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World Matchplay Darts 2025: schedule, drawing, results and prize money

World Matchplay Darts 2025: schedule, drawing, results and prize money


The 2025 World Matchplay Darts is in progress on Saturday, July 19th to Sunday, July 27th.

The tournament – one of the Major of the professional darts corporation – shows 32 players and takes place in the winter gardens of Blackpool.

The top 16 in the Merit order of the PDC automatically qualified.

This means that some big names have not qualified – including the former world champion number one and 2023 Michael Smith, who has just missed the Order of Merit.

Luke Humphries number 1 is the defending champion after he beat Michael van Gerwen 18: 15 last year.

How does the world game work?

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Luke Humphries holds the title 2024 World Matchplay Darts title

The top 16 players in the world are sown, which means that their opponents will be those who have qualified through the protour in the first round.

The players were drawn as the number one seed was exposed to the number 16 seeds if both won their game in the first round, and so on.

In the first round, the games are the best of 19 legs, which increases in the second round on a best of 21.

The quarter -finals are the best of 31 legs, whereby the semi -finals and the final ones may take 33 or 35 legs.

What is the World Matchplay Price Money?

The winner of the 2025 World Matchplay will take home from the price pool of the tournament of £ 200,000 prize money of £ 800,000.

The runner -up will win £ 100,000, and two semi -finalists with £ 50,000 each lose.

It earns £ 30,000 to the players, while the players, which were outcast in the second round, receive £ 15,000 each.

The £ 10,000 beaten in the first round will take home.

World Matchplay Draw and Timetable

First round (Best of 19 Legs)

Saturday, July 19th

  • James Wade (9) against Joe Cullen

  • Danny Nopppert (16) against Cameron Menzies

  • Luke Humphries (1) against Gian van Veen

  • Nathan Aspinall (8) against Wessel Nijman

Sunday, July 20th

  • Damon Heta (7) against Andrew Gilding

  • Rob Cross (10) against Dirk van Duijvenbode

  • Peter Wright (15) against Jermaine Wattimena

  • Dave Chisnall (12) against Mike de Decker

  • Gary Anderson (13) V Luke Woodhouse

  • Jonny Clayton (5) against Martin Schindler

  • Luke Littler (2) V Ryan Searle

  • Stephen Bunting (4) V Ryan Joyce

Monday, July 21st

  • Chris Dobey (6) V Ricardo Piertreczko

  • Gerwyn Price (11) V Daryl Gurney

  • Michael van Gerwen (3) against Raymond van Barneveld

  • Ross Smith (14) against Josh Rock

Second round (best of 21 legs)

Tuesday, July 22nd

  • Humphries or Van Veen against Nappert or Menzies

  • Aspinall or Nijman against Wade or Cullen

  • Bunting or Joyce against Anderson or Woodhouse

  • Clayton or Schindler against Chisnall or de Decker

Wednesday, July 23rd

  • Littler or Searle against Wright or Wattimena

  • Heta or guilding against cross or van duijvenbode

  • Van Gerwen or van Barneveld against Smith or Rock

  • Dobey or Pietreczko against Price or Gurney

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