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European Tour Order of Merit update: Luke Littler closes gap to Nathan Aspinall after title success, top names currently missing Dortmund

Originally posted on Dartsnews.com | Last updated Sep 1, 2025 10:43 AM ET

The Flanders Darts Trophy was held in Antwerp last weekend. With ten of the fourteen tournaments behind us we are starting to get a good view of who is already sure of qualifying for the European Championship and who will have to come on strong in the coming tournaments. Some big names might not qualify.

This year's European Championship will take place in Dortmund from October 23 to 26. The 32 best players of the European Tour 2025 may participate in this tournament. The Flanders Darts Trophy was the tenth tournament, with the Czech Darts Open, the Hungarian Darts Trophy, the Swiss Darts Trophy and the German Darts Championship to follow in the coming weeks.

Nathan Aspinall, who was absent for the Flanders Darts Trophy last weekend, still leads the rankings. 'The Asp', winner of the European Darts Open and the European Darts Trophy earlier this year, already earned £76,000.

Luke Littler is quietly hot on Aspinall's heels in second place. 'The Nuke,' who managed to win the tournament in Antwerp last weekend by beating Josh Rock 8-7 in the final, is now approaching Aspinall to less than 10000 pounds. Littler, by the way, shares second place with Martin Schindler.

While Gary Anderson who was absent is fourth, Jonny Clayton, Gerwyn Price, Ross Smith, Stephen Bunting, Wessel Nijman form the top ten alongside Josh Rock who reached the final losing to Littler in dramatic circumstances. Rock rises into the top 10 after that run.

Michael van Gerwen has dropped out of the top ten after the Flanders Darts Trophy. 'Mighty Mike', winner of the German Darts Grand Prix earlier this year, immediately lost in his first match against Gian van Veen last weekend. However, Van Gerwen, who has already won the European Championship four times, can book his ticket to Dortmund.

Ex-world champion Luke Humphries, who was absent for the Flanders Darts Trophy last weekend, is currently fifteenth in the rankings. The European Championship is one of the few majors that 'Cool Hand Luke' has never managed to win. With four tournaments to go he is not quite sure of qualification, but it would be strange for him to fall outside the top 32. Just behind Humphries is Mike De Decker in sixteenth place. The Real Deal, who reached the final of the Belgian Darts Open at the opening tournament of the European Tour 2025, reached the second round last weekend. In it, De Decker had to lose to Martin Schindler.

Sitting on the cusp

Raymond van Barneveld is in the 32nd and final spot for qualification for Dortmund but it could be said that Chris Dobey, current European Champion Ritchie Edhouse as well as even up to Peter Wright aren't fully safe yet. Jermaine Wattimena also despite reaching the final of the European Championship last year is out of the spots currently. Joe Cullen and Michael Smith follows along in 34th and 35th spots respectively.

Rob Cross as well as Kim Huybrechts, Mensur Suljovic and also Dimitri van den Bergh ae all currently set to miss Dortmund with only a few tournaments to go and not much room for maneuver.

