Luke Littler will face Darius Labanauskas in his opening match at the World Darts Championship.
The 18-year-old is bidding to defend the title he won at Alexandra Palace in January when he beat Michael van Gerwen in the final.
Littler recently became the new world No1 and he has already won the UK Open, World Matchplay, World Grand Prix, Grand Slam of Darts and Players Championship this year.
He is bidding to emulate Phil Taylor, Adrian Lewis and Gary Anderson by becoming just the fourth player to retain the World Darts Championship title.
The World Darts Championship starts on December 11 and the final will be on January 3.
The 2025-2026 World Darts Championship will see an extended 128-player field vying to lift the Sid Waddell Trophy and claim the £1million prize money for the winner.
In a change from recent years, all players will enter the tournament in the first round.
Labanauskas is a two-time world championship quarter-finalist, reaching the last eight at the 2017 BDO World Championship and the 2020 PDC World Championship.
Litter’s main rival Luke Humphries will face Ted Evetts, while Van Gerwen faces Mitsohiko Tatsunami as the Dutchman targets a fourth title at Alexandra Palace.
Raymond van Barneveld, the five-time world champion, will face Stefan Bellmont and Stephen Bunting takes on Sebastian Bialecki.
World Darts Championship first-round draw in full
Luke Littler v Darius Labanauskas
Mario Vandenbogaerde v David Davies
Joe Cullen v Bradley Brooks
Mensur Suljovic v David Cameron
Damon Heta v Steve Lennon
Raymond van Barneveld v Stefan Bellmont
Rob Cross v Cor Dekker
Ian White v Mervyn King
Chris Dobey v Xiaochen Zong
Andrew Gilding v Cam Crabtree
Luke Woodhouse v Boris Krcmar
Martin Lukeman v Max Hopp
Gerwyn Price v Adam Gawlas
Lukas Wenig v Wesley Plaisier
Ryan Joyce v Owen Bates
Krzysztof Ratajski v Alexis Toylo
Stephen Bunting v Sebastian Bialecki
Richard Veenstra v Nitin Kumar
Dirk van Duijvenbode v Andy Baetens
James Hurrell v Stowe Buntz
Martin Schindler v Stephen Burton
Keane Barry v Tim Pusey
Ryan Searle v Chris Landman
Brendan Dolan v Tavis Dudeney
Jonny Clayton v Adam Lipscombe
Dom Taylor v Oskar Lukasiak
Michael Smith v Lisa Ashton
Niels Zonneveld v Haupai Puha
Ross Smith v Andreas Harrysson
Thibault Tricole v Motomu Sakai
Dave Chisnall v Fallon Sherrock
Ricardo Pietreczko v Jose de Sousa
Luke Humphries v Ted Evetts
Jeffrey de Graaf v Paul Lim
Wessel Nijman v Karel Sedlacek
Gabriel Clemens v Alex Spellman
Nathan Aspinall v Lourence Ilagan
Mickey Mansell v Leonard Gates
Mike De Decker v David Munyua
Kevin Doets v Matthew Dennant
James Wade v Ryusei Azemoto
Ricky Evans v Man Lok Leung
Cameron Menzies v Charlie Manby
Matt Campbell v Adam Sevada
Gian van Veen v Cristo Reyes
Alan Soutar v Teemu Harju
Dimitri Van den Bergh v Darren Beveridge
Madars Razma v Jamai van den Herik
Michael van Gerwen v Mitsuhiko Tatsunami
William O'Connor v Krzysztof Kciuk
Peter Wright v Noa-Lynn van Leuven
Kim Huybrechts v Arno Merk
Gary Anderson v Adam Hunt
Connor Scutt v Simon Whitlock
Jermaine Wattimena v Dominik Gruellich
Scott Williams v Paolo Nebrida
Danny Noppert v Jurjen van der Velde
Nick Kenny v Justin Hood
Ritchie Edhouse v Jonny Tata
Ryan Meikle v Jesus Salate
Josh Rock v Gemma Hayter
Niko Springer v Joe Comito
Daryl Gurney v Beau Greaves
Callan Rydz v Patrik Kovacs
