- Source: 2025 PDC World Darts Championship
The 2025 PDC World Darts Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the 2024/25 Paddy Power World Darts Championship) is a professional darts event that will take place at Alexandra Palace in London, England, from 15 December 2024 to 3 January 2025. It will be the 32nd World Darts Championship to be organised by the Professional Darts Corporation.
Luke Humphries is the defending champion, having defeated Luke Littler 7–4 in the 2024 final.
Overview
The 2025 PDC World Darts Championship is the 32nd World Darts Championship organised by the Professional Darts Corporation, and the 18th to be held at Alexandra Palace, London. It will take place from 15 December 2024 to 3 January 2025 as the culminating event of the 2024 Professional Darts Corporation season. The championship will feature 96 players, with the top 32 highest ranked players on the PDC Order of Merit seeded through to the second round. The 32 qualifiers from the ProTour Order of Merit and the 32 other players from various qualifiers start in the first round.
Bookmaker Paddy Power will continue their sponsorship of the event, having agreed a three-year contract with the PDC ahead of the 2024 edition.
Entering the event, the previous years' finalists are at the head of the betting market to lift the trophy, with the defending champion Luke Humphries just about favourite after a year which has seen him win the 2024 World Matchplay, and reach the final of the 2024 UK Open, the 2024 World Grand Prix and the 2024 Premier League Darts.
= Format
=All matches will be played as straight in, double out, requiring the players to score 501 points to win a leg, finishing on a double. The matches were played in the set format, with a minimum of three sets required to win a match. The following rules were observed:
All sets will be played to the best of five legs in the first round, and also in non-deciding sets of subsequent rounds.
In the deciding set of all but the first round, the first player to win at least three legs and be leading by two or more wins the set and the match. If the set reaches a 5–5 tie without a winner, it will be decided by a sudden-death leg with no throw for the bull.
= Ranking
=The rankings on the PDC Order of Merit are calculated on a two-year basis. Players who participated in the 2023 PDC World Darts Championship are defending their prize money from that event on their ranking. At the end of the tournament, the PDC Order of Merit prize money from that event will be deleted from their ranking. After the tournament, the top 64 in the PDC Order of Merit will receive a one-year extension on their tour card. Players in the final year of their tour card, or that do not hold a tour card for the 2024 season, who finish the tournament outside the top 64 lose their tour card, unless players inside the top 64 resign their tour card, which Steve Beaton is expected to do.
= Prize money
=The total prize pool for the tournament is expected to remain at £2.5 million in total for the seventh year in a row.
Qualification
= Seeding and Pro Tour qualification
=The top 32 of the Order of Merit will qualify, and will be seeded. They will be joined by the top 32 not yet qualified players of the Pro Tour Order of Merit. The Main Order of Merit and ProTour Order of Merit qualifiers are correct as of the 2024 Grand Slam of Darts. The cut-off date is 25 November 2024.
= Seeds
=The previous year's winner and 2024 World Matchplay champion Luke Humphries is top of the two-year PDC Order of Merit and number one seed going into the tournament. The 2023 world champion Michael Smith is the second seed. Michael van Gerwen, the three-time world champion from 2014, 2017 and 2019, is the third seed. Rob Cross, who was champion in 2018 is the provisional fourth seed. As well as Humphries, Smith, van Gerwen and Cross, four other previous PDC world champions qualified as seeds: 2021 world champion Gerwyn Price is the provisional 10th seed, 2015 and 2016 world champion Gary Anderson is provisionally seeded 13th, 2020 and 2022 world champion Peter Wright is the provisional 17th seed, and 2007 world champion Raymond van Barneveld is provisionally seeded 32nd. 2014 BDO World Champion Stephen Bunting is provisionally qualified as 8th seed. He was one of two former BDO champions to qualify as seeds, alongside four-time BDO champion van Barneveld.
The provisional top seeds behind Humphries, Smith, van Gerwen and Cross are 2024 Premier League Darts, 2024 Grand Slam and 2024 World Series of Darts Finals champion Luke Littler, Dave Chisnall, Jonny Clayton, 2024 Masters champion Stephen Bunting, Damon Heta, Gerwyn Price and 2024 UK Open champion Dimitri Van den Bergh. Other 2024 major event champions to qualify as seeds are 2024 World Grand Prix champion Mike De Decker as provisional 24th seed and 2024 European Championship winner Ritchie Edhouse as provisional 29th seed. Edhouse had previously led the non–seeded Pro Tour Order of Merit qualifiers prior to his major win.
= Pro Tour qualification
=Cameron Menzies is provisionally the highest-ranked non-seed on the 2024 PDC Pro Tour Order of Merit. 2024 ProTour event winners Wessel Nijman, Wesley Plaisier and Alan Soutar are also amongst the qualifiers.
Other players qualifying via the Pro Tour include Jermaine Wattimena, Ricardo Pietreczko, Luke Woodhouse, Ryan Joyce, Niels Zonneveld, Madars Razma, Callan Rydz, Martin Lukeman, 2024 semi-finalist Scott Williams, Kim Huybrechts and Mickey Mansell as well as Connor Scutt, the Challenge Tour Order of Merit winner. Scutt and Plaisier also qualified for the 2024 WDF World Championship but withdrew in order to play at the Alexandra Palace.
= International qualifiers
=Niko Springer and Keane Barry qualified via the PDC Development Tour. Fallon Sherrock, the only woman to have previously won a match at the PDC World Darts Championship, and Noa-Lynn van Leuven qualified via the PDC Women's Series, with Van Leuven set to be the first transgender competitor in PDC history. As with the previous edition, no player will be eligible to compete in the 2025 PDC World Championship had they played at the 2024 WDF World Darts Championship which will conclude a week earlier. Beau Greaves, the winner of the 2024 Women's World Matchplay, has qualified but has indicated her intention to opt for the WDF. The final places will be awarded by a qualifier for non-qualified PDC Tour Card holders. Rashad Sweeting will become the first player from the Bahamas to play at the PDC World Championship after sealing his qualification through the Championship Darts Latin America and Caribbean Order of Merit, while Stefan Bellmont will become the first Swiss player to play at the PDC World Championship.
= List of qualifiers
=Schedule
Draw
The draw will take place on 25 November 2024, live on Sky Sports News, and will be conducted by Sky Sports presenter, Emma Paton, and former darts player Wayne Mardle.
= Top half
=Section 1
Section 2
= Bottom half
=Section 3
Section 4
References
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- 2025 PDC World Darts Championship
- PDC World Darts Championship
- 2024 PDC World Darts Championship
- 2024 PDC Pro Tour
- Noa-Lynn van Leuven
- Professional Darts Corporation
- 2024 WDF World Darts Championship
- Fallon Sherrock
- 2024 PDC Women's Series
- Grand Slam of Darts
