2025 European Darts Trophy
| 2025 Elten Safety Shoes European Darts Trophy | |||
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| Tournament information | |||
| Dates | 21–23 March 2025 | ||
| Venue | Lokhalle | ||
| Location | Göttingen, Germany | ||
| Organisation(s) | Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) | ||
| Format | Legs | ||
| Prize fund | £175,000 | ||
| Winner's share | £30,000 | ||
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The 2025 European Darts Trophy, known as the 2025 Elten Safety Shoes European Darts Trophy for sponsorship reasons,[1] is an upcoming professional darts tournament taking place at the Lokhalle in Göttingen, Germany from 21–23 March 2025. It will be the second of fourteen PDC European Tour events on the 2025 PDC Pro Tour. It will feature a field of 48 players and £175,000 in prize money, with £30,000 going to the winner.
Michael van Gerwen is the defending champion after defeating James Wade 8–3 in the final of the last edition of the event, which was in 2018.[2][3]
Prize money
[edit]The prize fund remained at £175,000, with £30,000 to the winner:[4]
| Stage (num. of players) | Prize money | |
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| Winner | (1) | £30,000 |
| Runner-up | (1) | £12,000 |
| Semi-finalists | (2) | £8,500 |
| Quarter-finalists | (4) | £6,000 |
| Third round losers | (8) | £4,000 |
| Second round losers | (16) | £2,500* |
| First round losers | (16) | £1,250* |
| Total | £175,000 | |
- Pre-qualified players from the Orders of Merit who lose in their first match of the event shall not be credited with prize money on any Order of Merit. A player who qualifies as a qualifier, but later becomes a seed due to the withdrawal of one or more other players shall be credited with their prize money on all Orders of Merit regardless of how far they progress in the event.[5]
Qualification and format
[edit]In a change from the previous year, the top 16 on the two-year main PDC Order of Merit ranking will now be seeded and enter the tournament in the second round, while the 16 qualifiers from the one-year PDC Pro Tour Order of Merit ranking will enter in the first round.[6][7] The seedings were confirmed on 7 February.[8]
The remaining 16 places will go to players from four qualifying events – 10 from the Tour Card Holder Qualifier (held on 12 February),[9] four from the Host Nation Qualifier (held on 8 February),[10] one from the Nordic & Baltic Associate Member Qualifier (held on 14 February),[11] and one from the East European Associate Member Qualifier (held on 1 February).[12]
The following players will take part in the tournament:
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Draw
[edit]| First round (best of 11 legs) 21 March | Second round (best of 11 legs) 22 March | Third round (best of 11 legs) 23 March | Quarter-finals (best of 11 legs) 23 March | Semi-finals (best of 13 legs) 23 March | Final (best of 15 legs) 23 March | |||||||||||||||||||||||
 Dirk van Duijvenbode | 1 |  Luke Humphries | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Ricardo Pietreczko | 16 | Michael Smith | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Ritchie Edhouse | 8 | Nathan Aspinall | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Jermaine Wattimena | 9 | Chris Dobey | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Martin Schindler | 4 |  Jonny Clayton | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Adam Hunt | | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Luke Woodhouse | 13 |  Gary Anderson | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dominik Grüllich | | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Raymond van Barneveld | 5 | Dave Chisnall | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Ross Smith | 12 | James Wade | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Daryl Gurney | 2 | Michael van Gerwen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Gian van Veen | 15 | Josh Rock | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Connor Scutt | | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Ryan Searle | 7 | Gerwyn Price | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Laurin Welk | | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Wessel Nijman | 10 | Danny Noppert | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Paul Krohne | | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Andrew Gilding | 3 | Rob Cross | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Callan Rydz | | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Ryan Joyce | 14 |  Dimitri Van den Bergh | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Joe Cullen | | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Cameron Menzies | 6 |  Damon Heta | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alan Soutar | | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Mike De Decker | 11 | Peter Wright | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Martin Lukeman | | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
References
[edit]- ^ "PDC Europe Elten Safety Shoes European Darts Trophy 2025". PDC Europe. Retrieved 3 March 2025.
- ^ "Michael van Gerwen beats James Wade to win European Darts Trophy". Sky Sports. 16 October 2018. Retrieved 19 February 2025.
- ^ Hammer, Chris (15 October 2018). "European Darts Trophy results: Michael van Gerwen averages 111 as he beats James Wade in the final". Sporting Life. Retrieved 19 February 2025.
- ^ "European Darts Trophy 2025". Mastercaller. Retrieved 14 February 2025.
- ^ "PDC Order of Merit Rules | 2025 PDC Order of Merit Rules, as at January 13 2025". PDC.
- ^ Shaw, Jamie (13 January 2025). "PDC confirm further controversial changes to European Tour criteria in 2025". Live Darts. Retrieved 5 February 2025.
- ^ Gill, Samuel (13 January 2025). "PDC European Tour rules change again in controversial move seeming to protect big names". Darts News. Retrieved 5 February 2025.
- ^ Gorton, Josh (7 February 2025). "2025 ET1-2 Seeds & Tour Card Holder qualifier entries confirmed". Professional Darts Corporation. Retrieved 7 February 2025.
- ^ "PDC ET02 Tour Card Holder Qualifier". DartConnect. 12 February 2025.
- ^ "PDC ET02 Host Nation Qualifier". DartConnect. 6 March 2025.
- ^ "PDCNB 2025 Tour - Latvia - Weekend 01 • ET2 Qualifier Final". DartConnect. Retrieved 14 February 2025.
- ^ "PDC ET02 E. Europe Qualifier". DartConnect. 1 February 2025.