The 31st edition of the PDC’s second-longest running major tournament, first staged in 1994, has kicked off as Nathan Aspinall bids to defend the Phil Taylor Trophy.
Here you can follow the event with the results and daily summaries. You can also find details about statistics, how the players qualified, prize money and a history section.
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World Matchplay Darts: Daily Schedule
- Click here for Sky Bet odds
- * Each match must be won by two clear legs, with a maximum of five additional legs to be played before the sixth additional leg is sudden-death.
Saturday 13 July (1900 BST)
First round (best of 19 legs)
TV Channel: Sky Sports
- Gerwyn Price 10-4 Daryl Gurney
- Jonny Clayton 10-7 Raymond van Barneveld
- Luke Humphries 10-4 Ricardo Pietreczko
- Nathan Aspinall 10-8 Luke Woodhouse
Sunday July 14th
Morning Session (11am BST)
First round (best of 19 legs)
TV Channel: Sky Sports
* SESSION TIMES CHANGED AS ENGLAND REACHES EURO 2024 FINAL ON SUNDAY EVENING
- Ross Smith 10-4 Josh Rock
- Danny Noppert 5-10 James Wade
- Dimitri Van den Bergh 10-6 Martin Schindler
- Stephen Bunting 12-10 Ryan Joyce
Evening Session (4pm BST)
First round (best of 19 legs)
TV Channel: Sky Sports
* SESSION TIMES CHANGED AS ENGLAND REACHES EURO 2024 FINAL ON SUNDAY EVENING
- Rob Cross 13-12 Gian van Veen
- Joe Cullen 10-4 Brendan Dolan
- Peter Wright 5-10 Andrew Gilding
- Dave Chisnall 2-10 Krzysztof Ratajski
Monday 15 July (1900 BST)
First round (best of 19 legs)
TV Channel: Sky Sports
- Damon Heta 4-10 Ryan Searle
- Michael Smith 10-5 Gary Anderson
- Michael van Gerwen 10-6 Luke Littler
- Chris Dobey 10-7 Ritchie Edhouse
Tuesday 16 July (1900 BST)
Second round (best of 21 legs)
TV Channel: Sky Sports
- Gerwyn Price 9-11 Ross Smith
- Nathan Aspinall 8-11 James Wade
- Luke Humphries 11-7 Stephen Bunting
- Jonny Clayton 5-11 Dimitri Van den Bergh
Wednesday 17 July (1900 BST)
Second round (best of 21 legs)
TV Channel: Sky Sports
- Krzysztof Ratajski 5-11 Andrew Vergulden
- Rob Cross 11-6 Ryan Searle
- Michael van Gerwen 11-8 Joe Cullen
- Michael Smith 11-9 Chris Dobey
Thursday 18 July (1900 BST)
Quarter Finals (Best of 31 legs)
TV Channel: Sky Sports
- Ross Smith 10-16 James Wade
- Luke Humphries 16-10 Dimitri Van den Bergh
Friday 19 July (1900 BST)
Quarter Finals (Best of 31 legs)
TV Channel: Sky Sports
- Michael van Gerwen vs Andrew Gilding
- Rob Cross vs Michael Smith
Saturday 20 July (1900 BST)
Semi-finals (best of 33 matches)
TV Channel: Sky Sports
Sunday 21 July (20:30 BST)
Final (best of 35 legs)
TV Channel: Sky Sports
Sky Bet’s World Matchplay Pre-Tournament Odds
- 7/2 Luke Humphries
- 4/1 Luke Littler
- 8/1 Gerwyn Prize
- 9/1 Michael van Gerwen
- 14/1 Rob Kruis
- 16/1 Gary Anderson, Michael Smith
- 25/1 Stephen Bunting
- 28/1 Chris Dobey, Nathan Aspinall
- 33/1 Josh Rock, Jonny Clayton
- 40/1 Danny Noppert, Dave Chisnall, Dimitri Van den Bergh, Martin Schindler, Ross Smith
- 50/1 Damon Heta, Ryan Searle
- 66/1 Peter Wright
- 80/1 Raymond van Barneveld, Daryl Gurney, James Wade
- 100/1 Joe Cullen, Gian van Veen
- 125/1 Luke Woodhouse
- 150/1 Brendan Dolan, Krzysztof Ratajski, Ryan Joyce, Ritchie Edhouse
- 200/1 Andrew Gilding, Ricardo Pietreczko
Click here for a full list of Sky Bet odds
Where can I watch the World Matchplay on TV?
The tournament will be broadcast live on Sky Sports in the UK, via the PDC’s global broadcast partners including DAZN and Viaplay, and on PDCTV (excluding subscribers in the UK, Germany, Austria and Switzerland).
Can I still buy tickets for the World Matchplay?
Click here to buy tickets
World Matchplay Format
- First Round – Best of 19 Legs
- Round 2 – Best of 21 Legs
- Quarter Finals – Best of 31 Legs
- Semi-Finals – Best of 33 Legs
- Final – Best of 35 legs
The World Matchplay is played in a legs format. Each game must be won by two clear legs, with up to five extra legs played before the sixth extra leg is sudden-death. For example, if a First Round game (best of 19 legs) reaches 12-12, then the 25th leg is the final and deciding leg.
Prize fund
- Winner – £150,000
- Second place – £70,000
- Semi-Finalists – £50,000
- Quarter Finalists – £25,000
- Second Round Losers – £15,000
- First Round Losers – £10,000
- Total – £700,000
World Matchplay History
Since the World Matchplay was first held in 1994, when Larry Butler defeated Dennis Priestley, there have only been 12 different winners of this PDC major tournament.
It is no surprise that Phil Taylor is the most dominant player in the club’s 28-year history, with 16 titles, the last of which came in his farewell performance in 2017. Michael van Gerwen and Rod Harrington are the only other players to have won the trophy more than once.
The Power threw the first ever nine-darter to be broadcast live on British television at the 2002 World Matchplay. He repeated the feat at the 2014 edition, winning Blackpool for the seventh time in a row.
The year before, he had thrown an astonishing average of 111.23 in his last-gasp victory over Adrian Lewis.
Taylor’s seven-year winning streak from 2008 to 2014 ended in 2015 when Michael van Gerwen beat James Wade 18-12, before winning again 12 months later.
The Dutchman was the favourite to defend his title for the third time, but Taylor had other plans and knocked him out en route to his emotional sixteenth title, just before his retirement.
The 2018 final was one of the most dramatic in the tournament’s history, with Gary Anderson claiming the title for the first time thanks to a 21-18 victory over Mensur Suljovic, having earlier hit a nine-darter against Joe Cullen.
Rob Cross, Dimitri Van den Bergh, Peter Wright and Nathan Aspinall are the other players to have their names on the trophy recently.
Past finals
Final positions in the legs
World Matchplay Most titles
- Phil Taylor-16
- Michael van Gerwen – 3
- Rod Harrington-2
- Nathan Aspinall-1
- Peter Wright-1
- Dimitri Van den Bergh – 1
- Rob Kruis – 1
- Gary Anderson-1
- Larry Butler-1
- Peter Evison – 1
- Colin Lloyd-1
- James Wade-1
