UK Open Qualifiers

The UK Open Qualifiers are a series of qualifying tournaments in darts. They consist of six qualifying rounds leading up to the UK Open . The results there are recorded in a separate ranking list, the UK Open Order of Merit . The top 96 of this ranking after the six tournaments are automatically qualified for the UK Open of the same year.

Importance of qualifying tournaments

In each of the six qualifiers, players will receive prize money based on their results, which will be included in the UK Open rankings. At the end of the six qualifiers there is a table of all players who took part, according to which the participants and the seeding list for the final UK Open are determined.

List of UK Open Qualifiers Seasons

year	number	Player with the most wins
2002/03	8th	Peter Manley (3)
2003/04	8th	Ronnie Baxter , Peter Manley , Phil Taylor , Alan Caves , Steve Maish , Kevin Painter , Mark Robinson , Wayne Mardle (1 each)
2004/05	8th	Phil Taylor , Andy Smith (2 each)
2005/06	8th	Mark Walsh , Colin Lloyd , Adrian Lewis , Kevin Painter , Mark Dudbridge , Chris Mason , Alan Tabern , Raymond van Barneveld (1 each)
2006/07	8th	Raymond van Barneveld (3)
2007/08	8th	James Wade , Colin Lloyd , Phil Taylor (2 each)
2009	8th	Phil Taylor (3)
2010	8th	Mark Walsh , Phil Taylor (2 each)
2011	8th	Gary Anderson , Phil Taylor (2 each)
2012	8th	Phil Taylor , Raymond van Barneveld (2 each)
2013	8th	Michael van Gerwen (4)
2014	6th	Andy Hamilton , Brendan Dolan , Gary Anderson , Michael van Gerwen , Phil Taylor , Stephen Bunting (1 each)
2015	6th	Michael van Gerwen (3)
2016	6th	Michael van Gerwen (3)
2017	6th	Peter Wright (3)
2018	6th	Michael van Gerwen (2)

Prize money

round	UK Open Qualifiers
victory	£ 10,000
final	£ 5,000
Semifinals	£ 2,500
Quarter finals	£ 2,000
Round of 16	£ 1,500 each
3rd round (load 32)	£ 750
2nd lap (load 64)	£ 250
Total	£ 60,000

Individual evidence