Luke Littler will face Darius Labanauskas in the first round at the 2025-26 World Darts Championship after the draw for the tournament took place on Monday afternoon. Littler, 18, fresh from winning his EIGHTH major TV title at the Players Championship Finals on Sunday, has discovered his first opponent ahead of next month's Alexandra Palace tournament.

The teenage sensation, of course, is the defending champion after he won his first world title by beating Michael van Gerwen back in January. And Littler is no doubt going to be determined to make it back-to-back.

He has been in excellent form this year, winning the UK Open, World Matchplay, World Grand Prix, Grand Slam and the Players Championship Finals among others since his success at Ally Pally. Last week, Littler also leapfrogged Luke Humphries to become the new world No.1 and he does seem unstoppable right now.

However, the rest of the field will be eager to stop 'The Nuke' in his tracks. Indeed, Labanauskas is set to become the next to try and beat him, with the Lithuanian set to face Littler in the first round of the World Championship in December.

Luke Humphries has been drawn up against Ted Evetts, Michael van Gerwen has Mitsohiko Tatsunami up first and Beau Greaves is due to lock horns with Daryl Gurney in some of the other opening ties.

Here are the 64 first round ties IN FULL for the 2026 PDC World Championship;

Luke Littler vs Darius Labanauskas

Mario Vandenbogaerde vs David Davies

Joe Cullen vs Bradley Brooks

Mensur Suljovic vs David Cameron

Damon Heta vs Steve Lennon

Raymond van Barneveld vs Stefan Bellmont

Rob Cross vs Cor Dekker

Ian White vs Mervyn King

Chris Dobey vs Xiaochen Zong

Andrew Gilding vs Cam Crabtree

Luke Woodhouse vs Boris Krcmar

Martin Lukeman vs Max Hopp

Gerwyn Price vs Adam Gawlas

Lukas Wenig vs Wesley Plaisier

Ryan Joyce vs Owen Bates

Krzysztof Ratajski vs Alexis Toylo

Stephen Bunting vs Sebastian Bialecki

Richard Veenstra vs Nitin Kumar

Dirk van Duijvenbode vs Andy Baetens

James Hurrell vs Stowe Buntz

Martin Schindler vs Stephen Burton

Keane Barry vs Tim Pusey

Ryan Searle vs Chris Landman

Brendan Dolan vs Travis Dudeney

Jonny Clayton vs Adam Lipscombe

Dom Taylor vs Oskar Lukasiak

Michael Smith vs Lisa Ashton

Niels Zonneveld vs Haupai Puha

Ross Smith vs Andreas Harrysson

Thibault Tricole vs Motomu Sakai

Dave Chisnall vs Fallon Sherrock

Ricardo Pietreczko vs Jose De Sousa

Luke Humphries vs Ted Evetts

Jeffrey de Graaf vs Paul Lim

Wessel Nijman vs Karel Sedlacek

Mickey Mansell vs Leonard Gates

Mike De Decker vs David Munyua

Kevin Doets vs Matthew Dennant

James Wade vs Ryusei Azemoto

Ricky Evans vs Man Lok Leung

Cameron Menzies vs Charlie Manby

Matt Campbell vs Adam Sevada

Gian van Veen vs Cristo Reyes

Alan Soutar vs Teemu Harju

Dimitir van den Bergh vs Darren Beveridge

Madars Razma vs Jamai van den Herik

Michael van Gerwen vs Mitsohiko Tatsunami

William O'Connor vs Krzysztof Kciuk

Peter Wright vs Noa-Lynn van Leuven

Kim Huybrechtes vs Arno Merk

Gary Anderson vs Adam Hunt

Connor Scutt vs Simon Whitlock

Jermaine Wattimena vs Dominik Gruellich

Scott Williams vs Paolo Nebrida

Danny Noppert vs Jurjen van der Velde

Nick Kenny vs Justin Hood

Ritchie Edhouse vs Jonny Tata

Ryan Meikle vs Jesus Salate

Josh Rock vs Gemma Hayter

Niko Springer vs Joe Comito

Daryl Gurney vs Beau Greaves

Callan Rydz vs Patrik Kovacs