The 2025 WDF World Darts Championship (officially the 2025 WDF Lakeside World Championship) was a darts tournament that was held from 28 November to 7 December 2025 at the Lakeside Country Club in Frimley Green, Surrey, England. It was the fourth World Darts Championship to be organised by the World Darts Federation since it succeeded the now-defunct British Darts Organisation. The tournament was broadcast on television by Welsh channel S4C and on YouTube by the WDF and S4C. The open tournament, women's tournament, youth tournament, and girls' tournament shared a total prize fund of ã221,000, with the open champion receiving the biggest winner's prize of ã50,000.
In the senior competitions, Shane McGuirk was the defending open champion, having defeated Paul Lim 6âÂÂ3 in the 2024 final to win his first world title, but lost 4âÂÂ1 to Jimmy van Schie in the quarter-finals. Reigning women's champion Beau Greaves, who won her third women's world title in 2024, did not defend her title as she accepted a place in the 2026 PDC World Darts Championship. 15-year-old Mitchell Lawrie, who qualified for the open and youth tournaments, became the youngest player to compete in a senior WDF World Championship, surpassing the record previously held by Luke Littler.
Jimmy van Schie won his first world title with a 6âÂÂ3 victory in the open final against Mitchell Lawrie, who became the first teenager to reach the final of the tournament. Van Schie, who overturned a 3âÂÂ0 deficit in the final, was the fourth Dutch player to win the main title at Lakeside. Competing in her fourth women's world final, 66-year-old Deta Hedman defeated Lerena Rietbergen 4âÂÂ1 to win her first world title and become the oldest world champion in darts history. The youth and girls' finals were won by Lawrie and Zehra Gemi respectively, with Gemi becoming the first Turkish world champion across all levels.
The total prize fund remained at ã221,000. The winner of the open event received ã50,000.
The open event consisted of 48 players. Qualification for the event followed these criteria:
Shane McGuirk entered the tournament as the defending champion, having defeated Paul Lim 6âÂÂ3 in the 2024 final to win his first world title. Leonard Gates, Alex Spellman, David Cameron, Jonny Tata and Lourence Ilagan originally qualified for the tournament, but decided to participate in the 2026 PDC World Darts Championship and were replaced. The list of participants is shown below.
1âÂÂ16 in WDF rankings<br/>Seeded in second round
Platinum/Gold event winners<br/>First round
Regional table qualifiers<br/>First round
Highest-ranked non-qualified<br/>First round
Qualifier winners<br/>First round
Reserve players<br/>First round/second round
The draw was confirmed on 2 November. Numbers to the left of a player's name show the 16 seeded players for the tournament. The 3 qualifier winners are indicated by 'Q'. The two replacement players are indicated by 'Alt'. Figures to the right of a player's name state their three-dart average in a match. Players in bold denote match winners.
The women's event consisted of 25 players. Qualification for the event followed the same criteria as the open tournament, with the top eight players in the WDF women's rankings being seeded in the second round. Having originally consisted of 24 players, the WDF announced that a calculation error had led to Maud Jansson receiving the final place in the tournament before the last-chance qualifiers took place, ahead of Lisa Zollikofer. The WDF elected to allow both players to compete, with Zollikofer replacing the first qualifier in the draw. As a result, Nina Lech-Musialska and Mayumi Ouchi, the players who won the two last-chance qualifiers, faced off in a play-in match where the winner advanced to the last 24. Reigning women's champion Beau Greaves, who defeated Sophie McKinlay 4âÂÂ1 in the 2024 final to win her third women's world title, was unable to defend her title, having opted to participate in the 2026 PDC World Darts Championship. The list of participants is shown below.
1âÂÂ8 in WDF rankings<br/>Seeded in second round
Platinum/Gold event winners<br/>First round
Regional table qualifiers<br/>First round
Highest-ranked non-qualifiers<br/>First round
Qualifier winners<br/>Preliminary round
The draw was confirmed on 2 November.
The youth event consisted of eight players. The top four players in the WDF youth rankings were seeded, and were matched up against four qualifiers in the quarter-finals. The list of participants is shown below.
1âÂÂ4 in WDF rankings<br/>Seeded
Qualifier winners<br/>Unseeded
The draw was confirmed on 2 November.
The girls' event consisted of four players. The top two players in the WDF girls' rankings were seeded, and were matched up against two qualifiers in the semi-finals. The list of participants is shown below.
1âÂÂ2 in WDF rankings<br/>Seeded
Qualifier winners<br/>Unseeded
The draw was confirmed on 2 November.
This table shows the highest averages achieved by players throughout the tournament.