The World Darts Championship will develop to a 128-player discipline with an enormous £1m for the winner as Luke Littler seeks to defend his Sid Waddell trophy.
In a landmark announcement for the game, the PDC will increase prize funds in any respect ranges on the skilled circuit in 2026, introducing a historic enhance of £7m from 2025 figures.
The World Darts Championship will change into greater than ever earlier than from the 2025/26 occasion, with the expanded discipline competing for a £5m prize fund.
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The Premier League prize pot will enhance to £1.25m from 2026, with £350,000 for subsequent season’s champion.
A £1m prize fund will probably be on supply on the World Matchplay and Grand Slam of Darts, with the latter additionally increasing to a 48-player discipline subsequent 12 months to mark the twentieth staging of the distinctive event.
4 different Premier occasions – the World Grand Prix, Gamers Championship Finals, European Championship and UK Open – will all enhance to a £750,000 prize fund subsequent 12 months, with the World Cup of Darts and World Sequence of Darts Finals every including an extra £50,000 to their respective prize funds.
European Tour occasion prize funds will enhance to £230,000 for the 14 tournaments to be held subsequent 12 months, whereas the 34 Gamers Championship occasions will rise to £150,000 every.
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The PDC’s dedication past the ProTour will even see a £5,000 per occasion enhance for Problem Tour, Improvement Tour and Ladies’s Sequence occasions, the Ladies’s World Matchplay being boosted to a £40,000 prize fund and a 50 per cent enhance in funding for world affiliate excursions and abroad growth.
PDC Chief Govt Matt Porter commented: “The £1m prize for the World Champion displays darts’ standing as probably the most thrilling and in-demand sports activities on the planet and the historic complete will rightly appeal to headlines as the largest prize ever paid out within the sport.
“Nonetheless, the elevated prize funds introduced at the moment display our dedication to rising incomes potential for gamers in any respect ranges throughout the PDC system.
“Increasing the participant fields for the World Darts Championship and Grand Slam of Darts will present extra alternatives than ever earlier than for gamers all over the world to characteristic in televised PDC occasions.
“The unbelievable development of the PDC lately has seen darts elevated to ranges by no means seen earlier than each by way of taking part in alternatives and world curiosity and it is a big second for all gamers with the ambition to make it to the very pinnacle of the game.”
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Skilled Darts Company Prize Funds
World Darts Championship
Winner: £1,000,000
Runner-Up: £400,000
Semi-Finalists: £200,000
Quarter-Finalists: £100,000
Final 16 losers: £60,000
Final 32 losers: £35,000
Final 64 losers: £25,000
Final 128 losers: £15,000
Complete: £5,000,000
Premier League
Winner: £350,000
Runner-Up: £170,000
Semi-Finalists: £110,000
Fifth in Desk: £95,000
Sixth in Desk: £90,000
Seventh in Desk: £85,000
Eighth in Desk: £80,000
Nightly winner bonus: £10,000
Complete: £1,250,000
World Matchplay
Winner: £225,000
Runner-Up: £125,000
Semi-Finalists: £65,000
Quarter-Finalists: £35,000
Final 16 losers: £22,500
Final 32 losers: £12,500
Complete: £1,000,000
Grand Slam of Darts
Winner: £200,000
Runner-Up: £100,000
Semi-Finalists: £60,000
Quarter-Finalists: £35,000
Final 16 losers: £20,000
Second in Group: £12,500
Third in Group: £5,000
Complete: £1,000,000
World Grand Prix
Winner: £150,000
Runner-Up: £80,000
Semi-Finalists: £50,000
Quarter-Finalists: £35,000
Final 16 losers: £20,000
Final 32 losers: £7,500
Complete: £750,000
The place does the Premier League head subsequent?
The Premier League continues on the Uber Area, Berlin on Thursday, April 3 as Michael van Gerwen and Gerwyn Value conflict in a titanic encounter, whereas Luke Littler takes on Chris Dobey. Watch Night time 9 of Premier League Darts, in Berlin, reside on Sky Sports activities Primary Occasion and Sky Sports activities+ from 6pm.
Sky Sports activities will as soon as once more be the house of the Premier League in 2025, with each evening completely reside together with the World Matchplay, World Grand Prix, Grand Slam of Darts and extra! Stream darts and extra prime sport with NOW
