2024 European Darts Open

European Darts Open
Tournament information
Dates	21–23 June 2024
Venue	Ostermann-Arena
Location	Leverkusen
Country	Germany
Organisation(s)	PDC
Format	Legs
Prize fund	£175,000
Winner's share	£30,000
«Event 7 Event 9»

The 2024 European Darts Open will be the eighth of thirteen PDC European Tour events on the 2024 PDC Pro Tour. The tournament will take place at the Ostermann-Arena, Leverkusen, Germany from 21 to 23 June 2024. It will feature a field of 48 players and £175,000 in prize money, with £30,000 going to the winner.

Gerwyn Price is the defending champion after defeating Dirk van Duijvenbode 8–7 in the 2023 final.

Prize money

The prize fund remained at £175,000, with £30,000 to the winner:

Stage (num. of players)		Prize money
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.

Qualification and format

A massive overhaul in the qualification for the 2024 European Tour events was announced on 7 January.

For the first time, both the PDC Order of Merit and the PDC ProTour Order of Merit rankings were used to determine 32 of the 48 entrants for the event.

The top 16 on the PDC Order of Merit qualified, along with the highest 16 ranked players on the PDC ProTour Order of Merit (after the PDC Order of Merit players were removed). From those 32 players, the 16 highest ranked players on the PDC ProTour Order of Merit were seeded for the event.

The seedings were confirmed on 1 May.

The remaining 16 places went to players from four qualifying events – 10 from the Tour Card Holder Qualifier (to be held on 8 May), four from the Host Nation Qualifier (held on 19 May), one from the Nordic & Baltic Associate Nation Qualifier (to be held on TBC) and one from the East European Associate Member Qualifier (held on the 7 April).

The following players will take part in the tournament:

Seeded Players

1.  Luke Humphries
2.  Dave Chisnall
3.  Damon Heta
4.  Gary Anderson
5.  Rob Cross
6.  Gerwyn Price
7.  Danny Noppert
8.  Michael van Gerwen
9.  Josh Rock
10.  Ross Smith
11.  Ryan Searle
12.  Stephen Bunting
13.  Martin Schindler
14.  Peter Wright
15.  Chris Dobey
16.  Ricardo Pietreczko

Order of Merit Qualifiers

•  Michael Smith
•  Nathan Aspinall
•  Dimitri Van den Bergh
•  Jonny Clayton
•  Dirk van Duijvenbode
•  Joe Cullen
•  Gian van Veen
•  Daryl Gurney
•  Ryan Joyce
•  Raymond van Barneveld
•  Krzysztof Ratajski
•  Andrew Gilding
•  James Wade
•  Luke Littler
•  Gabriel Clemens
•  Luke Woodhouse

Tour Card Qualifier

•  Nathan Rafferty
•  Radek Szagański
•  Mike De Decker
•  Callan Rydz
•  Dom Taylor
•  Karel Sedláček
•  Matthew Dennant
•  Andy Baetens
•  Owen Bates
•  Jeffrey de Graaf

Host Nation Qualifier

• TBC
• TBC
• TBC
• TBC

Nordic & Baltic Qualifier

• TBC

East European Qualifier

•  Benjamin Pratnemer

Draw

	First round (best of 11 legs) 24 May					Second round (best of 11 legs) 25 May					Third round (best of 11 legs) 26 May					Quarter-finals (best of 11 legs) 26 May					Semi-finals (best of 13 legs) 26 May					Final (best of 15 legs) 26 May
						1	Luke Humphries
						16	Ricardo Pietreczko
						8	Michael van Gerwen
						9	Josh Rock
						4	Gary Anderson
						13	Martin Schindler
						5	Rob Cross
						12	Stephen Bunting
						2	Dave Chisnall
						15	Chris Dobey
						7	Danny Noppert
						10	Ross Smith
						3	Damon Heta
						14	Peter Wright
						6	Gerwyn Price
						11	Ryan Searle