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14. January
Bahrain Darts Masters
Bahrain Darts Masters
Tomorrow in Bahrain the first World Series Event of the year will begin - die Bahrain Darts Masters.
Eight PDC players will compete with eight Asian representatives for the palm trophy.
Reigning champion Stephen Bunting will begin his title defence against Ryusei Azemoto. But in the limelight of the first round will be the match between World Champion Luke Littler and the legend
Paul Lim.
Bahrain Darts Mastersnew
Previewnew
12. January
PDC Qualifiying School
Fourth Day of the Final Stage of the two PDC Qualifying Schools.
At the UK Qualifiying School Englishmen Chalie Manby and Samuel Price got the last two direct Tour Cards. By the ranking Stephen Burton, Mervyn King,
Tyler Thorpe, Stephen Rosney and David Sharp secured a Tour Card.
The last two direct Tour Cards of the European Qualifying School in Kalkar went to the two Dutchmen Jeffrey de Zwaan and Sietse Lap. By the ranking Tour Cards went to Jimmy van Schie,
Chris Landman, Marvin Kraft, Benjamin Pratnemer, Adam Gawlas, Jurjen van der Veld, Alexander Merkx and Pascal Rupprecht.
Results of the fourth day of the finalen stage you can find here:
UK Qualifying School Final Stage Day 4new
EU Qualifying School Final Stage Day 4new
The Final Standings of the Rankings you can find here:
Rankings Final Standingsnew
10. Januar
PDC Qualifiying School
Today was the third day of the final stage at the two PDC Qualifying Schools.
At the UK Qualifiying School Irishman and former WDF World Champion Shane McGuirk and Englishman Tom Sykes got the two direct Tour Cards. They prevailed in the semi-finals over Charlie Many and Stephen Burton.
At the European Qualifying School in Kalkar today the two direct Tour Cards went to the Germans Matthias Ehlers and Yorick Hofkens.
They defeated in the semi-finals Belgian Lennert Faes and the reigning WDF World Champion Jimmy van Schie.
Results of the third day of the final stage you can find here:
UK Qualifying School Final Stage Day 3new
EU Qualifying School Final Stage Day 3new
Rankings after Day 3 of the Final Stage you can find here:
Rankings after Final Stage Day 3new
9. Januar
PDC Qualifiying School
Second Day of the final stage of the two PDC Qualifying Schools.
At the UK Qualifiying School Englishman Carl Sneyd and Irishman Niall Culleton got the two direct Tour Cards. They prevailed in the semi-finals over Steve Lennon and Danny Goddard.
At the European Qualifying School in Kalkar the two direct Tour Card went to Spaniard Cristo Reyes and Dutchman Jeffrey Spaaridans.
They defeated in the semi-finals German Matthias Ehlers and Italian Michele Turetta.
Results of the second day of the final stage you can find here:
UK Qualifying School Final Stage Day 2new
EU Qualifying School Final Stage Day 2new
Rankings after the second day of the final stage you can find here:
Rankings after Final Stage Day 2new
Tournament Calender
The dates of the PDC Nordic and Baltic Tour were added to the Tournament Calendar.
Tournament Calendar 2026
8. January
PDC Qualifiying School
Today in both PDC Qualifying Schools the first day of the final stage was played.
At the UK Qualifiying School Welshman Rhys Griffin and Australian Adam Leek won the two direct Tour Cards. They defeated in the semi-finals Scott Waites and Tyler Thorpe. Griffin had lost his Tour Card end 2025 and now immediately got it back.
At the European Qualifying School in Kalkar it were German Arno Merk - who only recently reached at his debut the third round of the PDC World Championship - and Pole Filip Bereza who got the direct Tour Cards.
They prevailed in their semi-finals over Jeffrey Sparidaans and Jeffrey de Zwaan.
Results of the first day of the final stage you can find here:
UK Qualifying School Final Stage Day 1new
EU Qualifying School Final Stage Day 1new
Dartoids World
Dartoid remembers - in the light of current events - a trip to Venezuela. It took place many years ago, he visited after undergrad a roommate from college in his home country.
In retrospect he feels it was stange that during his stage he never had a dart in his hand...
Caracas, Venezuelanew
7. January
PDC Qualifiying School
Both at the UK and at the European Qualifying School in Milton Keynes and in Kalkar today the last day of the first stage was played.
At the UK Qualifiying School John Henderson, Scott Mitchell and Wayne Jones were among the players who progressed directly while three time World Champion Johne Part magaed to qualify by the ranking. In Kalkar it were among others Simon Whitlock's son Mason, Dutchman Ron Meulenkamp and German Liam Maendli- Lawrence who progeressed by the ranking while
Switzerlands Bruno Stöckli was one of the direct qualifiers.
The results of the third day you can find here:
UK Qualifying School Results Day 3new
EU Qualifying School Results Day 3new
The participants in the final stage you can find here:
UK Qualifying School Participants Final Stagenew
EU Qualifying School Participants Final Stagenew
6. January
PDC Qualifiying School
Today was the second day of the first stage of the UK and the European Qualifying School in Milton Keynes and in Kalkar.
At the UK Qualifiying School Steve Beaton is the best known of the 32 players who progressed into the final stage. In Kalkar it were among others Canadian David Cameron, Dutchman
Jeffrey de Zwaan and Croatian Krcmar who progressed.
The results of the second day you can find here:
UK Qualifying School Results Day 2new
EU Qualifying School Results Day 2new
Premier League
The PDC announced the participants in this year's Premier League. With Gian van Veen - the new Dutch number 1 and Josh Rock - who moved up to place 9 of the PDC World Rankings after the World Championship - there will be two
debutants. The other participants will be Luke Littler, Luke Humphries, Michael van Gerwen, Jonny Clayton, Stephen Bunting and Gerwyn Price.
The Premier League will be played every Thursday from 5. February till 28. May and for the first time there will be a League Day in Antwerp, Belgium.
Premier League 2026
5. January
PDC Qualifiying School
Today the UK and the European Qualifying School begin in Milton Keynes and in Kalkar, Germany. 925 participants - 391 in Milton Keynes and 533 in Kalkar - will battle in two stages til Sunday for the 29 Tour Cards.
More information and the participants you can find here:
Qualifying School 2026new
The results of the first day you can find here:
UK Qualifying School Results Day 1new
EU Qualifying School Results Day 1new
4. January
The PDC World Championship 2025/26
To bring my World Championship coverage to a conclusion here the last article with my personal resume of the tournament in which of course the wasps make an appearance as well.
The PDC World Championship 2025/26new
PDC Rankings
The PDC World Ranking=Werner Rankings Ladder was updated after the World Championship.
PDC Rankings
3. January
Littler defends title
In a slightly disappointing but unsurprising one-sided final of the PDC World Championship 2025/26 Luke Littler defeated Gian van Veen with 7:1 and defended his title.
Van Veen won the first set but after that the final was all about Littler though van Veen managed to win a few more legs but never in any way endangered Littler's title defence. Van Veen is now the new Dutch number 1 and the new World number 3
- might be a crumb of comfort for the disappointed runner-up.
Resultnew
Report, Statistics Final new
PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 20
Tonight the Final of the PDC World Championship will be played.
Today's Day's Specials: Both for Luke Littler and for Gian van Veen it is the third World Championship. Both stood at the World Championship 2023/24 for the first time on the stage of the ALexandra Palace. Luke Littler
qualified that year by the Development Tour Order of Merit, Gian van Veen by the Pro Tour Order of Merit. While van Veen lost at his first World Championship sensational in the first round to Man Lok Leung Littler only lost in the final to Luke Humphries.
At his second World Championship van Veen - who had qualified as Littler as seeded player - again lost in round 1 - this time to Ricardo Pietreczko and Littler won the title. This year the'll meet in a repeat of the
PDC World Youth Championship Final 2023 in the final - Littler won the youth final 2023 with 6:4.
What you should know as well: Tonight not only the final of the World Championship will be played tonight for the last time George Noble and John McDonald will stand as Referee/Caller and MC on the stage of the Alexandra Palace. Noble started his PDC career in 2007 - before he had been Referee/Caller in the BDO.
McDonald worked since 2005 for the PDC and 2008 he was for the first time MC of the PDC World Championship. Both claim the main reason for their retirement is that they finally want to have time for their respective families and
don't want to be so much on the road any longer which is readily understandable. Nevertheless we will miss them and wish them all the best!
2. January
Players from Africa at the PDC World Championship
Wether the wasp are still around at the Ally Pally I have no idea as I am for a long time already back home. And so I choose for this article a completely different topic -
it is about all the players from Africa who so far qualified for the PDC World Championship.
Players from Africa at the PDC World Championshipnew
PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 19
Today only an evening session will be played in which both semi-finals will take place.
Today's Day's Specials: Ryan Searle is the player in the semi-finals who is the lowest ranked in the PDC World Ranking - he sits in place 20. And he is the
only one of the players in the semi-finals who so far didn't win a PDC TV Major.
What you should know as well: Neither Gian van Veen nor Ryan Searle stood so far in the semi-finals of the PDC World Championship. For van Veen it is the third World Championship and his best result so far was the second round. For Searle
it is already the eighth World Championship and his best result so far were the Last 16 in 2019, 2021 and 2022.
Schedule Semi-Finals, Resultsnew
Report, Statistics Semi-Finalsnew
1. January
PDC World Championship - Quarterfinals
All four quarterfinals were surprisingly one-sided matches with in most cases not really to be expected results. The biggests upset was probably the 1:5 defeat of
Luke Humphries by Gian van Veen - Humphries scored quite well, but not as good as van Veen and made too many mistakes on his doubles. Beside he didn't manage to take the few chances
which were offered to him. Jonny Clayton's clear 2:5 loss to Ryan Searle was unexpected as well - and here as well Clayton's double problems were a deciding factor.
Gary Anderson on the other side was after four well balanced sets just too much for the in this match overcharged Justin Hood
and Krzysztof Ratajski didn't find a way to put at least some pressure on Luke Littler.
Resultsnew
Statistics Quarterfinals new
PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 18
It is Quarterfinals Day at the Ally Pally. In each of the two sessions two matches will take place.
Match of the day: Personal Favourit: Gary Anderson v Justin Hood Impartial: Luke Humphries v Gian van Veen
Debutants of the day: Justin Hood
Seeded Player of the Day: Jonny Clayton (5), Gian van Veen (10), Luke Humphries (2), Luke Littler (1), Gary Anderson (14), Ryan Searle (20)
Today's Day's Specials: Justin Hood is the last debutant still in the tournament and beside the only player still in who qualified by the Pro Tour Order of Merit
What you should know as well: Krzysztof Ratajski qualified by the PDC World Ranking but not as a seeded player as he was outside the Top 32. Ratajskis very first World Championship was the BDO World Championship 2009.
One year later followed his first appearence in a PDC TV Tournament - he was together with Krzysztof Kciuk the Team Poland in the PDC World Cup. But Ratajski stayed in the BDO till 2017. In that year he first won the World Masters, then qualified for a second BDO World Championship and after that changed to the PDC.
This is his ninth PDC World Championship and he reached the quarterfinals after 2021 for the second time.
Schedule Day 18, Results
Statistics Day 18new
...and a Happy New Year!
30. December
PDC World Championship - Day 17
Today the fourth round was played to the end - tomorrow is another break before the tournament will continue on 1. January with the quarterfinals. As had to be expected we did see an upset today again - Justin Hood gave
Josh Rock no chance at all and defeated him 4:0. There were no close matches today anyway - even the match between Michael van Gerwen and Gary Anderson ended - slightly surprising - with a clear 4:1 win from Gary Anderson.
With the same result Gian van Veen defeated Charlie Manby and Luke Humphries Kevin Doets. Krzysztof Ratajski prevailed 4:2 over Luke Woodhouse and Jonny Clayton won as well 4:2 against Andreas Harrysson.
Resultsnew
Report, Statistics Day 17new
PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 17
Today the fourth round will be played to the end. In each of the two sessions three matches will take place.
