Entries confirmed for 2023 PDC European Q-School headlined by return of Cadby, De Zwaan, Hopp, Tricole, Sedlacek and Klaasen
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The entries have been confirmed for 2023 PDC European Q-School with the First Stage between January 9-11, while the second is between January 12-15 with 27 Tour Cards over Kalkar and Milton Keynes at the UK edition.
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As ever, it is a field full of quality in Germany headlined in the first stage by Aussie ace Corey Cadby who will aim to return to the PDC Tour after time in the darting wilderness with the former UK Open runner-up joined by Jelle Klaasen, Benito van de Pas and former World Matchplay champion, Larry Butler.
German ace Max Hopp and 'The Black Cobra' Jeffrey de Zwaan headline the Final Stage alongside Christian Kist, Gian van Veen, Sebastian Bialecki, Karel Sedlacek and French duo Thibault Tricole and Jacques Labre.
Up to 128 go through from the first stage to join the Final Stage with the battle for Tour Cards beginning from there.
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First Stage Entries
European Qualifying School
Hans Achten
Dennis Akhtar
Niels Alblas
Sebastian Albrecht
Toni Alcinas
Marcel Althaus
Alexandre Antunes
Jonas Aplowski
Matthias Athens
Yoshihisa Baba
Tufail Badal
Randy Baert
Andy Baetens
Ronald Balfoort
Arsen Ballaj
Sandor Ballo
Mindaugas Barauskas
Julio Barbero Gonzalez
Daan Bastiaansen
Bjorn Beauprez
Andrew Beeton
Stefan Bellmont
Kevin Belmans
Roman Benecky
Paul Bereths
Fabian Bihl
Moreno Blom
Kevin Blomme
Marko Bok
Andre Bothmann
Marco Bout
Eric Boyer
Niklas Brackelmann
Alexander Brandt
Joel Breitenmoser
Jiri Brejcha
Marius Brink
Marcus Brisbois
Dennis Brock
Dirk Broeksmid
Tammo Bruening
Wojciech Brulinski
Johannes Bruns
Patrick Bulen
Larry Butler
Corey Cadby
Luis Filipe Camacho
Soeren Carlsson
Jeroen Caron
Iain Cash
Maurizio Castrovinci
Enrico Chinellato
Sven Christophersen
Stephan Cobau
Sam Coenders
Cedric Coryn
Kevin Costantini
Nick Crouwel
Marco Custers
Tobias Cyffka
Massimo Dalla Rosa
Pascal de Clercq
Jeffrey De Graaf
Jean-Pierre de Jonghe
Ryan De Vreede
Manuel de Vreede
Jan de Weerdt
Stijn Deklerck
Kurt Delahousse
Jean-Pierre Delcourt
John Desreumaux
Pascal Devroey
Giuseppe Di Rocco
Wim Dierckx
Stijn Donkers
Claudio Donno
Martijn Dragt
Malte Duepont
Hallgrimur Egilsson
Rene Eidams
El Abbas El Amri
Alexander Elia
Ivar Emmen
Niklas Engelbrecht
Leonard Eraests
Marcel Erba
Gianluca Esser
Yanick Etter
Ronny Evenepoel
René Faath
Justin Fawcett
Paulo Ferreira
Dominik Filippi
Pierre Finck
Marco Fischer
Yordi Fleuren
Mika Flueckiger
Benjamin Freudenreich
Matthías Orn Frioriksson
Rocco Fulciniti
