The 2025 Grand Slam of Darts (known for sponsorship reasons as the 2025 Mr Vegas Grand Slam of Darts) was a professional darts tournament that was held at the WV Active Aldersley in Wolverhampton, England, from 8 to 16 November 2025. It was the 19th staging of the Grand Slam by the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC). The total prize fund was £650,000, with the winner receiving £150,000.
The tournament featured 32 players; finalists from televised tournaments, PDC Pro Tour title winners and additional qualifiers were joined by eight Tour Card holder qualifiers. It was the last Grand Slam to feature a 32-player field before the tournament's expansion to 48 players in 2026. Gary Anderson was eliminated in the group stage for the first time in 18 appearances, while Jurjen van der Velde, Niko Springer and Lukas Wenig all reached the knockout stage in their tournament debuts.
Luke Littler was the defending champion, having defeated Martin Lukeman 16–3 in the 2024 final. Following his semi-final victory over Danny Noppert, Littler became the world number one on the PDC Order of Merit for the first time by overtaking Luke Humphries. He also became the youngest PDC world number one at age 18, surpassing Michael van Gerwen who achieved the feat at age 24 in 2014. He successfully retained the title, beating Humphries 16–11 in the final.
Humphries hit a nine-dart finish to win his second group stage match against Michael Smith. Beau Greaves set the record for the highest three-dart average by a female player at a televised PDC event, averaging 102.46 in her group stage loss to Anderson.
Overview Background
The 2025 Grand Slam of Darts was the 19th edition of the tournament to be staged by the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) since the inaugural edition in 2007. First held at the Wolverhampton Civic Hall, the tournament originally involved top darts players from both the PDC and its rival, the British Darts Organisation (BDO). PDC chairman Barry Hearn promoted it as an event "to discover the greatest of them all". The tournament was mostly dominated by PDC representatives with the exception of the 2010 event, where Scott Waites became the first and only BDO player to win the title by overturning an 8–0 deficit to defeat James Wade 16–12 in the final. Following the dissolution of the BDO in 2020, the 2021 event was the first edition to not feature representatives from the organisation, being replaced by additional qualifiers from the PDC's feeder systems. In 2018, the Grand Slam trophy was renamed to the Eric Bristow Trophy in honour of the five-time world champion who died in April the same year.
The 2025 edition took place from 8 to 16 November 2025 at the WV Active Aldersley in Wolverhampton, England. Online casino Mr Vegas, owned by Malta-based gambling company Videoslots, continued its sponsorship of the event after becoming title sponsor in 2023. Luke Littler entered the tournament as defending champion after defeating Martin Lukeman 16–3 in the 2024 final to win his first Grand Slam title – his first major ranking title. It was the last edition of the tournament to feature a 32-player field, with the number of participants increasing to 48 in 2026. Littler was the pre-tournament favourite to win the title, with Sky Sports pundits also predicting Gerwyn Price to claim his fourth Grand Slam. Littler also entered the tournament aiming to become the world number one on the PDC Order of Merit. He achieved this by reaching the final, thereby overcoming the gap of less than £75,000 between him and Luke Humphries at the top of the ranking.
Format All matches were in leg play format. The 32 players were drawn into eight groups of four, contested on a round-robin basis where every player faced each other once. Players received two points for a win. The top two players in each respective group qualified for the knockout stage. Two-player ties were first be decided by leg difference, then by looking at who won the match between the two. Three-player ties were decided in the following order: leg difference, legs won, legs won against throw, tournament average, nine-dart shootout (relevant players accumulate a score with nine darts).
The number of legs required to win increased as the tournament progressed: Group stage: Best of 9 legs Second round: Best of 19 legs Quarter-finals, semi-finals and final: Best of 31 legs
Prize money The prize fund remained at £650,000, with £150,000 going to the winner. The winner also received the Eric Bristow Trophy.
