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2024/25 Paddy Power World Darts Championship
2024/25 Paddy Power World Darts Championship
Tournament information
Dates	15 December 2024 – 3 January 2025
Venue	Alexandra Palace
Location	London, England
Organisation(s)	Professional Darts Corporation (PDC)
Format	Sets; Final – first to 7 sets
«2024	2026»

Format

Prize money

The total prize pool for the tournament remained at £2.5 million in total for the seventh year in a row.

Position (no. of players)		Prize money (Total: £2,500,000)
Winner	(1)	£500,000
Runner-up	(1)	£200,000
Semi-finalists	(2)	£100,000
Quarter-finalists	(4)	£50,000
Fourth round losers	(8)	£35,000
Third round losers	(16)	£25,000
Second round losers	(32)	£15,000
First round losers	(32)	£7,500

Qualification

Seeding

The previous year's winner and 2024 World Matchplay champion Luke Humphries was top of the two-year PDC Order of Merit and number one seed going into the tournament. The 2023 world champion Michael Smith was the second seed. Michael van Gerwen, the three-time World Champion from 2014, 2017 and 2019, was the third seed., who was also champion in 2020 was the 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 was the 7th seed, 2020 world champion 2022 world champion Peter Wright was the 13th seed, 2015 and 2016 world champion Gary Anderson was seeded 19th, and 2007 world champion Raymond van Barneveld was seeded 31st. 2014 BDO World Champion Stephen Bunting qualified as 9th seed. He was one of two former BDO champions to qualify as seeds, alongside four-time BDO champion van Barneveld.^[1]

The top seeds behind Humphries, Smith, van Gerwen and Cross were Dave Chisnall, Jonny Clayton, Gerwyn Price, Damon Heta, 2024 Masters champion Stephen Bunting and 2024 UK Open champion Dimitri Van den Bergh. Other 2024 major event champions to qualify as seeds were 2024 Premier League Darts and 2024 World Series of Darts Finals champion Luke Littler as 14th seed, with Mike De Decker seeded ten places below him at 24th.^[1]

Pro Tour qualification

Wessel Nijman was the highest-ranked non-seed on the 2024 PDC Pro Tour Order of Merit. Ritchie Edhouse, and 2024 ProTour event winners Wesley Plaisier and Alan Soutar were also amongst the qualifiers.

Other players qualifying via the Pro Tour included Cameron Menzies, Jermaine Wattimena, Luke Woodhouse, Ricardo Pietreczko, Callan Rydz, Madars Razma and 2024 semi-finalist Scott Williams.

International qualifiers

The final group of 32 qualifiers were determined by a series of international qualifiers and secondary tours. The PDC Asian Tour provided qualifiers for both the World Championship and the Asian Championship; a place via the Asian Championship was reserved for a Japanese player.

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. As with the previous edition no player was eligible to compete in the 2025 PDC World Championship had they played at the 2024 WDF World Darts Championship which concluded a week earlier. Beau Greaves, the winner of the 2024 Women's World Matchplay, chose not to compete in the PDC Championship for which she had qualified, instead opting for the WDF. The final places were awarded by a qualifier for non-qualified PDC Tour Card holders.

List of qualifiers

Order of Merit
Second round (seeded)

01.

Luke Humphries

02.

Michael Smith

03.

Michael van Gerwen

04.

Rob Cross

05.

Dave Chisnall

06.

Jonny Clayton

07.

Gerwyn Price

08.

Damon Heta

09.

Stephen Bunting

10.

Dimitri Van den Bergh

11.

Nathan Aspinall

12.

Chris Dobey

13.

Peter Wright

14.

Luke Littler

15.

James Wade

16.

Josh Rock

17.

Ryan Searle

18.

Danny Noppert

19.

Gary Anderson

20.

Andrew Gilding

21.

Joe Cullen

22.

Ross Smith

23.

24.

25.

26.

27.

28.

29.

30.

31.

Raymond van Barneveld

32.

Ryan Joyce

Pro Tour Order of Merit
First round

International Qualifiers
First round

Ryusei Azemoto – PDC Asian Tour
Keane Barry – PDC Development Tour
Stowe Buntz – CDC Pro Tour
Cameron Carolissen - African Qualifier
Joe Comito – DPA Pro Tour
Leonard Gates – CDC Pro Tour
Tomoya Goto – PDJ Japan Tour
Jeffrey de Graaf – PDC Nordic & Baltic
~~Beau Greaves – Women's World Matchplay^[a]~~ (withdrew)
Lourence Ilagan – PDC Asian Tour
Danny Jansen – PDC Challenge Tour
Christian Kist - PDC Challenge Tour
Darius Labanauskas - PDC Nordic & Baltic
Jim Long – CDC Pro Tour
Paolo Nebrida – PDC Asian Tour
Ben Robb – DPNZ Qualifier
Fallon Sherrock – PDC Women's Series
Alexis Toylo – PDC Asian Tour
Noa-Lynn van Leuven – PDC Women's Series
– PDC TCH Qualifier
– PDC Europe Super League
– East Europe Qualifier
– PDC TCH Qualifier
– CLDC Pro Tour
– PDC Asian Championship
– Indian Qualifier
– Oceanic Masters
– PDC TCH Qualifier
– PDC Asian Championship
– West Europe Qualifier
– PDC World Youth Champion
Zong Xiao Chen – PDC China Championship

^ Greaves chose to play the 2024 WDF World Darts Championship following a ruling by the PDC which did not allow players to compete in both World Championships in the same year.

Highest Ranked Players absent: