Entries Players Championship 15-16: Only Michael van Gerwen enters from Premier League contingent

The Pro Tour season continues May 12-13 with Players Championship 15 and 16 in Hildesheim. There are a lot of familiar names who have not signed up for these floor tournaments.

Nathan Aspinall, Stephen Bunting, Jonny Clayton, Rob Cross, Chris Dobey, Daryl Gurney, Luke Humphries, Luke Littler, Cameron Menzies, Haupai Puha, Josh Rock, Dimitri Van den Bergh, Jules van Dongen and Tim Wolters are the 14 Tour Card holders absent from the Players Championship two-a-side in Germany.

That means Michael van Gerwen is the only Premier League players with a shot at the title at the next two floor tournaments. He will face competition from the likes of Gary Anderson, Dave Chisnall, Joe Cullen, Ryan Searle, Michael Smith, James Wade and Peter Wright.

The vacant spots will be filled by players called up through the Challenge Tour. These are: Darius Labanauskas, Stefan Bellmont, Ted Evetts, Jack Tweddell, Carl Sneyd, Danny van Trijp, Graham Hall, Jamai van den Herik, Kevin Burness, Dragutin Horvat, Alexander Merkx, Andreas Harrysson, Sam Spivey and Nathan Girvan.

A total of 125,000 pounds in prize money is distributed at each Players Championship tournament. The winner of the event receives the top prize of 15,000 pounds.

Participants Players Championship 15-16

Gary Anderson

Andy Baetens

Keane Barry

Owen Bates

Stefan Bellmont

Darren Beveridge

Sebastian Bialecki

Tom Bissell

William Borland

Andy Boulton

Bradley Brooks

Kevin Burness

Stephen Burton

Matt Campbell

Dave Chisnall

Brett Claydon

Gabriel Clemens

Cam Crabtree

Joe Cullen

Maximilian Czerwinski

Mike De Decker

Jeffrey de Graaf

Jose de Sousa

Cor Dekker

Matthew Dennant

Kevin Doets

Brendan Dolan

Martijn Dragt

Tavis Dudeney

Ritchie Edhouse

Ricky Evans

Ted Evetts

Patrick Geeraets

Andrew Gilding

Nathan Girvan

Kai Gotthardt

Rhys Griffin

Dominik Gruellich

Robert Grundy

Graham Hall

Andreas Harrysson

Florian Hempel

Stefaan Henderyck

Damon Heta

Justin Hood

Max Hopp

Dragutin Horvat

Adam Hunt

James Hurrell

Kim Huybrechts

Ryan Joyce

Tytus Kanik

Nick Kenny

George Killington

Christian Kist

Jelle Klaasen

Maik Kuivenhoven

Darius Labanauskas

Chris Landman

Danny Lauby

Steve Lennon

Adam Lipscombe

Pero Ljubic

Jim Long

Thomas Lovely

Oskar Lukasiak

Martin Lukeman

Mickey Mansell

Ryan Meikle

Alexander Merkx

Wessel Nijman

Danny Noppert

William O'Connor

Dennie Olde Kalter

Rob Owen

Adam Paxton

Ricardo Pietreczko

Darryl Pilgrim

Wesley Plaisier

Gerwyn Price

Nathan Rafferty

Krzysztof Ratajski

Madars Razma

Benjamin Reus

Joshua Richardson

Greg Ritchie

Rusty-Jake Rodriguez

Callan Rydz

Martin Schindler

Connor Scutt

Ryan Searle

Karel Sedlacek

Dylan Slevin

Michael Smith

Ross Smith

Carl Sneyd

Alan Soutar

Sam Spivey

Niko Springer

Mensur Suljovic

Radek Szaganski

Dom Taylor

Viktor Tingstrom

Thibault Tricole

Michele Turetta

Jack Tweddell

Raymond van Barneveld

Jamai van den Herik

Jitse Van der Wal

Dirk van Duijvenbode

Michael van Gerwen

Berry van Peer

Danny van Trijp

Gian van Veen

Marvin van Velzen

Mario Vandenbogaerde

Richard Veenstra

James Wade

Adam Warner

Jermaine Wattimena

Leon Weber

Lukas Wenig

Ian White

Jim Williams

Scott Williams

Luke Woodhouse

Peter Wright

Niels Zonneveld