Position (num. of players) Prize money(Total: £650,000)Winner (1) £150,000Runner-up (1) £70,000Semi-finalists (2) £50,000Quarter-finalists (4) £25,000Last 16 (8) £12,250Third in group (8) £8,000Fourth in group (8) £5,000Group winner bonus (8) £3,500
Broadcasts The tournament was broadcast on Sky Sports in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Other broadcasters included DAZN in Germany, Austria and Switzerland; Viaplay in the Netherlands and the Nordic countries; Fox Sports in Australia; Sky Sport in New Zealand; Peacock and FanDuel in the United States; Nova in Czechia and Slovakia; L'Équipe in France; Sport1 in Hungary; VTM in Belgium; and Zonasport in Croatia. It was also available on the PDC's streaming service, PDCTV, for international subscribers outside of the UK, Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Qualification The first 24 participants were decided by the following criteria:
Finalists from PDC televised events over the previous twelve months (up to a maximum of 16 players) Additional qualifiers (up to a maximum of 8 players) European Tour events winners (to fill up to 24 players) Players Championship event winners (to fill up to 24 players)
The list of qualifiers were invited in the following order:
Televised event finalists Tournament Year Position Player Qualifiers 2025 Winner Grand Slam of Darts 2024 Winner Premier League Darts 2025 Winner World Matchplay 2025 Winner World Grand Prix 2025 Winner World Masters 2025 Winner UK Open 2025 Winner European Championship 2025 Winner Players Championship Finals 2024 Winner World Series of Darts Finals 2025 Winner PDC World Cup of Darts 2025 Winners PDC World Darts Championship 2025 Runner-up Grand Slam of Darts 2024 Runner-up Premier League Darts 2025 Runner-up World Matchplay 2025 Runner-up World Grand Prix 2025 Runner-up World Masters 2025 Runner-up UK Open 2025 Runner-up European Championship 2025 Runner-up Players Championship Finals 2024 Runner-up World Series of Darts Finals 2025 Runner-up PDC World Cup of Darts 2025
Additional qualifiers Tournament Year Position Player PDC World Youth Championship 2024 Winner Runner-up Women's World Matchplay 2025 Winner PDC Development Tour 2025 Order of Merit Winner PDC Challenge Tour 2025 Order of Merit Winner PDC Women's Series 2025 Order of Merit Winner PDC Asian Championship 2025Runner-up CDC Continental Cup 2025Winner
European Tour As the list of qualifiers from the main tournaments produced fewer than the required number of players (24), the field was filled from the reserve lists. The first list consisted of the winners from 2025 European Tour events, in which the winners were ordered firstly by number of wins, then PDC Order of Merit position order at the cut-off date.
Event Player Qualifiers (2) (2) (2) (3) Note: Players in italics had already qualified for the tournament.
Players Championships As there were still not enough qualifiers after European Tour events were added, the winners of 2025 Players Championship events were added, firstly in order by number of wins, then in Order of Merit order.
Tournament Event Position Player Qualifiers 2025 PDC Pro Tour Winner Winner Winner Winner Winner Winner Winner Winner Winner (2) Winner Winner Winner (3) Winner Winner Winner Winner Winner (2) Winner Winner Winner (2) Winner Winner Winner Winner Winner (2) Winner (4) Winner (2) Winner (2) Winner (2) Winner Winner (2) Winner Winner (3) Winner (2) Note: Players in italics had already qualified for the tournament.
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PDC Tour Card holder qualifying event A further eight places were filled by qualifiers from a PDC Tour Card holder qualifier held on 31 October in Wigan. Rob Cross, Ross Smith, Mike De Decker, Dave Chisnall, Jermaine Wattimena, Dimitri Van den Bergh, Cameron Menzies, Dirk van Duijvenbode, Peter Wright, Joe Cullen and Raymond van Barneveld were among the notable players to not make it through the qualifier.
The qualifiers were:
Pools The top eight qualified players, based on their PDC Order of Merit ranking, were seeded into the group stage, with the other 24 participants being split into pools based on their ranking. Each group consisted of one player from each pool.
Pool APool BPool CPool D(Seeded Players)(Qualifiers)(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8)
Summary Groups The group stage began on 8 November. The first set of group stage matches was played on 8 November, the second set was played on 9 November, and the third set was played across 10 and 11 November.
Groups A–D
Group A featured 2023 champion Luke Humphries, Nathan Aspinall, 2022 champion Michael Smith and Alex Spellman. Smith was competing in his first televised tournament since the UK Open in March after coming through the Tour Card holder qualifier. Humphries, the world number one, whitewashed Spellman in his opening match, while Smith defeated Aspinall 5–3 in a repeat of the 2022 final. In a post-match interview with Viaplay, Smith declared that he was "a fighter" and expressed his frustrations with his lack of televised appearances: "I just want to be competing. I'm sick of sitting at home watching people win tournaments and I'm sat at home." On day two, Humphries hit a nine-dart finish—his second televised nine-darter—to clinch a 5–3 victory against Smith for his second win in Group A. Humphries described the contest as "the weirdest game of darts [he'd] been involved in" due to a poor start on the doubles and the subsequent perfect leg. "To then go on and hit a nine-darter, that's why darts is one of the best sports in the world," he proclaimed. Aspinall kept himself in the Group A qualification race with a 5–2 win over Spellman. Humphries finished top of Group A after defeating Aspinall 5–3 in a match where both players had three-dart averages over 100, as Smith secured qualification by defeating Spellman 5–2 to finish in second place.