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2025 WDF Lakeside World Darts Championship: Date, venue, format, prize money breakdown

Read all you need to know about the WDF Lakeside World Darts Championship.

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Dates

The 2025 staging of the competition starts on 28th November 2025 with the final held on 7th December.

Prize Money

Winner (1):

£50,000

Runner-Up (1):

£16,000

Semi-finalists (2):

£8,000

Quarter-finalists (4):

£4,000

Last 16 (8):

£2,000

Last 32 (16):

£1,250

Last 64 (32):

£750

Prize money for the 2025 WDF Lakeside World Darts Championship is £146,000, slightly up from the £130,000 last year.

Venue and Location

The WDF Lakeside World Darts Championship will take place, as its name suggests, at the Lakeside Country Club in Frimley Green.

Format

Matches will all be best of five sets until the quarter-finals, which are best of seven sets.

The semi-finals are then upped to the best of nine sets, with the final best of 11 sets.

History

Following the collapse of the BDO, the WDF took over the organising of the World Championship, now holding the event for a fourth year, with Neil Duff, Andy Baetens and Shane McGuirk the first three winners in the new era.

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