HUMP LEAKS WORLDS PRIZE MONEY
20/03/2025 By Aaron Nijjar
By Aaron Nijjar
LUKE HUMPHRIES has revealed the enormous new prize pot for the 2026 World Championship.
World No. 1 Humphries won the world title in 2024 by beating Luke Littler in the final, before the teen sensation lifted the crown in 2025.
The winner of the Alexandre Palace showpiece currently pockets £500,000 in prize money.
However, that prize fund is set to double to a remarkable £1million, according to Humphries.
‘Cool Hand’ was asked about Littler’s challenge to his No1 spot in the world rankings.
In response the Cheshire thrower declared he would rather be world champion than No1 because of the prize money on offer.
He told talkSPORT: “Not much really, I’m not fighting desperately to be world number one, I’d rather be world champion, which he is, so for him I’m sure he’d be more happy to be world champion than world number one.
“For me it doesn’t matter what happens in the next six, seven, eight months, it’s all about the World Championships, we all know that the world champion is going to get a million quid, so whoever wins that is going to be world number one.
“If I win that I’ll be world number one for a long time, if Luke wins that he’s going to be world number one for a long time.
“You can look at someone like Michael van Gerwen or Gerwyn Price winning it, they’ll be number one, so it really does not matter what happens over the next seven or eight months, it’s who wins the worlds that will carry that number one spot.
“The gap between the other majors is so massive that it all depends on who wins the worlds now so whoever wins that championship I can guarantee that they will probably be number one.”
PDC chairman Eddie Hearn has previously expressed his desire to increase the prize pool to £1m.
Speaking in 2021, Hearn said: “I would love to make the World Championship a million-pound first prize, that’s the general crazy plan that we’ll always talk about in board meetings.”
The 2025 tournament saw a total prize fund of £2,500,000, with amounts ranging from Littler’s £500,000 down to £7,500 for first-round losers.
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