Full Entries Confirmed for 2026 Winmau World Masters Preliminary Rounds
Full Entries Confirmed for 2026 Winmau World Masters Preliminary Rounds
Entries for the 2026 Winmau World Masters Preliminary Rounds have been confirmed ahead of this week’s £500,000 showpiece event at Arena MK in Milton Keynes.
A total of 122 players will compete on Wednesday January 28, battling for eight remaining places in the main draw, which runs from Thursday January 29 to Sunday February 1.
The top 24 players from the PDC Werner Rankings Ladder are exempt through to the televised stage of the tournament, while all remaining PDC Tour Card Holders, invited affiliate tour players and four JDC Advanced Tour representatives will contest Wednesday’s Preliminary Rounds.
Tournament Format
The Preliminary Rounds will consist of:
- 32 seeded players entering at the Last 64
- 32 group winners progressing from the round-robin phase
- 32 seeded group players, with remaining players drawn randomly
Matches will be played best of five sets, best of three legs per set, with two boards streamed live on PDCTV from 12:00 GMT.
The draw will take place at 11:00 GMT, with live scoring available on DartConnect.
Top 24 Players – Exempt to Round One
Luke Littler
Luke Humphries
Gian van Veen
Michael van Gerwen
Jonny Clayton
Gary Anderson
Stephen Bunting
Ryan Searle
Josh Rock
Danny Noppert
James Wade
Gerwyn Price
Chris Dobey
Nathan Aspinall
Martin Schindler
Ross Smith
Damon Heta
Jermaine Wattimena
Mike De Decker
Rob Cross
Luke Woodhouse
Dave Chisnall
Daryl Gurney
Ryan Joyce
Full Entries Confirmed for 2026 Winmau World Masters Preliminary Rounds
Remaining PDC Tour Card Holders
Seeds 1–32 – Exempt to Last 64
- Dimitri Van den Bergh
- Cameron Menzies
- Ritchie Edhouse
- Krzysztof Ratajski
- Wessel Nijman
- Dirk van Duijvenbode
- Peter Wright
- Michael Smith
- Andrew Gilding
- Ricardo Pietreczko
- Joe Cullen
- Martin Lukeman
- Kevin Doets
- Callan Rydz
- Ricky Evans
- Brendan Dolan
- Niels Zonneveld
- William O’Connor
- Scott Williams
- Madars Razma
- Gabriel Clemens
- James Hurrell
- Connor Scutt
- Justin Hood
- Jeffrey de Graaf
- Ian White
- Alan Soutar
- Niko Springer
- Mensur Suljovic
- Richard Veenstra
- Keane Barry
- Nick Kenny
Next 32 Players Seeded to Groups
- Kim Huybrechts
- Thibault Tricole
- Lukas Wenig
- Rob Owen
- Mario Vandenbogaerde
- Karel Sedlacek
- Bradley Brooks
- Cam Crabtree
- Wesley Plaisier
- Sebastian Bialecki
- Max Hopp
- Adam Lipscombe
- Dominik Gruellich
- Cor Dekker
- Maik Kuivenhoven
- Andy Boulton
- Tavis Dudeney
- Oskar Lukasiak
- Darryl Pilgrim
- Tom Bissell
- Christian Kist
- Leon Weber
- Dennie Olde Kalter
- Jim Long
- Thomas Lovely
- Marvin van Velzen
- Viktor Tingstrom
- Adam Warner
- Greg Ritchie
- Adam Paxton
- Tytus Kanik
- Stefaan Henderyck
Remaining Players – Unseeded
Rusty-Jake Rodriguez
Pero Ljubic
Kai Gotthardt
Stefan Bellmont
Darius Labanauskas
Beau Greaves
Owen Bates
Rhys Griffin
Carl Sneyd
Niall Culleton
Tom Sykes
Shane McGuirk
Charlie Manby
Samuel Price
Stephen Burton
Mervyn King
Tyler Thorpe
Stephen Rosney
David Sharp
Arno Merk
Jeffrey Sparidaans
Cristo Reyes
Yorick Hofkens
Jeffrey de Zwaan
Sietse Lap
Jimmy van Schie
Chris Landman
Marvin Kraft
Benjamin Pratnemer
Adam Gawlas
Alexander Merkx
Pascal Rupprecht
Additional Invited Players
2025 Development Tour
Jamai van den Herik
Ryan Branley
James Beeton
Jenson Walker
Patrik Williams
Nathan Potter
Henry Coates
2025 Challenge Tour
Ted Evetts
Jack Tweddell
Sam Spivey
Scott Waites
Scott Campbell
Danny van Trijp
Graham Hall
2025 Women’s Series
Fallon Sherrock
Lisa Ashton
2025 PDC Nordic & Baltic Tour
Andreas Harrysson
Teemu Harju
Andreas Hyllgaardhus
2025 CDC Tour
Gary Mawson
2025 CDLC Tour
Jesus Salate
Roberto Wentz
2025 JDC Advanced Tour
Archie Self
Mason Teese
Nico Bado
Taylor McGuckian
Draw Bracket – Last 64 Onwards
Seed 1 v Winner Group 32
Seed 32 v Winner Group 1
Seed 16 v Winner Group 17
Seed 17 v Winner Group 16
Seed 8 v Winner Group 25
Seed 25 v Winner Group 8
Seed 9 v Winner Group 24
Seed 24 v Winner Group 9
Seed 4 v Winner Group 29
Seed 29 v Winner Group 4
Seed 13 v Winner Group 20
Seed 20 v Winner Group 13
Seed 5 v Winner Group 28
Seed 28 v Winner Group 5
Seed 12 v Winner Group 21
Seed 21 v Winner Group 12
Seed 2 v Winner Group 31
Seed 31 v Winner Group 2
Seed 15 v Winner Group 18
Seed 18 v Winner Group 15
Seed 7 v Winner Group 26
Seed 26 v Winner Group 7
Seed 10 v Winner Group 23
Seed 23 v Winner Group 10
Seed 3 v Winner Group 30
Seed 30 v Winner Group 3
Seed 14 v Winner Group 19
Seed 19 v Winner Group 14
Seed 6 v Winner Group 27
Seed 27 v Winner Group 6
Seed 11 v Winner Group 22
Seed 22 v Winner Group 11
