PDC World Darts Championship Draw Confirmed

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PDC World Darts Championship Draw Confirmed

By Jarleth EatonDecember 3, 20209 mins read

The draw for the 2020/21 William Hill World Darts Championship has been confirmed.

Defending champion Peter Wright will face either Steve West or Amit Gilitwala on Tuesday 15 December. That round one match will be the first of the tournament, with the winner to play Snakebite later in the evening.

Ryan Murray and Lourence Ilagan will face each other in first round, with the victor playing world number one Michael van Gerwen in round two. Gerwyn Price takes on Luke Woodhouse or Jamie Lewis, with Michael Smith facing Jason Lowe or Dmitriy Gorbunov.

Other stand out first round ties include:

Jeff Smith v Keane Barry. The winner takes on Chris Dobey in the round two.
Scott Waites v Matt Campbell. Whoever wins that will face Nathan Aspinall in the next round.
Dirk van Duijvenbode v Bradley Brooks for the right to play Rob Cross in the second round.
Adam Hunt facing Lisa Ashton. The winner of that will play Jamie Hughes in round two.
Andy Boulton v Deta Hedman for the right to face Stephen Bunting in the next round.
Luke Humphries taking on Paul Lim. The victor will face Dimitri Van den Bergh in the second round.

The draw for the PDC World Darts Championship pits defending champion Peter Wright against either Steve West or Amit Gilitwala on Tuesday 15 December. Credit: Lawrence Lustig/PDC

2020/21 William Hill World Darts Championship Draw

Section One

(1) Michael van Gerwen v Ryan Murray / Lourence Ilagan

(32) Ricky Evans v Mickey Mansell / Haupai Puha

(16) Joe Cullen v Wayne Jones / Ciaran Teehan

(17) Jonny Clayton v John Henderson / Marko Kantele

(8) Dave Chisnall v Keegan Brown / Ryan Miekle

(25) Danny Noppert v Martijn Kleermaker / Cameron Carolissen

(9) Dimitri Van den Bergh v Luke Humphries / Paul Lim

(24) Jermaine Wattimena v Derk Telnekes / Nick Kenny

Section Two

(4) Michael Smith v Jason Lowe / Dmitriy Gorbunov

(29) Devon Petersen v Steve Lennon / Daniel Larsson

(13) Gary Anderson v Madars Razma / Toru Suzuki

(20) Mensur Suljovic v Maik Kuivenhoven / Matthew Edgar

(5) Rob Cross v Dirk Van Duijvenbode / Bradley Brooks

(28) Jamie Hughes v Adam Hunt / Lisa Ashton

(12) Glen Durrant v Steve Beaton / Diogo Portela

(21) Adrian Lewis v Damon Heta / Danny Baggish

Section Three

(2) Peter Wright v Steve West / Amit Gilitwala

(31) Gabriel Clemens v Andy Hamilton / Nico Kurz

(15) Krzysztof Ratajski v Ryan Joyce / Karel Sedlacek

(18) Simon Whitlock v Darius Labanauskas / Chengan Liu

(7) James Wade v Callan Rydz / James Bailey

(26) Stephen Bunting v Andy Boulton / Deta Hedman

(10) Ian White v Kim Huybrechts / Di Zhuang

(23) Jeffrey de Zwaan v Ryan Searle / Danny Lauby

Section Four

(3) Gerwyn Price v Luke Woodhouse / Jamie Lewis

(30) Brendan Dolan v Mike De Decker / Edward Foulkes

(14) Jose De Sousa v Ross Smith / David Evans

(19) Mervyn King v Max Hopp / Gordon Mathers

(6) Nathan Aspinall v Scott Waites / Matt Campbell

(27) Vincent van der Voort v Ron Meulenkamp / Boris Krcmar

(11) Daryl Gurney v William O’Connor / Neils Zonneveld

(22) Chris Dobey v Jeff Smith / Keane Bearry

How does the draw work?

The draw for the 2020/21 PDC World Darts Championship sees the top 32 players on the PDC Order of Merit qualify for round two automatically. They make up the 32 seeds for the event.

The top 32 players on the Pro Tour Order of Merit, who are not already on the main Order of Merit, qualify for round one, as do 32 international qualifiers. The Pro Tour players and the qualifiers play each other to take on a seed in round two.

The seeded player then faces the winner of a round one game. Whoever wins that moves onto round three, where 32 players remain. If all the seeds qualify, then it would be 1 v 32, 2 v 31, and so on.

The semi finals will be the winner of section one v winner of section two. The winners of sections three and four will play in the other semi final.

The two semi final winners will play in the final, with the victor being crowned the William Hill World Darts Champion.