2026 IDF World Darts Championship

2026 IDF World Darts Championship
Tournament information
Dates	December 10, 2025 – January 7, 2026
Venue	Winter Gardens
Location	Blackpool, England
Organisation(s)	International Darts Federation (IDF)
Format	Sets
Prize fund	$5,000,000
Winner's share	$1,000,000
«2025

The 2026 IDF World Darts Championship is an upcoming professional darts tournament that will be held from 10 December 2025 to 7 January 2026 at Alexandra Palace in London, England. It will be the 4th World Darts Championship to be organised by the International Darts Federation and the 4th to be held at Alexandra Palace. The winner will receive $1,000,000 from a total prize fund of $5,000,000.

The tournament will feature a 128 player field, with the top 32 players on the IDF Order of Merit being seeded in the first round. Alex Brow is the defending champion, having defeated Logan White 7–4 in the 2025 final to win his first world title.

Overview

Alex Brow will enter the tournament as the defending champion after winning the 2025 event.

The International Darts Federation (IDF) was founded in 2022 to provide greater opportunities for players outside the established Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) system, particularly in Australia, where many competitors identified as casual or semi-professional sought access to major events with comparable prize funds. The federation staged its inaugural IDF World Darts Championship in 2023, with Alexandra Palace in London serving as the host venue since the beginning.

The upcoming 2026 IDF World Darts Championship will be the fourth edition of the tournament and the fourth consecutive to be held at Alexandra Palace, running from 10 December 2025 to 7 January 2026. A record field of 128 players, including 32 seeds, will compete following the IDF’s March 2025 decision to expand the draw from 96 to 128 entrants. Alex Brow will return as defending champion after defeating Logan White 7–4 in the 2025 final to claim his first world title.

Format

Under the new format, all players – including the 32 seeds – will enter the tournament in the first round, a change from previous years where seeds entered in the second round. The 32 seeds will be the top 32 players on the IDF Order of Merit heading into the tournament. The seeded players, plus players ranked 33–64 drawn at random, will be placed on the left hand side of the draw, and will be matched up against the remaining 64 qualifiers drawn at random.

All matches will consist of games of 501, where players are required to reduce their score from 501 to zero in order to win a leg, finishing on a double or the bullseye. The matches are played in set format, with the amount of sets required to win a match increasing as the tournament progresses. All sets will be played to the best of five legs in the first round, and also in non-deciding sets of subsequent rounds. In the deciding set of all but the first round, the first player to win at least three legs and be leading by two or more will win the set and the match. If the set reaches a 5–5 tie without a winner, it will be decided by a sudden death leg.

Round	Best of (sets)	First to (sets)
First & second	5	3
Third & fourth	7	4
Quarter-finals	9	5
Semi-finals	11	6
Final	13	7

Ranking

The IDF's main world ranking system, the IDF Order of Merit, is calculated on a two-year cycle. Prize money won by players in ranking tournaments are removed from their ranking after 104 weeks, meaning players who participated in the 2024 World Championship, who did not lose their IDF Tour Card during the two-year period, will be 'defending' their prize money from that event. At the end of the tournament, the prize money won at the 2026 tournament will be added and the prize money won at the 2024 tournament will be removed. After the tournament, the top 64 players in the IDF Order of Merit will receive a one-year extension on their Tour Card, joined by the players who earned two-year Tour Cards in 2025 who will enter their second year in 2026. Players with two or more years on their Tour Card, who finish outside of the top 64, will lose their Tour Card and see their ranking reset to $0, along with all other players who earned prize money in ranking tournaments without holding a Tour Card.

Prize money

On 31 March 2025, the IDF announced the biggest prize money increase in the organisation's history, starting from the 2026 season onward. Coinciding with the expansion of the field to 128 players, the World Championship's total prize money and winner's share doubled from $2,500,000 to $5,000,000 and from $500,000 to $1,000,000 respectively; this was the first time the tournament's prize money increased. The winner will also receive the IDF World Trophy. The prize money breakdown is shown below:

Position (no. of players)		Prize money (Total: $5,000,000)
Winner	(1)	$1,000,000
Runner-up	(1)	$400,000
Semi-finalists	(2)	$200,000
Quarter-finalists	(4)	$100,000
Fourth round losers	(8)	$60,000
Third round losers	(16)	$35,000
Second round losers	(32)	$25,000
First round losers	(64)	$15,000

Qualification

The 128-player field will comprise three sets of qualification routes. The top 40 players on the two-year IDF Order of Merit after the 2025 Players Championship Finals will qualify automatically, followed by the next 40 highest-ranked players on the one-year IDF Pro Tour Order of Merit. The remaining 48 places will go to various international qualifiers.

