PDC World Championship draw in full: Who will Luke Humphries, Luke Littler play?

Luke Humphries will begin the defence of his PDC World Championship crown with a tie against either Thibault Tricole or Joe Comito.

On the back of his Player Championship Finals success on Sunday, the world number one is looking to secure his second successive crown at Alexandra Palace.

Standing in his way in the second round will either be Tricole, a former WDF World Championship runner-up, or debutant Comito of Australia.

Meanwhile, Luke Littler, who Humphries beat in last year's final, will square off against either Ryan Meikle or Fallon Sherrock.

The 17-year-old is a potential semi-final opponent for Humphries with the pair seeded one and four respectively.

Michael van Gerwen will meet either debutant James Hurrell or Canada's Jim Long, while Michael Smith goes up against either Kevin Doets - his opponent in the second round last year - or Noa-Lynn van Leuven.

World Grand Prix winner Mike de Decker could meet Luke Woodhouse in what would be one of the ties of the second round, the latter first needing to get past Lourence Ilagan.

Former champion Gerwyn Price faces the prospect of a showdown with either Kim Huybrechts or Keane Barry, with another ex-champion Rob Cross playing one of Scott Williams - a semi-finalist from last year - or Niko Springer.

The tournament gets underway on December 15.

PDC World Championship draw in full

Luke Humphries vs. Thibault Tricole/Joe Comito Raymond van Barneveld vs. Nick Kenny/Stowe Buntz James Wade vs. Jermaine Wattimena/Stefan Bellmont Peter Wright vs. Wesley Plaisier/Ryusei Azemoto Stephen Bunting vs. Alan Soutar/Kai Gotthardt Dirk van Duijvenbode vs. Madars Razma/Christian Kist Damon Heta vs. Connor Scutt/Ben Robb Mike de Decker vs. Luke Woodhouse/Lourence Ilagan Luke Littler vs. Ryan Meikle/Fallon Sherrock Ritchie Edhouse vs. Ian White/Sandro Eric Sosing Danny Noppert vs. Ryan Joyce/Darius Labanauskas Ryan Searle vs. Mensur Suljovic/Matt Campbell Rob Cross vs. Scott Williams/Niko Springer Gian van Veen vs. Ricardo Pietreczko vs. Xiaochen Zong Nathan Aspinall vs. Cameron Menzies/Leonard Gates Andrew Gilding vs. Martin Lukeman/Nitin Kumar Michael Smith vs. Kevin Doets/Noa-Lynn van Leuven Krzysztof Ratajski vs. Richard Veenstra/Alexis Toylo Chis Dobey vs. Stephen Burton/Alexander Merkx Josh Rock vs. Karel Sedlacek/Rhys Griffin Jonny Clayton vs. Mickey Mansell/Tomoya Goto Daryl Gurney vs. Florian Hempel/Jeffrey de Zwaan Gerwyn Price vs. Kim Huybrechts/Keane Barry Joe Cullen vs. Wessel Nijman/Cameron Carolissen Michael van Gerwen vs. James Hurrell/Jim Long Brendan Dolan vs. Chris Landman/Lok Yin Lee Gary Anderson vs. Jeffrey De Graaf/Rashad Sweeting Ross Smith vs. Jim Williams/Paolo Nebrida Dave Chisnall vs. Ricky Evans/Gordon Mathers Gabriel Clemens vs. Niels Zonneveld/Robert Owen Dimitri van den Bergh vs. William O'Connor/Dylan Slevin Martin Schindler vs. Callan Rydz/Romeo Grbavac