The field has been confirmed for the European Darts Open which is set to take place this weekend (24-26 March) in Leverkusen headlined by top seed, Luke Humphries and defending champion, Michael van Gerwen.
Also among the seeds include Gerwyn Price who will miss out on the next few due to not qualifying, Peter Wright, Michael Smith, Martin Schindler, Dimitri van den Bergh and Josh Rock. They enter in the second round.
Raymond van Barneveld, James Wade and Chris Dobey are among the Tour Card Qualifiers who will play on Friday with the seeds entering in on Saturday.
Gabriel Clemens and Florian Hempel as will be the case in many of the German heavy European Tour tournaments qualify automatically as the top two Germans not qualified.
Field 2023 European Darts Open
Top 16 (straight into second round)
Luke Humphries
Michael van Gerwen
Damon Heta
Rob Cross
Peter Wright
Dave Chisnall
Michael Smith
Dirk van Duijvenbode
Joe Cullen
Gerwyn Price
Danny Noppert
Ryan Searle
Martin Schindler
Jonny Clayton
Dimitri Van den Bergh
Josh Rock
Tour Card Qualifiers
Raymond van Barneveld
Ryan Joyce
Bradley Brooks
Maik Kuivenhoven
Stephen Bunting
Jim Williams
James Wade
Ross Smith
Chris Dobey
Jurjen van der Velde
Krzysztof Ratajski
Ricardo Pietreczko
Joe Murnan
Ryan Meikle
Geert Nentjes
Jermaine Wattimena
Luke Woodhouse
William O'Connor
Ian White
Steve Lennon
Brendan Dolan
Ted Evetts
Daryl Gurney
Pascal Rupprecht
Associate Member Qualifier
John Henderson
Andy Boulton
Highest Ranking Germans
Gabriel Clemens
Florian Hempel
Host Nation Qualifier
René Eidams
Nico Kurz
Nordic & Baltic Qualifier
Marko Kantele
East European Qualifier
Filip Šebesta