TOURNAMENT CENTER: All information about the 2019 PDC World Darts Championship in an overview

The 26th staging of the PDC World Darts Championship will be held from December 13 to January 1 at the Alexandra Palace in London.

Dartsnews has made an overview with all the information about the 2019 PDC World Darts Championship to follow the tournament optimally.

Draw & schedule

The first of 16 days of action at the Alexandra Palace in London will start on Thursday December 13, with the first two rounds are played during the first eight days of the PDC World Darts Championship.
The third round is split either side of the Christmas break, with the fourth round being played on December 27-28 ahead of the quarter-finals across two sessions on December 29. The semi-finals on Sunday December 30 will be followed on Tuesday January 1 with the 2019 PDC World Darts Championship final. Click here to find the draw and the full schedule for this tournament.

TV Coverage

The PDC World Darts Championship will be broadcast in full on the dedicated Sky Sports Darts channel, which will be on air from December 13 to January 1.
Sky Sports Darts will be the place to keep track of the tournament from Thursday, December 13 when coverage gets underway.

Prize Fund Breakdown

Format

First Round - Best of five sets (no tie-break)
Second Round - Best of five sets
Third Round - Best of seven sets
Fourth Round - Best of seven sets
Quarter-Finals - Best of nine sets
Semi-Finals - Best of 11 sets
Final - Best of 13 sets
A tie-break will be in operation in all round from the second round onwards, where the final set must be won by two clear legs. If the score reaches five-all, the 11th leg will be a sudden-death leg.

Draw Bracket
Seeded Players Enter In Second Round

(1) Michael van Gerwen v Alan Tabern/Raymond Smith (32) Max Hopp v Danny Noppert/Royden Lam (16) Adrian Lewis v Simon Stevenson/Ted Evetts (17) Raymond van Barneveld v Matthew Edgar/Darius Labanauskas (8) Simon Whitlock v Ryan Joyce/Anastasia Dobromyslova (25) Alan Norris v Steve Lennon/James Bailey (9) James Wade v Krzysztof Ratajski/Seigo Asada (24) Jelle Klaasen v Keegan Brown/Karel Sedlacek (5) Daryl Gurney v Ross Smith/Paul Lim (28) Jamie Lewis v Martin Schindler/Cody Harris (12) Dave Chisnall v Josh Payne/Jeff Smith (21) Kim Huybrechts v Robert Thornton/Daniel Larsson (4) Gary Anderson v Paul Nicholson/Kevin Burness (29) Jermaine Wattimena v Michael Barnard/Jose De Sousa (13) Darren Webster v Vincent van der Voort/Lourence Ilagan (20) Steve Beaton v Chris Dobey/Boris Koltsov (2) Rob Cross v Jeffrey de Zwaan/Nitin Kumar (31) Cristo Reyes v Ricky Evans/Rowby-John Rodriguez (15) Jonny Clayton v Dimitri Van den Bergh/Chuck Puleo (18) Stephen Bunting v Luke Humphries/Adam Hunt (7) Mensur Suljovic v Ryan Searle/Stephen Burton (26) James Wilson v William O'Connor/Yordi Meeuwisse (10) Michael Smith v Ron Meulenkamp/Diogo Portela (23) John Henderson v Gabriel Clemens/Aden Kirk (6) Gerwyn Price v Nathan Aspinall/Geert Nentjes (27) Kyle Anderson v Jeffrey de Graaf/Noel Malicdem (11) Ian White v Wayne Jones/Devon Petersen (22) Steve West v Richard North/Robert Marijanovic (3) Peter Wright v Toni Alcinas/Craig Ross (30) Benito van de Pas v Mickey Mansell/Jim Long (14) Joe Cullen v Brendan Dolan/Yuanjun Liu (19) Mervyn King v Jan Dekker/Lisa Ashton