World Darts Championship 2025 schedule, draw, prize money, TV channel and odds
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The World Darts Championship gets underway on Sunday at Alexandra Palace, with the best players on the planet battling it out for the sport’s biggest prize. The annual festive tungsten extravaganza was as popular as ever a year ago as Luke Littler stormed into the final on debut at just 16 years old.
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Luke Humphries beat him in that showpiece in north London and won the World Championship for the first time at the climax of a brilliant event. Those two players are heavily fancied to do well again, but in the same half of the draw they cannot meet in the final this time round.
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That gives plenty of other players a great chance to make the final in the bottom half of the draw, but it is not as though they are plucky underdogs, with former champions Michael van Gerwen, Gary Anderson and Michael Smith all lurking on the opposite side of the draw to the Lukes.
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As ever Sky Sports will be showing all the action from Alexandra Palace from 15 December until the final on 3 January. Sunday 15 December. 7pm. Thibault Tricole v Joe Comito (R1). Jermaine Wattimena v Stefan Bellmont (R1). Kim Huybrechts v Keane Barry (R1). Luke Humphries v Tricole/Comito (R2).
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Monday 16 December. 12.30pm. Wesley Plaisier v Ryusei Azemoto (R1). Luke Woodhouse v Lourence Ilagan (R1). Alan Soutar v Kai Gotthardt (R1). James Wade v Wattimena/Bellmont (R2). Niels Zonneveld v Robert Owen (R1). Connor Scutt v Ben Robb (R1). Cameron Menzies v Leonard Gates (R1).
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