20)

Ricardo Pietreczko

Andrew Gilding (21)

Kevin Doets

Chris Dobey (15)

Jonny Clayton (7)

Gerwyn Price (10)

Michael van Gerwen (3)

Jeffrey de Graaf

Ricky Evans

Dimitri van den Bergh (11)

4-3

4-2

4-3

4-2

4-1

2-4

0-4

Krzysztof Ratajski (31)

Josh Rock (18)

Daryl Gurney (26)

Joe Cullen (23)

Brendan Dolan (30)

Paolo Nebrida

Robert Owen

Callan Rydz

14

10

2

4

11

13

16

15

9-darter: Damon Heta

Round 4 Sun 29 7pm 1-2 30 Dec 12.30pm 3-5 7.30pm 6-8 Best of 7 sets

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6

8

5

Luke Humphries (1)

Stephen Bunting (8)

Luke Littler (4)

Ricardo Pietreczko

1-4

4-0

4-3

0-4

Peter Wright (17)

Luke Woodhouse

Ryan Joyce

Nathan Aspinall (12)

Kevin Doets

Jonny Clayton (7)

Michael van Gerwen (3)

Robert Owen

3-4

2-4

4-2

3-4

Chris Dobey (15)

Gerwyn Price (10)

Jeffrey de Graaf

Callan Rydz

3

1

7

4

7pm <--- Q-Final Wed 1 Jan 2025 Best of 9 sets ---> 12.30pm

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Peter Wright (17)

Luke Littler (4)

2-5

5-2

Stephen Bunting (8)

Nathan Aspinall (12)

Chris Dobey (15)

Michael van Gerwen (3)

5-3

Gerwyn Price (10)

Callan Rydz

S-Final 2 Jan 7.30pm Best of 11 sets <--> Final 3 Jan 8pm Best of 13 sets

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Stephen Bunting (8)

Chris Dobey (15)

1-6

Luke Littler (4)

Michael van Gerwen (3)

Luke Littler

7-3

Michael van Gerwen

2

1