Ivo Furer
Michel Gadenz
Marcel Gerdon
Mats Gies
Armin Glanzer
Andre Goertz
Eric Gohde
Joaquim Goncalves
Marco Grafweg
Jochen Graudenz
Romeo Grbavac
Kevin Grebe
Andreas Grenz
Stephan Griese
Edgaras Griksas
Daniel Grochotzky
Rene Groteloh
Miroslaw Grudziecki
Yasa Guener
Marcel Gugger
Martin Gugger
Torbjorn Gustafsson
Manuel Gutjahr
Stefan Haechler
Rainer Haertel
Manuel Hafner
Cristian Haller
Tom Hammermeister
Teemu Harju
Pascal Hartung
Marcel Hausotter
Justin Heidekrueger
Justin Heiliger
Simeon Heinz
Patrick Heitmueller
Tom Heldt
Christian Helmecke
Stefaan Henderyck
Leo Hendriks
Dawid Herberg
Bertus Herks
Joshua Hermann
Sascha Hertrich
Sven Hilling
Jan Hlavácek
Marcel Hoentsch
Yannick Hoepfner
Markus Hoffmann
Sven Hofmann
Wim Hofsink
Ole Holtkamp
Wesley Holtrop
Klaas Hooikammer
Dragutin Horvat
Tomas Houdek
Michael Hurtz
Falco Hux
Ronny Huybrechts
Heikki Hyvonen
Lutz Ilzhoefer
Marc Inhelder
Gabor Jagicza
Michal Janco
Ulrich Jansen
Torsten Janssen
Marco Jantzen
Guyot Jessy
Pavel Jirkal
Nicolas Joannidis
Karl Jonsson
Andreas Toft Jorgensen
Maurice Junker
Lukas Kainz
Tytus Kanik
Marko Kantele
Hatman Karaca
Sebastian Keine
Markus Kessler
Marciano Kilian
Jelle Klaasen
Alexander Klein
Andreas Klein
Daniel Klose
Felix Knappe
Kevin Knopf
Robbie Knops
Manfred Kobelt
Marvin Koch
Thomas Kohlmann
Thomas Kohnlein
Kevin Kollmann
Arjan Konterman
Karsten Kornath
Martin Kramer
Sergio Krassen
René Kruit
Andre Kuersten
Rene Kunze
Nico Kurz
Maikel Kustermans
Michael Ladefoged
Michael Laeng
Francois Lagniau
Gergely Lakatos
Bent Lambertsen
Chris Landman
Dirk Langhoff
Jamie Lawrence
Ludovic Lemaire
Mario Lemmer
Udo Lercher
Mindaugas Lidzius
Tobias Limbach
Pero Ljubic
Arno Looijen
Kevin Luhr
Steven Luhr
Thomas Luksch(Schierling)
Patrick Maat
Liam Marvin
Maendl-Lawrance
Remo Mandiau
Steven Marckowiak
Michael Marijs
José Marquês
Jonas Masalin
Alexander Masek
Chris Massilge
Till Meischner
Jan Menger
Alexander Merkx
Jarno Michielsen
Marc-Oliver Mideck
Jeroen Mioch
Lars Moinat
Roemer Mooijman
Steven Morrison
Maikel Mossou
Constantin Mueller
Justin Mueller
Oliver Mueller
Paavo Myller
Joao Neves
Sead Nicevic
Stefan Nilles
Jesus Noguera
Patrick Obermanns
Robert Oberwinkler
Marco Obst
Eros Odent
Matteo Ognibeni
Gabriel Florin Olar
Dennie Olde Kalter
Michael Ostrode
Steven Paesschesoone
Michael Pausch
Bernhard Payr
Ricardo Perez
Marc Petermann
Patrick Peters
Marco Peters
Frank Peters
Lasse Petersen
David Pisek
Wesley Plaisier
Tobias Ploetz
Patrick Ploetz
Michael Plooy
Nico Plovier
Dirk Poehling
Mehdi Poggi
Diogo Portela
Benjamin Pratnemer
Filip Prochazka
Davy Proosten
Radek Prusa Snr
Marko Puls
Zyon Raman
Vinay Ramnath
Michael Rasztovits
Maurice Reetz
Leon Remde
Neven Resetar
