World Matchplay Darts 2025: Blackpool dates, draw, format, favourites and prize money for tournament at Winter Gardens | Darts News

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The 2025 match is fast approaching, so here is everything you need to know about male and female tournaments, live on Sky Sports …

Humphries raised the Phil Taylor trophy for the first time 12 months ago and will start on Saturday against Gian Van Veen, the world champion of youth.

The superstar of teenagers and world champion in reigning Littler will head to Oche on Sunday to face Ryan Searle, a quarter finalist from 2023.

The Dutch icons will meet when Michael Van Gerwen and Raymond Van Barneveld will meet in Blackpool on Monday.

Van Gerwen – The Humphries finalist last year – offers a fourth match match against the five -time world champion Van Barneveld, the finalist of this event in 2010.

Former finalist Jonny Clayton begins his campaign against German n ° 1 Martin Schindler.

The fourth seeded Stephen Bunting will play Ryan Joyce in a rehearsal of their first confrontation 12 months ago, with the 2023 champion Nathan Aspinall against the Dutch beginner Wessel Nijman.

Rob Cross and Peter Wright – The winners in 2019 and 2021 respectively – are also confronted with the Dutch opposition in Dirk Van Duijvenbode and Jermaine Wattimena, while the 2018 champion Gary Anderson plays Luke Woodhouse for a place in the last 16.

The 2007 champion James Wade – also five times a finalist – will make his 20th consecutive appearance in the match world later this month, and he obtained his candidacy against the semi -finalist in 2023, Joe Cullen.

Former finalist Gerwyn Price meets the newly crowned World Cup champion in Northern Ireland, Daryl Gurney, whose Ireland teammate Josh Rock faces the former European champion Ross Smith for the second consecutive year.

Chris Dobey faces the German n ° 2 Ricardo Pietreczko, while the Australian No. 1 Damon Heta comes up against the former champion of the United Kingdom Andrew Gilding.

The quarter-Finalist Quintuple Dave Chisnall and the champion of the World Grand Prix Mike de Decker are also collided, with the semi-finalist 2022 Danny Noppert while waiting for the beginner Cameron Menzies in the first round.

When and where is the world matchplay?

The Betfred World 2025 match match will take place from July 19 to 27 in the emblematic winter gardens of Blackpool, while a field of 32 star players is competing for the first prize of £ 200,000.

The first round of the summer centerpiece of sport sees the 16 best players in the world generated and opposed to the first 16 qualifications in the one -year protour ranking.

The biggest names in the sport will compete over nine days of action at The Empress Ballroom, with £ 800,000 at prices and the Coveted Phil Taylor Trophy, all live Sky Sports.

Who participates in the male event?

Humphries will occupy the front of the start of the opening evening on Saturday, while the old champions Aspinall and Wade also play in a bumper program.

Littleler will be at the head of the double session on Sunday alongside Bunting, Clayton, Cross and Anderson, before Van Gerwen and Price entered the scrum on the third day, while the first round ends at its end on Monday evening.

Draw in the first round:

Luke Humphries (1) against Gian Van Veen
Danny Noppert (16) vs Cameron Menzies
Nathan Aspinall (8) against Wessel Nijman
James Wade (9) against Joe Cullen
Stephen Bunting (4) against Ryan Joyce
Gary Anderson (13) against Luke Woodhouse
Jonny Clayton (5) against Martin Schindler
Dave Chisnall (12) against Mike de Decker
Luke Little (2) against Ryan Searle
Peter Wright (15) against Jermaine Wattimena
Damon Heta (7) against Andrew Gilding
Rob Cross (10) against Dirk van Duijvenbode
Michael Van Gerwen (3) against Raymond Van Barneveld
Ross Smith (14) against Josh Rock
Chris Dobey (6) vs Ricardo Pietterczko
Gerwyn Price (11) vs Daryl Gurney

What is the format?

The world matchplay is a leg format, with the number of legs necessary to gain increase over the towers.

Each match must be won by two clear legs, unless the score is tied after six legs.

Round 1: First at 10 legs (sudden death at 12-12)
Round 2: First at 11 legs (died sudden at 13-13)
Quarter-finals: first at 16 legs (died sudden at 18-18)
Semi-finals: first at 17 legs (died sudden at 19-19)
Final: first at 18 legs (died sudden at 20-20)

Who are the previous winners?

The world matchplay has a long list of stellar winners, with Humphries before the 2025 tournament as a reigning champion.

The first winner was Larry Butler in 1994 before Phil Taylor then won his first 16 victory (yes, 16) in 1995.

Taylor also won 1997, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2017.

During his victory in 2002, Taylor also launched the very first nine televised darter and such domination led the renowned trophy after him in 2018.

The other winners include Michael Van Gerwen (2015, 2016 and 2022), Gary Anderson (2018), Rob Cross (2019), Dimitri Van Den Bergh (2020) and Peter Wright (2021).

What is the price fund?

It is just to say that there is a lot at stake!

Winning £ 200,000
Finalist of £ 100,000
Semi-finalists £ 50,000
Quarter-Finalists £ 30,000
The losers of the second round £ 15,000
The losers of the first round £ 10,000

Total £ 800,000

When is the female world match?

The matchplay of the Women’s World takes place in the afternoon of Sunday, July 27, live Sky Sports.

Eight of the best female players in the world will compete to be crowned champion on the winter gardens scene in what is the fourth edition of the female event.

Who is in the female event?

Eight of the best female players will participate in the event, with the consecutive champion Beau Greaves in Blackpool, she will be joined by Fallon Sherrock, Kirski Viinikainen, Lisa Ashton, Robyn Byrne, Noa-Lynn Van Leuven, Lorrain Winstanley and Gemma Hayter.

Trache in the quarter -finals:

Beau Greaves vs Kirski Viinikainen

Lisa Ashton against Robyn Byrne

Noa-Lynn van Leuven vs Lorraine Winstanley

Fallon Sherrock vs Gemma Hayter

Who are the previous winners?

The Sherrock “ Queen of the Palace ” was the inaugural winner of the female match when she won in 2022 during the first female tournament fully televised as she was beating Aileen de Graaf 6-3 in the final.

Since then, Greaves went to win the tournament in 2023 and 2024. In 2023, she beat Mikuru Suzuki 6-1 and in 2024, she kept the trophy with a 6-3 victory against Sherrock.