First Round Draw:

Top Half:

Luke Littler (1) [England] vs Darius Labanauskas [Lithuania]

Mario Vandenbogaerde [Belgium] vs David Davies [Wales]

Joe Cullen (32) [England] vs Bradley Brooks [England]

Mensur Suljovic [Austria] vs David Cameron [Canada]

Damon Heta (16) [Australia] vs Steve Lennon [Republic of Ireland]

Raymond van Berneveld [Netherlands] vs Stefan Bellmont [Switzerland]

Rob Cross (17) [England] vs Cor Dekker [Norway]

Ian White [England] vs Mervyn King [England]

Chris Dobey (8) [England] vs Xiaochen Zong [China]

Andrew Gilding [England] vs Cam Crabtree [England]

Luke Woodhouse (25) [England] vs Boris Krcmar [Croatia]

Martin Lukeman [England] vs Max Hopp [Germany]

Gerwyn Price (9) [Wales] vs Adam Gawlas [Czechia]

Lukas Wenig [Germany] vs Wesley Plaisier [Netherlands]

Ryan Joyce (24) [England] vs Owen Bates [England]

Krzysztof Ratajski [Poland] vs Alexis Toylo [Phillipines]

Stephen Bunting (4) [England] vs Sebastian Bialecki [Poland]

Richard Veenstra [Netherlands] vs Nitin Kumar [India]

Dirk van Duijvenbode (29) [Netherlands] vs Andy Baetens [Belgium]

James Hurrell [England] vs Stowe Buntz [USA]

Martin Schindler (13) [Germany] vs Stephen Burton [England]

Keane Barry [Republic of Ireland] vs Tim Pusey [Australia]

Ryan Searle (20) [England] vs Chris Landman [Netherlands]

Brendan Dolan [Northern Ireland] vs Travis Dudeney [England]

Jonny Clayton (5) [Wales] vs Adam Lipscombe [England]

Dom Taylor [England] vs Oskar Lukasiak [Sweden]

Michael Smith (28) [England] vs Lisa Ashton [England]

Niels Zonneveld [Netherlands] vs Haupai Puha [New Zealand]

Ross Smith (12) [England] vs Andreas Harrysson [Sweden]

Thibault Tricole [France] vs Motomu Sakai [Japan]

Dave Chisnall (21) [England] vs Fallon Sherrock [England]

Ricardo Pietreczko [Germany] vs Jose De Sousa [Portugal]

Bottom half

Luke Humphries (2) [England] vs Ted Evetts [England]

Jeffrey de Graaf [Sweden] vs Paul Lim [Singapore]

Wessel Nijman (31) [Netherlands] vs Karel Sedlacek [Czechia]

Gabriel Clemens [Germany] vs Alex Spellman [USA]

Nathan Aspinall (15) [England] vs Lourence Ilagan [Phillipines]

Mickey Mansell [Northern Ireland] vs Leonard Gates [USA]

Mike De Decker (18) [Belgium] vs David Munyua [Kenya]

Kevin Doets [Netherlands] vs Matthew Dennant [England]

James Wade (7) [England] vs Ryusei Azemoto [Japan]

Ricky Evans [England] vs Man Lok Leung [Hong Kong]

Cameron Menzies (26) [Scotland] vs Charlie Manby [England]

Matt Campbell [Canada] vs Adam Sevada [USA]

Gian van Veen (10) [Netherlands] vs Cristo Reyes [Spain]

Alan Soutar [Scotland] vs Teemu Harju [Finland]

Dimitri Van den Bergh (23) [Belgium] vs Darren Beveridge [Scotland]

Madars Razma [Latvia] vs Jamai van den Herik [Netherlands]

Michael van Gerwen (3) [Netherlands] vs Mitsuhiko Tatsunami [Japan]

William O'Connor [Republic of Ireland] vs Krzysztof Kciuk [Poland]

Peter Wright (30) [Scotland] vs Noa-Lynn van Leuven [Netherlands]

Kim Huybrechts [Belgium] vs Arno Merk [Germany]

Gary Anderson (14) [Scotland] vs Adam Hunt [England]

Connor Scutt [England] vs Simon Whitlock [Australia]

Jermaine Wattimena (19) [Netherlands] vs Dominik Gruellich [Germany]

Scott Williams [England] vs Paolo Nebrida [Philippines]

Danny Noppert (6) [Netherlands] vs Jurjen van der Velde [Netherlands]

Nick Kenny [Wales] vs Justin Hood [England]

Ritchie Edhouse (27) [England] vs Jonny Tata [New Zealand]

Ryan Meikle [England] vs Jesus Salate [Argentina]

Josh Rock (11) [Northern Ireland] vs Gemma Hayter [England]

Niko Springer [Germany] vs Joe Comito [Australia]

Daryl Gurney (22) [Northern Ireland] vs Beau Greaves [England]

Callan Rydz [England] vs Patrik Kovacs [Hungary]

The new expanded World Championship for the first time expanded to 128 players will begin on Thursday 11th December to Saturday 3rd January.

Can Luke Littler defend his world title?

Can Luke Littler's walk-on song reach the Spotify Top 200 for an unlikely third year in a row.

Live coverage will be on Sky Sports Darts.

It is also the first time that the winner of the PDC World Darts Championship will receive £1m.

