The 2025 PDC World Masters (known for sponsorship reasons as the 2025 Winmau World Masters) was a professional darts tournament that took place at the Marshall Arena in Milton Keynes, England, from 30 January to 2 February 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.
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.[8] 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 (sponsored by Winmau), emulating the World Masters which was first held in 1975 and organised by the British Darts Organisation and later the World Darts Federation.[9][10] The revamp saw a change in format from leg play to classic World Masters set play (best of 3 legs in a set), 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.
All matches were played as straight in (player begins scoring with their first throw no matter what section is hit), double out (a segment on the outer ring or the bullseye), 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.[15][12]
Round
Best of (sets)
First to (sets)
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.[16][17][12]
Position (no. of players)
Prize money (Total: £500,000)
Winner
(1)
£100,000
Runner-up
(1)
£50,000
Semi-finalists
(2)
£30,000
Quarter-finalists
(4)
£17,500
Second round losers
(8)
£10,000
First round losers
(16)
£5,000
Preliminary round Last 16 losers
(8)
£2,500
Preliminary round Last 32 losers
(16)
£1,000
Preliminary round Last 64 losers
(32)
£750
Qualifiers
The World Masters featured the top 24 players in the PDC Order of Merit after the 2025 PDC World Darts Championship[18] 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.[15][19]
The preliminary rounds began with a group stage, with one seeded player per group (the players ranked 57–88 were seeded). The winner of each group progressed to the Last 64 where they faced players ranked 25–56. The eight winners of the Last 16 matches qualified for the main tournament. All matches were played to the best of three sets.[21]
This table shows all averages over 100 achieved by players throughout the tournament.[28] 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.[29][30] For comparison with previous years, see the highest ever recorded averages in the World Masters.
The preliminary draw had 129 players participate.[31] 16 different players achieved over 100 on three-dart average during the preliminaries.[32][33] The preliminaries were only available to watch on PDCTV, which makes these averages non-televised.[21]
The main tournament was broadcast on ITV4 in the United Kingdom,[34][20]DAZN in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, Viaplay in the Netherlands,[35] Iceland and Scandinavia, VTM2 in Belgium,[36] FanDuel in the United States, Prago Sport in Hungary, and Fox Sports in Australia.[37] The preliminary round was offered on the PDC.TV live streaming platform.
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