DARTS fans are in for a thrilling end to 2024 as the World Championship begins TODAY – and the top stars will be 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.
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 Lukes, 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 got 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. Day 1 of the competition will only have an evening session, while there is no play from December 24-26. 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 also have a rolling LIVE BLOG that will cover every match and all the latest news from the 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 HumphriesMost 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 HumphriesWorld Darts Championship 2024/25 schedule
Sunday, December 15 Evening Session (7pm)3x First Round, 1x Second Round
Thibault Tricole 3-1 Joe Comito (R1) Jermaine Wattimena 3-0 Stefan Bellmont (R1) Kim Huybrechts 1-3 Keane Barry (R1) Luke Humphries 3-0 Thibault Tricole (R2)Monday, December 16Afternoon Session (12.30pm)3x First Round, 1x Second Round
Wesley Plaisier 3-2 Ryusei Azemoto (R1) Luke Woodhouse 3-0 Lourence Ilagan (R1) Alan Soutar 1-3 Kai Gotthardt (R1) James Wade 0-3 Jermaine Wattimena (R2)Evening Session (7pm)3x First Round, 1x Second Round
Niels Zonneveld 1-3 Robert Owen (R1) Connor Scutt 3-0 Ben Robb (R1) Cameron Menzies 1-3 Leonard Gates (R1) Gerwyn Price vs Keane Barry (R2)Tuesday, December 17Afternoon 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 19Afternoon 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 20Afternoon 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 21Afternoon 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 22Afternoon 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 23Afternoon 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 27Afternoon Session (12.30pm)3x Third Round
Evening Session (7pm)3x Third Round
Saturday, December 28Afternoon Session (12.30pm)3x Third Round
Evening Session (7pm)3x Third Round
Sunday, December 29Afternoon Session (12.30pm)3x Third Round
Evening Session (7pm)1x Third Round, 2x Fourth Round
Monday, December 30Afternoon Session (12.30pm)3x Fourth Round
Evening Session (7pm)3x Fourth Round
Wednesday, January 1Afternoon 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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