Draw released for Players Championship 26 including Wright, Price, Humphries and Smith

The draw has been released ahead of Players Championship 26 which is due to take place later today from Barnsley with Dave Chisnall sealing the opening tournament of the weekend.

Luke Humphries is top seed this weekend and again he will play Devon Petersen to start off proceedings. While other top ties include Simon Whitlock - Raymond van Barneveld, Rob Cross - Vincent van der Voort and Joe Cullen - Cameron Menzies.

Other top names involved this weekend include Peter Wright, Gerwyn Price, Michael Smith and Jonny Clayton with only Michael van Gerwen missing.

Luke Humphries - | - Devon Petersen

Gary Anderson - | - Max Hopp

Scott Williams - | - Rusty Rodriguez

Ian White - | - Jules van Dongen

Krzysztof Ratajski - | - Damian Mol

Glen Durrant - | - Andy Boulton

Andrew Gilding - | - Scott Waites

Steve Lennon - | - Bradley Brooks

Dirk van Duijvenbode - | - Scott Marsh

Luke Woodhouse - | - Brett Claydon

Kim Huybrechts - | - Gian van Veen

Steve Beaton - | - Martijn Kleermaker

Danny Noppert - | - Jason Heaver

Steve West - | - Mickey Mansell

Madars Razma - | - Karel Sedlacek

Jeffrey De Zwaan - | - Jack Main

Rob Cross - | - Vincent van der Voort

Danny van Trijp - | - Maik Kuivenhoven

Ross Smith - | - Kevin Doets

Simon Whitlock - | - Raymond van Barneveld

Jose de Sousa - | - Ricardo Pietreczko

Florian Hempel - | - Mike De Decker

Gabriel Clemens - | - Alan Soutar

Jim McEwan - | - Tony Martinez

Peter Wright - | - Jeff Smith

Jimmy Hendriks - | - Ritchie Edhouse

Brendan Dolan - | - John O'Shea

Darius Labanauskas - | - Jamie Hughes

Jonny Clayton - | - Ryan Meikle

Ross Montgomery - | - Jermaine Wattimena

Stephen Bunting - | - Darren Webster

Ron Meulenkamp - | - Boris Krcmar

Damon Heta - | - Niels Zonneveld

Ricky Evans - | - Kevin Burness

James Wade - | - Keegan Brown

Peter Hudson - | - Connor Scutt

Martin Schindler - | - Mensur Suljovic

Ted Evetts - | - John Michael

Chris Dobey - | - Keane Barry

Wesley Plaisier - | - George Killington

Dave Chisnall - | - Geert De Vos

Jose Justicia - | - William O'Connor

Adrian Lewis - | - Adam Gawlas

Matt Campbell - | - Danny Jansen

Ryan Searle - | - Richie Burnett

Geert Nentjes - | - Jurjen van der Velde

Josh Rock - | - Kenny Neyens

Joe Murnan - | - Mario Vandenbogaerde

Michael Smith - | - Mervyn King

Nick Fullwell - | - Stephen Burton

Callan Rydz - | - John Henderson

Nathan Rafferty - | - David Evans

Dimitri Van den Bergh - | - Radek Szaganski

Brian Raman - | - Jamie Clark

Daryl Gurney - | - Berry van Peer

Luc Peters - | - Scott Mitchell

Joe Cullen - | - Cameron Menzies

Jason Lowe - | - Ryan Joyce

Rowby Rodriguez - | - Shaun Wilkinson

Jake Jones - | - Danny Baggish

Gerwyn Price - | - Christian Kist

Jim Williams - | - William Borland

Martin Lukeman - | - Adam Hunt

Eddie Lovely - | - James Wilson