Schedule World Darts Championship 2025 on Friday night including Humphries, Price-Cullen and Wright

What a wonderful Friday night we have ahead of us at the Alexandra Palace at the PDC World Darts Championship 2025. Three brilliant matches, which include two former world champions and the reigning world champion.

During the third round of the World Darts Championship, players need four sets won to qualify for the last sixteen of the World Darts Championship. The fourth round will take place on Dec. 29 and 30.

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Gerwyn Price v Joe Cullen

We start the evening with a showdown between two players who have had a disappointing year and are trying to give some color to their season with this tournament. Both players left a positive impression in their opening match. Gerwyn Price managed to win 3-0 in sets from Keane Barry in his first match. Although his average of 91 was not very high, 'The Iceman' showed that he really wants to go for it at this tournament. Price made a fanatical and eager impression and that Price is the player people want to see. If he wins, the former rugby player will reach the last sixteen in Ally Pally for the fifth time in six years.

Joe Cullen also surprised in a positive sense in the second round. 'The Rockstar' was particularly taunted because he was not seen as a favorite in his duel against Wessel Nijman, despite the fact that Cullen is almost thirty spots higher in the world rankings. That was not without reason, but at least it had Cullen on edge. The former Masters champion played excellently and thanks to an average of 98, he triumphed 3-0. What he himself thought of his match the press hardly found out. Cullen had little desire to talk to the press and left the press conference after barely two minutes.

The Head to Head between the two players is quite balanced. Of the 23 previous duels, 12 were won by Price and 11 by Cullen. On the ranking majors, the score is 3-2 in Price's favor, although Cullen managed to win the last important encounter. At the 2023 World Matchplay, Cullen won 13-11 over his Welsh opponent after extension.

Jermaine Wattimena v Peter Wright

Jermaine Wattimena may try again Friday night to prove that he has taken another step in his development this season. The Dutchman has posted good results this fall, with the absolute highlights being a final spot at the European Championship and a quarterfinal at the Grand Slam of Darts. In his first two matches at the World Darts Championship, 'The Machine Gun' remained without a set loss. First he defeated Stefan Bellmont 3-0 in sets, and then the experienced James Wade was wiped off the oche 3-0. And given Peter Wright's form in recent months, Wattimena is very likely to take out another big name. It would be the first time Wattimena has managed to advance to the last sixteen in London.

Peter Wright will be eager to put a stop to that. High quality was not his first game, as Wright was actually the lesser against Wesley Plaisier. The Dutchman forgot to take advantage of the chances offered to him by Wright. On experience, "Snakebite" won the match, although it was good to see that the will to win was still there with Wright, who was also talking as usual at his press conference. The two-time world champion was already talking about a possible fourth round match against Raymond van Barneveld, which would go into the books as the best World Cup match of all time. At least that prediction did not come true, as Van Barneveld stumbled in the second round against Nick Kenny. Wright had no say in that either, but he did have a say in whether he makes it to the fourth round himself.

At the European Championship in October, the Dutchman and the Scot also crossed swords and then it was Wattimena who managed to win 6-0. With that, 'The Machine Gun' ended a series of seven defeats in a row against Wright, who still leads 17-5 in the head-to-head.

Jermaine Wattimena will try to take out another big name after James Wade at Ally Pally

Luke Humphries v Nick Kenny

Luke Humphries had to wait a long time before he got to play his second match. As defending champion at Alexandra Palace, he already played his opening match on Dec. 15. Then "Cool Hand Luke" did not really manage to impress. He didn't need to, because despite an average of 90, Humphries easily won 3-0 in sets over Thibault Tricole. Many people were talking in advance about a third-round clash against Raymond van Barneveld, but that didn't come to pass....

Nick Kenny most personally drew a line in the encounter between the reigning world champion and the five-time world champion. Kenny took advantage of an off-day from an ailing Van Barneveld to beat the Dutch darts icon 3-1 in sets, having earlier also defeated Stowe Buntz 3-0 in sets. In his two previous matches, the Welshman posted averages of 87 and 86, which will have to be increased to stand a chance against the world number one.

In 2020, Humphries and Kenny met twice via the Home Tour, the online darts competition set up by the PDC during the corona pandemic. Then they both managed to win from each other once. On the regular PDC Tour, Humphries won twice, giving him a 3-1 lead in the mutual balance.

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TV Guide during World Darts Championship

Sky Sports are broadcasting the entire World Darts Championship in the UK with coverage throughout on a dedicated channel Sky Sports Darts.

A subscription is required to access this though which can be sought on a Sky box or through their streaming platform.

Prize money

The 96 participants at the 2025 World Darts Championship may divide as much as 2.5 million pounds between them. That amount is almost forty times higher than at the very first edition of the PDC Worlds in 1994.

The 64 participants to start in the first round of the World Darts Championship will receive £7500 in prize money anyway. The top-32 of the placement list are guaranteed 15,000 pounds. These players enter the World Darts Championship from the second round. The amount then increases further each round. The new world champion will receive the top prize of 500,000 pounds.

Format

First round: Best of 5 sets

Second round: Best of 5 sets

Third round: Best of 7 sets

Fourth round: Best of 7 sets

Quarterfinals: Best of 9 sets

Semifinals: Best of 11 sets

Final: Best of 13 sets

In the first round, there will be no tiebreak if it is 2-2 after four legs in the fifth set. In that case, the fifth leg will be sudden-death. Starting from the second round, a tie-break rule will be applied in all matches; a deciding set must be won with a difference of two legs. If the score in the final set becomes 5-5, a sudden-death leg will still be played.

World Darts Championship 2025 playing schedule

Friday, Dec. 27

Evening session (from 8 p.m.)

Gerwyn Price v Joe Cullen

Jermaine Wattimena v Peter Wright

Luke Humphries v Nick Kenny

Luke Humphries meets Nick Kenny, after the Welshman won over Raymond van Barneveld in the second round

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