The road-up is sort of full for the 2024/25 Paddy Energy World Darts Championship on the Alexandra Palace, with protection of the draw for this 12 months’s contest stay on Sky Sports activities.
Luke Humphries will return as defending champion after final 12 months’s victory over teenage sensation Luke Littler, whereas former world champions Michael van Gerwen and Gary Anderson are among the many others seeking to impress.
Mike de Decker and Ritchie Edhouse have each loved TV victories in latest weeks and might be a part of the largest occasion within the darting calendar, the place 96 gamers will battle it out for the Sid Waddell Trophy and a complete £2.5million prize fund.
The highest 32 gamers on the PDC Order of Benefit will go straight via to the second spherical, with these names confirmed following the conclusion of the 2024 Ladbrokes Gamers Championship Finals on Sunday.
The primary spherical sees 32 ProTour Order of Benefit Qualifiers, who earned their spots via European Tour and Gamers Championship occasions on the PDC circuit throughout 2024, taking part in one of many Worldwide Qualifiers.
How can I watch the draw?
The draw might be made on Monday November 25 at 4.30pm from the launch occasion in London and might be proven stay on Sky Sports activities Information.
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When will the World Darts Championship happen?
The match will get beneath manner on the Alexandra Palace on Sunday December 15, with three first-round matches and one second-round match on the opening night.
There might be stay darts over every of the next eight days, together with seven afternoon classes, with the same old three-day break from Christmas Eve to Boxing Day earlier than returning with the third spherical and a double session on December 27.
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The third and fourth rounds might be accomplished by December 30 earlier than an evening off on New Yr’s Eve, with the quarter-finals held throughout two classes on New Yr’s Day forward of the semi-finals on January 2 and the ultimate on Friday January 3.
The complete day-by-day schedule for this 12 months’s match could be discovered right here.
Who’re the Worldwide Qualifiers?
Not less than 5 additional Worldwide Qualifiers might be confirmed earlier than Monday’s draw, with one spot from the East Europe Qualifier happening in Slovakia on Sunday and one other coming from the Winmau World Youth Championship ultimate between Gian van Veen and Van der Velde.
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Gian Van Veen got here agonisingly near a nine-darter towards Stephen Bunting throughout their conflict on the Grand Slam of Darts in Wolverhampton
The PDPA Tour Card Holder Qualifier will then be held in Wigan on Monday November 25, the place a minimal of three qualification locations might be up for grabs.
PDC China Championship Winner – Xiaochen Zong
PDCNB ProTour Winner – Jeffrey de Graaf,
PDCNB ProTour Runner-Up – Darius Labanauskas
Metal Darts Japan Tour Winner – Tomoya Goto
DPA ProTour Champion – Joe Comito
CDC Essential Tour Prime American – Leonard Gates
CDC Essential Tour Prime Canadian – Jim Lengthy
CDC Prime-Ranked Non-Certified Participant – Stowe Buntz
African Darts Group Qualifier – Cameron Carolissen
PDC Asian Tour OOM 1 – Alexis Toylo
PDC Asian Tour OOM 2 – Lourence Ilagan
PDC Asian Tour OOM 3 – Paolo Nebrida
PDC Asian Tour OOM 4 – Ryusei Azemoto
DPNZ Qualifier Winner – Ben Robb
CLDC Tour OOM Winner – Rashad Sweeting
Winmau Growth Tour Qualifier 1 – Niko Springer
Winmau Growth Tour Qualifier 2 – Keane Barry
PDC Asian Championship Runner-Up Sandro Eric Sosing
PDC Asian Championship Qualifier – Lok Yin Lee
DPA Oceanic Masters Winner – Gordon Mathers
Girls’s Sequence Qualifier 1 – Noa-Lynn van Leuven
Girls’s Sequence Qualifier 2 – Fallon Sherrock
Indian Qualifier – Nitin Kumar
Winmau Problem Tour Qualifier 1 – Christian Kist
Winmau Problem Tour Qualifier 2 – Alexander Merkx
PDC Europe Tremendous League Champion – Kai Gotthardt
West Europe Qualifier – Stefan Bellmont
World Youth Champion – November 24
East Europe Qualifier – November 24
Tour Card Holder Qualifier 1 – November 24
Tour Card Holder Qualifier 2 – November 25
Tour Card Holder Qualifier 3 – November 25
Who will win the Paddy Energy World Darts Championship? Watch each match completely stay from December 15-January 3 on Sky Sports activities’ devoted darts channel. Stream darts and extra high sport with NOW.
