World Darts Championship prize money: How much Luke Littler or Michael van Gerwen can win in PDC final
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Teenage phenomenon Luke Littler will take home the biggest prize of his career to date if he beats Michael van Gerwen in the 2025 PDC World Darts Championship final. The superstars will collide at Alexandra Palace tonight (Friday evening) for the right to be crowned best in show at this year's tournament. Except there's a lot more than mere bragging rights at stake for Littler and Van Gerwen, who decimated semi-final foes Stephen Bunting and Chris Dobey respectively to reach the last stage of the competition.
Darts prodigy Littler, 17, rampaged to the final in a stunning debut at the World Championship this time 12 months ago before losing out to Luke Humphries. But he's on the verge of going one better to collect a gargantuan six-figure sum. That's because the victor will be awarded the Sid Waddell trophy and an eye-watering £500,000 grand prize. Triumph would see Van Gerwen equal the largest pay day of his career given he tied up the most recent of his three world titles in 2019, the first year in which the PDC boosted the first-place prize to £500,000.
**LOVE THE DARTS?** Get your ultimate World Darts Championship preview now. The figure has remained the same since then, not that either finalist would turn their nose up at the sum. Littler's oche earnings tipped over the £1million mark during his debut season on the Pro Tour, and a record-breaking win at Ally Pally would represent the dream start to 2025.
And it's Van Gerwen's record he'd be smashing if he did win considering the Dutchman became the youngest PDC world champion to date when he scooped the 2014 title at age 24. That would make Littler an astonishing seven years younger than his nearest rival, a record that might never be broken if he were to win.