Match of the day: Personal Favourit: Jonny Clayton v Andreas Harrysson Impartial: Michael van Gerwyn v Gary Anderson
Debutants of the day: Justin Hood, Charlie Manby, Andreas Harrysson
Seeded Player of the Day: Luke Woodhouse (25), Josh Rock (11), Jonny Clayton (5), Gian van Veen (10), Luke Humphries (2), Michael van Gerwen (3), Gary Anderson (14)
Today's Day's Specials: It is the norm that at this stage of the tournament a lot of seeds stand on stage and that still some not seeded players are around, but that three debutants are still in the tournament in the fourth round is definitely something
special.
What you should know as well: Kevin Doets qualified as he did last year by the Pro Tour Order of Merit for the World Championships and as last year reached the fourth round. Last year he lost to Chris Dobey.
This year he'll meet Luke Humphries. Doets played as did Niels Zonneveld as youth WDF tournaments and was together with Zonneveld part of the winning boys team in the WDF Europe Cup Youth 2014. He already was part of the winning team in 2013 when Zonneveld was not.
Doets and Zonneveld are the same age, Doets sits in place 40 of the PDC World Rankings, Zonneveld in place 44.
Schedule Day 17
29. December
PDC World Championship - Day 16
The third round ended today with some more surprising results - in the afternoon-session the two debutants Justin Hood and Charlie Manby won their matches against Ryan Meikle and Ricky Evans before Kevin Doets in
a closer match eliminated with Nathan Aspinall still another seed from the tournament. The evening-session was less thrilling - Josh Rock won the last match of the third round with 4:1 against Callan Rydz before Ryan Searle won
the first match of the fourth round with 4:0 against James Hurrell and Luke Littler prevailed over a spirited Rob Cross with 4:2.
Resultsnew
Bericht, Statistics Day 16new
PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 16
Today the third round will be played to the end and the fourth round will begin. In the afternoon-session three third round matches will be played, in the evening session one third round match and two matches of the fourth round.
Match of the day: Personal Favourit: Ricky Evans v Charlie Manby Impartial: Josh Rock v Callan Rydz
Debutants of the day: Justin Hood, Charlie Manby
Seeded Player of the Day: Nathan Aspinall (15), Josh Rock (11), Ryan Searle (20), Rob Cross (17), Luke Littler (1)
Today's Day's Specials: Two debutants will stand today in the third round at the oche. Charlie Manby is the better known - he already impressed this year on the Development Tour with good performances. Especially a senationell
130.70 average in a Development Tour event in February made the headlines. Manby didn't only play on Development Tour but WDF events as well. In 2022 he won with the English national youth team at the WDF Europe Cup Youth the team event
and together with Thomas Banks the boys pairs event and the youth event of the
British Internationals.
What you should know as well: The second debutant of the day, Justin Hood, is to be sure one of the surprise winners of this PDC World Championship. After several failed attempts he won 2025 a Tour Card,
had some good results on the Pro Tour and qualified by the Pro Tour Order of Merit for the PDC World Championship. In fact it is not his first World Championship - Hood qualified 2020 for the BDO World Championship
and lost first round to Richard Veenstra.
Not much is known about Hood - only that he loves it to stand on stage and very much likes Chinese food of which - as he tells himself - he eats far too much.
Schedule Day 16
28. December
PDC World Championship - Day 15
The third round of the tournament continued on day 15 with six more matches in which the former World Champions Rob Cross, Michael van Gerwen, Luke Humphries and Gary Anderson all progressed into the next round though neither for Humphries nor for
Anderson it was easy. Especially Anderson had a very hard fought match against Jermaine Wattimena which he only won in the tiebreak. The other winners of the day were Gian van Veen and Ryan Searle who both showed convincing performances.
Resultsnew
Report, Statistics Day 15new
PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 15
The third round continues - again with an afternoon- and an evening-session with three matches each.
Match of the day: Personal Favourit: Martin Schindler v Ryan Searle Impartial: Gian van Veen v Madars Razma
Debutants of the day: Arno Merk
Seeded Player of the Day: Martin Schindler (13), Ryan Searle (20), Damon Heta (16), Rob Cross (17), Gary Anderson (14), Jermaine Wattimena (19), Gian van Veen (10),
Luke Humphries (2), Michael van Gerwen (3)
Today's Day's Specials: Today is "German Day" at the PDC World Championship in London - with Martin Schindler, Gabriel Clemens and Arno Merk
three German players will stand at the oche. For Arno Merk it is the first PDC World Championship, Gabriel Clemens plays already his eighth and Martin Schindler his seventh PDC World Championship.
Clemens reached as first and so far only German player the semi-finals (2023), for Martin Schindler so far the World Championship ended latest in the third round.
What you should know as well: Latvian Madars Razma is the first and so far only player from his home country who plays as a pro darter in the PDC. Razma started his carrer
in WDF/BDO tournament and took part 2014, 2015 and 2016 in the BDO World Chanmpionship. 2017 he got his Tour Card in his first attempt in Qualifying School. Since 2020 he qualified
fpr each PDC World Championship and this year for the third time in a row stands in the third round.
Schedule Day 15new
27. December
PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 14
Today is the first day of the third round and the format the format is longer. Three matches each will be played in an afternoon- and an evening-session.
Match of the day: Personal Favourit: Andreas Harrysson v Ricardo Pietreczko Impartial: Luke Littler v Mensur Suljovic
Debutants of the day: Andreas Harrysson
Seeded Player of the Day: Luke Woodhouse (25), Jonny Clayton (5), Stephen Bunting (4), Luke Littler (1)
Today's Day's Specials: Niels Zonneveld started his career in the WDF Youth and together with Kevin Doets, Berry van Peer and Colin Roelofs he in 2014 won the team competition of the
WDF Europe Cup Youth. From 2018 to 2022 he took part in the PDC World Youth Championship where his best result was the semi-finals in 2020. Since 2020 and with the exeption of 2022
he takes part in the PDC World Championship. So far the second round 2024 was his best result.
What you should know as well: This year with Andreas Harrysson, Arno Merk, Justin Hood and Charlie Manby four debutants reached the third round while from the 32
seeds only 15 are still in the tournament.
Schedule Day 14, Resultsnew
Statistics Day 14new
Merry Christmas!
23. December
PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 13
The second round will be played to the end in an afternoon- and an evening-session and it is the last day before the Christmas Break.
Match of the day: Personal Favourit: Danny Noppert v Justin Hood Impartial: Jermaine Wattimena v Scott Williams
Debutants of the day: Jonny Tata, Arno Merk, Justin Hood
Seeded Player of the Day: Daryl Gurney (22), Jermaine Wattimena (19), Peter Wright (30), Danny Noppert (6), Gary Anderson (14), Michael van Gerwen (3), Josh Rock (11)
Today's Day's Specials: For Jonny Tata from New Zealand it is already the second World Championship, he already took part 2023 in ther WDF World Championship and reached the quarterfinals where he lost to
Andy Baetens. At his debut in the Alexandra Palace he won his first match against Ritchie Edhouse 3:0. He is in good company with this - New Zealanders Warren French, Preston Ridd, Rob Szabo and last 2018 and 2019 Cody Harrris
as well won their first matches in the PDC World Championship.
What you should know as well: Still the biggest group of participants in the PDC World Championship comes from England and five English players will stand
on stage today. But beside on the last day of the second round we will see three Dutchmen, two Scotsmen,
two Northern Irish and one Republic of Ireland player, one Australian, one player from New Zealand and one German.
Schedule Day 13, Results
Statistics Day 13new-->
22. December
PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 12
The second round will continue - again in an afternoon- and an evening-session.
Match of the day: Personal Favourit: Wessel Nijman v Gabriel Clemens Impartial: Luke Humphries v Paul Lim
Debutants of the day: Darren Beveridge, David Munyua, Charlie Manby, Adam Sevada
Seeded Player of the Day: Wessel Nijman (31), James Wade (7), Gian van Veen (10), Nathan Aspinall (15), Luke Humphries (2)
Today's Day's Specials: For the now 42 years old James Wade is is already his 24. World Championship in a row, two of them were BDO World Championships. Wade won in all his years on the PDC
Circuit almost all PDC TV tournaments or at least reached the final, only in the Players Championship Finals
and in the PDC World Championship he never got further then the semi-finals. In the PDC World Championship he four times stood in the semi-finals Halbfinalen - 2009, 2012, 2013 and last 2022. His best rank in the
were the 2. place, many years he was the number 3 of the world. This year for the thrid time he starts as number 7 into the tournament.
What you should know as well: As Gary Anderson Scotman Darren Beveridge was born in Musselburgh in Scotland. Beveridge already had chucked the sport of darts as he had no success. He came back
got a Tour Card
and with his appearance on the Alexandra Palace stage fulfilled a chidhoods dream. This afternoon he will play against Madars Razma.
Schedule Day 12, Resultsnew
Report, Statistics Day 12new
PDC World Championship - Day 11
On the second day of the second round there were again some surprising resulte - though Wesley Plaisier caused with his 3:0 win over Gerwyn Price in the evening-session not only a surprise but a real upset. It was from both players a good match but Price was just not as
clinical on his doubles as his opponent. But we did see a surprise in the afternoon as well - Joe Cullen had big problems with Mensur Suljovic' style of playing which was even more questionable then usually and lost 1:3. The other winners of the afternoon were Krzysztof Ratajski,
Luke Woodhouse and Rob Cross. In the evening beside Plaisier a strong playing Martin Schindler, Luke Littler and Damon Heta, who improved a lot during the match, progressed into the next round.
Resultsnew
Statistics Day 11new
21. December
PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 11
The second round will continue - again in an afternoon- and an evening-session.
Match of the day: Personal Favourit: Martin Schindler v Keane Barry Impartial: Gerwyn Price v Wesley Plaisier
Debutants of the day: David Davies
Seeded Player of the Day: Ryan Joyce (20), Joe Cullen (32), Luke Woodhouse (25), Rob Cross (17), Martin Schindler(13), Gerwyn Price (9), Luke Littler (1), Damon Heta (18)
Today's Day's Specials: For Mensur Suljovic it is already the 17. PDC World Championship, with the exception of 2024 he qualified every year since 2008. Three times he reached the last 16, once the third round. In the last few years
the for Austria playing Suljovic was no longer really successful. This year a place under the last 16 of an European Tour event was his best result.
What you should know as well: Fifteen Dutch players had qualified for the World Championship, twelve of them by the Order of Merit or the Pro Tour Order of Merit. Nine progressed into
the second round. Only one, Wesley Plaisier will stand at the oche today.
Schedule Day 11, Resultsnew
Statistics Day 11new
20. December
PDC World Championship - Day 10
The first day of the second round was a comparatively short day of darts as in the evening-session only three matches took place. The afternoon-session started with an outstanding playing Ryan Searle who defeated Brendan Dolan 3:0. Andreas Harrysson won
the second not so highclass match as well with 3:0 against Motumo Sakai.
The next two matches were hard fought and both ended with 3:2. Not really surprising Ricardo Pietreczko defeated Dave Chisnall 3:2 in the last match of the afternoon. Chisnall threw unbelievable 11 180s but had problems to hit
his doubles. A real upset caused James Hurrell in the penultimate afternoon match when he kept his nerve and defeated Dirk van Duijvenbode in a head to head game with the same result.
The evening-session was not quite as thrilling but started with an upset as well as Niels Zonneveld eliminated a strong scoring Michael Smith with 3:1. After that followed a 3:1 win from Andrew Gilding over Chris Dobey and
a very clear 3:0 win from Stephen Bunting over Nitin Kumar.
The Ally Pally Wasp today used Pietreczko's darts to take a rest...
Resultsnew
Report, Statistics Day 10new
PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 10
Again an afternoon- and an evening-session will be played and the second round will begin.