Odds: (Paddy Power)

Luke Littler- EvensF

Luke Humphries- 4/1

Gerwyn Price- 14/1

Josh Rock- 14/1

Gian van Veen- 16/1

Michael van Gerwen- 20/1

Nathan Aspinall- 40/1

Stephen Bunting- 40/1

Danny Noppert- 40/1

Gary Anderson- 50/1

Chris Dobey- 66/1

Jonny Clayton- 66/1

James Wade- 66/1

Beau Greaves- 80/1

Ross Smith- 80/1

Wessel Nijman- 100/1

Jermaine Wattimena- 125/1

Dirk van Duijvenbode- 125/1

Michael Smith- 150/1

Mike de Decker- 150/1

Martin Schindler- 150/1

Rob Cross- 150/1

Ryan Searle- 150/1

Damon Heta- 200/1

Krzysztof Ratajski- 200/1

Peter Wright- 200/1

Daryl Gurney- 200/1

Dave Chisnall- 200/1

Callan Rydz- 200/1

Niko Springer- 250/1

Cameron Menzies- 250/1

Joe Cullen- 250/1

Ricardo Pietreczko- 250/1

Ryan Joyce- 250/1

Dimitri van den Bergh- 300/1

Connor Scutt- 300/1

Luke Woodhouse- 300/1

Cam Crabtree- 300/1

Raymond van Barneveld- 400/1

Lukas Wenig- 400/1

Kevin Doets- 500/1

Andrew Gilding- 500/1

Gabriel Clemens- 500/1

Jeffrey De Graaf- 500/1

Scott Williams- 500/1

Brendan Dolan- 500/1

Richard Veenstra- 500/1

Ricky Evans- 500/1

Madars Razma- 500/1

William O'Connor- 500/1

Wesley Plaisier- 500/1

Charlie Manby- 500/1

Sebastian Bialecki- 500/1

Bradley Brooks- 500/1

Andy Baetens- 500/1

Jose De Sousa- 500/1

Martin Lukeman- 750/1

Ritchie Edhouse- 750/1

Mensur Suljovic- 750/1

Ian White- 750/1

Niels Zonneveld- 750/1

Ted Evetts- 750/1

James Hurrell- 750/1

Adam Lipscombe- 750/1

Steve Lennon- 750/1

Chris Landman- 750/1

Fallon Sherrock- 1000/1

Keane Barry- 1000/1

Leonard Gates- 1000/1

Nick Kenny- 1000/1

Matt Campbell- 1000/1

Ryan Meikle- 1000/1

Mickey Mansell- 1000/1

Lourence Ilagan- 1000/1

Man Lok Leung- 1000/1

Stowe Buntz- 1000/1

Owen Bates- 1000/1

Dom Taylor- 1000/1

Kim Huybrechts- 1000/1

Thibault Tricole- 1000/1

Karel Sedlacek- 1000/1

Alan Soutar- 1000/1

Mervyn King- 1000/1

Jamai van den Herik- 1000/1

Mario Vandenbogaerde- 1000/1

Darren Beveridge- 1000/1

David Davies- 1000/1

Cor Dekker- 1000/1

Max Hopp- 1000/1

Matthew Dennant- 1000/1

Justin Hood- 1000/1

Dominik Grüllich- 100/1

Arno Merk- 1000/1

Krzysztof Kciuk- 1000/1

Adam Gawlas- 1000/1

Boris Krcmar- 1000/1

Simon Whitlock- 1000/1

Jurjen van der Velde- 1000/1

Adam Hunt- 1000/1

Tavis Dudeney- 1000/1

Stephen Burton- 1000/1

Haupai Puha- 1000/1

Noa-Lynn van Leuven- 2000/1

Paolo Nebrida- 2000/1

David Cameron- 2000/1

Nitin Kumar- 2000/1

Jesus Salate- 2000/1

Andreas Harrysson- 2000/1

Jonny Tata- 2000/1

Joe Comito- 2000/1

Adam Sevada- 2000/1

Oskar Lukasiak- 2000/1

Motomu Sakai- 2000/1

David Munyua- 2000/1

Lisa Ashton- 2000/1

Paul Lim- 2000/1

Ryusei Azemoto- 2000/1

Alexis Toylo- 2000/1

Tim Pusey- 2000/1

Teemu Harju- 2000/1

Xiaochen Zong- 2000/1

Stefan Bellmont- 2000/1

Alex Spellman- 2000/1

Patrik Kovacs- 2000/1

Gemma Hayter- 2000/1

Darius Labanauskas- 2000/1

Mitsuhiko Tatsunami- 2000/1

Cristo Reyes- 2000/1

Channelling his inner Colin Lloyd there!

Indeed, Colin Lloyd that was just the once on the dartboard:

but that from Cameron Menzies was too much, he should get an fine for that.

I just hope Cameron Menzies can come back stronger from this.

Dom Taylor has been removed from the World Darts Championship after an “adverse analytical finding resulting from a drug test conducted on 14 December”

Absolutely love this time of year with the darts on every day.

The highlight of round 1 totally has to be Munyua's come back win What absolute scenes that was.

Daryl Gurney v Beau Greaves match of the tournament so far.

1 hour ago, Mack. said:

Daryl Gurney v Beau Greaves match of the tournament so far.

Yeah definitely, brilliant.

The 5 women got really tough draws, all of them pulling out seeded players, really dampened the hopes of any of them having a cheeky little 2nd/3rd round run (if not further).