2025 PDC World Masters
The 2025 PDC World Masters was a professional darts tournament that took place at the Arena MK in Milton Keynes, England, from 30 January to 2 February 2025. The preliminary rounds of the tournament were held at the Marshall Arena on 29 January 2025. It was the 13th Masters to be organised by the Professional Darts Corporation and the first under the World Masters rebrand. It was the first time the tournament was ranked and was using set play.
Stephen Bunting was the defending champion after beating Michael van Gerwen 11–7 in the 2024 final. However, he lost 4–3 to Danny Noppert in the quarter-finals. Luke Humphries won the tournament, defeating Jonny Clayton 6–5 in the final.
Dimitri Van den Bergh hit a nine-dart finish during his second round victory over Michael van Gerwen.
Overview
Background
The inaugural edition of the Masters, the 2013 Masters, was held by the Professional Darts Corporation from 1–3 November 2013 at the Royal Highland Centre in Edinburgh, Scotland and was broadcast live on ITV4. Phil Taylor won the first final, defeating Adrian Lewis 10–1. Since 2015, the tournament has been held in Milton Keynes. The tournament initially featured the top 16 players in the world before increasing to the top 24 in 2021.In August 2024, it was announced that for the 2025 event, the field would expand to 32 players and it would be the first edition where the tournament was ranked. However, this preceded a bigger announcement that was made on 28 October. The PDC announced a complete revamp of the competition, rebranding it from the Masters to the World Masters, emulating the World Masters which was first held in 1975 and organised by the British Darts Organisation and later the World Darts Federation. The revamp saw a change in format from leg play to classic World Masters set play, and saw preliminary rounds introduced for players outside of the top 24 and players from the PDC's affiliated tours to determine who would join the top 24 in the main competition.
The 2025 event was held from 30 January to 2 February at the Marshall Arena in Milton Keynes, England. The defending champion was Stephen Bunting, who won his first PDC televised title by defeating Michael van Gerwen 11–7 in the 2024 final.
Format
All matches were played as straight in, double out, requiring the players to score 501 points to win a leg, finishing on a double. The matches were played in set format, with a minimum of two sets required to win a match. All sets were played to the best of three legs.| Round | Best of | First to |
| Preliminary | 3 | 2 |
| First | 5 | 3 |
| Second | 7 | 4 |
| Quarter-finals | 7 | 4 |
| Semi-finals | 9 | 5 |
| Final | 11 | 6 |
Prize money
The prize money for the tournament was £500,000 in total. The winner's prize money was £100,000.Qualifiers
The World Masters featured the top 24 players in the PDC Order of Merit after the 2025 PDC World Darts Championship automatically qualifying for the first round, while the 2025 Tour Card Holders ranked outside the top 24 competed in preliminary rounds held on 29 January 2025 alongside players from affiliated tours to determine the last eight players in the main field. The top sixteen players on the Order of Merit were seeded for the tournament.The list of participants was as follows:
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Preliminary rounds
Raymond van Barneveld did not enter the preliminary rounds. Dylan Slevin therefore received a bye to the last 64.
The following players participated in the last 64 of the preliminary rounds:
Number 25–56 on the PDC Order of Merit (seeded players)
Group winners
The draw for the preliminary rounds was made on 29 January 2025.All matches were played to the best of three sets.
The knockout phase results are shown below.
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Section 5
Section 6
Section 7
Section 8
Schedule
Main draw
The draw for the televised stages was made on 21 January.Highest averages
This table shows all averages over 100 achieved by players throughout the tournament. For players with multiple high averages, this is indicated by the number in brackets.The three-dart average is the most cited statistic in darts matches as it gives a rough estimate of a player's form. For comparison with previous years, see the highest ever recorded averages in the World Masters.
The preliminary draw had 129 players participating. 16 different players achieved over 100 on three-dart average during the preliminaries. The preliminaries were only available to watch on PDCTV, which makes these averages non-televised.