DARTS lovers are in for a thrilling end to 2024 as the World Championship is around the corner – with the world’s best battling it out for the iconic crown once again!
Luke Humphries rubber-stamped his name in darts history by beating teen sensation Luke Littler to lift the 2023/24 crown and earn World No 1 status for the first time in his career.
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It was a match fit to be labelled as the showpiece event with Humphries marginally winning 7-4 despite being 4-2 down at one stage.
The tournament broke records by recording the most 180s achieved (914), raising £914,000 for charity which was ultimately rounded up to £1 million.
And with competition rife as ever, especially between the two Luke’s, fans are in for another super spectacle at Alexandra Palace.
Humphries is set to start his campaign on the first night of the competition, and will face the winner of Thibault Tricole vs Joe Comito, while Littler will not play until December 21 – the same night as Tyson Fury‘s rematch with Oleksandr Usyk.
Plus the likes of Stephen Bunting, Nathan Aspinall and Michael van Gerwen are all set to feature.
But there will be no emotional Ally Pally send-off for darts legend Steve Beaton as the Bronzed Adonis failed at the first hurdle of Tour Card Holder qualifying.
When is the World Darts Championship 2024/25?
The 2024/25 World Darts Championship will get underway on Sunday, December 15 and will conclude on Friday, January 3, 2025.
Afternoon sessions are scheduled to start from 12.30pm GMT while the evening sessions take place from 7pm GMT.
Alexandra Palace in North London is the chosen venue for this iconic competition.
Luke Humphries pipped Luke Littler to the 2023/24 title with a 7-4 win.
What TV channel is the World Darts Championship 2024/25 on and can it be live streamed?
The 2024/25 World Darts Championship will be broadcast LIVE on Sky Sports in the UK.
Fans in the UK can stream the entire action on NOW TV.
Matches are also available to watch on PDCTV or their worldwide broadcast partners including DAZN and Viaplay.
SunSport will have a rolling LIVE BLOG that will cover the whole tournament.
What is the World Darts Championship 2024/25 format?
It will be the best of five sets in the first and second rounds of the tournament.
As the rounds progress, matches go to best of seven, then nine before reaching best of 11.
While the final will be the best of 13 sets.
The 32 highest-ranking darts players have already automatically qualified for the second round.
List of all-time Darts World Champions
BELOW is a list of Darts world champions by year.
The list does not include winners from the pre-Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) era or BDO world champions.
That means Raymond van Barneveld, for example, is only listed once – Barney also won four BDO titles – and none of Eric Bristow’s five BDO titles are included.
1994 – Dennis Priestley
1995 – Phil Taylor
1996 – Phil Taylor (2)
1997 – Phil Taylor (3)
1998 – Phil Taylor (4)
1999 – Phil Taylor (5)
2000 – Phil Taylor (6)
2001 – Phil Taylor (7)
2002 – Phil Taylor (8)
2003 – John Part
2004 – Phil Taylor (9)
2005 – Phil Taylor (10)
2006 – Phil Taylor (11)
2007 – Raymond van Barneveld
2008 – John Part (2)
2009 – Phil Taylor (12)
2010 – Phil Taylor (13)
2011 – Adrian Lewis
2012 – Adrian Lewis (2)
2013 – Phil Taylor (14)
2014 – Michael van Gerwen
2015 – Gary Anderson
2016 – Gary Anderson (2)
2017 – Michael van Gerwen (2)
2018 – Rob Cross
2019 – Michael van Gerwen (3)
2020 – Peter Wright
2021 – Gerwyn Price
2022 – Peter Wright (2)
2023 – Michael Smith
2024 – Luke Humphries
Most World Titles
14 – Phil Taylor
3 – Michael van Gerwen
2 – John Part, Adrian Lewis, Gary Anderson, Peter Wright
1 – Dennis Priestley, Raymond van Barneveld, Rob Cross, Gerwyn Price, Michael Smith, Luke Humphries
World Darts Championship 2024/25 schedule
Sunday, December 15
Evening Session (7pm)
3x First Round, 1x Second Round