Match of the day: Personal Favourit: Andreas Harrysson v Motumo Sakai Impartial: Chris Dobey v Andrew Gilding
Debutants of the day: Andreas Harrysson, Motumo Sakai
Seeded Player of the Day: Ryan Searle (20), Dirk van Duijvenbode (29), Dave Chisnall (21), Michael Smith (28), Chris Dobey (8), Stephen Bunting (4)
Today's Day's Specials: Many of the players who stand at the oche today started their career in the BDO or WDF - one of them is James Hurrell who this years takes part for the second time in the PDC World
Championship. He before qualified two times each for the BDO and the WDF World Championship. His best result were the quarterfinals of the WDF World Championship 2022 where he lost to Cameron Menzies.
What you should know as well: In the evening-session only three matches will take place. Jonny Clayton got a bye as his opponent Dom Taylor was tested positive for drugs (already for the second time) and
has been suspended.
Schedule Day 10new
PDC World Championship - Day 9
The ninth day of the World Championship was the last day of the first round and we did see many one-sided matches. In the afternoon-session only the not really highclass match between Mickey Mansell and Leonard Gates was hard fought, Gates
won with 3:2. The other winners of the afternoon were Kevin Doets, Ryan Meikle and Josh Rock against whom Gemma Hayter won a set and three legs. In the first match of the evening-session William O'Connor had with 102.36 the highest average of the first round, beside he had
a hitting rate on the doubles of over 50 percent and his opponent Krzysztof Kciuk only won two legs. After that Beau Greaves played against Daryl Gurney, a very close game in which
Gurney only just managed to get over the finishing line first. As hard fought was the next match between Nathan Aspinall and Lourence Ilagan. Aspinall won it with an 170 finish in the deciding leg of the
fouth set. To conclude the first round followed one more one-sided match
- Keane Barry defeated Tim Pusey with 3:0.
Resultsnew
Report, Statistics Day 9new
19. December
PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 9
Again an afternoon- and an evening-session will be played.
Match of the day: Personal Favourit: Daryl Gurney v Beau Greaves Impartial: Nathan Aspinall v Lourence Ilagan
Debutants of the day: Matthew Dennant, Jesus Salate, Gemma Hayter, Tim Pusey
Seeded Player of the Day: Josh Rock (11), Nathan Aspinall (15)
Today's Day's Specials: With Jesus Salate the first ever player from Argentina will stand on the Ally Pally stage. Salate impressed in the PDC World Cup of Darts and - as he is a very big football fan - would love to become
some kind of Maradona of darts. Salate had a good look at his opponent Ryan Meikle and hopes he will be able to show a good performance against him.
What you should know as well: Gemma Hayter is the only female debutant in the field of participants and she is a good friend of Luke Humphries. They played together in the Hampshire Youth League.
Of course she hopes to be able to defeat Josh Rock but first of all she hopes her appearence in the World Championship will inspire more women to take up the sport.
Schedule Day 9, Resultsnew
Statistics Day 9new
PDC World Championship - Day 8
The afternoon-session of the eighth day of the tournament ended with a sensation - Kenyan David Munyua defeated the number 18 seed Mike de Decker with 3:2 and progressed into the second round where he'll meet
the winner of the first round match between Kevin Doets and Matthew Dennant. So the Kenyan is not only the first ever player from Kenya in the Ally Pally but as well the first ever Kenyan who won a match in the World Championship.
Japanes debutant Motumo Sakai as well got a win against Thibault Tricole. The other winners of the day were Ryan Joyce, Callan Rydz, Jermaine Wattimena, David Chisnall - against Fallon Sherrock who couldn't hit
her doubles-, Michael van Gerwen - who had as well a lot of double trouble and was under a lot pressure against Japanese Mitsuhiko Tatsunami - and an impressive playing Krzysztof Ratajski.
Resultsnew
Report, Statistics Day 8new
18. December
PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 8
Again an afternoon- and an evening-session will be played.
Match of the day: Personal Favourit: Dave Chisnall v Fallon Sherrock Impartial: Michael van Gerwen v Mitsuhiko Tatsunami
Debutants of the day: Patrik Kovacs, Motumo Sakai, David Munyua, Dominik Gruellich, Mitsuhiko Tatsunami
Seeded Player of the Day: Ryan Joyce (24), Mike de Decker (18), Michael van Gerwen (3), Dave Chisnall (21), Jermaine Wattimena (19)
Today's Day's Specials: Today two Japanese debutants will stand on stage and about both not much is known as they don't play much internationally. The much younger Motumo Sakai played as soft-darts player the Dartslive
tournament series and for some years now the PDC Asian Tour by which he qualified for the PDC World Championship. Mitsuhiko Tatsunami, 52 years of age, won 2024 the WDF Asia Pacific Cup and qualified as winner of the
PDJ Steel Darts Japan Tour. He as well competes on the PDC Asian Tour.
What you should know as well: Patrik Kovacs is the only second Hungarian player who managed to qualify for the PDC World Champion. The only one before him was Nandor Bezzeg who stood on stage
in the Alexandra Palace 2009 and lost his first round match to Vincent van der Voort. Together with Bezzeg Kovacs took part as Team Hungary 2016 in the PDC World Cup and reached the second round.
Schedule Day 8, Resultsnew
Statistics Day 8new
PDC World Championship - Day 7
On the seventh day of the tournament only an evening session took place but history was written nevertheless - Swiss Stefan Bellmont defeated Raymond van Barneveld - who only won two legs - with 3:0 and is now the first
Swiss player to win a match in the PDC World Championship. The Canadian-American clash between Matt Campbell and debutant Adam Sevada ended slightly surprising with a 3:1 win for Sevada. Due to this Campbell lost his Tour Card.
James Wade had no problems to prevail 3:0 over Ryusei Azemoto and German Martin Schindler played really good and had as well no problems to win 3:1 against Stephen Burton.
Resultsnew
Report, Statistics Day 7new
17. December
PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 7
Today only an evening session will by played.
Match of the day: Personal Favourit: Raymond van Barneveld v Stefan Bellmont Impartial: Martin Schindler v Stephen Burton
Debutants of the day: Adam Sevada
Seeded Player of the Day: James Wade (7), Martin Schindler (13)
Today's Day's Specials: For Martin Schindler's opponent Stephen Burton it is already the third World Championship. So far he always lost first round. Burton already plays since 2014
PDC tournaments, won three Challenge Tour events and in 2018 reached the last 16 of the Players Championship Finals. For this World Championship he qualified by the Tour Card Holders qualifier.
What you should know as well: Swiss Stefan Bellmont is the so far first and only Swiss darts playerwho qualified for the PDC World Championship. Last year he qualified for the first time -
by the Western Europe Qualifier. This year he qualified by the Challenge Tour Order of Merit. his success ond the Challenge Tour 2025 beside secured him a Tour Card. By this he once again wrote history
- he is the first Swiss Player ever with a PDC Tour Card.
Schedule Day 7
16. December
PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 6
Again an afternoon- and an evening session will take place.
Match of the day: Personal Favourit: Niko Springer v Joe Comito Impartial: Danny Noppert v Jurjen van der Velde
Debutants of the day: Adam Sevada
Seeded Player of the Day: Chris Dobey (8), Danny Noppert (6), Gerwyn Price (9)
Today's Day's Specials: It is the only day of the first round in which two German players will stand on stage and even in the same session. For Ricardo Pietreczko it
will be the third World Championship - last year he reached the Last 16. For Niko Springer it is the second - he lost first round last year.
What you should know as well: It is Teemu Harju first senior PDC World Championship but as a youth player he was three times the Scandinavian representative
in the PDC World Youth Championship.
Schedule Day 6, Resultsnew
Report, Statistics Day 6new
15. December
PDC World Championship - Day 5
The fifth day of the tournament was an in parts dramatic and entertaining day on which from the seeds only Cameron Menzies was eliminated in a close match by Charlie Manby who had
arrived with his own fan club. For the labile Menzies the defeat was almost not to bear.
Jonny Clayton and Dirk van Duijvenbode had no problems to progress - van Duijvenbode showed the best performance of the day. Other winners were the former German number 1
Max Hopp with a solid performance, Mensur Suljovic, Brendan Dolan, Peter Wright - in a weak match against the even weaker Noa-Lynn
van Leuven and Connor Scutt in the thrilling last match of the night against Simon Whitlock.
Resultsnew
Statistics Day 5new
More Wasps...
On the third and fourth day of the World Championship the wasps were still around. Might be these are dart fans - I've no idea.
But a lot of mediocre, good and outstanding darts as well were played on days three and four of the tournament and some drama was as well added to the mix.
More Wasps or Days Three and Four of the PDC World Championshipnew
PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 5
Again an afternoon- and an evening session will take place.
Match of the day: Personal Favourit: Cameron Menzies v Charlie Manby Impartial: Jonny Clayton v Adam Lipscombe
Debutants of the day: Tavis Dudeney, Charlie Manby, Adam Lipscombe
Seeded Player of the Day: Cameron Menzies (28), Peter Wright (30), Jonny Clayton (5), Dirk van Duijvenbode (29)
Today's Day's Specials: Adam Lipscombe only by chance got a Tour Card in Q School 2025. He didn't qualify for the final stage but when David Pallett withdrew short notice from final stage he moved in for him
and won a Tour Card.
What you should know as well: Canadian David Cameron took place in seven BDO and one WDF World Championships. This is already his third PDC world
Championship. So far he only won a match once - in the PDC World Championship 2023.
Schedule Day 5, Resultsnew
Statistics Day 5new
14. December
PDC World Championship - Day 4
On the fourth day of the PDC World Championship the best performances came from the two seeds Stephen Bunting - who only just won over Sebastian Bialecki in the tie break - and Joe Cullen while the other two seeds -
Dimitri van den Bergh and Ritchie Edhouse disappointed and were eliminated - both by debutants. Edhouse lost 0:3 to Jonny Tata, Dimitri van den Bergh with the
same result against the strong playing Darren Beveridge. Lukas Wenig played a solid match but it was just not enough to prevail over Wesley Plaisier.
Beside by Nitin Kumar we did see the first ever Indian win in the PDC World Championship and wins from Dom Taylor and James Hurrell.
Resultsnew
Report,Statistics Day 4new
PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 4
Again an afternoon- and an evening session will take place.
Match of the day: Personal Favourit: Lukas Wenig v Wesley Plaisier Impartial: Stephen Bunting v Sebastian Bialecki
Debutants of the day: Jonny Tata, Darren Beveridge, Dom Taylor, Lukas Wenig, Oskar Lukasiak
Seeded Player of the Day: Joe Cullen (32), Dimitri van den Bergh (23), Stephen Bunting (4), Ritchie Edhouse (27)
Today's Day's Specials: Oskar Lukasiak hit a nine-darter when he was twelve in the Denmark Open - the youngst player ever who hit the perfect leg in an official competition
What you should know as well: Not only Dimitri van den Bergh is a PDC Youth World Champion (twice) but Bradley Brooks as well. He won the title in 2020 against Joe Davis. While Davis
somehow disappeared, Brooks still is around, had some success on the Development Tour and this year won his first Players Championship.
Schedule Day 4, Results
Statistics Day 4new
13. December
PDC World Championship - Day 3
The third day of the World Championship had quite a few highlights both in the afternoon- and in the evening -session. In the afternoon-session the winners were debutant David Davies,
Andrew Gilding and Luke Woodhouse with quite dominant performances and Gary Anderson who had to fight hard with the opponent Adam Hunt - who played really well - and as well
with his doubles. The evening session started with a surprisingly clear win of Paul Lim over Jeffrey de Graaf for whom the match to be sure was not enjoyable. That was followed
by an easy 3:0 win of Wessel Nijman and a not so easy 3:1 win of Luke Humphries who had more problems with a strong playing Ted Evetts then everybody had expected.
Last on was Gabriel Clemens v Alex Spellman in which Clemens had no problems at all to win 3:0. Clemens threw the second 170 finish of the World Championship.
Resultsnew
Statistics Day 3new
The wasps are back...
No sign of them on the first day but serveral appearances on day two.
But the article is not really about wasps mainly it deals with the first two days of the Wold Championship and all the darts we already did see.
The wasps are back as well or the first two days of the World Championshipnew
PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 3
Again an afternoon- and an evening session will take place.