List of confirmed international qualifiers

Seeded (1–32):

1. Max Mad
2. Alex Brow
3. Lukas Parker
4. Blake Carter
5. Mason Owens
6. Ryan Thomas
7. Logan White
8. Aiden Brooks
9. Nate Parker
10. Zion Carte
11. Kai Mitchell
12. Owen Quinn
13. Quinn Sanders
14. Victor Vaughn
15. Wyatt Walker
16. Damon Edwards

1. Xander Young
2. Spencer Taylor
3. Alec Baker
4. Zane Adams
5. Brody Clarke
6. Caleb Daniels
7. Eli Fletcher
8. Nathan Reeves
9. Felix Grant
10. Toby Underwood
11. Parker Reeves
12. Wesley Adams
13. Grant Hayes
14. Hayden Ingram
15. Isaac Johnson
16. Jordan Knight

Qualified (33–48):

1. Kevin Lee
2. Hunter James
3. Logan Morgan
4. Miles Nash
5. Harrison Lewis
6. Noah O'Brien

1. Patrick Richards
2. Uriah Walker
3. Xavier Baker
4. Andy Dawson
5. Tanner Vaughn
6. Vince Young

International Qualifiers (49–96):

1. Liam Cooper
2. Ethan Wright
3. Carter Mills
4. Dylan Hayes
5. Ashton Cole
6. Brady Simmons
7. Declan Ross
8. Tyler McCoy
9. Landon Ward
10. Marcus Reed
11. Jayden Cross
12. Chase Wallace
13. Colton Rivers
14. Tristan Cole
15. Jaxon Reed
16. Cameron Doyle

1. Corey Allen
2. Dominic Flynn
3. Reed Hamilton
4. Oliver Scott
5. Bryan Matthews
6. Trevor Kane
7. Shane Douglas
8. Cole Bennett
9. Damian Frost
10. Eric Lawson
11. Jett Pearson
12. Connor Black
13. Alex Harris
14. Nolan Price
15. Elias Carter
16. Brandon Fox

1. Carter Ellis
2. Luke Hamilton
3. Riley Morgan
4. Hunter Clark
5. Ashton Rivera
6. Colby Anderson
7. Sean McBride
8. Tyler Freeman
9. Zach Marshall
10. Gabriel Torres
11. Adrian Silva
12. Jorge Mendoza
13. Marco Castillo
14. Javier Rojas
15. Hugo Romero
16. Leonardo Vargas
17. Tomas Alvarez
18. Carlos Mendes
19. Paulo Ferreira
20. André Santos

Regional Qualifiers (97–128):

1. Daniel Chen
2. Hiroshi Takeda
3. Kenji Sato
4. Yuji Tanaka
5. Haruto Mori
6. Min-Jae Park
7. Ji-Hoon Kim
8. Dae-Hyun Lee
9. Wei Zhang
10. Hao Li
11. Junjie Wang
12. Chen Liu

1. Arjun Mehta
2. Rohan Patel
3. Sameer Sharma
4. Amir Khan
5. Ahmed Hassan
6. Youssef Ibrahim
7. Omar Khaled
8. Tariq Mahmoud
9. Jack O’Connor
10. Sean Doyle
11. Patrick O’Neill
12. Cian Murphy

1. Callum Fraser
2. Angus McLeod
3. Rory Campbell
4. Alistair Gordon
5. Dylan Hughes
6. Rhys Morgan
7. Gareth Evans
8. Ieuan Davies

Schedule

The event will consist of 36 sessions held across 20 days from 10 December 2025 until the date of the final on Saturday, 7 January 2026.

