
Entries have been announced for PDC European Q-School with no fewer than 315 players set to play in Niedernhausen between January 9-15.
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Once again split into two parts, there will be 295 players involved in the first stage with regulations in Germany meaning that it will be played as two groups per day to reduce the number of players inside the venue.
This means that four players from each group will progress to the Final Stage each day with 85 doing so via the Order of Merit. Among those involved are Chris Landman, Benito van de Pas, Christian Kist and Ronny Huybrechts as they will aim to join Jelle Klaasen, Rowby-John Rodriguez, Cristo Reyes and Toni Alcinas in the final stage.
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Tour Cards distributed during final phase
It is expected that fifteen Tour Cards will be distributed during the final phase of the European Q-School. The four day winners of the tournaments from 12 to 15 January will receive one.
In addition, a new ranking is being drawn up, whereby the eleven best players in this ranking will probably also win a Tour Card.
European Qualifying School Final Stage Exemptions
Players who lost PDC Tour Card: Karel Sedlacek, Jelle Klaasen, Derk Telnekes, Krzysztof Kciuk, Jesus Noguera, Steffen Siepmann, Harald Leitinger, Cristo Reyes
Players 2-8 from 2021 European Development Tour OOM: Fabian Schmutzler, Sebastian Bialecki, Jurjen van der Velde, Niko Springer, Kevin Doets
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Players 2-8 from 2021 European Challenge Tour OOM: Steven Noster, Rowby-John Rodriguez, Jose Justicia, Toni Alcinas, Kenny Neyens, Luc Peters
European Qualifying School First Stage Entries
Lars Adam
Niklas Ahrens
Dennis Akhtar
Marcel Althaus
Vladimir Andersen
Alexandre Antunes
Tufail Badal
Simon Bak
Arsen Ballaj
Mindaugas Barauskas
Andrew Beeton
Robin Beger
Stefan Bellmont
Roman Benecky
Martin Benka
Stephan Birk
Andy Bless
Kevin Blomme
Janos Borzsei
Eric Boyer
Jeremy Brandenburg
Mario Brescakovic
Luis Breuer
Michael Bruder
Wojciech Brulinski
Johannes Bruns
Patrick Bulen
Gheorghe Calagiu
Sven Christophersen
Kevin Costantini
Karl Cron
Marco Custers
Kristiaan de Boer
Max de Jong
Mathieu De Loos
Ryan De Vreede
Jan de Weerdt
Jesse Delorme
Dennis Dobrindt
Claudio Donno
Martijn Dragt
Marc Dworczak
Thomas Ehlers
Rene Eidams
El Abbas El Amri
Alexander Elia
Johan Engstrom
Marcel Erba
René Faath
Paulo Ferreira
Pierre Finck
Alex Flohr
Justin Frerichs
Michel Gadenz
Lennart Ganninger
Jorge Garcia del Pozo
Stefan Glathe
Nauris Gleglu
Dominique Goldberg
Kai Gotthardt
Kevin Grebe
Stephan Griese
Matthias Grube
Torbjorn Gustafsson
Manuel Gutjahr
Philipp Hagemann
Michael Hahn
Tomas Hajek
Niels-Joergen Hansen
Andreas Harrysson
Niels Heinsoe
Simeon Heinz
Tom Heldt
Stefaan Henderyck
Jerry Hendriks
Jimmy Hendriks
Leo Hendriks
Joshua Hermann
Roger Hertig
Marcel Hexel
Julien Maurice Hielscher
Jan Hlavácek
Tobias Hoentsch
Roland Hol
Philipp Hopf
Dragutin Horvat
Tomas Houdek
Tony Huebner
Michael Hurtz
Ronny Huybrechts
Pasi Hyttinen
Marc Inhelder
Danny Jansen
Marco Jansen
Ulrich Jansen
Peter Hviid Jensen