Match of the day: Personal Favourit: Andrew Gilding v Cam Crabtree Impartial: Wessel Nijman v Karel Sedlacek
Debutants of the day: David Davies, Cam Crabtree
Seeded Player of the Day:Luke Woodhouse (25), Gary Anderson (14), Wessel Nijman (31), Luke Humphpries (2)
Today's Day's Specials: Players of very different age will stand today on stage from the 22 years old debutant Cam Crabtree to the 71 years old
legend Paul Lim
What you should know as well: Because the corona lockdown Crabtree's GCSEs was cancelled and Crabtree was bored. His father who played darts offered
to play with him and it turned outline Cam is quite a talent. Tour Card January 2025, World Championship debut December 2025.
Schedule Day 3, Resultsnew
Report, Statistics Day 3new
12. December
PDC World Championship - Day 2
The second day of the PDC World Championship was a long day of darts. In the afternoon session we did see three more one-sided matches which were won by Niels Zonneveld, Rob Cross and Ryan Searle. Cross win with a 170
finish was the highlight of the session.
The other match was a rather arduous affair - Ian White won in the end 3:2 against Mervyn King. In the evening the
atmosphere in the venue was even better from the start and Ross Smith and Andreas Harrysson delighted the crowd with a thrilling match in which Harrysson surprisingly prevailed 3:2.
After that Ricky Evans sparked the crowd with his walk-on even more and deservedly won 3:0 against Man Lok Leung who only played good in the
third set. In the match between Gian van Veen and Cristo Reyes it took some time till Reyes had settled but then he made live difficult for van Veen who only
just stopped Reyes to draw 2:2 and won 3:1. In the last match Damon Heta played against Steve Lennon and won 3:1.
Resultsnew
Report, Statistics Day 2new
They are back!!!
Sometimes players, which somehow disappeared or you already wrote off, return to the PDC World Championship.
This year as well there some of those players in the World Championship who managed to qualify. My article deals with a few of them.
They are back!!!new
PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 2
Today an afternoon and an evening session will take place.
Match of the day: Personal Favourit (nostalgic reasons): Ian White v Mervyn King. Impartial: Gian van Veen v Cristo Reyes
Debutants of the day: Cor Dekker, Andreas Harrysson
Seeded Player of the Day: Ryan Searle (20), Rob Cross (17), Gian van Veen (10), Damon Heta (16), Ross Smith (11)
Today's Day's Specials: Though Swede Andreas Harrysson will give his debut in this PRDC World Championship it is not his first World Championship. 2020 he took part
in the BDO World Championship and 2022 in the WDF Wrold Championship. Both times he lost first round.
What you should know as well:Ian White is around for many years already and well known. In 1997 he lost in the final of the News of the World to Phil Taylor.
2010 he lost in the first round of the BDO World Championship to Stephen Bunting. Since 2012 he qualified for every PDC World Championship. His best result were the quarterfinals
in 2014 where he lost to Simon Whitlock.
Schedule Day 2, Resultsnew
Statistics Day 2new
11. December
PDC World Championship - Day 1
The biggest uoset of the night already came in the first match of the PDC World Championship - German debutant Arno Merk showed no nerves at all and hit his doubles better
as his on this stage much more experienced opponent Kim Huybrechts and won 3:1. No problems at all had in the second match Michael Smith against
Lisa Ashton who was cheered a lot by the crowd and won 3:0 as did reigning champion Luke Littler against Darius Labanauskas. But the match was not as onesided as the result
- two of the sets went into the deciding leg and in the last set Labanauskas had his chances as well. In the last match Madars Razma made life rather difficult for him against
the dutch debutant Jamai van den Herik who didn't score as well as Razma but Razma had problems to hit his doubles. In the end the rather tense Razma won with 3:1.
Resultsnew
Report, Statistics Day 1new
PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 1
On the first tournament day only an evening session will take place.
Match of the day: Personal Favourit: Michael Smith v Lisa Ashton. Impartial: Luke Littler v Darius Labanauskas
Debutants of the day: Arno Merk, Jamai van den Herik
Seeded Player of the Day: Michael Smith (28), Luke Littler (1)
Today's Day's Specials: Kim Huybrechts played for some years in the BDO but never qualified for the World Championship. This year's PDC World Championships
is his fifteenth in a row. His best result so far was a quarterfinal in his first PDC World Championship.
What you should know as well: German Arno Merk is one of eight German participants in this year's World Championship and one of three German debutants. He will
be the first player on stage this year. It is not his first World Championship - 2011 he qualified for the BDO World Championship but lost first round.
Schedule Day 1, Resultsnew
Today it will begin!!!
Today the much anticipated PDC World Championship will begin in London.
I am still recovering from the WDF tournaments, but I arrived in London and will have a look at it. My second article deals with all that is new in this year's event
and some other - hopefully - interesting details.
World Championships - Part 2new
PDC World Championship 2025/26
In the PDC preview reigning champion Luke Littler and former champions Michael Smith, Luke Humphries, Gary Anderson and Michael van Gerwen have their say.
Beside Paddy Power has announced a first-of-its-kind charity challenge with Prostate Cancer UK - where one at random selected member of the public will get the chance to throw nine darts on Ally Pally stage to win 180,000.
Details you can find here: Näheres erfahrt ihr hier: Darts of Destiny
PDC Previewnew
9. December
Ally Pally to host World Darts Championship until 2031
As the PDC announced the PDC World Championship will be at least till 2031 in the Alexandra Palace in London.
But from next year onwards whe will be played in the Great Hall which will allow much bigger crowds.
Ally Pally to host World Darts Championship until 2031new
8. December
After the World Championship is before the World Championship...
The WDF World Championships are only just over but now all eyes are turned on the PDC World Championship in London which will begin on Thursday.
Global Darts will be again a few days live in London and accompany the tournament with some own coverage.
But the first article is not about the PDC World Championship but a personal resume of the WDF World Championships which to be sure had their own charm.
World Championships - Part 1new
7. December
WDF World Championships
Last year Jimmy van Schie was already the favourit to win the title but lost third round to Jarno Bottenberg. This year he was the number 1 seed and this time with
an 6:3 win over Mitchell Lawrie really got the title. Lawrie already had been 3:0 in the lead but than became weaker and van Schie won deservedly. But Lawrie stayed not without title - he defeated in the boy's final
the good playing Florian Preis with 4:2. In the girl's event Zehra Gemi from Turkey defeated Rebecca Allen with 3:0. Gemi was dominat throughout the match and Allen just couldn't keep up. With her 77.07
Gemi even played a higher average then the new women's world champion Deta Hedman who won in the age of at her fourth attempt finally the title. Contrary to her other Lakeside finals Lakeside finals
Hedman most of the final looked very relaxed while her opponent the number 1 seed Lerena Rietbergen never really was in the match and lost 1:4.
Results Finals
WDF World Championships
With Paige Pauling yesterday in the semi-finals the last reigning champion was eliminated - Pauling lost in the girl's semi-finals against her Turkish opponent Zehra Gemi. The other girl's semi-final
was won by Rebecca Allen from Ireland, who will clash with Gemi in today's final. Still in the headlines is young Scotsman Mitchell Lawrie who reached with 15 years both the boy's and the men's final
where he'll meet number 1 seed Jimmy van Schie who prevailed in his semi-final over Belgian Sybren Gijbels. In the women's final Deta Hedman will play against the number 1 seed
Lerena Rietbergen who eliminated in her semi-final Rhian O'Sullivan. Hedman played in her semi-final against Priscilla Steenbergen with 82.24 the so far highest average of the women's event.
Today all finals will be played.
The tournaments will be streamed at WDF live Darts
Schedule Finalsnew
6. December
WDF World Championships
Yesterday both men and women played their quarterfinals at the Lakeside Country Club. Beside the last two quarterfinals of the boy's took place. Reigning champion Shane McGuirk was eliminated in the so
far best match of the tournament by number 1 seed Jimmy van Shie. Van Schie will now meet today in the semi-finals Belgian Sybren Gijbels. In the other men's semi-final Mitchell
Lawrie and Jenson Walker will clash. Lawrie will come on stage a second time in the boy's semi-finals where he'll play against Kaya Baysal. In the second boy's semi-final Florian Preis will meet Mason Teese.
In the women's semi-finals we'll see Priscilla Steenbergen v Deta Hedman and number 1 seed Lerena Rietbergen v Rhian O'Sullivan. In the girl's semi-finals first Ruby Grey will play against Rebecca Allen and
in the evening-session reigning champion Paige Pauling will meet Zehra Gemi.
Today in an afternoon- and an evening-session all semi-finals will take place - in each session one men's-, one women's, one boy's- and one girl's semi-final.
The tournaments will be streamed at WDF live Darts
Schedule, Results Semi-Finalsnew
5. December
WDF World Championships
On Thursday at the WDF World Championships in Lakeside in the men's event the third round was played and the women finished their second round. Beside the first two boy's quarterfinals took place.
The men's winners were James Beeton, Francois Schweyen, Sybren Gijbels, reigning champion Shane McGuirk, number 1 seed Jimmy van Schie, Ben Robb, Jenson Walker and Mitchell Lawrie. Lawrie as well
won his boy's quarterfinal against Adam Sepsi, the second boy's quarterfinal won English Kaya Baysal. In the women's event the two Welsh women Eve Watson and Rhian O'Sullivan progressed convincingly
into the quarterfinals.
Today an afternoon- and an evening-session takes place - in each session two men's and two women's quarterfinals and one boy's quarterfinal will be played.
The tournaments will be streamed at WDF live Darts
Schedule, Results Seventh Tournament Day
Schedule, Results Eight Tournament Daynew
3. December
WDF World Championships
The fifth night of the WDF World Championships was a quite slow night on which the seeds Benjamin Pratnemer, Francois Schweyen (with some luck) and Matt Clark progressed into the next round. Only German Marcus Maier - who had moved up for
David Pallett last-minute - was eliminated. He won a solid first set but couldn't keep up his performance. In the women's tournament seed Tracy Feiertag didn't manage to settle on the Lakeside stage and lost to Priscilla
Steenbergen while the as well seeded Lorraine Hyde had to be sure the luck on her side to progress - she survived 13 matchdarts of Emine Dursun.
Again only an evening-session will be played. As Andy Davidson withdrew on very short notice due to health reasons only three men's second round matches will take place and Jeff Springer Jr gets a bye and
progresses into the third round. Beside again two women's second round matches will take place.
The tournaments will be streamed at WDF live Darts
Schedule, Resultsnew
2. December
Even more Additions Who is Who
These players were added to the Who is Who: James Beeton, Francois Schweyen, Corne Groeneveld,
Andy Davidson, Tomoya Maruyama,
Karl Schaefer, Clint Clarkson, Jirji Brejcha,
Jonas Masalin, Jeff Springer Jr, Dalibor Smolik, Caleb Hope,
Mitchell Lawrie, Vince Tipple, Alex Williams, Stefan Schroder,
Daniel Bauerdick, Marcus Maier, Sybren Gijbels, Tracy Feiertag,
Joanne Hadley, Maria Carli, Jitka Cisarova, Aaja Jalbert,
Paige Pauling, Florian Preis und Mason Teese.
WDF World Championships
On the fourth day of the tournament four men's and two women's second round matches took place and half of the seeds were eliminated. New Zealands Nicol Regnaud - the number 4 seed of the women - lost to Maria Carli. Number 8 men's seed Corne Groeneveld lost to a
persistent Jonas Masalin and number 3 seed Neil Duff to an outstanding playing Ben Robb from New Zealand who played with 96.29 the so far highest average of the tournament.
Again only an evening-session with four second round matches of the men and two second round matches of the women will be played. In the last match of the night two replacements will meet - German Marcus Maier will stand at the oche
against Belgian Sybren Gijbels.
The tournaments will be streamed at WDF live Darts
Schedule, Resultsnew
1. December
WDF World Championships
On Sunday at the WDF World Championships again two sessions were played. Four women's first round matches, five men's first round and two men's second round matches took place. The two seeds
Liam Maendl-Lawrance and Stefan Schroder lost their second round matches against Caleb Hope and reigning champion Shane McGuirk who showed in his second match again a strong performance.
