World Darts Championship draw 2025: Date, start time and live stream FREE as Luke Littler and Humphries await fates

THE World Darts Championship is looming as we count down to Ally Pally – but first things first we’ve got the draw!

Last year’s winner Luke Humphries and finalist Luke Littler will find out their fate in the big draw coming up.

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Luke Littler and Luke Humphries played out an epic final last year[/caption]

The tournament will mark a whirlwind 12 months for teenage superstar Littler, 17.

Entering the event as a 16-year-old wonderkid who had just won the World Youth Darts Championship, Littler has since won ELEVEN events including the Premier League and boosted his prize money balance to over £1million.

And Littler said after winning the Grand Slam of Darts he is still aiming to improve on his world ranking of 5th before the start of the Worlds.

Littler said: “I knew coming into the tournament if I did get my hands on the trophy I’d be up to No 5 in the world. But No5 in the space of 12 months. There’s another two more rankings tournaments to come. I hope I can go higher from five.”

Now all eyes will be fixed on the draw for Ally Pally, with a field of 96 players to do battle for the Sid Waddell Trophy.

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When is the World Darts Championship draw?

The World Darts Championship draw takes place TODAY, Monday, November 25.

The draw gets underway from 4.30pm GMT.

Sky Sports Darts host Emma Paton and commentator Wayne Mardle are set to conduct proceedings.

How can I watch the World Darts Championship draw?

The World Darts Championship draw will be broadcast live on Sky Sports News.

It is also set to be available to be live streamed for FREE on Sky Sports Darts’ YouTube page, like it was last year.

Who is playing at the World Darts Championship 2024/25?

Here is the full field for the World Darts Championship 2024/25:

PDC Order of Merit Top 32
1. Luke Humphries (England)
2. Michael Smith (England)
3. Michael van Gerwen (Netherlands)
4. Luke Littler (England)
5. Rob Cross (England)
6. Dave Chisnall (England)
7. Jonny Clayton (Wales)
8. Stephen Bunting (England)
9. Damon Heta (Australia)
10. Gerwyn Price (Wales)
11. Dimitri Van den Bergh (Belgium)
12. Nathan Aspinall (England)
13. Danny Noppert (Netherlands)
14. Gary Anderson (Scotland)
15. Chris Dobey (England)
16. James Wade (England)
17. Peter Wright (Scotland)
18. Josh Rock (Northern Ireland)
19. Ross Smith (England)
20. Ryan Searle (England)
21. Andrew Gilding (England)
22. Martin Schindler (Germany)
23. Joe Cullen (England)
24. Mike De Decker (Belgium)
25. Dirk van Duijvenbode (Netherlands)
26. Daryl Gurney (Northern Ireland)
27. Gabriel Clemens (Germany)
28. Gian van Veen (Netherlands)
29. Ritchie Edhouse (England)
30. Brendan Dolan (Northern Ireland)
31. Krzysztof Ratajski (Poland)
32. Raymond van Barneveld (Netherlands)

ProTour Order of Merit Qualifiers
Cameron Menzies (Scotland)
Wessel Nijman (Netherlands)
Jermaine Wattimena (Netherlands)
Ricardo Pietreczko (Germany)
Luke Woodhouse (England)
Ryan Joyce (England)
Niels Zonneveld (Netherlands)
Alan Soutar (Scotland)
Madars Razma (Latvia)
Callan Rydz (England)
Wesley Plaisier (Netherlands)
Martin Lukeman (England)
Kevin Doets (Netherlands)
Richard Veenstra (Netherlands)
Scott Williams (England)
Kim Huybrechts (Belgium)
William O’Connor (Ireland)
Karel Sedlacek (Czech Republic)
Stephen Burton (England)
Thibault Tricole (France)
Connor Scutt (England)
Mensur Suljovic (Austria)
Ian White (England)
Jeffrey de Graaf (Sweden)
Jim Williams (Wales)
Florian Hempel (Germany)
Ryan Meikle (England)
Chris Landman (Netherlands)
Nick Kenny (Wales)
James Hurrell (England)
Mickey Mansell (Northern Ireland)
Ricky Evans (England)

International Qualifiers
Ryusei Azemoto (Japan)
Keane Barry (Ireland)
Stefan Bellmont (Switzerland)
Stowe Buntz (USA)
Cameron Carolissen (South Africa)
Joe Comito (Australia)
Leonard Gates (USA)
Tomoya Goto (Japan)
Kai Gotthardt (Germany)
Romeo Grbavac (Croatia)
Lourence Ilagan (Philippines)
Christian Kist (Netherlands)
Nitin Kumar (India)
Darius Labanauskas (Lithuania)
Lok Yin Lee (Hong Kong)
Jim Long (Canada)
Gordon Mathers (Australia)
Alexander Merkx (Netherlands)
Paolo Nebrida (Philippines)
Robert Owen (Wales)
Ben Robb (New Zealand)
Sandro Eric Sosing (Philippines)
Fallon Sherrock (England)
Niko Springer (Germany)
Rashad Sweeting (Bahamas)
Alexis Toylo (Philippines)
Noa-Lynn van Leuven (Netherlands)
Xiaochen Zong (China)
Plus: 4x PDC Tour Card Holder Qualifiers

When is the World Darts Championship 2024/25?

The World Darts Championship 2024/25 starts on Sunday, December 15.

After a short break for Christmas, the big event then runs into the new year with the final on Friday, January 3.