Pascal Reuter
Moritz Richter
Nico Riehle
Michael Ringoet
Andre Ritter
Davy Robijns
Owen Roelofs
Franz Roetzsch
Gabriel Rollo
David Rosi
Nicolas Philipp Roth
Kevin Rothweiler
Dennis Ruehe
Martin Ruempker
Pascal Rupprecht
Grant Sampson
Marcel Schachner
Loris Schaub
Ziggy Schenk
Felix Schiertz
Joerg Schlechta
David Schlichting
Mario Schmalzl
Lorenzo Schmelcher
Christian Schmidt
Kilian Schmutz
Fabian Schmutzler
Stefan Schroder
Reinhard Schumacher
Moritz Schwarzbach
Robert Schwayer
Philipp Schweder
Francois Schweyen
Filip Sebesta
Vitezslav Sedlak
Ron Segers
Lukas Sekinger
Wallid Shorbaji
Mohamed Daniel Shorbaji
Kevin Siegmund
Steffen Siepmann
Dragan Simic
Filipe Simoes
Jens Slotta
Michal Smejda
Wesley Smit
Dalibor Smolík
Luc Snels
Jeffrey Sparidaans
Alex Spellman
Philipp Spindler
Niko Springer
Seth Steffano
Till Stein
Felix Steinebrunner
Dario Steiner
Sebastian Steinmetz
Sebastian Steyer
Michael Stoeten
Timo Straube
Dustin Straver
Peter Strbik
Steven Strobbe
Fabian Stuetz
Rainer Sturm
Conor Styger
Jamie Suckling
Masayuki Suzuki
Axel Swartenbroek
Eduard Szabo
David Tarso
Jacob Taylor
Derk Telnekes
Danny Tessmann
Dominik Thiel
Sven Thiel
Benjamin Thielking
Werner Tiest
Christian Till
Hendrik Tjaden
Jody Tobback
Christopher Toonders
Laurent Toussaint
Peter Trapp
Patrick Tringler
Alexander Troebs
Simon Trommler
Luke Tucker
Michele Turetta
Lukas Unger
Zdenek Vaisar
Attila Valyi
Robby van Ballaert
Roy van de Griendt
Benito van de Pas
Loek van den Berg
Patrick van den Boogaard
Jordy Van den Broek
Peter van den Broek
Jamai van den Herik
Lorenzo Van den troost
Dennis van der Ende
Benny van der Linden
Franky Van der Linden
Vincent Van der Meer
Gilbert van der Meijden
Jeremy van der Winkel
Davy van der Zande
Bram van Dijk
Mart van Dijk
Sven van Dun
Philip Van Gasse
Lorenzo Van Hove
Sander van Ockenburg - Zwaan
Carlo van Peer
Bert Van Roosbroeck
Jimmy van Schie
Wesley van Trijp
Kevin Van Wauwe
Wouter Vanrolleghem
Richard Veenstra
Stijn Vekemans
Anel Velic
Davyd Venken
Kevin Verbakel
Brian Verhelst
Marco Verhofstad
Rodney Verweij
Marc Vleghert
Daniel Vogt
Gino Vos
Cedric Waegemans
Nico Wagner
Markus Walchshaeusl
Marcel Walpen
Martijn Wanders
Kai Weinert
Lukas Wenig
Benjamin Werner
Jim Widmayer
Stan Willems
Pascal Wirotius
Daniel Zadach
Leon Zammert
Tommy Zanko
August Zerominski
Jens Ziegler
Martin Ziman
Laimis Zubavicius
Marcel Zwally
Julian Zwergel
Daniel Zygla
Final Stage
European Qualifying School
Sebastian Bialecki
Jeffrey De Zwaan
Max Hopp
Christian Kist
Maik Kuivenhoven
Jacques Labre
Ron Meulenkamp
John Michael
Kenny Neyens
Karel Sedlacek
Thibault Tricole
Jitse Van der Wal
Berry van Peer
Gian van Veen
Niels Zonneveld

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