The Winmau World Masters is set to take place between Wednesday 29 Jan - Sunday 2 February and our Tournament Centre takes you through the whole of the darting extravaganza including TV Guide, Prize Money, Schedule and Results.
A tournament won in its previous guise by Stephen Bunting in 2024, it has been rebranded to mirror the BDO version which still takes place in the WDF but has moved away from its previous set format. The PDC have revived that for 2025 albeit with the top names still given the comfort blanket of playing from Thursday.
Still holding the same venue as the Masters and a paying crowd who have bought tickets for the top names, the format will instead follow a qualifier system with eight players joining the top 24 in the final tournament starting on Thursday. But perhaps the most fun part is the preliminaries with a lot of top names involved and likely a lot of shocks and surprises.
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The tournament will be shown on PDCTV to start on the preliminaries from 12pm local time in Milton Keynes but as the tournament fully starts on Thursday, it is set to see ITV4 take on the mantle.
They will show the rest of the tournament with action starting at 7pm for the first two days. But on the weekend, it is 12:45pm and 7pm starts for the remaining sessions as a champion will be crowned.
The eventual winner will take home a prize of £100,000 with £50,000 on offer for the runner-up in a tournament which is also ranked meaning a player could feasibly come from the CDC or JDC and win it and find themselves in the rankings.
The top 24 players from the PDC Order of Merit automatically qualify for the 32 player main event with the world's top 16 seeded in the draw. The remaining players come from the Preliminary Round on Wednesday which features Tour Card holders, players from secondary tours, affiliate tours and JDC.
This means that we get eight winners through from the action on Wednesday who will then be allocated their spot in the draw to face one of the empty spots against the seeds which have been set such as Josh Rock v Qualifier 6.
The Preliminary Rounds themselves see 32 players seeded through to the Last 64. They will be joined by 32 group winners from the round-robin group stage which sees 32 players seeded as one per group with the remaining players drawn randomly to these groups.
Continuing the tradition from the old BDO version, the tournament will be played in a set format with each set being the best of three legs beginning with best of three sets in the preliminary rounds.
Preliminary Rounds - Best of three sets, best of three legs per set
First Round - Best of five sets, best of three legs per set
Second Round - Best of seven sets, best of three legs per set
Quarter-Finals - Best of seven sets, best of three legs per set
Semi-Finals - Best of nine sets, best of three legs per set
Final - Best of 11 sets, best of three legs per set
Thursday January 30 (1900 GMT)
First Round x8
Josh Rock (98.16) 3-1 (94.75) Jermaine Wattimena
Damon Heta (92.32) 3-1 (96.81) Ross Smith
William O’Connor (98.75) 3-1 (103.19) Rob Cross
Gerwyn Price (97.49) 3-0 (92.08) Florian Hempel
Peter Wright (101.28) 3-2 (97.42) Kevin Doets
Luke Humphries (98.62) 3-1 (92.50) Joe Cullen
Stephen Bunting (95.03) 3-2 (92.06) William Borland
Danny Noppert (97.32) 3-1 (96.99) Michael Smith
Friday January 31 (1900 GMT)
First Round x8
James Wade (92.61) 3-2 (91.76) Mike De Decker
Dave Chisnall (90.69) 1-3 (87.74) Cameron Menzies
Jonny Clayton (112.77) 3-1 (105.05) Martin Schindler
Nathan Aspinall (103.77) 3-0 (101.26) Andrew Gilding
Chris Dobey (91.83) 1-3 (90.93) Ryan Searle
Luke Littler (104.33) 3-0 (95.94) Andy Baetens
Michael van Gerwen (95.87) 3-1 (91.17) Bradley Brooks
Gary Anderson (100.03) 1-3 (102.43) Dimitri Van den Bergh
Saturday February 1
Afternoon Session (1245 GMT)
Second Round x4
William O'Connor (88.16) 0-4 (96.27) Danny Noppert
Damon Heta (94.58) 4-3 (96.37) Gerwyn Price
Stephen Bunting (93.67) 4-2 (94.84) Peter Wright
Luke Humphries (94.63) 4-0 (94.78) Josh Rock
Evening Session (1900 GMT)
Second Round x4
Jonny Clayton (93.54) 4-3 (93.87) Ryan Searle
Cameron Menzies (83.75) 1-4 (90.84) Nathan Aspinall
Luke Littler (105.47) 4-0 (91.42) James Wade
Michael van Gerwen (98.63) 3-4 (97.7) Dimitri van den Bergh
Sunday February 2
Afternoon Session (1245 GMT)
Quarter-Finals
Luke Humphries (104.24) 4-1 (97.78) Damon Heta
Danny Noppert (97.58) 4-3 (101.28) Stephen Bunting
Luke Littler (108.5) 2-4 (103.96) Jonny Clayton
Dimitri van den Bergh (100.35) 4-1 (93.87) Nathan Aspinall
Evening Session (1900 GMT)
Semi-Finals
Luke Humphries (99.71) 5-2 (88.33) Danny Noppert
Jonny Clayton (90.52) 5-2 (85.19) Dimitri van den Bergh
Final
Luke Humphries (100.42) 6-5 (98.25) Jonny Clayton