LUKE HUMPHRIES has revealed the staggering new prize pot for the 2026 World Darts Championship.
Humphries, 30, won the world title in 2024 by beating Luke Littler in the final, before the teen sensation lifted the crown in 2025.
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The winner of the Ally Pally showpiece currently pockets £500,000 in prize money.
However, that prize fund is set to double to £1million, according to Humphries.
Speaking to talkSPORT darts, Cool Hand was asked about Littler’s challenge to his No1 spot in the world rankings.
In response he declared he would rather be world champion than No1 because of the prize money on offer.
He said: “Not much really, I’m not fighting desperately to be world number one, I’d rather be world champion, which he is, so for him I’m sure he’d be more happy to be world champion than world number one.
“For me it doesn’t matter what happens in the next six, seven, eight months, it’s all about the World Championships, we all know that the world champion is going to get a million quid, so whoever wins that is going to be world number one.
“If I win that I’ll be world number one for a long time, if Luke wins that he’s going to be world number one for a long time.
“You can look at someone like Michael van Gerwen or Gerwyn Price winning it, they’ll be number one, so it really does not matter what happens over the next seven or eight months, it’s who wins the worlds that will carry that number one spot.
“The gap between the other majors is so massive that it all depends on who wins the worlds now so whoever wins that championship I can guarantee that they will probably be number one.”
Boxing promoter and PDC chairman Eddie Hearn has previously expressed his desire to increase the prize pool to £1m.
Following the first PDC World Darts Championship in 1994, the prize fund steadily increased before the total prize pool hit £1m.
Since 2019 the prize pot has stood at £2.5m with the champion earning half a million pounds.
This is the longest time in World Darts Championship history that the prize money has not changed.
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
2025 – Luke Littler
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, Luke Littler
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