In the women's event the winners were the two Dutch women Priscilla Steenbergen and Aletta Wajer,
Emine Dursun from Turkey and Paige Pauling who started a little bit shaky but was strong on the doubles.
At the men's first round matches the debut of the fifteen year's old Scottish talent Mitchell Lawrie was highly anticipated. Lawries had some problems at the start but in the end defeated the good playing Japanese
Tomoya Maruyama with a convincing performance 3:0.
Today only an evening-session with four second round matches of the men and two second round matches of the women will be played. Paul Krohne will open the night against Dalibor Smolik.
The tournaments will be streamed at WDF live Darts
Schedule, Resultsnew
30. November
WDF World Championships
On the second day of the WDF World Championships with James Beeton and Jimmy van Schie the first men's seeds stood at the oche, both won their matches. Beeton defeated in a from both players far from great match Dennis Nilsson
with 3:2, van Schie - on of the favourites on the tournament win - prevailed 3:0 over Alex Williams. The best performance in the men's event showed Ben Robb from Neu Zealand with his 91.56 average at his 3:1 win over
Johann Engström. The best women's performance came from Welsh Eve Watson with an 78.20 average at her 2:0 win over Australian Joanne Hadley. The two times world champion
Mikuri Suzuki as well advanced into the second round.
David Pallett withdrew on short notice and will be replaced by German Marcus Maier. He will play on Tuesday night against Sybren Gijbels who replaced Boris Krcmar.
The tournaments will be streamed at WDF live Darts
Schedule, Resultsnew
29. November
WDF World Championships
Yesterday in the Lakeside Country Club in Frimley Green this year's WDF World Championships begun. From 28. November - 7. Dezember the World Championships of men, women, boys and girls will be played.
The tournaments will be streamed at WDF live Darts
Participants, Schedule, Resultsnew
27. November
PDC World Championship 2025/26
After the draw the PDC now published the schedule of the first round which will be played from 11.to 19. December.
As always the reigning champion will stand on stage on the first night - Luke Littler will play against Darius Labanauskas. The match between Kim Huybrechts and German debutant Arno Merk will
open the tournament.
Schedule First roundnew
25. November
PDC World Championship 2025/26
After the Players Championship Finals and the Tour Card Holders Qualifier for the World Championship all participants in the PDC World Championship are known. The tournament will begin on 11. December
in the Alexandra Palace in London.
For the first time 128 Splayers will take part and all players will begin the tournament in the first round. By the Tour Card Holders Qualifier Tavis Dudeney, Adam Hunt, Stephen Burton,
Haupai Puha and Jose de Sousa qualified.
The PDC already published the draw for the first round. Luke Littlerwill bein his title defence against Darius Labanauskas.
PDC World Championship Participantsnew
PDC World Championship Draw First Roundnew
Additions Who is Who
The following players were added to the Who is Who: Teemu Harju, Jamai van den Herik, Arno Merk,
Darren Berveridge, Davis Davies,
Matthew Dennant, Paul Krohne, Tim Pusey, Motumo Sakai,
Ryusei Azemoto, Adam Sevada, Charlie Manby,
Mitsuhiko Tatsunami and David Munyua.
The PDC announced the participants in this year's Premier League. With Gian van Veen - the new Dutch number 1 and Josh Rock - who moved up to place 9 of the PDC World Rankings after the World Championship - there will be two
debutants. The other participants will be Luke Littler, Luke Humphries, Michael van Gerwen, Jonny Clayton, Stephen Bunting and Gerwyn Price.
The Premier League will be played every Thursday from 5. February till 28. May and for the first time there will be a League Day in Antwerp, Belgium.
Premier League 2026
5. January
PDC Qualifiying School
Today the UK and the European Qualifying School begin in Milton Keynes and in Kalkar, Germany. 925 participants - 391 in Milton Keynes and 533 in Kalkar - will battle in two stages til Sunday for the 29 Tour Cards.More information and the participants you can find here:
Qualifying School 2026new
The results of the first day you can find here:
UK Qualifying School Results Day 1new
EU Qualifying School Results Day 1new
4. January
The PDC World Championship 2025/26
To bring my World Championship coverage to a conclusion here the last article with my personal resume of the tournament in which of course the wasps make an appearance as well.
The PDC World Championship 2025/26new
PDC Rankings
The PDC World Ranking=Werner Rankings Ladder was updated after the World Championship.PDC Rankings
3. January
Littler defends title
In a slightly disappointing but unsurprising one-sided final of the PDC World Championship 2025/26 Luke Littler defeated Gian van Veen with 7:1 and defended his title.
Van Veen won the first set but after that the final was all about Littler though van Veen managed to win a few more legs but never in any way endangered Littler's title defence. Van Veen is now the new Dutch number 1 and the new World number 3 - might be a crumb of comfort for the disappointed runner-up.
Resultnew
Report, Statistics Final new
PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 20
Tonight the Final of the PDC World Championship will be played.
Today's Day's Specials: Both for Luke Littler and for Gian van Veen it is the third World Championship. Both stood at the World Championship 2023/24 for the first time on the stage of the ALexandra Palace. Luke Littler qualified that year by the Development Tour Order of Merit, Gian van Veen by the Pro Tour Order of Merit. While van Veen lost at his first World Championship sensational in the first round to Man Lok Leung Littler only lost in the final to Luke Humphries. At his second World Championship van Veen - who had qualified as Littler as seeded player - again lost in round 1 - this time to Ricardo Pietreczko and Littler won the title. This year the'll meet in a repeat of the PDC World Youth Championship Final 2023 in the final - Littler won the youth final 2023 with 6:4.
What you should know as well: Tonight not only the final of the World Championship will be played tonight for the last time George Noble and John McDonald will stand as Referee/Caller and MC on the stage of the Alexandra Palace. Noble started his PDC career in 2007 - before he had been Referee/Caller in the BDO. McDonald worked since 2005 for the PDC and 2008 he was for the first time MC of the PDC World Championship. Both claim the main reason for their retirement is that they finally want to have time for their respective families and don't want to be so much on the road any longer which is readily understandable. Nevertheless we will miss them and wish them all the best!
2. January
Players from Africa at the PDC World Championship
Wether the wasp are still around at the Ally Pally I have no idea as I am for a long time already back home. And so I choose for this article a completely different topic -
it is about all the players from Africa who so far qualified for the PDC World Championship.
Players from Africa at the PDC World Championshipnew
PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 19
Today only an evening session will be played in which both semi-finals will take place.
Today's Day's Specials: Ryan Searle is the player in the semi-finals who is the lowest ranked in the PDC World Ranking - he sits in place 20. And he is the only one of the players in the semi-finals who so far didn't win a PDC TV Major.
What you should know as well: Neither Gian van Veen nor Ryan Searle stood so far in the semi-finals of the PDC World Championship. For van Veen it is the third World Championship and his best result so far was the second round. For Searle it is already the eighth World Championship and his best result so far were the Last 16 in 2019, 2021 and 2022.
Schedule Semi-Finals, Resultsnew
Report, Statistics Semi-Finalsnew
1. January
PDC World Championship - Quarterfinals
All four quarterfinals were surprisingly one-sided matches with in most cases not really to be expected results. The biggests upset was probably the 1:5 defeat of
Luke Humphries by Gian van Veen - Humphries scored quite well, but not as good as van Veen and made too many mistakes on his doubles. Beside he didn't manage to take the few chances
which were offered to him. Jonny Clayton's clear 2:5 loss to Ryan Searle was unexpected as well - and here as well Clayton's double problems were a deciding factor.
Gary Anderson on the other side was after four well balanced sets just too much for the in this match overcharged Justin Hood
and Krzysztof Ratajski didn't find a way to put at least some pressure on Luke Littler.
Resultsnew
Statistics Quarterfinals new
PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 18
It is Quarterfinals Day at the Ally Pally. In each of the two sessions two matches will take place.
Match of the day: Personal Favourit: Gary Anderson v Justin Hood Impartial: Luke Humphries v Gian van Veen
Debutants of the day: Justin Hood
Seeded Player of the Day: Jonny Clayton (5), Gian van Veen (10), Luke Humphries (2), Luke Littler (1), Gary Anderson (14), Ryan Searle (20)
Today's Day's Specials: Justin Hood is the last debutant still in the tournament and beside the only player still in who qualified by the Pro Tour Order of Merit
What you should know as well: Krzysztof Ratajski qualified by the PDC World Ranking but not as a seeded player as he was outside the Top 32. Ratajskis very first World Championship was the BDO World Championship 2009. One year later followed his first appearence in a PDC TV Tournament - he was together with Krzysztof Kciuk the Team Poland in the PDC World Cup. But Ratajski stayed in the BDO till 2017. In that year he first won the World Masters, then qualified for a second BDO World Championship and after that changed to the PDC. This is his ninth PDC World Championship and he reached the quarterfinals after 2021 for the second time.
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...and a Happy New Year!
30. December
PDC World Championship - Day 17
Today the fourth round was played to the end - tomorrow is another break before the tournament will continue on 1. January with the quarterfinals. As had to be expected we did see an upset today again - Justin Hood gave
Josh Rock no chance at all and defeated him 4:0. There were no close matches today anyway - even the match between Michael van Gerwen and Gary Anderson ended - slightly surprising - with a clear 4:1 win from Gary Anderson.
With the same result Gian van Veen defeated Charlie Manby and Luke Humphries Kevin Doets. Krzysztof Ratajski prevailed 4:2 over Luke Woodhouse and Jonny Clayton won as well 4:2 against Andreas Harrysson.
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PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 17
Today the fourth round will be played to the end. In each of the two sessions three matches will take place.
Match of the day: Personal Favourit: Jonny Clayton v Andreas Harrysson Impartial: Michael van Gerwyn v Gary Anderson
Debutants of the day: Justin Hood, Charlie Manby, Andreas Harrysson
Seeded Player of the Day: Luke Woodhouse (25), Josh Rock (11), Jonny Clayton (5), Gian van Veen (10), Luke Humphries (2), Michael van Gerwen (3), Gary Anderson (14)
Today's Day's Specials: It is the norm that at this stage of the tournament a lot of seeds stand on stage and that still some not seeded players are around, but that three debutants are still in the tournament in the fourth round is definitely something special.
What you should know as well: Kevin Doets qualified as he did last year by the Pro Tour Order of Merit for the World Championships and as last year reached the fourth round. Last year he lost to Chris Dobey. This year he'll meet Luke Humphries. Doets played as did Niels Zonneveld as youth WDF tournaments and was together with Zonneveld part of the winning boys team in the WDF Europe Cup Youth 2014. He already was part of the winning team in 2013 when Zonneveld was not. Doets and Zonneveld are the same age, Doets sits in place 40 of the PDC World Rankings, Zonneveld in place 44.
Schedule Day 17
29. December
PDC World Championship - Day 16
The third round ended today with some more surprising results - in the afternoon-session the two debutants Justin Hood and Charlie Manby won their matches against Ryan Meikle and Ricky Evans before Kevin Doets in
a closer match eliminated with Nathan Aspinall still another seed from the tournament. The evening-session was less thrilling - Josh Rock won the last match of the third round with 4:1 against Callan Rydz before Ryan Searle won
the first match of the fourth round with 4:0 against James Hurrell and Luke Littler prevailed over a spirited Rob Cross with 4:2.
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Bericht, Statistics Day 16new
PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 16
Today the third round will be played to the end and the fourth round will begin. In the afternoon-session three third round matches will be played, in the evening session one third round match and two matches of the fourth round.
Match of the day: Personal Favourit: Ricky Evans v Charlie Manby Impartial: Josh Rock v Callan Rydz
Debutants of the day: Justin Hood, Charlie Manby
Seeded Player of the Day: Nathan Aspinall (15), Josh Rock (11), Ryan Searle (20), Rob Cross (17), Luke Littler (1)
Today's Day's Specials: Two debutants will stand today in the third round at the oche. Charlie Manby is the better known - he already impressed this year on the Development Tour with good performances. Especially a senationell 130.70 average in a Development Tour event in February made the headlines. Manby didn't only play on Development Tour but WDF events as well. In 2022 he won with the English national youth team at the WDF Europe Cup Youth the team event and together with Thomas Banks the boys pairs event and the youth event of the British Internationals.