European Tour Order of Merit

Rk	Name	Prize Money	R1	R2	R3	QF	SF	F	W
1	Nathan Aspinall	76.000
2	Luke Littler	68.500		38.5	42.5	44.5	47	50.5	68.5
3	Martin Schindler	68.500		64.5	68.5
4	Gary Anderson	50.500
5	Jonny Clayton	50.500		50.5
6	Gerwyn Price	50.000
7	Ross Smith	48.500		48.5
8	Stephen Bunting	46.000		42	46
9	Wessel Nijman	40.000	40
10	Josh Rock	39.000		27	31	33	35.5	39
11	Michael van Gerwen	38.500		38.5
12	Ryan Joyce	36.750	32.75	35.25	36.75
13	Damon Heta	36.000		30	34	36
14	James Wade	35.500		27	31	33	35.5
15	Luke Humphries	33.000
16	Mike De Decker	32.500	30	32.5
17	Dirk van Duijvenbode	32.500	30	32.5
18	Gian van Veen	32.000	26	28.5	30	32
19	Luke Woodhouse	31.000	25	27.5	29	31
20	Daryl Gurney	30.500	22	24.5	26	28	30.5
21	Cameron Menzies	27.500	27.5
22	Niko Springer	27.250
23	Ricardo Pietreczko	26.250	26.25
24	Danny Noppert	26.000		20	24	26
25	Peter Wright	26.000		26
26	Ryan Searle	23.000		19	23
27	Andrew Gilding	22.500	22.5
28	Dave Chisnall	22.000		22
29	Chris Dobey	20.500		20.5
30	Ritchie Edhouse	19.500
31	Krzysztof Ratajski	18.750	16	17.25	18.75
32	Raymond van Barneveld	18.000	15.5	18
33	Jermaine Wattimena	18.000	18
34	Joe Cullen	16.750	14.25	16.75
35	Michael Smith	16.500	16.5
36	Matt Campbell	15.250
37	William O'Connor	14.750
38	Mickey Mansell	12.750
39	Karel Sedlacek	12.250	11	12.25
40	Martin Lukeman	12.250	12.25
41	Rob Cross	12.000		12
42	Boris Krcmar	10.250
43	Mario Vandenbogaerde	10.250	7.5	8.75	10.25
44	Kim Huybrechts	10.000	8.75	10
45	Mensur Suljovic	9.000	6.25	7.5	9
46	Niels Zonneveld	8.000
47	Leon Weber	7.750	5	6.25	7.75
48	Kevin Doets	7.750
49	Lukas Wenig	7.500	7.5
50	Thibault Tricole	7.500
51	Darius Labanauskas	6.250
52	Ian White	6.250	6.25
53	Callan Rydz	6.250	6.25
54	Cam Crabtree	5.000
55	Richard Veenstra	5.000
56	Johan Engstrom	5.000	5
57	Daniel Klose	5.000
58	Andy Baetens	4.000
59	Andreas Harrysson	4.000
60	Madars Razma	4.000
61	Dimitri Van den Bergh	4.000
62	Ryan Meikle	3.750
63	Bradley Brooks	3.750
64	Darryl Pilgrim	3.750
65	Ricky Evans	3.750
66	Max Hopp	3.750
67	Connor Scutt	3.750
68	Michael Unterbuchner	3.750
69	Matthew Dennant	3.750
70	Kevin Troppmann	2.500
70	Martin Kramer	2.500
72	Tom Bissell	2.500
73	Rob Owen	2.500
74	Brendan Dolan	2.500
75	Maik Kuivenhoven	2.500
76	Benjamin Pratnemer	2.500
77	Christian Kist	2.500	1.25	2.5
77	Dylan Slevin	2.500	1.25	2.5
79	Francois Schweyen	2.500	2.5
80	Justin Hood	2.500
81	Kevin Knopf	2.500
81	Petr Krivka	2.500
83	Alan Soutar	2.500
84	Jeffrey Sparidaans	2.500
85	Berry van Peer	2.500
85	Teemu Harju	2.500
87	Nathan Rafferty	2.500
88	Paul Krohne	2.500
89	Chris Landman	2.500
90	Scott Williams	2.500
91	Thomas Lovely	2.500
92	Felix Springer	1.250
92	Maximilian Czerwinski	1.250
92	Tomislav Rosandic	1.250
95	Andreas Toft Jorgensen	1.250
95	Dalibor Smolik	1.250
97	Andreas Hyllgaardhus	1.250
97	Darren Beveridge	1.250
97	Jim Williams	1.250
100	Cor Dekker	1.250
101	Adam Gawlas	1.250	1.25
101	Jeffrey de Graaf	1.250	1.25
101	Steve Lennon	1.250	1.25
101	Xanti Van den Bergh	1.250	1.25
105	Liam Maendl-Lawrance	1.250
105	Miroslaw Grudziecki	1.250
105	Sebastian Bialecki	1.250
105	Tytus Kanik	1.250
105	Yorick Hofkens	1.250
110	Dragutin Horvat	1.250
110	Joshua Hermann	1.250
110	Moritz Bohrmann	1.250
113	Jeffrey De Zwaan	1.250
113	Jerry Hendriks	1.250
113	Wesley Plaisier	1.250
116	Gabriel Clemens	1.250
116	Marcel Erba	1.250
118	Christian Goedl	1.250
118	Gyorgy Jehirszki	1.250
118	Patrick Geeraets	1.250
118	Rowby-John Rodriguez	1.250
118	Zoran Lerchbacher	1.250
123	Adam Paxton	1.250
123	Andras Borbely	1.250
123	Andy Boulton	1.250
123	Finn Behrens	1.250
123	Michael Rosenauer	1.250
123	Rene Eidams	1.250
123	Robert Grundy	1.250
130	Patrick Klingelhoefer	1.250
130	Paul Goyer	1.250
130	Radek Szaganski	1.250
133	Adam Hunt	1.250
133	Dominik Gruellich	1.250
133	Laurin Welk	1.250
133	Marko Kantele	1.250
137	Cedric Waegemans	1.250
137	James Hurrell	1.250
137	Jim Long	1.250
137	Owen Bates	1.250
137	Patrick De Backer	1.250
137	Sybren Gijbels	1.250