2025 Grand Slam of Darts: Tournament preview, predictions & betting tips

• 32 players set to compete for the Eric Bristow Trophy

• Reigning champion Luke Littler is the bookies' favourite

• Will we see a famous nine-dart finish this year?

With the 2025 Grand Slam of Darts fast approaching, dive into Ladbrokes' detailed tournament preview, with odds, predictions, and expert betting tips.

The tournament sees all of the world's top talents compete over a week of action-packed darts, with players including Luke Littler - currently the favourite to win the PDC World Championship - world number one Luke Humphries, and up-and-coming sensation Beau Greaves all taking to the oche.

Read on for our expert-led preview of the 2025 Grand Slam of Darts, featuring a complete tournament schedule and a look at the early favourites - with live odds!

• Date of opening match: Saturday, November 8, 2025

• Date of final: Sunday, November 16, 2025

• Venue: WV Active Aldersley, Wolverhampton, UK

• Prize pool: £650,000

• Reigning champion: Luke Littler (ENG)

As 32 players step up for their chance of silverware, the 2025 Grand Slam of Darts features a host of the sport's biggest names, with this year's edition the last of the current format - before the tournament expands to 48 players in 2026.

The players are split into eight groups of four to kick-off the tournament, with a round-robin format seeing each person play three matches. The top two from each group progress to the round of 16, before a classic knockout format follows - with two players eventually battling it out in the final on Sunday, 16 November.

Luke Littler comes in as the reigning champion after last year's 16-3 victory over Martin Lukeman, proving he can do it in the long formats as well as the short - with the latter stages of the Grand Slam of Darts seeing players compete in a gruelling 'best of 31 legs' contest.

Speaking of Littler, the reigning champ is also the early favourite to retain his title, pipping world number one Luke Humphries and Welshman Gerwyn Price to lead the bookies' odds. The 18-year-old - who also finds himself among the favourites to win the 2025 Sports Personality of the Year Award - has enjoyed a fruitful year so far, with the World Championship, World Matchplay, and World Grand Prix already under his belt.

Humphries, Price, and Gian van Veen are the only other players with odds of 10/1 or shorter, with Josh Rock, Michael van Gerwen, and Stephen Bunting other notable names among the front-runners. The Eric Bristow trophy has been won by an Englishman in each of the last three years, and Ladbrokes thinks there's a good chance that could happen again - with Littler the early favourite.

Group A

• Luke Humphries

• Nathan Aspinall

• Michael Smith

• Alex Spellman

Group B

• Chris Dobey

• Damon Heta

• Martin Lukeman

• Jurjen van der Velde

Group C

• Stephen Bunting

• Martin Schindler

• Luke Woodhouse

• Alexis Toylo

Group D

• James Wade

• Gerwyn Price

• Ricky Evans

• Stefan Bellmont

Group E

• Luke Littler

• Daryl Gurney

• Connor Scutt

• Karel Sedlacek

Group F

• Gian van Veen

• Josh Rock

• Wessel Nijman

• Lisa Ashton

Group G

• Michael van Gerwen

• Gary Anderson

• Niko Springer

• Beau Greaves

Group H

• Jonny Clayton

• Danny Noppert

• Lukas Wenig

• Cam Crabtree

Saturday, November 8

• 13:00 - Group-stage matches (x8)

• 19:00 - Group-stage matches (x8)

Sunday, November 9

• 13:00 - Group-stage matches (x8)

• 19:30 - Group-stage matches (x8)

Monday, November 10

• 19:00 - Group-stage matches (x8)

Tuesday, November 11

• 19:00 - Group-stage matches (x8)

Wednesday, November 12

• 19:00 - Round-of-16 matches (x4)

Thursday, November 13

• 19:00 - Round-of-16 matches (x4)

Friday, November 14

• 19:00 - Quarter-final matches (x2)

Saturday, November 15

• 19:00 - Quarter-final matches (x2)

Sunday, November 16

• 13:00 - Semi-final (x2)

• 19:00 - Final

To wrap up our 2025 Grand Slam of Darts tournament preview, we're sticking our neck out and making a couple of predictions - starting with a shock early elimination.

With the round-robin groups offering a slightly different format to most events, Ladbrokes is expecting a few shocks - and we're making the bold prediction that one of the previous winners will fail to progress from the groups. Luke Littler, Luke Humphries, Michael Smith, Gerwyn Price, and Michael van Gerwen are the five previous champions, so we're expecting one of them to massively underperform - but who will it be?

Our second Grand Slam of Darts prediction is regarding the standard of play itself - and it's one we're all hoping comes true. Across 63 matches featuring the world's very best, we're predicting that someone will hit a famous nine-darter in Wolverhampton this year - a feat that has only been achieved on six occasions at previous Grand Slams. Ryan Searle's in 2023 remains the most recent, but we're backing that to change in 2025, with a nine-dart finish raising the roof.

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All odds and markets are correct as of the date of publication.