2026 European Darts Trophy qualifiers

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2026 European Darts Trophy qualifiers
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The Euro Tour heads to Germany this upcoming weekend for the 2026 European Darts Trophy.

It's the second Euro Tour event of 2026, and this one will be held in Göttingen.

Who will be competing at the 2026 European Darts Trophy?

Let's take a look at which 48 players will be taking the stage in Göttingen.

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Seeded players

16 players enter the tournament as seeded players, with byes into the second round, which starts on Saturday.

  1.  Luke Humphries (ENG)
  2.  Gian van Veen (NED)
  3.  Michael van Gerwen (NED)
  4.  Jonny Clayton (WAL)
  5.  Gary Anderson (SCO)
  6.  Stephen Bunting (ENG)
  7.  Ryan Searle (ENG)
  8.  Josh Rock (NIR)
  9.  Danny Noppert (NED)
  10.  James Wade (ENG)
  11.  Gerwyn Price (WAL)
  12.  Chris Dobey (ENG)
  13.  Nathan Aspinall (ENG)
  14.  Martin Schindler (GER)
  15.  Ross Smith (ENG)
  16.  Damon Heta (AUS)

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Pro Tour order of merit qualifiers

The next 16 qualifiers are the highest-ranked players on the Pro Tour OoM that aren't already a part of the seeded player group.

  •  Wessel Nijman (NED)
  •  Jermaine Wattimena (NED)
  •  Cameron Menzies (SCO)
  •  Dirk van Duijvenbode (NED)
  •  Luke Woodhouse (ENG)
  •  Niko Springer (GER)
  •  Ryan Joyce (ENG)
  •  William O'Connor (IRE)
  •  Mike De Decker (BEL)
  •  Joe Cullen (ENG)
  •  Krzysztof Ratajski (POL)
  •  Dave Chisnall (ENG)
  •  Niels Zonneveld (NED)
  •  Daryl Gurney (NIR)
  •  Andrew Gilding (ENG)
  •  Rob Cross (ENG)

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Tour card qualifiers

An additional 10 players qualified through a tour card qualifier event earlier this year.

  •  Mario Vandenbogaerde (BEL)
  •  Cristo Reyes (ESP)
  •  Darius Labanauskas (LTU)
  •  Kai Gotthardt (GER)
  •  Jeffrey de Zwaan (NED)
  •  Shane McGuirk (IRL)
  •  Kevin Doets (NED)
  •  Richard Veenstra (NED)
  •  Ricky Evans (ENG)
  •  Sebastian Białecki (POL)

Host nation qualifiers

Four spots were given to players who qualified via the host nation qualifier route.

  •  Florian Preis (GER)
  •  Florian Hempel (GER)
  •  Dragutin Horvat (GER)
  •  Paul Krohne (GER)

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Nordic & Baltic qualifier

  •  Jonas Masalin (FIN)

East European Qualifier

  •  Wojciech Bruliński (POL)

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