27/07/2024

Automatic qualifiers announced for Hungarian Darts Trophy and Swiss Darts Trophy including Luke Littler, Michael van Gerwen & Luke Humphries

The PDC has announced which 32 players are automatically qualified for the Hungarian Darts Trophy and Swiss Darts Trophy.

Since this year, both the top-16 of the world rankings and the top-16 of the Pro Tour rankings are allowed to enter the Euro Tour tournaments. Michael van Gerwen, Luke Humphries, Gerwyn Price and Luke Littler are among the these players automatically qualified for the second round of the events.

This is the jam-packed PDC calendar for the month of August

Raymond van Barneveld and Dimitri van den Bergh are among the remaining qualifiers. They are allowed to start the Euro Tours from the first round. Players such as Michael Smith, Peter Wright and James Wade also have to start the tournaments in Budapest and Basel in the first round.

Ten Tour Card holders will have a chance to secure a starting spot for these Euro Tours at the Tour Card Holders Qualifiers on Saturday, August 3. There are also four Host Nation Qualifiers, a Nordic & Baltic Qualifier and an East Europe Qualifier.

The Hungarian Darts Trophy will take place September 20-22 in the Hungarian capital of Budapest. Basel hosts the first ever PDC event in Switzerland from Sept. 27 to 29.

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Hungarian Darts Trophy (ET11) participant field.

MVM Dome, Budapest, Sept. 20-22

Top-16 seeded players

1. Dave Chisnall

2. Ross Smith

3. Luke Humphries

4. Gerwyn Price

5. Danny Noppert

6. Josh Rock

7. Stephen Bunting

8. Damon Heta

9. Ryan Searle

10. Martin Schindler

11. Rob Cross

12. Gian van Veen

13. Chris Dobey

14. Luke Littler

15. Michael van Gerwen

16. Ricardo Pietreczko

Order of Merit Qualifiers

Daryl Gurney

Jonny Clayton

Michael Smith

Ryan Joyce

Raymond van Barneveld

Peter Wright

Krzysztof Ratajski

Ritchie Edhouse

Brendan Dolan

Luke Woodhouse

James Wade

Andrew Gilding

Joe Cullen

Callan Rydz

Dimitri Van den Bergh

Nathan Aspinall

Participant field Swiss Darts Trophy (ET12).

St. Jakobshalle, Basel, Sept. 27-29,