What you should know as well: The second debutant of the day, Justin Hood, is to be sure one of the surprise winners of this PDC World Championship. After several failed attempts he won 2025 a Tour Card, had some good results on the Pro Tour and qualified by the Pro Tour Order of Merit for the PDC World Championship. In fact it is not his first World Championship - Hood qualified 2020 for the BDO World Championship and lost first round to Richard Veenstra. Not much is known about Hood - only that he loves it to stand on stage and very much likes Chinese food of which - as he tells himself - he eats far too much.
Schedule Day 16
28. December
PDC World Championship - Day 15
The third round of the tournament continued on day 15 with six more matches in which the former World Champions Rob Cross, Michael van Gerwen, Luke Humphries and Gary Anderson all progressed into the next round though neither for Humphries nor for
Anderson it was easy. Especially Anderson had a very hard fought match against Jermaine Wattimena which he only won in the tiebreak. The other winners of the day were Gian van Veen and Ryan Searle who both showed convincing performances.
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PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 15
The third round continues - again with an afternoon- and an evening-session with three matches each.
Match of the day: Personal Favourit: Martin Schindler v Ryan Searle Impartial: Gian van Veen v Madars Razma
Debutants of the day: Arno Merk
Seeded Player of the Day: Martin Schindler (13), Ryan Searle (20), Damon Heta (16), Rob Cross (17), Gary Anderson (14), Jermaine Wattimena (19), Gian van Veen (10), Luke Humphries (2), Michael van Gerwen (3)
Today's Day's Specials: Today is "German Day" at the PDC World Championship in London - with Martin Schindler, Gabriel Clemens and Arno Merk three German players will stand at the oche. For Arno Merk it is the first PDC World Championship, Gabriel Clemens plays already his eighth and Martin Schindler his seventh PDC World Championship. Clemens reached as first and so far only German player the semi-finals (2023), for Martin Schindler so far the World Championship ended latest in the third round.
What you should know as well: Latvian Madars Razma is the first and so far only player from his home country who plays as a pro darter in the PDC. Razma started his carrer in WDF/BDO tournament and took part 2014, 2015 and 2016 in the BDO World Chanmpionship. 2017 he got his Tour Card in his first attempt in Qualifying School. Since 2020 he qualified fpr each PDC World Championship and this year for the third time in a row stands in the third round.
Schedule Day 15new
27. December
PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 14
Today is the first day of the third round and the format the format is longer. Three matches each will be played in an afternoon- and an evening-session.
Match of the day: Personal Favourit: Andreas Harrysson v Ricardo Pietreczko Impartial: Luke Littler v Mensur Suljovic
Debutants of the day: Andreas Harrysson
Seeded Player of the Day: Luke Woodhouse (25), Jonny Clayton (5), Stephen Bunting (4), Luke Littler (1)
Today's Day's Specials: Niels Zonneveld started his career in the WDF Youth and together with Kevin Doets, Berry van Peer and Colin Roelofs he in 2014 won the team competition of the WDF Europe Cup Youth. From 2018 to 2022 he took part in the PDC World Youth Championship where his best result was the semi-finals in 2020. Since 2020 and with the exeption of 2022 he takes part in the PDC World Championship. So far the second round 2024 was his best result.
What you should know as well: This year with Andreas Harrysson, Arno Merk, Justin Hood and Charlie Manby four debutants reached the third round while from the 32 seeds only 15 are still in the tournament.
Schedule Day 14, Resultsnew
Statistics Day 14new
Merry Christmas!
23. December
PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 13
The second round will be played to the end in an afternoon- and an evening-session and it is the last day before the Christmas Break.
Match of the day: Personal Favourit: Danny Noppert v Justin Hood Impartial: Jermaine Wattimena v Scott Williams
Debutants of the day: Jonny Tata, Arno Merk, Justin Hood
Seeded Player of the Day: Daryl Gurney (22), Jermaine Wattimena (19), Peter Wright (30), Danny Noppert (6), Gary Anderson (14), Michael van Gerwen (3), Josh Rock (11)
Today's Day's Specials: For Jonny Tata from New Zealand it is already the second World Championship, he already took part 2023 in ther WDF World Championship and reached the quarterfinals where he lost to Andy Baetens. At his debut in the Alexandra Palace he won his first match against Ritchie Edhouse 3:0. He is in good company with this - New Zealanders Warren French, Preston Ridd, Rob Szabo and last 2018 and 2019 Cody Harrris as well won their first matches in the PDC World Championship.
What you should know as well: Still the biggest group of participants in the PDC World Championship comes from England and five English players will stand on stage today. But beside on the last day of the second round we will see three Dutchmen, two Scotsmen, two Northern Irish and one Republic of Ireland player, one Australian, one player from New Zealand and one German.
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22. December
PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 12
The second round will continue - again in an afternoon- and an evening-session.
Match of the day: Personal Favourit: Wessel Nijman v Gabriel Clemens Impartial: Luke Humphries v Paul Lim
Debutants of the day: Darren Beveridge, David Munyua, Charlie Manby, Adam Sevada
Seeded Player of the Day: Wessel Nijman (31), James Wade (7), Gian van Veen (10), Nathan Aspinall (15), Luke Humphries (2)
Today's Day's Specials: For the now 42 years old James Wade is is already his 24. World Championship in a row, two of them were BDO World Championships. Wade won in all his years on the PDC Circuit almost all PDC TV tournaments or at least reached the final, only in the Players Championship Finals and in the PDC World Championship he never got further then the semi-finals. In the PDC World Championship he four times stood in the semi-finals Halbfinalen - 2009, 2012, 2013 and last 2022. His best rank in the were the 2. place, many years he was the number 3 of the world. This year for the thrid time he starts as number 7 into the tournament.
What you should know as well: As Gary Anderson Scotman Darren Beveridge was born in Musselburgh in Scotland. Beveridge already had chucked the sport of darts as he had no success. He came back got a Tour Card and with his appearance on the Alexandra Palace stage fulfilled a chidhoods dream. This afternoon he will play against Madars Razma.
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PDC World Championship - Day 11
On the second day of the second round there were again some surprising resulte - though Wesley Plaisier caused with his 3:0 win over Gerwyn Price in the evening-session not only a surprise but a real upset. It was from both players a good match but Price was just not as
clinical on his doubles as his opponent. But we did see a surprise in the afternoon as well - Joe Cullen had big problems with Mensur Suljovic' style of playing which was even more questionable then usually and lost 1:3. The other winners of the afternoon were Krzysztof Ratajski,
Luke Woodhouse and Rob Cross. In the evening beside Plaisier a strong playing Martin Schindler, Luke Littler and Damon Heta, who improved a lot during the match, progressed into the next round.
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21. December
PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 11
The second round will continue - again in an afternoon- and an evening-session.
Match of the day: Personal Favourit: Martin Schindler v Keane Barry Impartial: Gerwyn Price v Wesley Plaisier
Debutants of the day: David Davies
Seeded Player of the Day: Ryan Joyce (20), Joe Cullen (32), Luke Woodhouse (25), Rob Cross (17), Martin Schindler(13), Gerwyn Price (9), Luke Littler (1), Damon Heta (18)
Today's Day's Specials: For Mensur Suljovic it is already the 17. PDC World Championship, with the exception of 2024 he qualified every year since 2008. Three times he reached the last 16, once the third round. In the last few years the for Austria playing Suljovic was no longer really successful. This year a place under the last 16 of an European Tour event was his best result.
What you should know as well: Fifteen Dutch players had qualified for the World Championship, twelve of them by the Order of Merit or the Pro Tour Order of Merit. Nine progressed into the second round. Only one, Wesley Plaisier will stand at the oche today.
Schedule Day 11, Resultsnew
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20. December
PDC World Championship - Day 10
The first day of the second round was a comparatively short day of darts as in the evening-session only three matches took place. The afternoon-session started with an outstanding playing Ryan Searle who defeated Brendan Dolan 3:0. Andreas Harrysson won
the second not so highclass match as well with 3:0 against Motumo Sakai.
The next two matches were hard fought and both ended with 3:2. Not really surprising Ricardo Pietreczko defeated Dave Chisnall 3:2 in the last match of the afternoon. Chisnall threw unbelievable 11 180s but had problems to hit
his doubles. A real upset caused James Hurrell in the penultimate afternoon match when he kept his nerve and defeated Dirk van Duijvenbode in a head to head game with the same result.
The evening-session was not quite as thrilling but started with an upset as well as Niels Zonneveld eliminated a strong scoring Michael Smith with 3:1. After that followed a 3:1 win from Andrew Gilding over Chris Dobey and
a very clear 3:0 win from Stephen Bunting over Nitin Kumar.
The Ally Pally Wasp today used Pietreczko's darts to take a rest...
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PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 10
Again an afternoon- and an evening-session will be played and the second round will begin.
Match of the day: Personal Favourit: Andreas Harrysson v Motumo Sakai Impartial: Chris Dobey v Andrew Gilding
Debutants of the day: Andreas Harrysson, Motumo Sakai
Seeded Player of the Day: Ryan Searle (20), Dirk van Duijvenbode (29), Dave Chisnall (21), Michael Smith (28), Chris Dobey (8), Stephen Bunting (4)
Today's Day's Specials: Many of the players who stand at the oche today started their career in the BDO or WDF - one of them is James Hurrell who this years takes part for the second time in the PDC World Championship. He before qualified two times each for the BDO and the WDF World Championship. His best result were the quarterfinals of the WDF World Championship 2022 where he lost to Cameron Menzies.
What you should know as well: In the evening-session only three matches will take place. Jonny Clayton got a bye as his opponent Dom Taylor was tested positive for drugs (already for the second time) and has been suspended.
Schedule Day 10new
PDC World Championship - Day 9
The ninth day of the World Championship was the last day of the first round and we did see many one-sided matches. In the afternoon-session only the not really highclass match between Mickey Mansell and Leonard Gates was hard fought, Gates
won with 3:2. The other winners of the afternoon were Kevin Doets, Ryan Meikle and Josh Rock against whom Gemma Hayter won a set and three legs. In the first match of the evening-session William O'Connor had with 102.36 the highest average of the first round, beside he had
a hitting rate on the doubles of over 50 percent and his opponent Krzysztof Kciuk only won two legs. After that Beau Greaves played against Daryl Gurney, a very close game in which
Gurney only just managed to get over the finishing line first. As hard fought was the next match between Nathan Aspinall and Lourence Ilagan. Aspinall won it with an 170 finish in the deciding leg of the
fouth set. To conclude the first round followed one more one-sided match
- Keane Barry defeated Tim Pusey with 3:0.
Resultsnew
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19. December
PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 9
Again an afternoon- and an evening-session will be played.
Match of the day: Personal Favourit: Daryl Gurney v Beau Greaves Impartial: Nathan Aspinall v Lourence Ilagan
Debutants of the day: Matthew Dennant, Jesus Salate, Gemma Hayter, Tim Pusey
Seeded Player of the Day: Josh Rock (11), Nathan Aspinall (15)
Today's Day's Specials: With Jesus Salate the first ever player from Argentina will stand on the Ally Pally stage. Salate impressed in the PDC World Cup of Darts and - as he is a very big football fan - would love to become some kind of Maradona of darts. Salate had a good look at his opponent Ryan Meikle and hopes he will be able to show a good performance against him.
What you should know as well: Gemma Hayter is the only female debutant in the field of participants and she is a good friend of Luke Humphries. They played together in the Hampshire Youth League. Of course she hopes to be able to defeat Josh Rock but first of all she hopes her appearence in the World Championship will inspire more women to take up the sport.
Schedule Day 9, Resultsnew
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PDC World Championship - Day 8
The afternoon-session of the eighth day of the tournament ended with a sensation - Kenyan David Munyua defeated the number 18 seed Mike de Decker with 3:2 and progressed into the second round where he'll meet
the winner of the first round match between Kevin Doets and Matthew Dennant. So the Kenyan is not only the first ever player from Kenya in the Ally Pally but as well the first ever Kenyan who won a match in the World Championship.
