Schedule PDC World Darts Championship 2025: See when Humphries, Littler, Van Gerwen begin Ally Pally campaigns here

The schedule has been confirmed for the 2024/25 PDC World Darts Championship (December 15-January 3) with Luke Humphries as is tradition starting his campaign on the opening night at Ally Pally.

The pre-Christmas period sees the first 96 players in action between December 15-23. A four day break takes in Christmas before the final part of the tournament. Humphries faces either Thibault Tricole or Joe Comito in the final match of the night. Jermaine Wattimena is also in action against Keane Barry.

Gerwyn Price takes on either Kim Huybrechts or Keane Barry in the Monday double session opener with Cameron Menzies v Leonard Gates and James Wade also set for the first full day. Mike de Decker headlines Tuesday afternoon, while Peter Wright and the highly talked about Fallon Sherrock v Ryan Meikle that could gleam the Luke Littler v Sherrock showdown is on Tuesday.

Nathan Aspinall opens his account on Day Four against either Menzies or Gates, while Michael Smith does so on the Thursday. Other leading lights including Michael van Gerwen and Stephen Bunting will be in action on the Friday. While Luke Littler faces either Meikle or Sherrock on December 21 in the main showpiece clash. Saturday also features the doyen of Dutch darts Raymond van Barneveld and Damon Heta.

Gary Anderson will also begin his title challenge on Sunday December 22, while Dimitri van den Bergh makes his Ally Pally return. Rob Cross, Dave Chisnall, Jonny Clayton and Gian van Veen bookend the final days before the break.

Thibault Tricole v Joe Comito (R1)

Jermaine Wattimena v Stefan Bellmont (R1)

Kim Huybrechts v Keane Barry (R1)

Luke Humphries v Tricole/Comito (R2)

3x First Round, 1x Second Round

Wesley Plaisier v Ryusei Azemoto (R1)

Luke Woodhouse v Lourence Ilagan (R1)

Alan Soutar v Kai Gotthardt (R1)

James Wade v Wattimena/Bellmont (R2)

3x First Round, 1x Second Round

Niels Zonneveld v Robert Owen (R1)

Connor Scutt v Ben Robb (R1)

Cameron Menzies v Leonard Gates (R1)

Gerwyn Price v Huybrechts/Barry (R2)

3x First Round, 1x Second Round

James Hurrell v Jim Long (R1)

Kevin Doets v Noa-Lynn van Leuven (R1)

Ryan Joyce v Darius Labanauskas (R1)

Mike De Decker v Woodhouse/Ilagan (R2)

3x First Round, 1x Second Round

Jeffrey de Graaf v Rashad Sweeting (R1)

Ricardo Pietreczko v Xiaochen Zong (R1)

Ryan Meikle v Fallon Sherrock (R1)

Peter Wright v Plaisier/Azemoto (R2)

3x First Round, 1x Second Round

Jim Williams v Paolo Nebrida (R1)

Madars Razma v Christian Kist (R1)

Ricky Evans v Gordon Mathers (R1)

Nathan Aspinall v Menzies/Gates (R2)

3x First Round, 1x Second Round

Chris Landman v Lok Yin Lee (R1)

Callan Rydz v Romeo Grbavac (R1)

Martin Lukeman v Nitin Kumar (R1)

Gabriel Clemens v Zonneveld/Owen (R2)

3x First Round, 1x Second Round

Nick Kenny v Stowe Buntz (R1)

Mensur Suljovic v Matt Campbell (R1)

Scott Williams v Niko Springer (R1)

Michael Smith v Doets/Van Leuven (R2)

3x First Round, 1x Second Round

Stephen Burton v Alexander Merkx (R1)

Wessel Nijman v Cameron Carolissen (R1)

Ian White v Sandro Eric Sosing (R1)

Stephen Bunting v Soutar/Gotthardt (R2)

3x First Round, 1x Second Round

Mickey Mansell v Tomoya Goto (R1)

Florian Hempel v Jeffrey De Zwaan (R1)

William O’Connor v Dylan Slevin (R1)

Michael van Gerwen v Hurrell/Long (R2)

2x First Round, 2x Second Round

Karel Sedlacek v Rhys Griffin (R1)

Richard Veenstra v Alexis Toylo (R1)

Brendan Dolan v Landman/Lee (R2)

Chris Dobey v Burton/Merkx (R2)

Danny Noppert v Joyce/Labanauskas (R2)

Raymond van Barneveld v Kenny/Buntz (R2)

Luke Littler v Meikle/Sherrock (R2)

Damon Heta v Scutt/Robb (R2)

Ryan Searle v Suljovic/Campbell (R2)

Dirk van Duijvenbode v Razma/Kist (R2)

Joe Cullen v Nijman/Carolissen (R2)

Ritchie Edhouse v White/Sosing (R2)

Martin Schindler v Rydz/Grbavac (R2)

Ross Smith v J Williams/Nebrida (R2)

Gary Anderson v De Graaf/Sweeting (R2)

Dimitri Van den Bergh v O’Connor/Slevin (R2)

Krzysztof Ratajski v Veenstra/Toylo (R2)

Andrew Gilding v Lukeman/Kumar (R2)

Josh Rock v Sedlacek/Griffin (R2)

Jonny Clayton v Mansell/Goto (R2)

Gian van Veen v Pietreczko/Zong (R2)

Daryl Gurney v Hempel/De Zwaan (R2)

Dave Chisnall v Evans/Mathers (R2)

Rob Cross v S Williams/Springer (R2)

3x Third Round

3x Third Round

3x Third Round

3x Third Round

3x Third Round

1x Third Round, 2x Fourth Round

3x Fourth Round

3x Fourth Round

2x Quarter-Finals

2x Quarter-Finals

Semi-Finals

Final