December 10, 2025
Match no.	Round	Player 1	Score	Player 2	Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5
01	1	Max Mad		Leuan Davies
02		Jordan Knight		Gareth Evans
03		Xander Young		Rhys Morgan
04		Damon Edwards		Dylan Hughes

December 11, 2025
Match no.	Round	Player 1	Score	Player 2	Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5
05	1	Alistair Gordon		Rory Campbell
06		Angus McLeod		Callum Fraser
07		Cian Murphy		Patrick O’Neill
08		Sean Doyle		Jack O’Connor
09		Aiden Brooks		Tariq Mahmoud
10		Felix Grant		Omar Khaled
11		Nathan Reeves		Youssef Ibrahim
12		Alex Brow		Alex Brow

December 13, 2025
Match no.	Round	Player 1	Score	Player 2	Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5
13	1	Alex Brow		Alex Brow
14		Alex Brow		Alex Brow
15		Alex Brow		Alex Brow
16		Alex Brow		Alex Brow
17		Alex Brow		Alex Brow
18		Alex Brow		Alex Brow
19		Alex Brow		Alex Brow
20		Alex Brow		Alex Brow

December 15, 2025
Match no.	Round	Player 1	Score	Player 2	Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5
21	1	Alex Brow		Alex Brow
22		Alex Brow		Alex Brow
23		Alex Brow		Alex Brow
24		Alex Brow		Alex Brow
25		Alex Brow		Alex Brow
26		Alex Brow		Alex Brow
27		Alex Brow		Alex Brow
28		Alex Brow		Alex Brow

December 17, 2025
Match no.	Round	Player 1	Score	Player 2	Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5
29	1	Alex Brow		Alex Brow
30		Alex Brow		Alex Brow
31		Alex Brow		Alex Brow
32		Alex Brow		Alex Brow
33		Alex Brow		Alex Brow
34		Alex Brow		Alex Brow
35		Alex Brow		Alex Brow
36		Alex Brow		Alex Brow

December 19, 2025
Match no.	Round	Player 1	Score	Player 2	Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5
37	1	Alex Brow		Alex Brow
38		Alex Brow		Alex Brow
39		Alex Brow		Alex Brow
40		Alex Brow		Alex Brow
41		Alex Brow		Alex Brow
42		Alex Brow		Alex Brow
43		Alex Brow		Alex Brow
44		Alex Brow		Alex Brow

December 22, 2025
Match no.	Round	Player 1	Score	Player 2	Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5
45	1	Alex Brow		Alex Brow
46		Alex Brow		Alex Brow
47		Alex Brow		Alex Brow
48		Alex Brow		Alex Brow
49		Alex Brow		Alex Brow
50		Alex Brow		Alex Brow
51		Alex Brow		Alex Brow
52		Alex Brow		Alex Brow

December 23, 2025
Match no.	Round	Player 1	Score	Player 2	Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5
53	1	Alex Brow		Alex Brow
54		Alex Brow		Alex Brow
55		Alex Brow		Alex Brow
56		Alex Brow		Alex Brow
57		Alex Brow		Alex Brow
58		Alex Brow		Alex Brow
59		Alex Brow		Alex Brow
60		Alex Brow		Alex Brow

December 24, 2025
Match no.	Round	Player 1	Score	Player 2	Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5
61	1	Alex Brow		Alex Brow
62		Alex Brow		Alex Brow
63		Alex Brow		Alex Brow
64		Alex Brow		Alex Brow
December 26, 2025
65	2
66
67
68

December 27, 2025
Match no.	Round	Player 1	Score	Player 2	Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5
69	2
70
71
72
73
74
75
76

December 28, 2025
Match no.	Round	Player 1	Score	Player 2	Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5
77	2
78
79
80
81
82
83
84

December 29, 2025
Match no.	Round	Player 1	Score	Player 2	Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5
85	2
86
87
88
89
90
91
92

December 30, 2025
Match no.	Round	Player 1	Score	Player 2	Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5
93	2
94
95
96
January 2, 2026
97	3
98
99
100

January 3, 2026
Match no.	Round	Player 1	Score	Player 2	Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5
101	3
102
103
104
105
106
107
108

January 4, 2026
Match no.	Round	Player 1	Score	Player 2	Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5
109	3
110
111
112
January 5, 2026
113	QF
114
115
116

January 6, 2026
Match no.	Round	Player 1	Score	Player 2	Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5
117	SF
118

January 7, 2026
Match no.	Round	Player 1	Score	Player 2	Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5
119	F