Japanes debutant Motumo Sakai as well got a win against Thibault Tricole. The other winners of the day were Ryan Joyce, Callan Rydz, Jermaine Wattimena, David Chisnall - against Fallon Sherrock who couldn't hit
her doubles-, Michael van Gerwen - who had as well a lot of double trouble and was under a lot pressure against Japanese Mitsuhiko Tatsunami - and an impressive playing Krzysztof Ratajski.
Resultsnew
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18. December
PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 8
Again an afternoon- and an evening-session will be played.
Match of the day: Personal Favourit: Dave Chisnall v Fallon Sherrock Impartial: Michael van Gerwen v Mitsuhiko Tatsunami
Debutants of the day: Patrik Kovacs, Motumo Sakai, David Munyua, Dominik Gruellich, Mitsuhiko Tatsunami
Seeded Player of the Day: Ryan Joyce (24), Mike de Decker (18), Michael van Gerwen (3), Dave Chisnall (21), Jermaine Wattimena (19)
Today's Day's Specials: Today two Japanese debutants will stand on stage and about both not much is known as they don't play much internationally. The much younger Motumo Sakai played as soft-darts player the Dartslive tournament series and for some years now the PDC Asian Tour by which he qualified for the PDC World Championship. Mitsuhiko Tatsunami, 52 years of age, won 2024 the WDF Asia Pacific Cup and qualified as winner of the PDJ Steel Darts Japan Tour. He as well competes on the PDC Asian Tour.
What you should know as well: Patrik Kovacs is the only second Hungarian player who managed to qualify for the PDC World Champion. The only one before him was Nandor Bezzeg who stood on stage in the Alexandra Palace 2009 and lost his first round match to Vincent van der Voort. Together with Bezzeg Kovacs took part as Team Hungary 2016 in the PDC World Cup and reached the second round.
Schedule Day 8, Resultsnew
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PDC World Championship - Day 7
On the seventh day of the tournament only an evening session took place but history was written nevertheless - Swiss Stefan Bellmont defeated Raymond van Barneveld - who only won two legs - with 3:0 and is now the first
Swiss player to win a match in the PDC World Championship. The Canadian-American clash between Matt Campbell and debutant Adam Sevada ended slightly surprising with a 3:1 win for Sevada. Due to this Campbell lost his Tour Card.
James Wade had no problems to prevail 3:0 over Ryusei Azemoto and German Martin Schindler played really good and had as well no problems to win 3:1 against Stephen Burton.
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17. December
PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 7
Today only an evening session will by played.
Match of the day: Personal Favourit: Raymond van Barneveld v Stefan Bellmont Impartial: Martin Schindler v Stephen Burton
Debutants of the day: Adam Sevada
Seeded Player of the Day: James Wade (7), Martin Schindler (13)
Today's Day's Specials: For Martin Schindler's opponent Stephen Burton it is already the third World Championship. So far he always lost first round. Burton already plays since 2014 PDC tournaments, won three Challenge Tour events and in 2018 reached the last 16 of the Players Championship Finals. For this World Championship he qualified by the Tour Card Holders qualifier.
What you should know as well: Swiss Stefan Bellmont is the so far first and only Swiss darts playerwho qualified for the PDC World Championship. Last year he qualified for the first time - by the Western Europe Qualifier. This year he qualified by the Challenge Tour Order of Merit. his success ond the Challenge Tour 2025 beside secured him a Tour Card. By this he once again wrote history - he is the first Swiss Player ever with a PDC Tour Card.
Schedule Day 7
16. December
PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 6
Again an afternoon- and an evening session will take place.
Match of the day: Personal Favourit: Niko Springer v Joe Comito Impartial: Danny Noppert v Jurjen van der Velde
Debutants of the day: Adam Sevada
Seeded Player of the Day: Chris Dobey (8), Danny Noppert (6), Gerwyn Price (9)
Today's Day's Specials: It is the only day of the first round in which two German players will stand on stage and even in the same session. For Ricardo Pietreczko it will be the third World Championship - last year he reached the Last 16. For Niko Springer it is the second - he lost first round last year.
What you should know as well: It is Teemu Harju first senior PDC World Championship but as a youth player he was three times the Scandinavian representative in the PDC World Youth Championship.
Schedule Day 6, Resultsnew
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15. December
PDC World Championship - Day 5
The fifth day of the tournament was an in parts dramatic and entertaining day on which from the seeds only Cameron Menzies was eliminated in a close match by Charlie Manby who had
arrived with his own fan club. For the labile Menzies the defeat was almost not to bear.
Jonny Clayton and Dirk van Duijvenbode had no problems to progress - van Duijvenbode showed the best performance of the day. Other winners were the former German number 1
Max Hopp with a solid performance, Mensur Suljovic, Brendan Dolan, Peter Wright - in a weak match against the even weaker Noa-Lynn
van Leuven and Connor Scutt in the thrilling last match of the night against Simon Whitlock.
Resultsnew
Statistics Day 5new
More Wasps...
On the third and fourth day of the World Championship the wasps were still around. Might be these are dart fans - I've no idea.
But a lot of mediocre, good and outstanding darts as well were played on days three and four of the tournament and some drama was as well added to the mix.
More Wasps or Days Three and Four of the PDC World Championshipnew
PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 5
Again an afternoon- and an evening session will take place.
Match of the day: Personal Favourit: Cameron Menzies v Charlie Manby Impartial: Jonny Clayton v Adam Lipscombe
Debutants of the day: Tavis Dudeney, Charlie Manby, Adam Lipscombe
Seeded Player of the Day: Cameron Menzies (28), Peter Wright (30), Jonny Clayton (5), Dirk van Duijvenbode (29)
Today's Day's Specials: Adam Lipscombe only by chance got a Tour Card in Q School 2025. He didn't qualify for the final stage but when David Pallett withdrew short notice from final stage he moved in for him and won a Tour Card.
What you should know as well: Canadian David Cameron took place in seven BDO and one WDF World Championships. This is already his third PDC world Championship. So far he only won a match once - in the PDC World Championship 2023.
Schedule Day 5, Resultsnew
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14. December
PDC World Championship - Day 4
On the fourth day of the PDC World Championship the best performances came from the two seeds Stephen Bunting - who only just won over Sebastian Bialecki in the tie break - and Joe Cullen while the other two seeds -
Dimitri van den Bergh and Ritchie Edhouse disappointed and were eliminated - both by debutants. Edhouse lost 0:3 to Jonny Tata, Dimitri van den Bergh with the
same result against the strong playing Darren Beveridge. Lukas Wenig played a solid match but it was just not enough to prevail over Wesley Plaisier.
Beside by Nitin Kumar we did see the first ever Indian win in the PDC World Championship and wins from Dom Taylor and James Hurrell.
Resultsnew
Report,Statistics Day 4new
PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 4
Again an afternoon- and an evening session will take place.
Match of the day: Personal Favourit: Lukas Wenig v Wesley Plaisier Impartial: Stephen Bunting v Sebastian Bialecki
Debutants of the day: Jonny Tata, Darren Beveridge, Dom Taylor, Lukas Wenig, Oskar Lukasiak
Seeded Player of the Day: Joe Cullen (32), Dimitri van den Bergh (23), Stephen Bunting (4), Ritchie Edhouse (27)
Today's Day's Specials: Oskar Lukasiak hit a nine-darter when he was twelve in the Denmark Open - the youngst player ever who hit the perfect leg in an official competition
What you should know as well: Not only Dimitri van den Bergh is a PDC Youth World Champion (twice) but Bradley Brooks as well. He won the title in 2020 against Joe Davis. While Davis somehow disappeared, Brooks still is around, had some success on the Development Tour and this year won his first Players Championship.
Schedule Day 4, Results
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13. December
PDC World Championship - Day 3
The third day of the World Championship had quite a few highlights both in the afternoon- and in the evening -session. In the afternoon-session the winners were debutant David Davies,
Andrew Gilding and Luke Woodhouse with quite dominant performances and Gary Anderson who had to fight hard with the opponent Adam Hunt - who played really well - and as well
with his doubles. The evening session started with a surprisingly clear win of Paul Lim over Jeffrey de Graaf for whom the match to be sure was not enjoyable. That was followed
by an easy 3:0 win of Wessel Nijman and a not so easy 3:1 win of Luke Humphries who had more problems with a strong playing Ted Evetts then everybody had expected.
Last on was Gabriel Clemens v Alex Spellman in which Clemens had no problems at all to win 3:0. Clemens threw the second 170 finish of the World Championship.
Resultsnew
Statistics Day 3new
The wasps are back...
No sign of them on the first day but serveral appearances on day two.
But the article is not really about wasps mainly it deals with the first two days of the Wold Championship and all the darts we already did see.
The wasps are back as well or the first two days of the World Championshipnew
PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 3
Again an afternoon- and an evening session will take place.
Match of the day: Personal Favourit: Andrew Gilding v Cam Crabtree Impartial: Wessel Nijman v Karel Sedlacek
Debutants of the day: David Davies, Cam Crabtree
Seeded Player of the Day:Luke Woodhouse (25), Gary Anderson (14), Wessel Nijman (31), Luke Humphpries (2)
Today's Day's Specials: Players of very different age will stand today on stage from the 22 years old debutant Cam Crabtree to the 71 years old legend Paul Lim
What you should know as well: Because the corona lockdown Crabtree's GCSEs was cancelled and Crabtree was bored. His father who played darts offered to play with him and it turned outline Cam is quite a talent. Tour Card January 2025, World Championship debut December 2025.
Schedule Day 3, Resultsnew
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12. December
PDC World Championship - Day 2
The second day of the PDC World Championship was a long day of darts. In the afternoon session we did see three more one-sided matches which were won by Niels Zonneveld, Rob Cross and Ryan Searle. Cross win with a 170
finish was the highlight of the session.
The other match was a rather arduous affair - Ian White won in the end 3:2 against Mervyn King. In the evening the
atmosphere in the venue was even better from the start and Ross Smith and Andreas Harrysson delighted the crowd with a thrilling match in which Harrysson surprisingly prevailed 3:2.
After that Ricky Evans sparked the crowd with his walk-on even more and deservedly won 3:0 against Man Lok Leung who only played good in the
third set. In the match between Gian van Veen and Cristo Reyes it took some time till Reyes had settled but then he made live difficult for van Veen who only
just stopped Reyes to draw 2:2 and won 3:1. In the last match Damon Heta played against Steve Lennon and won 3:1.
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They are back!!!
Sometimes players, which somehow disappeared or you already wrote off, return to the PDC World Championship.
This year as well there some of those players in the World Championship who managed to qualify. My article deals with a few of them.
They are back!!!new
PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 2
Today an afternoon and an evening session will take place.
Match of the day: Personal Favourit (nostalgic reasons): Ian White v Mervyn King. Impartial: Gian van Veen v Cristo Reyes
Debutants of the day: Cor Dekker, Andreas Harrysson
Seeded Player of the Day: Ryan Searle (20), Rob Cross (17), Gian van Veen (10), Damon Heta (16), Ross Smith (11)
Today's Day's Specials: Though Swede Andreas Harrysson will give his debut in this PRDC World Championship it is not his first World Championship. 2020 he took part in the BDO World Championship and 2022 in the WDF Wrold Championship. Both times he lost first round.
What you should know as well:Ian White is around for many years already and well known. In 1997 he lost in the final of the News of the World to Phil Taylor. 2010 he lost in the first round of the BDO World Championship to Stephen Bunting. Since 2012 he qualified for every PDC World Championship. His best result were the quarterfinals in 2014 where he lost to Simon Whitlock.
