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Fans who bought tickets for the 2025 Belgian Darts Open can breathe a sigh of relief. All the world's top players have signed up for the first Euro Tour tournament of the season.
The new European Tour season gets underway at the Oktoberhallen from March 7 to 9 with the fourth edition of the Belgian Darts Open. The tournament will be won in 2024 by Luke Littler, who made his debut on the Euro Tour at the time. 'The Nuke' then won 8-7 over Rob Cross in the final, while he also had the crowd going wild by throwing a nine darter.
Last year's finalists will be there again at the upcoming edition, as will all the other players in the top-16 of the world rankings. That means Luke Humphries, Michael van Gerwen, Stephen Bunting, Gerwyn Price, Peter Wright and Gary Anderson, among others, will make the trip to Belgium.
Cameron Menzies, Michael Smith and Raymond van Barneveld all seal slots from the ProTour in this year's controversial change. While the qualifying tournament for Tour Card holders, there are still ten spots to be distributed for the Belgian Darts Open. This will take place on Wednesday, Feb. 11, in Wigan.
Participant field Belgian Darts Open 2025
Top-16 of the seedings list (enter from second round)
1. Luke Humphries
2. Luke Littler
3. Michael van Gerwen
4. Rob Cross
5. Stephen Bunting
6. Jonny Clayton
7. Dave Chisnall
8. Damon Heta
9. Gerwyn Price
10. Nathan Aspinall
11. Chris Dobey
12. Danny Noppert
13. Peter Wright
14. James Wade
15. Gary Anderson
16. Dimitri Van den Bergh
Qualifiers via Pro Tour (enter from first round)
Ryan Searle
Josh Rock
Martin Schindler
Ross Smith
Daryl Gurney
Gian van Veen
Raymond van Barneveld
Cameron Menzies
Mike De Decker
Michael Smith
Wessel Nijman
Ritchie Edhouse
Jermaine Wattimena
Dirk van Duijvenbode
Ricardo Pietreczko
Luke Woodhouse
Participants qualifying tournament for Tour Card holders.
Andy Baetens
Keane Barry
Owen Bates
Darren Beveridge
Sebastian Bialecki
Tom Bissell
William Borland
Andy Boulton
Bradley Brooks
Stephen Burton
Matt Campbell
Brett Claydon
Gabriel Clemens
Cam Crabtree
Joe Cullen
Maximilian Czerwinski
Jose de Sousa
Cor Dekker
Matthew Dennant
Kevin Doets
Brendan Dolan
Martijn Dragt
Tavis Dudeney
Ricky Evans
Patrick Geeraets
Andrew Gilding
Kai Gotthardt
Rhys Griffin
Dominik Gruellich
Robert Grundy
Florian Hempel
Stefaan Henderyck
Justin Hood
Max Hopp
Adam Hunt
James Hurrell
Kim Huybrechts
Ryan Joyce
Tytus Kanik
Nick Kenny
George Killington
Christian Kist
Jelle Klaasen
Maik Kuivenhoven
Chris Landman
Danny Lauby
Steve Lennon
Adam Lipscombe
Pero Ljubic
Jim Long
Thomas Lovely
Martin Lukeman
Mickey Mansell
Ryan Meikle
William O'Connor
Dennie Olde Kalter
Rob Owen
Adam Paxton
Darryl Pilgrim
Wesley Plaisier
Haupai Puha
Nathan Rafferty
Krzysztof Ratajski
Madars Razma
Joshua Richardson
Greg Ritchie
Callan Rydz
Connor Scutt
Karel Sedlacek
Dylan Slevin
Alan Soutar
Niko Springer
Mensur Suljovic
Radek Szaganski
Dom Taylor
Viktor Tingstrom
Thibault Tricole
Michele Turetta
Jitse Van der Wal
Jules van Dongen
Berry van Peer
Marvin van Velzen
Mario Vandenbogaerde
Richard Veenstra
Adam Warner
Leon Weber
Lukas Wenig
Ian White
Jim Williams
Scott Williams
Tim Wolters
Niels Zonneveld
Player entries for European Tour Events 1-2 have been confirmed ahead of next week's Tour Card Holder Qualifiers in Wigan.
— PDC Darts (@OfficialPDC) February 7, 2025
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