Draw

Finals

Second round (best of 19 legs) 12–13 November

Quarter-finals (best of 31 legs) 14–15 November

Semi-finals (best of 31 legs) 16 November

Final (best of 31 legs) 16 November

A1

B2

B1

A2

C1

D2

D1

C2

E1

F2

F1

E2

G1

H2

H1

G2

Top half

Section 1

	First round (best of 5 sets) 10–14 December					Second round (best of 5 sets) 10–14 December					Third round (best of 7 sets) 12–16 December					Quarter-finals (best of 9 sets) 12–16 December
	1	Max Mad 102.45	3
		Ieuan Davies 92.10	1
						1	Max Mad
						32	Jordan Knight
	32	Jordan Knight 91.22	3
		Gareth Evans 89.74	2
	17	Xander Young 97.81	3
		Rhys Morgan 90.33	2
						17	Xander Young
							Dylan Hughes
	16	Damon Edwards 95.66	2
		Dylan Hughes 98.02	3
		Alistair Gordon 93.88	3
		Rory Campbell 89.11	1
							Alistair Gordon
							Angus McLeod
		Angus McLeod 96.44	3
		Callum Fraser 91.27	0
		Cian Murphy 94.20	3
		Patrick O’Neill 88.30	2
							Cian Murphy
							Sean Doyle
		Sean Doyle 97.05	3
		Jack O’Connor 90.55	1

Section 2

	First round (best of 5 sets) 10–14 December					Second round (best of 5 sets) 10–14 December					Third round (best of 7 sets) 12–16 December					Quarter-finals (best of 9 sets) 12–16 December
	8	Aiden Brooks 99.45	3
		Tariq Mahmoud 91.82	1
							Aiden Brooks
							Felix Grant
	25	Felix Grant 94.71	3
		Omar Khaled 89.05	0
	24	Nathan Reeves 96.22	3
		Youssef Ibrahim 90.40	2
							Nathan Reeves
							Nate Parker
	9	Nate Parker 98.33	3
		Ahmed Hassan 92.55	2
		Arjun Mehta 93.77	3
		Rohan Patel 88.91	1
							Arjun Mehta
							Sameer Sharma
		Sameer Sharma 95.66	3
		Amir Khan 89.44	0
		Wei Zhang 97.02	3
		Hao Li 91.51	1
							Wei Zhang
							Junjie Wang
		Junjie Wang 94.88	3
		Chen Liu 90.37	2

Section 3

	First round (best of 5 sets) 10–14 December					Second round (best of 5 sets) 10–14 December					Third round (best of 7 sets) 12–16 December					Quarter-finals (best of 9 sets) 12–16 December
	5	Mason Owens 101.22	3
		Haruto Mori 92.44	1
							Mason Owens
							Wesley Adams
	28	Wesley Adams 94.05	3
		Min-Jae Park 90.18	2
	21	Brody Clarke 97.33	3
		Ji-Hoon Kim 91.09	0
							Brody Clarke
							Owen Quinn
	12	Owen Quinn 98.66	3
		Dae-Hyun Lee 93.74	2
		Daniel Chen 95.55	3
		Hiroshi Takeda 88.77	0
							Daniel Chen
							Kenji Sato
		Kenji Sato 96.88	3
		Yuji Tanaka 92.11	1
		Tomas Alvarez 94.92	3
		Carlos Mendes 89.63	2
							Tomas Alvarez
							Paulo Ferreira
		Paulo Ferreira 97.10	3
		André Santos 91.66	2

Section 4

	First round (best of 5 sets) 10–14 December					Second round (best of 5 sets) 10–14 December					Third round (best of 7 sets) 12–16 December					Quarter-finals (best of 9 sets) 12–16 December
	4	Blake Carter 101.88	3
		Leonardo Vargas 90.22	0
							Blake Carter
							Quinn Sanders
	13	Quinn Sanders 98.55	3
		Hugo Romero 92.91	1
	20	Zane Adams 96.44	3
		Javier Rojas 91.05	2
							Zane Adams
							Grant Hayes
	29	Grant Hayes 94.77	3
		Marco Castillo 89.66	1
		Ashton Rivera 95.22	3
		Colby Anderson 90.48	1
							Ashton Rivera
							Sean McBride
		Sean McBride 97.33	3
		Tyler Freeman 91.27	0
		Zach Marshall 94.15	3
		Gabriel Torres 89.40	2
							Zach Marshall
							Adrian Silva
		Adrian Silva 96.88	3
		Jorge Mendoza 92.71	1

