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2020 BDO World Darts Championship
The 2020 BDO World Professional Darts Championship will be the 43rd World Championship organised by the British Darts Organisation, and the 1st staging at the Indigo at The O2 in London. It will be the first BDO World Darts Championship not held at the Lakeside Country Club since 1985. DK of England is the defending champion after beating NM in the 2019 final. DK will attempt to win a histroic 5 world titles in 2020 an achievement only done by MB, PB and SVB.

SBCo is set to become the first player from France to play in a World Darts Championship.

Prize money
On 30 December 2019, less than a week before the tournament was due to start, it was announced that due to ticket sales of only 15%, the prize money would be reduced somewhat. . A reduction from £359,000 to £150,000 has been reported in the media but prize money aside from the winners is still unconfirmed. . It is thought that the prize money will be reduced by half in most cases, although this is unconfirmed.

Men's

Format and qualifiers
1–16 in BDO Rankings Seeded in First Round
 * 1)  Barry
 * 2) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 JoD
 * 3) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 MmcL
 * 4)  NM
 * 5) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Mic
 * 6) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 GMo
 * 7) 🇧🇪 PChr
 * 8) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 AL
 * 9)  GBu
 * 10) 🇧🇪 DCa
 * 11) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 DK
 * 12)  MBut
 * 13)  BAnd
 * 14) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 SW
 * 15)  GGor
 * 16)  CvdG

17–22 in BDO Rankings First Round 1. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 GMG

2. PC

3. JmcM

4. 🇩🇪 TMha

5. 🇧🇪 JD

6. CM

2018 World Champion
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 VY

2019 World Master
 * Ivan

Regional Table Qualifiers
 * 🇵🇱 SBar - International Qualifier
 * 🇫🇷 SBCo - European Qualifier
 * 🇺🇸 FDev - American Qualifier
 * 🇨🇦 PJC - Canadian Qualifier
 * 🇦🇺 JS - Australian Qualifier

Playoff Qualifiers
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 JoC
 * 🇫🇮 SG
 * 🇳🇿 JmcG
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 TmcM
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 CT
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 FW

Wildcard
 * 🇸🇪 BCat

Preliminary round
All matches are the first to 3 sets.