Thibault Tricole vs Joe Comito (R1)
Jermaine Wattimena vs Stefan Bellmont (R1)
Kim Huybrechts vs Keane Barry (R1)
Luke Humphries vs Tricole/Comito (R2)
Monday, December 16
Afternoon Session (12.30pm)
3x First Round, 1x Second Round
Wesley Plaisier vs Ryusei Azemoto (R1)
Luke Woodhouse vs Lourence Ilagan (R1)
Alan Soutar vs Kai Gotthardt (R1)
James Wade vs Wattimena/Bellmont (R2)
Evening Session (7pm)
3x First Round, 1x Second Round
Niels Zonneveld vs Robert Owen (R1)
Connor Scutt vs Ben Robb (R1)
Cameron Menzies vs Leonard Gates (R1)
Gerwyn Price vs Huybrechts/Barry (R2)
Tuesday, December 17
Afternoon Session (12.30pm)
3x First Round, 1x Second Round
James Hurrell vs Jim Long (R1)
Kevin Doets vs Noa-Lynn van Leuven (R1)
Ryan Joyce vs Darius Labanauskas (R1)
Mike De Decker vs Woodhouse/Ilagan (R2)
Evening Session (7pm)
3x First Round, 1x Second Round
Jeffrey de Graaf vs Rashad Sweeting (R1)
Ricardo Pietreczko vs Xiaochen Zong (R1)
Ryan Meikle vs Fallon Sherrock (R1)
Peter Wright vs Plaisier/Azemoto (R2)
Wednesday, December 18 (7pm)
3x First Round, 1x Second Round
Jim Williams vs Paolo Nebrida (R1)
Madars Razma vs Christian Kist (R1)
Ricky Evans vs Gordon Mathers (R1)
Nathan Aspinall vs Menzies/Gates (R2)
Thursday, December 19
Afternoon Session (12.30pm)
3x First Round, 1x Second Round
Chris Landman vs Lok Yin Lee (R1)
Callan Rydz vs Romeo Grbavac (R1)
Martin Lukeman vs Nitin Kumar (R1)
Gabriel Clemens vs Zonneveld/Owen (R2)
Evening Session (7pm)
3x First Round, 1x Second Round
Nick Kenny vs Stowe Buntz (R1)
Mensur Suljovic vs Matt Campbell (R1)
Scott Williams vs Niko Springer (R1)
Michael Smith vs Doets/Van Leuven (R2)
Friday, December 20
Afternoon Session (12.30pm)
3x First Round, 1x Second Round
Stephen Burton vs Alexander Merkx (R1)
Wessel Nijman vs Cameron Carolissen (R1)
Ian White vs Sandro Eric Sosing (R1)
Stephen Bunting vs Soutar/Gotthardt (R2)
Evening Session (7pm)
2x First Round, 2x Second Round
Mickey Mansell vs Tomoya Goto (R1)
Florian Hempel vs Jeffrey De Zwaan (R1)
William O’Connor vs Dylan Slevin (R1)
Michael van Gerwen vs Hurrell/Long (R2)
Saturday, December 21
Afternoon Session (12.30pm)
4x Second Round
Karel Sedlacek vs Rhys Griffin (R1)
Richard Veenstra vs Alexis Toylo (R1)
Brendan Dolan vs Landman/Lee (R2)
Chris Dobey vs Burton/Merkx (R2)
Evening Session (7pm)
4x Second Round
Danny Noppert vs Joyce/Labanauskas (R2)
Raymond van Barneveld vs Kenny/Buntz (R2)
Luke Littler vs Meikle/Sherrock (R2)
Damon Heta vs Scutt/Robb (R2)
Sunday, December 22
Afternoon Session (12.30pm)
4x Second Round
Ryan Searle vs Suljovic/Campbell (R2)
Dirk van Duijvenbode vs Razma/Kist (R2)
Joe Cullen vs Nijman/Carolissen (R2)
Ritchie Edhouse vs White/Sosing (R2)
Evening Session (7pm)
4x Second Round
Martin Schindler vs Rydz/Grbavac (R2)
Ross Smith vs J Williams/Nebrida (R2)
Gary Anderson vs De Graaf/Sweeting (R2)
Dimitri van den Bergh vs O’Connor/Slevin (R2)
Monday, December 23
Afternoon Session (12.30pm)
4x Second Round
Krzysztof Ratajski vs Veenstra/Toylo (R2)
Andrew Gilding vs Lukeman/Kumar (R2)
Josh Rock vs Sedlacek/Griffin (R2)
Jonny Clayton vs Mansell/Goto (R2)
Evening Session (7pm)
4x Second Round
Gian van Veen vs Pietreczko/Zong (R2)
Daryl Gurney vs Hempel/De Zwaan (R2)
Dave Chisnall vs Evans/Mathers (R2)
Rob Cross vs S Williams/Springer (R2)
Friday, December 27
Afternoon Session (12.30pm)
3x Third Round
Evening Session (7pm)
3x Third Round
Saturday, December 28
Afternoon Session (12.30pm)
3x Third Round
Evening Session (7pm)
3x Third Round
Sunday, December 29
Afternoon Session (12.30pm)
3x Third Round
Evening Session (7pm)
1x Third Round, 2x Fourth Round
Monday, December 30
Afternoon Session (12.30pm)
3x Fourth Round
Evening Session (7pm)
3x Fourth Round
Wednesday, January 1
Afternoon Session (12.30pm)
2x Quarter-Finals
Evening Session (7pm)
2x Quarter-Finals
Thursday, January 2 (7.30pm)
Semi-Finals
Friday, January 3 (8pm)
Final
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