The PDC European Challenge Tour came to an end last weekend. After twelve tournaments Matt Campbell has won the ranking with £6800 in prize money.
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The Canadian, who as a non-European could choose whether he wanted to participate in the European or UK Challenge Tour, managed to win three of the twelve tournaments. With his ranking victory Campbell receives a Tour Card for 2022 and 2023 and has qualified for the Grand Slam of Darts and the PDC World Darts Championship.
The numbers two to five also won a prize. Steven Noster, Rowby-John Rodriguez, José Justicia and Toni Alcinas can compete at the UK Open in 2022. Kevin Doets became the best Dutchman with a sixth place. The top-10 is completed by Belgian Kenny Neyens and the Dutch trio Luc Peters, Jimmy Hendriks and Wesley Plaisier.
Final standings PDC European Challenge Tour
Position - Name - Total Prize Money
1 Matt Campbell £6,800
2 Steven Noster £5,100
3 Rowby-John Rodriguez £4,350
4 Jose Justicia £3,850
5 Toni Alcinas £3,800
6 Kevin Doets £3,750
7 Kenny Neyens £3,750
8 Luc Peters £3,600
9 Jimmy Hendriks £3,350
10 Wesley Plaisier £2,850
11 Sebastian Bialecki £2,800
12 Lukas Wenig £2,600
13 Ricardo Pietreczko £2,400
14 Niko Springer £2,300
15 Christian Kist £2,250
16 Kevin Blomme £2,100
17 Damian Mol £1,800
18 Thomas Junghans £1,650
19 Chris Landman £1,650
20 Mario Vandenbogaerde £1,650
21 Richard Veenstra £1,650
22 Danny van Trijp £1,600
23 Davy Proosten £1,600
24 Michael Rasztovits £1,550
25 Thibault Tricole £1,500
26 Marcel Erba £1,500
27 Gino Vos £1,500
28 Rusty-Jake Rodriguez £1,350
29 Franz Roetzsch £1,250
30 Jitse van der Wal £1,250
31 Brian Raman £1,200
32 Gary Mawson £1,200
33 Ronny Huybrechts £1,200
34 Marcel Gerdon £1,100
35 Rene Eidams £1,100
36 Maikel Verberk £1,000
37 Jeremy van der Winkel £950
38 Arjan Konterman £950
39 Francois Schweyen £950
40 Gian van Veen £900
41 Moreno Blom £900
42 Patrick Bulen £800
43 Philip Van Gasse £750
44 Stefan Nilles £750
45 Jerry Hendriks £700
46 Johan Engstrom £700
47 Jan Dekker £650
48 Patrick Plotz £650
49 Eduard Szabo £650
50 Martijn Dragt £600
51 Roberto Vandaele £600
52 Sebastian Steyer £600
53 Marko Puls £550
54 Pero Ljubic £550
55 Jeffrey Van Egdom £550
56 Robbie Knops £550
57 Kai Gotthardt £500
58 Gillian Koehoorn £500
59 Patrick van den Boogaard £500
60 Ryan de Vreede £500
61 Danny Jansen £500
62 Marvin van Velzen £500
63 Niels-Joergen Hansen £450
64 Sergio Krassen £450
65 Kevin Costantini £450
66 Kevin Van Wauwe £450
67 Sebastian Keine £450
68 Andreas Toft Jorgensen £450
69 Kristiaan de Boer £400
70 Simeon Heinz £400
71 David Rosi £400
72 Jeroen Mioch £400
73 Dominik Thiel £400
74 Gijsbert van Malsen £400
75 Dennie Olde Kalter £400
76 Stefan Bellmont £400
77 Marcel Althaus £350
78 Michal Smejda £350
79 Steve Wollener £350
80 Tobias Hoentsch £350
81 Owen Roelofs £350
82 Kevin Luhr £300
83 Arsen Ballaj £300
84 Jens Kniest £300
85 Tomas Ledl £300
86 Tom Veje Kristensen £300
87 Erik Tautfest £300
88 Vincent van der Meer £300
89 Andrew Beeton £250
90 El Abbas El Amri £250
91 Mindaugas Barauskas £250
92 Marko Kantele £250
93 Dustin Straver £250
94 Remo Mandiau £250
95 Jens Ziegler £250
96 Joshua Hermann £250
97 Adis Ljubijankic £250
98 Lorenzo Pronk £250
99 Sven Hilling £200
100 Michael Seemann £200
101 Alex Flohr £200
102 Julian Zwergel £200
103 Thomas Kohnlein £200
104 Cedric Waegemans £200
105 Daniele Petri £200
106 Christian Bunse £200
107 Joel Breitenmoser £150
108 Maikel Venema £150
109 Georgios Nanos £150
110 Ivan Springborg Poulsen £150
111 Marco Obst £150
112 Jonas Aplowski £100
113 Miro Seemann £100
114 Bent Lambertsen £100
115 Nic Mueller £100
116 Leo Hendriks £100
117 Sandor Ballo £100
118 Jean-Pierre Delcourt £100
119 Jonathan Parvaneh £100
120 Michael Hahn £100
121 Karel Papezik £100
122 Claus Bendix Nielsen £100
123 Benito van de Pas £100
124 Joaquim Goncalves £50
125 Mike Poge £50
126 Peter Hubinger £50
127 Daniel Skoda £50
128 Moritz Schmitz £50
129 Sebastian Pohl £50
130 Joey de Jong £50
131 Michael Stoeten £50
132 Daniel Klose £50
133 Eric Boyer £50
134 Mario Brescakovic £50
135 Felix Kleeberg £50
136 Rene Kruit £50
137 Veniamin Symeonidis £50
I stumbled into the world of darts quite by accident back in 2013. For a Journalism School assignment, I had to produce a live sports report and as it happened, the European Tour event in Veldhoven was the only available option. That weekend, I caught the darts bug. The post-match interviews especially appealed to me, as darts players tend to be much more open and approachable than what you usually see with footballers on television.
After a few detours, I joined Dartsnieuws.com in 2017 as editor-in-chief. I don’t have much competitive experience myself, although I once entered a PDC Development Tour weekend just to experience what it’s like from a player’s perspective. I even managed to win a leg against a Tour Card holder and, quite by accident, earned £50 in prize money.
In 2022, I was also involved in the founding of the TOTO Dart Kings, a commercial darts team, where I worked as media manager for three years. Unfortunately, due to new legislation in the Netherlands, that project came to an end in 2025.
Through my work in darts, I’ve been fortunate to travel to some incredible events, from Premier League nights at Ahoy Rotterdam, to several World Championships, and even the US Darts Masters at Madison Square Garden in New York.
Beyond darts, I’m a passionate sports fan in general. You can always wake me up for a game of tennis or padel, and I love following football, tennis, padel, cycling, Formula 1, and ice skating.
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