2026 PDC World Darts Championship

farmerinthecity · November 24, 2025, 5:19pm

Some amount of matches. They should take a leaf out of snooker’s book with qualifiers.

Luke Littler (1) vs Darius Labanauskas
Mario Vandenbogaerde vs David Davies
Joe Cullen (32) vs Bradley Brooks
Mensur Suljovic vs David Cameron
Damon Heta (16) vs Steve Lennon
Raymond van Berneveld vs Stefan Bellmont
Rob Cross (17) vs Cor Dekker
Ian White vs Mervyn King
Chris Dobey (8) vs Xiaochen Zong
Andrew Gilding vs Cam Crabtree
Luke Woodhouse (25) vs Boris Krcmar
Martin Lukeman vs Max Hopp
Gerwyn Price (9) vs Adam Gawlas
Lukas Wenig vs Wesley Plaisier
Ryan Joyce (24) vs Owen Bates
Krzysztof Ratajski vs Alexis Toylo
Stephen Bunting (4) vs Sebastian Bialecki
Richard Veenstra vs Nitin Kumar
Dirk van Duijvenbode (29) vs Andy Baetens
James Hurrell vs Stowe Buntz
Martin Schindler (13) vs Stephen Burton
Keane Barry vs Tim Pusey
Ryan Searle (20) vs Chris Landman
Brendan Dolan vs Travis Dudeney
Jonny Clayton (5) vs Adam Lipscombe
Dom Taylor vs Oskar Lukasiak
Michael Smith (28) vs Lisa Ashton
Niels Zonneveld vs Haupai Puha
Ross Smith (12) vs Andreas Harrysson
Thibault Tricole vs Motomu Sakai
Dave Chisnall (21) vs Fallon Sherrock
Ricardo Pietreczko vs Jose De Sousa

Luke Humphries (2) vs Ted Evetts
Jeffrey de Graaf vs Paul Lim
Wessel Nijman (31) vs Karel Sedlacek
Gabriel Clemens vs Alex Spellman
Nathan Aspinall (15) vs Lourence Ilagan
Mickey Mansell vs Leonard Gates
Mike De Decker (18) vs David Munyua
Kevin Doets vs Matthew Dennant
James Wade (7) vs Ryusei Azemoto
Rickey Evans vs Man Lok Leung
Cameron Menzies (26) vs Charlie Manby
Matt Campbell vs Adam Sevada
Gian van Veen (10) vs Cristo Reyes
Alan Soutar vs Teemu Harju
Dimitri Van den Bergh (23) vs Darren Beveridge
Madars Razma vs Jamai van den Herik
Michael van Gerwen (3) vs Mitsuhiko Tatsunami
William O’Connor vs Krzysztof Kciuk
Peter Wright (30) vs Noa-Lynn van Leuven
Kim Huybrechts vs Arno Merk
Gary Anderson (14) vs Adam Hunt
Connor Scutt vs Simon Whitlock
Jermaine Wattimena (19) vs Dominik Gruellich
Scott Williams vs Paolo Nebrida
Danny Noppert (6) vs Jurjen van der Velde
Nick Kenny vs Justin Hood
Ritchie Edhouse (27) vs Jonny Tata
Ryan Meikle vs Jesus Salate
Josh Rock (11) vs Gemma Hayter
Niko Springer vs Joe Comito
Daryl Gurney (22) vs Beau Greaves
Callan Rydz vs Patrik Kovacs

Perez2017 · November 24, 2025, 7:31pm

126 is way too many.

the_rattler · November 24, 2025, 10:16pm

128 is worse again!

Copper_pipe · November 26, 2025, 4:10pm

peddlerscross · November 26, 2025, 4:18pm

They seem intent on ruining it like every other sport with way too many games.

64 qualifiers would be grand. Start it on the 18th/19th

Less is more.

Copper_pipe · November 26, 2025, 4:50pm

The prize fund has doubled from 2.5 million to 5 million.

The winner gets a million.

The extra sessions will put a dent on that increase.

farmerinthecity · November 26, 2025, 5:01pm

By the time the qualrters come around I’m all darted out and they are the best matches.

Batigol · November 26, 2025, 5:16pm

I’m think the snooker model would be no harm. Guarantee 16-32 into the later rounds.

peddlerscross · November 26, 2025, 5:28pm

Darts fatigue could become a real issue. And I suspect the games in that first week could be dire and not television standard.

Likewise, I love that mid afternoon session of Quarter Finals on NYD. Flicking over to the racing from Cheltenham in between.

Of course once upon a time I’d have been in Paidi O’Se’s pub that day, but I’m gone past that now unfortunately.

farmerinthecity · November 26, 2025, 6:37pm

It’s cracking. Anderson and Van Gerwen played a dinger back in 2013 Championship.

Perez2017 · November 26, 2025, 8:56pm

Love darts but the first week even 10 days is borderline unwatchable.

Copper_pipe · November 27, 2025, 10:41pm

No craic in backing Littler at evens He’ll be the shortest favorite for the Worlds since MVG in 2018 when he went off around 8/11 / 4/5. Cross bate him in the Semi Final that year.

Will be a few upsets in the 1st round. Some tricky draws for the seeded players.

Copper_pipe · December 2, 2025, 3:08pm

Copper_pipe · December 4, 2025, 10:51am

Copper_pipe · December 10, 2025, 11:32am

Landed on this.

Link to the bracket here:
https://mydartcoach-database.web.app/

Perez2017 · December 10, 2025, 12:11pm

I think MVG is decent each way value. Always ups it for Worlds and on decent side of the draw.

Copper_pipe · December 10, 2025, 5:51pm

He’s fired up.

Massey · December 10, 2025, 5:59pm

A lot of these lads are WDF standard tbf and would have done well to win that final last Sunday

Copper_pipe · December 10, 2025, 6:33pm

Lads are too used to seeing Littler and co hitting ton+ averages.

No harm in seeing two dartists do battle in the high 80s / low 90 averages

Diabhal · December 10, 2025, 6:35pm

I think MVG is finished as a top, top Worlds contender. He lost the glint in the eye he had when he was dominating Ally Pally and snorting lines afterwards.