Entries confirmed for Players Championship 17-18: Price, Aspinall, Wright and Cross headline as Van Gerwen, Michael Smith and Clayton absent

The entries have been confirmed for Players Championship 17-18 which will take place at Halle 39 in Hildesheim in the first ProTour action for some time. Albeit as ever with Germany, a heavy contingent of stars missing.

Among those headlining include Gerwyn Price, Peter Wright, Rob Cross and Nathan Aspinall who will all head to Germany. But 13 players in all will skip.

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As well as the usual suspects such as Corey Cadby and Christian Perez. The likes of Gary Anderson, Jonny Clayton, Luke Humphries, Danny Noppert and leading duo Michael van Gerwen and Michael Smith will not make the trip.

Albeit on one of the final weekends before Christmas without darts which is the likely thought process ahead of a busy Autumn. This means that Jelle Klaasen, Thibault Tricole, Owen Bates among others will make the trip to Germany to replace them.

The two £100,000 tournaments will commence at 13:00 local time both days and form a busy weekend of action in Germany.

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Players Championships 17-18 Player Entries

Halle 39, Hildesheim

August 26-27 2023

Players Championship 17

Vladimir Andersen

Nathan Aspinall

Keane Barry

Steve Beaton

Bradley Brooks

Keegan Brown

Stephen Bunting

Kevin Burness

Richie Burnett

Stephen Burton

Matt Campbell

Dave Chisnall

Gabriel Clemens

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

Jimmy Hendriks

Damon Heta

Jamie Hughes

Kim Huybrechts

Ronny Huybrechts

Danny Jansen

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

Steve Lennon

Martin Lukeman

Mickey Mansell

Tony Martinez

Ryan Meikle

Cameron Menzies

Damian Mol

Arron Monk

Ross Montgomery

Joe Murnan

Geert Nentjes

William O'Connor

John O'Shea

Robert Owen

Josh Payne

Luc Peters

Ricardo Pietreczko

Gerwyn Price

Nathan Rafferty

Brian Raman

Krzysztof Ratajski

Madars Razma

Josh Rock

Rowby-John Rodriguez

Rusty-Jake Rodriguez

Owen Roelofs

Pascal Rupprecht

Martin Schindler

Connor Scutt

Karel Sedlacek

Dylan Slevin

Jeff 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

Danny van Trijp

Gian van Veen

Mario Vandenbogaerde

Richard Veenstra

James Wade

Scott Waites

Adam Warner

Jermaine Wattimena

Darren Webster

Ian White

Simon Whitlock

Shaun Wilkinson

Jim Williams

Lewis Williams

Scott Williams

James Wilson

Luke Woodhouse

Peter Wright

Niels Zonneveld

Owen Bates

Stefan Bellmont

Andy Boulton

Cam Crabtree

Robert Grundy

Dragutin Horvat

Jelle Klaasen

Chris Landman

Alexander Merkx

Ron Meulenkamp

Darryl Pilgrim

Wesley Plaisier

Thibault Tricole

Players Championship 18

Vladimir Andersen

Nathan Aspinall

Keane Barry

Steve Beaton

Bradley Brooks

Keegan Brown

Stephen Bunting

Kevin Burness

Richie Burnett

Stephen Burton

Matt Campbell

Dave Chisnall

Gabriel Clemens

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

Jimmy Hendriks

Damon Heta

Jamie Hughes

Kim Huybrechts

Ronny Huybrechts

Danny Jansen

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

Steve Lennon

Martin Lukeman

Mickey Mansell

Tony Martinez

Ryan Meikle

Cameron Menzies

Damian Mol

Arron Monk

Ross Montgomery

Joe Murnan

Geert Nentjes

William O'Connor

John O'Shea

Robert Owen

Josh Payne

Luc Peters

Ricardo Pietreczko

Gerwyn Price

Nathan Rafferty

Brian Raman

Krzysztof Ratajski

Madars Razma

Josh Rock

Rowby-John Rodriguez

Rusty-Jake Rodriguez

Owen Roelofs

Pascal Rupprecht

Martin Schindler

Connor Scutt

Karel Sedlacek

Dylan Slevin

Jeff 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

Danny van Trijp

Gian van Veen

Mario Vandenbogaerde

Richard Veenstra

James Wade

Scott Waites

Adam Warner

Jermaine Wattimena

Darren Webster

Ian White

Simon Whitlock

Shaun Wilkinson

Jim Williams

Lewis Williams

Scott Williams

James Wilson

Luke Woodhouse

Peter Wright

Niels Zonneveld

Owen Bates

Stefan Bellmont

Andy Boulton

Cam Crabtree

Robert Grundy

Dragutin Horvat

Jelle Klaasen

Chris Landman

Alexander Merkx

Ron Meulenkamp

Darryl Pilgrim

Wesley Plaisier

Thibault Tricole

Tour Card Holders Absent: Gary Anderson, Corey Cadby, Jamie Clark, Jonny Clayton, Luke Humphries, Adrian Lewis, Danny Noppert, Christian Perez, Devon Petersen, Callan Rydz, Ryan Searle, Michael Smith, Michael van Gerwen.

Non-Tour Card Holders Competing: Owen Bates, Stefan Bellmont, Andy Boulton, Cam Crabtree, Robert Grundy, Dragutin Horvat, Jelle Klaasen, Chris Landman, Alexander Merkx, Ron Meulenkamp, Darryl Pilgrim, Wesley Plaisier, Thibault Tricole.