The PDC have announced the participants for
Players Championship 11 and 12. These two
Pro Tour tournaments will take place on May 20 and 21 in the host city of Leicester.
As you would expect, there are numerous big-name players involved in the events including the likes of
Michael van Gerwen,
Raymond van Barneveld,
Gary Anderson,
Gerwyn Price,
Michael Smith and the best player on the Pro Tour so far this year,
Dirk van Duijvenbode.
In total, seven Tour Card holders have decided to skip the upcoming Pro Tour diptych. Corey Cadby, Adrian Lewis, Mickey Mansell, John O'Shea, Christian Perez, Jeff Smith and the recent Czech Darts Open champion, Peter Wright are the players who did not register.
They are replaced by Chris Landman, John Henderson, Ron Meulenkamp, Cam Crabtree, Conan Whitehead, Wayne Jones and Owen Bates. Due to the participation of Landman and Meulenkamp, a total of 24 Dutch people will participate in Leicester.
Each Players Championship tournament will feature £100,000 in prize money. The winner of the event will receive a check for £12,000.
Vladimir Andersen
Gary Anderson
Nathan Aspinall
Keane Barry
Owen Bates
Steve Beaton
Bradley Brooks
Keegan Brown
Stephen Bunting
Kevin Burness
Richie Burnett
Stephen Burton
Matt Campbell
Dave Chisnall
Jamie Clark
Jonny Clayton
Gabriel Clemens
Cam Crabtree
Rob Cross
Joe Cullen
Mike De Decker
Jose de Sousa
Jeffrey De Zwaan
Chris Dobey
Kevin Doets
Brendan Dolan
Ritchie Edhouse
Lee Evans
Ricky Evans
Ted Evetts
Nick Fullwell
Adam Gawlas
Andrew Gilding
Callum Goffin
Daryl Gurney
Graham Hall
Florian Hempel
John Henderson
Jimmy Hendriks
Damon Heta
Jamie Hughes
Luke Humphries
Kim Huybrechts
Ronny Huybrechts
Danny Jansen
Wayne Jones
Ryan Joyce
Jose Justicia
Krzysztof Kciuk
Nick Kenny
George Killington
Mervyn King
Martijn Kleermaker
Daniel Klose
Robbie Knops
Boris Krcmar
Maik Kuivenhoven
Darius Labanauskas
Jacques Labre
Chris Landman
Steve Lennon
Martin Lukeman
Tony Martinez
Ryan Meikle
Cameron Menzies
Ron Meulenkamp
Damian Mol
Arron Monk
Ross Montgomery
Joe Murnan
Geert Nentjes
Danny Noppert
William O'Connor
Robert Owen
Josh Payne
Luc Peters
Devon Petersen
Ricardo Pietreczko
Gerwyn Price
Nathan Rafferty
Brian Raman
Krzysztof Ratajski
Madars Razma
Josh Rock
Rowby-John Rodriguez
Rusty-Jake Rodriguez
Owen Roelofs
Pascal Rupprecht
Callan Rydz
Martin Schindler
Connor Scutt
Ryan Searle
Karel Sedlacek
Dylan Slevin
Michael Smith
Ross Smith
Adam Smith-Neale
Alan Soutar
Jeffrey Sparidaans
Mensur Suljovic
Radek Szaganski
Graham Usher
Raymond van Barneveld
Dimitri Van den Bergh
Jurjen van der Velde
Vincent van der Voort
Jules van Dongen
Dirk van Duijvenbode
Michael van Gerwen
Danny van Trijp
Gian van Veen
Mario Vandenbogaerde
Richard Veenstra
James Wade
Scott Waites
Adam Warner
Jermaine Wattimena
Darren Webster
Ian White
Conan Whitehead
Simon Whitlock
Shaun Wilkinson
Jim Williams
Lewis Williams
Scott Williams
James Wilson
Luke Woodhouse
Niels Zonneveld