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
