A minimal of 4 girls will compete on the 2025-26 World Darts Championship after the Skilled Darts Company introduced a brand new qualifying construction.

This 12 months’s occasion may have an expanded area of 128 gamers, up from 96 in 2024-25, with the winner taking house £1m of a £5m prize pot.

An extra change will imply seeded gamers – resembling defending champion Luke Littler and Premier League winner Luke Humphries – enter the event within the first spherical, somewhat than the second.

The 32 seeds will probably be joined by gamers ranked 33-64, and drawn at random into the left facet of the draw in opposition to the remaining 64 qualifiers.

“The growth of the event will present gamers from the PDC’s international affiliate excursions and secondary excursions with additional alternatives to compete on the game’s largest stage,” the PDC mentioned.

“This can embody a minimal of 4 girls within the 128-player area.”

They would be the winner of the PDC Girls’s World Matchplay, plus the PDC Girls’s Collection winner, runner-up and third-place participant.

Beforehand probably the most girls to compete in a single 12 months at darts’ most prestigious occasion was three when Lisa Ashton, Fallon Sherrock and Beau Greaves all performed in 2022-23.

Gayl King was the primary girl to play on the World Championship in 2000-01, whereas Sherrock made historical past as the primary feminine to win a match on the event in 2019-20.

The 2025-26 Championship will happen at Alexandra Palace in London, starting in December and ending in early January.