European Darts Tour 2018

The tournament series consists of thirteen tournaments spread over the year in various European cities. This means that there is one more tournament than last year .

The results there have an influence on the PDC Pro Tour Order of Merit , which is jointly responsible for the qualification of several major tournaments.

Venues

No more tournaments are played in Jena , Mannheim and Schwechat , while Graz , Copenhagen , Munich and Zwolle are new venues.

Maastricht Sindelfingen Saarbrücken Graz Leverkusen Riesa Hildesheim Munich Hamburg Zwolle Goettingen Gibraltar Copenhagen

European Tour Events

At the end of the season, the top 32 of the European Tour Order of Merit , a special form of the PDC Pro Tour Order of Merit , into which only the prize money from the European Tour Events flows, are qualified for the European Darts Championship 2018 .

In 2018 the tour will be expanded from twelve to thirteen tournaments. The Danish Darts Open and the Dutch Darts Championship are completely new . The German Darts Masters fell out of the tournament schedule because of the event of the same name as part of the World Series of Darts 2018 .

No.	date	Event	venue	winner	Result	finalist
1	23-25 March	European Darts Open	Leverkusen , Ostermann Arena	Michael van Gerwen	8  : 7	Peter Wright
2	March 31st - April 2nd	German Darts Grand Prix	Munich , Zenith	Michael van Gerwen	8  : 5	Peter Wright
3	13-15 April	German Darts Open	Saarbrücken , Saarlandhalle	Max Hopp	8  : 7	Michael Smith
4th	20.-22. April	Austrian Darts Open	Graz , Styria Hall	Jonny Clayton	8  : 5	Gerwyn Price
5	4th-6th May	European Darts Grand Prix	Sindelfingen , Glass Palace	Michael van Gerwen	8  : 3	James Wade
6th	11-13 May	Dutch Darts Masters	Zwolle , IJsselhallen	Michael van Gerwen	8  : 5	Steve Lennon
7th	8-10 June	Gibraltar Darts Trophy	Gibraltar , Tercentenary Sports Hall	Michael van Gerwen	8  : 3	Adrian Lewis
8th	22.-24. June	Danish Darts Open	Copenhagen , Brøndby Hallen	Scale length Suljović	8  : 3	Simon Whitlock
9	June 29th - July 1st	European darts matchplay	Hamburg , edel-optics.de Arena	Michael van Gerwen	8  : 2	William O'Connor
10	August 31st - September 2nd	German Darts Championship	Hildesheim , Hall 39	Michael van Gerwen	8  : 6	James Wilson
11	7th-9th September	Dutch Darts Championship	Maastricht , MECC Maastricht	Ian White	8  : 5	Ricky Evans
12	14.-16. September	International Darts Open	Riesa , Sachsenarena Riesa	Gerwyn Price	8  : 3	Simon Whitlock
13	12-14 October	European Darts Trophy	Göttingen , engine hall	Michael van Gerwen	8  : 3	James Wade

Prize money

A total of £ 135,000 in prize money will be distributed per tournament. The prize money is distributed among the participants as follows:

Position (number of players)		Prize money
winner	(1)	£ 25,000
finalist	(1)	£ 10,000
Semi-finalists	(2)	£ 6,000
Quarter finalists	(4)	£ 4,000
Round of 16 players	(8th)	£ 3,000
2nd round loser	(16)	£ 2,000
Loser of the preliminary round	(16)	£ 1,000
		£ 135,000

German-speaking participants

The results of all German-speaking participants are listed below.

country	player	European Darts Open	German Darts Grand Prix	German Darts Open	Austrian Darts Open	European Darts Grand Prix	Dutch Darts Masters	Gibraltar Darts Trophy	Danish Darts Open	European darts matchplay	German Darts Championship	Dutch Darts Championship	International Darts Open	European Darts Trophy
	René Berndt		Last 48
	Nico Blum										Last 48
	Christian Bunse					Last 48						Last 48		Last 48
	Dietmar Burger				Last 48
	Gabriel Clemens	Last 32			Last 48	Last 48							Last 48	Last 32
	René Eidams			Last 32						Last 48
	Christian Gödl		Last 48
	Christopher Hansch										Last 48
	Simeon Heinz				Last 48
	Max Hopp	Last 48	Quarter finals	victory	Last 32	Last 48		Round of 16	Last 32	Last 32	Last 48	Last 32	Last 32	Round of 16
	Dragutin Horvat			Last 48			Last 32		Last 48	Last 48
	Thomas Junghans	Last 48
	Maik Langendorf	Last 48	Last 48							Last 32				Last 48
	Zoran Lerchbacher			Last 48
	Robert Marijanović					Last 32				Last 32	Last 48	Last 48	Last 32	Last 48
	Tobias Müller			Last 48			Last 48
	Kevin Münch				Last 48		Last 48					Last 48
	Ricardo Pietreczko												Last 48
	Bastian Pietsching				Last 48
	Michael Rasztovits	Last 48	Last 48								Round of 16
	Rowby-John Rodriguez		Last 48				Last 48					Last 32
	Roxy-James Rodriguez				Last 48
	Rusty-Jake Rodriguez								Last 32			Last 48
	Michael Rosenauer						Last 48
	Martin Schindler		Last 48			Last 32			Last 48	Last 32	Round of 16		Round of 16	Round of 16
	Hannes Schnier				Last 48			Last 32
	Steffen Siepmann													Last 48
	Alex Steinbauer				Last 48
	Scale length Suljović	Round of 16	Round of 16	Round of 16	Semifinals	Round of 16	Quarter finals	Last 32	victory	Quarter finals	Semifinals		Round of 16

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 2018 PDC Calendar Amendments. In: pdc.tv. Retrieved January 22, 2018 .