Pavel Jirkal
Maximilian Johansen
Andreas Toft Jorgensen
Thomas Junghans
Marko Kantele
Fetih Kaya
Sebastian Keine
Jani Keskinarkaus
Markus Kessler
Christian Kist
Daniel Kläs
Thomas Klausmayer
Felix Kleeberg
Marco Kleijn
Alexander Klein
Andreas Klingelhöfer
Daniel Klose
Sven Kluth
Felix Knappe
Jens Kniest
Robbie Knops
Karsten Koch
Kevin Koch
Marvin Koch
Gillian Koehoorn
Thomas Kohlmann
Arjan Konterman
Karsten Kornath
Patrik Kovacs
Sergio Krassen
Tom Veje Kristensen
Sietse Kuipers
Nico Kurz
Jacques Labre
Michael Ladefoged
Bent Lambertsen
Chris Landman
Jamie Lawrence
Ludovic Lemaire
Christopher Lindl
Pero Ljubic
Adis Ljubijankic
Kevin Luhr
Steven Luhr
Patrick Maat
Fabian Maier
Remo Mandiau
Willem Mandigers
José Marquês
Tony Martinez
Alexander Masek
Roland Mayer
Roland Meier
Hendrik Mennega
Alexander Merkx
Erik Meulenmeesters
Frantisek Mika
Jeroen Mioch
Lars Moinat
Damian Mol
Roemer Mooijman
Maikel Mossou
Florian Mueller
Thomas Nannen
Georgios Nanos
Stefan Nilles
Perry Noordermeer
Marco Obst
Baran Oezdemir
Dennie Olde Kalter
Patrick Opbroek
Michael Ostrode
Veysal Ozdemir
Nick Paenen
Rudi Paenen
Daniel Papke
Jonathan Parvaneh
Igor Perak
Frank Peters
Patrick Peters
Ricardo Pietreczko
Fabio Piscitelli
Wesley Plaisier
Tobias Ploetz
Patrick Plötz
Mike Poge
Mehdi Poggi
Ivan Springborg Poulsen
Sven Preuss
Davy Proosten
Torsten Radel
Robin Radloff
Brian Raman
Niklas Rasch
Michael Rasztovits
Leon Reijnders
Christian Reiter
Goran Repic
Michael Ringoet
Roxy James Rodriguez
Juan Francisco Rodriguez Bernabe
Owen Roelofs
Enrico Roessing
Stefan Roessler
Franz Roetzsch
Alexander Rohrmueller
Erik Rollinger
David Rosi
Hauke Rosin
Nicklas Rudi
Lars Ruschewski
Kevin Schal
Loris Schaub
Tobias Scheifl
Stefan Schiegg
Malte Schleinitz
David Schlichting
Christian Schmidt
Sebastian Schnickmann
Christopher Scholl
Stefan Schroder
Mario Schulze
Francois Schweyen
Christian Seegatz
Michael Seemann
Swen Seifert
Lukas Sekinger
Wallid Shorbaji
Daniel Skoda
Robin Smees
Michal Smejda
Thomas Stampfer
Sebastian Steyer
Michael Stoeten
Dustin Straver
Rainer Sturm
Fabian Stutz
Veniamin Symeonidis
Radek Szaganski
Claus Dieter Tauscher
Erik Tautfest
Danny Tessmann
Dominik Thiel
Olaf Thies
Timo Thomczik
Christian Till
Hendrik Tjaden
Matthias Todtenhöfer
Christopher Toonders
Jan Trappmann
Thibault Tricole
Patrick Tringler
Alexander Tröbs
Luke Tucker
Wouter Vaes
Adrianus Maria van baast
Robby van Ballaert
Bart Van Bogaert
Roy van de Griendt
Benito van de Pas
Patrick van den Boogaard
Peter van den Broek
Jamai van den Herik
Vincent Van der Meer
Jeremy van der Winkel
Davy van der Zande
Jules van Dongen
Sven van Dun
Philip Van Gasse
Lorenzo Van Hove
Gijsbert Van Malsen
Carlo van Peer
Jimmy van Schie
Danny van Trijp
Wesley van Trijp
Gian van Veen
Kevin Van Wauwe
Roberto Vandaele
Mario Vandenbogaerde
Tonny Veenhof
Davyd Venken
Maikel Verberk
Martijn Verdaasdonk
Dennis Verhaegen
Juraj Vindiš
Jan Vlasak
Daniel Vogt
Jan Wagner
Nico Wagner
Mike Wedler
Marc-Thomas Weider
Lukas Wenig
Andreas Winterling
Steve Wollener
Johann Wuerzinger
Barry Zander
Tommy Zanko
Jens Ziegler
Marcel Zwally
Julian Zwergel

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