Schedule Day 2, Resultsnew
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11. December
PDC World Championship - Day 1
The biggest uoset of the night already came in the first match of the PDC World Championship - German debutant Arno Merk showed no nerves at all and hit his doubles better
as his on this stage much more experienced opponent Kim Huybrechts and won 3:1. No problems at all had in the second match Michael Smith against
Lisa Ashton who was cheered a lot by the crowd and won 3:0 as did reigning champion Luke Littler against Darius Labanauskas. But the match was not as onesided as the result
- two of the sets went into the deciding leg and in the last set Labanauskas had his chances as well. In the last match Madars Razma made life rather difficult for him against
the dutch debutant Jamai van den Herik who didn't score as well as Razma but Razma had problems to hit his doubles. In the end the rather tense Razma won with 3:1.
Resultsnew
Report, Statistics Day 1new
PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 1
On the first tournament day only an evening session will take place.
Match of the day: Personal Favourit: Michael Smith v Lisa Ashton. Impartial: Luke Littler v Darius Labanauskas
Debutants of the day: Arno Merk, Jamai van den Herik
Seeded Player of the Day: Michael Smith (28), Luke Littler (1)
Today's Day's Specials: Kim Huybrechts played for some years in the BDO but never qualified for the World Championship. This year's PDC World Championships is his fifteenth in a row. His best result so far was a quarterfinal in his first PDC World Championship.
What you should know as well: German Arno Merk is one of eight German participants in this year's World Championship and one of three German debutants. He will be the first player on stage this year. It is not his first World Championship - 2011 he qualified for the BDO World Championship but lost first round.
Schedule Day 1, Resultsnew
Today it will begin!!!
Today the much anticipated PDC World Championship will begin in London.
I am still recovering from the WDF tournaments, but I arrived in London and will have a look at it. My second article deals with all that is new in this year's event and some other - hopefully - interesting details.
World Championships - Part 2new
PDC World Championship 2025/26
In the PDC preview reigning champion Luke Littler and former champions Michael Smith, Luke Humphries, Gary Anderson and Michael van Gerwen have their say.
Beside Paddy Power has announced a first-of-its-kind charity challenge with Prostate Cancer UK - where one at random selected member of the public will get the chance to throw nine darts on Ally Pally stage to win 180,000. Details you can find here: Näheres erfahrt ihr hier: Darts of Destiny
PDC Previewnew
9. December
Ally Pally to host World Darts Championship until 2031
As the PDC announced the PDC World Championship will be at least till 2031 in the Alexandra Palace in London. But from next year onwards whe will be played in the Great Hall which will allow much bigger crowds.
Ally Pally to host World Darts Championship until 2031new
8. December
After the World Championship is before the World Championship...
The WDF World Championships are only just over but now all eyes are turned on the PDC World Championship in London which will begin on Thursday.
Global Darts will be again a few days live in London and accompany the tournament with some own coverage. But the first article is not about the PDC World Championship but a personal resume of the WDF World Championships which to be sure had their own charm.
World Championships - Part 1new
7. December
WDF World Championships
Last year Jimmy van Schie was already the favourit to win the title but lost third round to Jarno Bottenberg. This year he was the number 1 seed and this time with
an 6:3 win over Mitchell Lawrie really got the title. Lawrie already had been 3:0 in the lead but than became weaker and van Schie won deservedly. But Lawrie stayed not without title - he defeated in the boy's final
the good playing Florian Preis with 4:2. In the girl's event Zehra Gemi from Turkey defeated Rebecca Allen with 3:0. Gemi was dominat throughout the match and Allen just couldn't keep up. With her 77.07
Gemi even played a higher average then the new women's world champion Deta Hedman who won in the age of at her fourth attempt finally the title. Contrary to her other Lakeside finals Lakeside finals
Hedman most of the final looked very relaxed while her opponent the number 1 seed Lerena Rietbergen never really was in the match and lost 1:4.
Results Finals
WDF World Championships
With Paige Pauling yesterday in the semi-finals the last reigning champion was eliminated - Pauling lost in the girl's semi-finals against her Turkish opponent Zehra Gemi. The other girl's semi-final
was won by Rebecca Allen from Ireland, who will clash with Gemi in today's final. Still in the headlines is young Scotsman Mitchell Lawrie who reached with 15 years both the boy's and the men's final
where he'll meet number 1 seed Jimmy van Schie who prevailed in his semi-final over Belgian Sybren Gijbels. In the women's final Deta Hedman will play against the number 1 seed
Lerena Rietbergen who eliminated in her semi-final Rhian O'Sullivan. Hedman played in her semi-final against Priscilla Steenbergen with 82.24 the so far highest average of the women's event.
Today all finals will be played.
The tournaments will be streamed at WDF live Darts
Schedule Finalsnew
6. December
WDF World Championships
Yesterday both men and women played their quarterfinals at the Lakeside Country Club. Beside the last two quarterfinals of the boy's took place. Reigning champion Shane McGuirk was eliminated in the so
far best match of the tournament by number 1 seed Jimmy van Shie. Van Schie will now meet today in the semi-finals Belgian Sybren Gijbels. In the other men's semi-final Mitchell
Lawrie and Jenson Walker will clash. Lawrie will come on stage a second time in the boy's semi-finals where he'll play against Kaya Baysal. In the second boy's semi-final Florian Preis will meet Mason Teese.
In the women's semi-finals we'll see Priscilla Steenbergen v Deta Hedman and number 1 seed Lerena Rietbergen v Rhian O'Sullivan. In the girl's semi-finals first Ruby Grey will play against Rebecca Allen and
in the evening-session reigning champion Paige Pauling will meet Zehra Gemi.
Today in an afternoon- and an evening-session all semi-finals will take place - in each session one men's-, one women's, one boy's- and one girl's semi-final.
The tournaments will be streamed at WDF live Darts
Schedule, Results Semi-Finalsnew
5. December
WDF World Championships
On Thursday at the WDF World Championships in Lakeside in the men's event the third round was played and the women finished their second round. Beside the first two boy's quarterfinals took place.
The men's winners were James Beeton, Francois Schweyen, Sybren Gijbels, reigning champion Shane McGuirk, number 1 seed Jimmy van Schie, Ben Robb, Jenson Walker and Mitchell Lawrie. Lawrie as well
won his boy's quarterfinal against Adam Sepsi, the second boy's quarterfinal won English Kaya Baysal. In the women's event the two Welsh women Eve Watson and Rhian O'Sullivan progressed convincingly
into the quarterfinals.
Today an afternoon- and an evening-session takes place - in each session two men's and two women's quarterfinals and one boy's quarterfinal will be played.
The tournaments will be streamed at WDF live Darts
Schedule, Results Seventh Tournament Day
Schedule, Results Eight Tournament Daynew
3. December
WDF World Championships
The fifth night of the WDF World Championships was a quite slow night on which the seeds Benjamin Pratnemer, Francois Schweyen (with some luck) and Matt Clark progressed into the next round. Only German Marcus Maier - who had moved up for
David Pallett last-minute - was eliminated. He won a solid first set but couldn't keep up his performance. In the women's tournament seed Tracy Feiertag didn't manage to settle on the Lakeside stage and lost to Priscilla
Steenbergen while the as well seeded Lorraine Hyde had to be sure the luck on her side to progress - she survived 13 matchdarts of Emine Dursun.
Again only an evening-session will be played. As Andy Davidson withdrew on very short notice due to health reasons only three men's second round matches will take place and Jeff Springer Jr gets a bye and progresses into the third round. Beside again two women's second round matches will take place.
The tournaments will be streamed at WDF live Darts
Schedule, Resultsnew
2. December
Even more Additions Who is Who
These players were added to the Who is Who: James Beeton, Francois Schweyen, Corne Groeneveld,
Andy Davidson, Tomoya Maruyama,
Karl Schaefer, Clint Clarkson, Jirji Brejcha,
Jonas Masalin, Jeff Springer Jr, Dalibor Smolik, Caleb Hope,
Mitchell Lawrie, Vince Tipple, Alex Williams, Stefan Schroder,
Daniel Bauerdick, Marcus Maier, Sybren Gijbels, Tracy Feiertag,
Joanne Hadley, Maria Carli, Jitka Cisarova, Aaja Jalbert,
Paige Pauling, Florian Preis und Mason Teese.
WDF World Championships
On the fourth day of the tournament four men's and two women's second round matches took place and half of the seeds were eliminated. New Zealands Nicol Regnaud - the number 4 seed of the women - lost to Maria Carli. Number 8 men's seed Corne Groeneveld lost to a
persistent Jonas Masalin and number 3 seed Neil Duff to an outstanding playing Ben Robb from New Zealand who played with 96.29 the so far highest average of the tournament.
Again only an evening-session with four second round matches of the men and two second round matches of the women will be played. In the last match of the night two replacements will meet - German Marcus Maier will stand at the oche against Belgian Sybren Gijbels.
The tournaments will be streamed at WDF live Darts
Schedule, Resultsnew
1. December
WDF World Championships
On Sunday at the WDF World Championships again two sessions were played. Four women's first round matches, five men's first round and two men's second round matches took place. The two seeds
Liam Maendl-Lawrance and Stefan Schroder lost their second round matches against Caleb Hope and reigning champion Shane McGuirk who showed in his second match again a strong performance.
In the women's event the winners were the two Dutch women Priscilla Steenbergen and Aletta Wajer, Emine Dursun from Turkey and Paige Pauling who started a little bit shaky but was strong on the doubles.
At the men's first round matches the debut of the fifteen year's old Scottish talent Mitchell Lawrie was highly anticipated. Lawries had some problems at the start but in the end defeated the good playing Japanese Tomoya Maruyama with a convincing performance 3:0.
Today only an evening-session with four second round matches of the men and two second round matches of the women will be played. Paul Krohne will open the night against Dalibor Smolik.
The tournaments will be streamed at WDF live Darts
Schedule, Resultsnew
30. November
WDF World Championships
On the second day of the WDF World Championships with James Beeton and Jimmy van Schie the first men's seeds stood at the oche, both won their matches. Beeton defeated in a from both players far from great match Dennis Nilsson
with 3:2, van Schie - on of the favourites on the tournament win - prevailed 3:0 over Alex Williams. The best performance in the men's event showed Ben Robb from Neu Zealand with his 91.56 average at his 3:1 win over
Johann Engström. The best women's performance came from Welsh Eve Watson with an 78.20 average at her 2:0 win over Australian Joanne Hadley. The two times world champion
Mikuri Suzuki as well advanced into the second round.
David Pallett withdrew on short notice and will be replaced by German Marcus Maier. He will play on Tuesday night against Sybren Gijbels who replaced Boris Krcmar.
The tournaments will be streamed at WDF live Darts
Schedule, Resultsnew
29. November
WDF World Championships
Yesterday in the Lakeside Country Club in Frimley Green this year's WDF World Championships begun. From 28. November - 7. Dezember the World Championships of men, women, boys and girls will be played.
The tournaments will be streamed at WDF live Darts
Participants, Schedule, Resultsnew
27. November
PDC World Championship 2025/26
After the draw the PDC now published the schedule of the first round which will be played from 11.to 19. December.
As always the reigning champion will stand on stage on the first night - Luke Littler will play against Darius Labanauskas. The match between Kim Huybrechts and German debutant Arno Merk will open the tournament.
Schedule First roundnew
25. November
PDC World Championship 2025/26
After the Players Championship Finals and the Tour Card Holders Qualifier for the World Championship all participants in the PDC World Championship are known. The tournament will begin on 11. December
in the Alexandra Palace in London.
For the first time 128 Splayers will take part and all players will begin the tournament in the first round. By the Tour Card Holders Qualifier Tavis Dudeney, Adam Hunt, Stephen Burton,
Haupai Puha and Jose de Sousa qualified.
The PDC already published the draw for the first round. Luke Littlerwill bein his title defence against Darius Labanauskas.
PDC World Championship Participantsnew
PDC World Championship Draw First Roundnew
Additions Who is Who
The following players were added to the Who is Who: Teemu Harju, Jamai van den Herik, Arno Merk, Darren Berveridge, Davis Davies, Matthew Dennant, Paul Krohne, Tim Pusey, Motumo Sakai, Ryusei Azemoto, Adam Sevada, Charlie Manby, Mitsuhiko Tatsunami and David Munyua.