Draw confirmed for 2025 World Darts Championship: Potential showdown between Littler & Sherrock as Humphries starts defence against Tricole or Comito

The draw has been confirmed for the 2025 World Darts Championship at the iconic Alexandra Palace, with some very interesting ties pulled out of the hat. Including a potential showdown between Luke Littler and Fallon Sherrock.

The reigning and defending champion of the world is of course, Luke Humphries. Fresh off the back of another major success at the recent Players Championship Finals, 'Cool Hand Luke' is also heading into the event full of confidence. In the opening to his defence of the Sid Waddell Trophy, Humphries will have to contest against either Thibaut Tricole or Joe Comito.

Another man to watch will be Luke Littler. The 17-year-old burst onto the scene at the Ally Pally twelve months ago an this time around, could be set to face another player with a history making past at the Palace in the form of Fallon Sherrock. For that to happen, the first woman to ever take a win at the PDC World Darts Championship has to see off Ryan Meikle.

Elsewhere, notable names such as Michael Smith faces either Kevin Doets or Noa-Lynn van Leuven, Gerwyn Price has either Kim Huybrechts or Keane Barry, Michael van Gerwen begins his quest against either Jim Long or James Hurrell, Gary Anderson will have either Jeffrey de Graaf or Rashad Sweeting.

The upcoming edition of the PDC World Darts Championship gets under way at the Alexandra Palace on Sunday the 15th of December, with three first-round matches and one second-round match on the opening evening, with the schedule of play still yet to confirmed.

See the complete draw in full, down below!

[1] Luke Humphries v Thibault Tricole/Joe Comito

[32] Raymond van Barneveld v Nick Kenny/Stowe Buntz

[16] James Wade v Jermaine Wattimena/Stefan Bellmont

[17] Peter Wright v Wesley Plaisier/Ryusei Azemoto

[8] Stephen Bunting v Alan Soutar/Kai Gotthardt

[25] Dirk van Duijvenbode v Madars Razma/Christian Kist

[9] Damon Heta v Connor Scutt/Ben Robb

[24] Mike De Decker v Luke Woodhouse/Lourence Ilagan

[4] Luke Littler v Ryan Meikle/Fallon Sherrock

[29] Ritchie Edhouse v Ian White/Sandro Eric Sosing

[13] Danny Noppert v Ryan Joyce/Darius Labanauskas

[20] Ryan Searle v Mensur Suljovic/Matt Campbell

[5] Rob Cross v Scott Williams/Niko Springer

[28] Gian van Veen v Ricardo Pietreczko/Xiaochen Zong

[12] Nathan Aspinall v Cameron Menzies/Leonard Gates

[21] Andrew Gilding v Martin Lukeman/Nitin Kumar

[2] Michael Smith v Kevin Doets/Noa-Lynn van Leuven

[31] Krzysztof Ratajski v Richard Veenstra/Alexis Toylo

[15] Chris Dobey v Stephen Burton/Alexander Merkx

[18] Josh Rock v Karel Sedlacek/Rhys Griffin

[7] Jonny Clayton v Mickey Mansell/Tomoya Goto

[26] Daryl Gurney v Florian Hempel/Jeffrey de Zwaan

[10] Gerwyn Price v Kim Huybrechts/Keane Barry

[23] Joe Cullen v Wessel Nijman/Cameron Carolissen

[3] Michael van Gerwen v James Hurrell/Jim Long

[30] Brendan Dolan v Chris Landman/Lok Yin Lee

[14] Gary Anderson v Jeffrey de Graaf/Rashad Sweeting

[19] Ross Smith v Jim Williams/Paolo Nebrida

[6] Dave Chisnall v Ricky Evans/Gordon Mathers

[27] Gabriel Clemens v Niels Zonneveld/Robert Owen

[11] Dimitri Van den Bergh v William O'Connor/Dylan Slevin

[22] Martin Schindler v Callan Rydz/Romeo Grbavac