2025 IDF World Darts Championship

2025 IDF World Darts Championship
Tournament information
Dates	December 10, 2024 — January 7, 2025
Venue	Winter Gardens
Location	Blackpool, England
Organisation(s)	Internaional Darts Federation (IDF)
Format	Sets
Prize fund	$2,500,000
Winner's share	$1,250,000
Nine-dart finish	Dimitri Van den Bergh
High checkout	TBA
Champion(s)
TBA
«2024 2026»

The 2025 New Year's Open will be the 1st annual staging of the New Year's Open event, organised by the International Darts Federation. The tournament will take place at the Winter Gardens, Blackpool, from 13 to 21 January 2025.

Max Mad, who is known from his career in soft-tip darts, who won three world championships, will make his debut and is set to play Luke Humphries in the first round. Humphries was previously the world champion after winning the PDC's 2024's World Championship event, Humphries was intended to be a seed to begin in Round Two, but was changed to start in Round One.

Prize money

The prize fund remained at $2,500,000 with $1,250,000 going to the winner.

Position (no. of players)		Prize money (Total: £800,000)
Winner	(1)	$1,250,000
Runner-up	(1)	$500,000
Semi-finalists	(2)	$125,000
Quarter-finalists	(4)	$60,000
Second round	(8)	$25,000
First round	(16)	$3,750

Schedule

Match no.	Player 1	Score	Player 2	Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4
Round One
1	Max Mad	4–0	Alex Brow	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0
2	Josh Rock	0–0	Gerwyn Price	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0
3	Ethan Steel	0–0	Martin Schindler	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0
4	Luke Littler	0–0	Nathan Rafferty	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0
5	Jason Drake	0–0	Chris Dobey	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0
6	Damon Heta	0–0	Ross Smith	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0
7	Simon Whitlock	0–0	Josh Payne	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0
8	Krzysztof Ratajski	0–0	Jelle Klaasen	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0
9	Daryl Gurney	0–0	Madars Razma	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0
10	Vincent van der Voort	0–0	Alan Soutar	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0
11	Luke Humphries	0–0	Keegan Brown	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0
12	Kim Huybrechts	0–0	Ron Meulenkamp	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0
13	Jermaine Wattimena	0–0	Callan Rydz	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0
14	Boris Krčmar	0–0	Adrian Lewis	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0
15	Rowby-John Rodriguez	0–0	Dylan Slevin	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0
16	William O'Connor	0–0	Jim Williams	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0
Round Two
17		0–0		0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0
18		0–0		0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0
19		0–0		0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0
20		0–0		0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0
21		0–0		0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0
22		0–0		0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0
23		0–0		0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0
24		0–0		0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0
Quarter Finals
25		0–0		0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0
26		0–0		0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0
27		0–0		0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0
28		0–0		0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0
Semi Finals
29		0–0		0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0
30		0–0		0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0
Final
31		0–0		0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0