Bottom half

Section 5

	First round (best of 5 sets) 10–14 December					Second round (best of 5 sets) 10–14 December					Third round (best of 7 sets) 12–16 December					Quarter-finals (best of 9 sets) 12–16 December
	3	Lukas Parker 102.44	3
		Hunter Clark 91.31	0
							Lukas Parker
							Hayden Ingram
	30	Hayden Ingram 94.22	3
		Riley Morgan 89.66	2
	19	Alec Baker 96.11	3
		Luke Hamilton 92.03	1
							Alec Baker
							Victor Vaughn
	14	Victor Vaughn 97.44	3
		Carter Ellis 93.08	2
		Alex Harris 95.20	3
		Nolan Price 90.92	2
							Alex Harris
							Elias Carter
		Elias Carter 96.77	3
		Brandon Fox 89.88	0
		Damian Frost 94.66	3
		Eric Lawson 90.44	1
							Damian Frost
							Jett Pearson
		Jett Pearson 96.33	3
		Connor Black 92.51	2

Section 6

	First round (best of 5 sets) 10–14 December					Second round (best of 5 sets) 10–14 December					Third round (best of 7 sets) 12–16 December					Quarter-finals (best of 9 sets) 12–16 December
	6	Ryan Thomas 101.77	3
		Cole Bennett 90.33	1
							Ryan Thomas
							Kai Mitchell
	11	Kai Mitchell 98.22	3
		Shane Douglas 92.09	2
	22	Caleb Daniels 95.66	3
		Trevor Kane 89.88	0
							Caleb Daniels
							Parker Reeves
	27	Parker Reeves 94.33	3
		Bryan Matthews 90.77	1
		Colton Rivers 95.44	3
		Tristan Cole 91.15	2
							Colton Rivers
							Jaxon Reed
		Jaxon Reed 96.22	3
		Cameron Doyle 89.80	0
		Corey Allen 94.99	3
		Dominic Flynn 90.66	1
							Corey Allen
							Reed Hamilton
		Reed Hamilton 96.40	3
		Oliver Scott 92.77	2

Section 7

	First round (best of 5 sets) 10–14 December					Second round (best of 5 sets) 10–14 December					Third round (best of 7 sets) 12–16 December					Quarter-finals (best of 9 sets) 12–16 December
	7	Logan White 100.44	3
		Chase Wallace 90.99	1
							Logan White
							Toby Underwood
	26	Toby Underwood 94.33	3
		Jayden Cross 89.88	0
	23	Eli Fletcher 96.22	3
		Marcus Reed 92.77	2
							Eli Fletcher
							Zion Carte
	10	Zion Carte 98.88	3
		Landon Ward 93.44	2
		Tyler McCoy 95.11	3
		Declan Ross 90.66	1
							Tyler McCoy
							Brady Simmons
		Brady Simmons 96.77	3
		Ashton Cole 89.51	0
		Dylan Hayes 94.88	3
		Carter Mills 91.02	2
							Dylan Hayes
							Ethan Wright
		Ethan Wright 97.00	3
		Liam Cooper 92.44	1

Section 8

	First round (best of 5 sets) 10–14 December					Second round (best of 5 sets) 10–14 December					Third round (best of 7 sets) 12–16 December					Quarter-finals (best of 9 sets) 12–16 December
	2	Alex Brow 109.25	3
		Vince Young 98.81	0
							Alex Brow
							Isaac Johnson
	31	Isaac Johnson 93.55	3
		Tanner Vaughn 90.44	1
	18	Spencer Taylor 97.02	3
		Andy Dawson 92.11	2
							Spencer Taylor
							Wyatt Walker
	15	Wyatt Walker 98.55	3
		Xavier Baker 91.33	1
		Uriah Walker 95.44	3
		Patrick Richards 89.99	0
							Uriah Walker
							Noah O'Brien
		Noah O'Brien 96.66	3
		Harrison Lewis 91.77	1
		Miles Nash 94.20	3
		Logan Morgan 90.10	2
							Miles Nash
							Hunter James
		Hunter James 96.22	3
		Kevin Lee 92.44	1