The full field has been confirmed ahead of Monday evening's draw for the 2022/23 PDC
World Darts Championship which will take place between December 15 - January 3 at the Alexandra Palace which will be headlined by defending champion,
Peter Wright.
Alongside Wright will be World Number One,
Gerwyn Price and
Michael van Gerwen, a three-time World Champion and a player who has sealed the most major titles on the tour this season and will start favourite to end a barren spell of World titles.
The top five is rounded out by
Michael Smith, recent Grand Slam champion and Luke Humphries who has reached multiple Quarter-Finals in this tournament but now is at his darting best. Two-time World Champion,
Gary Anderson will be 11th seed, while also in the top 32 include Joe Cullen, Dimitri van den Bergh, Dirk van Duijvenbode and rounded out by
Raymond van Barneveld, the five-time World Champion.
ProTour qualifiers who will face the International Qualifiers in Round One are headlined by some dangerous names including World Youth Champion,
Josh Rock. As well as Andrew Gilding, Martin Lukeman, two-time winner Adrian Lewis, Challenge Tour standout Scott Williams and former finalist, Simon Whitlock.
In that International Qualifiers list are some well known names such as Danny Baggish, Richie Burnett who qualified this afternoon through the Tour Card Holder Qualifier, Leonard Gates, Nathan Rafferty, Raymond Smith who had a terrific run last year as well as
Beau Greaves who won eight straight events on the PDC Women's Series to seal her debut.
But for the first time, three Women's players will be involved with
Lisa Ashton finishing top of that Order of Merit and
Fallon Sherrock being added this past week for winning the Women's World Matchplay with her brilliant run two years ago still a focal point to the draw.
Top-32 PDC Order of Merit
1 Gerwyn Price
2 Peter Wright
3 Michael van Gerwen
4 Michael Smith
5 Luke Humphries
6 Rob Cross
7 Jonny Clayton
8 James Wade
9 Danny Noppert
10 Nathan Aspinall
11 Gary Anderson
12 Dave Chisnall
13 Joe Cullen
14 Dirk van Duijvenbode
15 Dimitri Van den Bergh
16 Ryan Searle
17 Jose de Sousa
18 Krzysztof Ratajski
19 Ross Smith
20 Damon Heta
21 Stephen Bunting
22 Chris Dobey
23 Callan Rydz
24 Daryl Gurney
25 Gabriel Clemens
26 Brendan Dolan
27 Mervyn King
28 Vincent van der Voort
29 Martin Schindler
30 Mensur Suljovic
31 Kim Huybrechts
32 Raymond van Barneveld
ProTour Order of Merit Qualifiers
Josh Rock
Andrew Gilding
Martin Lukeman
Madars Razma
Adrian Lewis
Rowby-John Rodriguez
Scott Williams
Jim Williams
Ryan Meikle
William O'Connor
Steve Beaton
Jermaine Wattimena
Simon Whitlock
Keane Barry
Keegan Brown
Ricky Evans
Alan Soutar
Karel Sedlacek
Jamie Hughes
Matt Campbell
Danny Jansen
Mike De Decker
Ritchie Edhouse
Boris Krcmar
Cameron Menzies
Luke Woodhouse
Mickey Mansell
Geert Nentjes
Niels Zonneveld
Martijn Kleermaker
John O'Shea
Adam Gawlas
International Qualifiers
Lisa Ashton
Danny Baggish
Sebastian Bialecki
Richie Burnett
David Cameron
Mal Cuming
Leonard Gates
Beau Greaves
Xicheng Han
Florian Hempel
Jimmy Hendriks
Lourence Ilagan
Prakash Jiwa
Ryan Joyce
Jose Justicia
Darius Labanauskas
Daniel Larsson
Robert Owen
Paolo Nebrida
Vladyslav Omelchenko
Christian Perez
Diogo Portela
Nathan Rafferty
Ben Robb
Grant Sampson
Fallon Sherrock
Jeff Smith
Raymond Smith
Toru Suzuki
Danny van Trijp
Lewy Williams
Nobuhiro Yamamoto