Schedule Friday afternoon European Darts Trophy 2025 including Ross Smith, Cameron Menzies and Luke Woodhouse in action

After seven years, the PDC is returning to Göttingen for a Euro Tour tournament. The most recent edition of the European Darts Trophy was played in 2018, after which the event disappeared from the Euro Tour calendar for several years.

But after adding another Euro Tour tournament to the schedule this year, the European Darts Trophy is also making its return. It is the seventh time this tournament has taken place. Wes Newton was the very first winner of this tournament in 2013. After that, Michael Smith won the tournament twice, before Michael van Gerwen took the title in 2016, 2017 and 2018. So after seven years of waiting, 'Mighty Mike' gets the chance to prolong his title.
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During the first session in Göttingen, players will aim to reach Saturday. To start, Jermaine Wattimena will face Marko Kantele, the winner of the qualifying tournament for players from the Nordic & Baltic region. 'The Machine Gun' has never lost to his Finnish opponent and is 2-0 ahead in the head-to-head.

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In the second match Cameron Menzies will.be involved. The Scot also participated in the Belgian Darts Open earlier this month, but lost to Matt Campbell in the first round after many missed matchdarts. This loss leaves Menzies without a single pound on the Euro Tour rankings. Alan Soutar sealed his spot through the qualifying tournament for Tour Card holders. The three previous encounters between these two players were all won by Menzies.

Actually, Andrew Gilding was supposed to play a qualifying tournament to attend this event, but 'Goldfinger' was moved up after Luke Littler failed to register. Gilding faces Callan Rydz, who recently managed to reach a semifinal on the Players Championship circuit. Earlier this year, the Englishmen already met at Players Championship, where Rydz then prevailed 6-5. In the overall head-to-head, Gilding leads 3-2 against his compatriot.

Kevin Doets has started the new darts year strongly. After his surprising place in the last sixteen at the World Darts Championship, he already managed to reach the quarterfinals of a Players Championship tournament four times this season. He also qualified for two of the first four Euro Tours. In the first round of the European Darts Trophy he will face Ritchie Edhouse, the winner of the 2024 European Championship. The Englishman showed himself well early this month by reaching the last 16 at the Belgian Darts Open in Wieze. It will be the eighth meeting between Doets and Edhouse, with 'The Madhouse' winning four of the previous seven duels.

Doets has been in some form but Edhouse will aim to regain his 2024 best.

Dirk van Duijvenbode has been showing more and more signs in recent weeks that he is on the way back. In Wieze, Van Duijvenbode reached the third round, while he reached the semifinals at Players Championship 7 earlier this week. Especially the scoring seems to have received a boost, because we see more and more 180'ers from the Dutchman. Van Duijvenbode will meet Boris Krcmar, who caused a surprise at the previous Euro Tour tournament by eliminating Michael van Gerwen;

Next it is the turn of Wessel Nijman, who may try to continue his spell on the Euro Tour against Paul Krohne. On his six last Euro Tours, Nijman won through his first match each time. With Krohne, the Dutchman will meet one of the Host Nation Qualifiers. For Krohne it will be his debut on the Euro Tour. To reach the last 32, the German will have to do something he has never done before, because in his two previous matches with Nijman, Krohne did not win a match.

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Ross Smith is the next big name to play his opening match in Göttingen. 'Smudger' had a good start to the Euro Tour season by reaching the semifinals at the Belgian Darts Open. He starts this tournament against Michael Unterbuchner, who will play his fifth Euro Tour tournament.

The afternoon session will conclude with a meeting between Dominik Gruellich and Luke Woodhouse. Gruellich forced his way in through the Tour Card qualifying tournament and is making his debut on the European circuit. Woodhouse has a lot more experience in this respect and is already competing for the 35th time, culminating in three quarter-finals.

Format

First round: best of 11 legs

Second round: best of 11 legs

Third round: best of 11 legs

Quarterfinals: Best of 11 legs

Semifinals: Best of 13 legs

Final: Best of 15 legs

TV Guide

The tournament will be broadcast by PDC TV. As usual with Euro Tour tournaments, the European Darts Trophy consists of three tournament days. The afternoon sessions will start daily at 12 p.m., while the evening sessions will start at 7 p.m.

The first round will take place on Friday, where the 16 Pro Tour players will face 16 players who emerged from the various qualifying tournaments. The winners of these matches will face a player from the top-16 of the world rankings in the second round on Saturday. The third round will be played on Sunday afternoon, before the quarterfinals, semifinals and final are completed on Sunday evening.

Distribution of prize money

All participants starting from the first round are guaranteed £1250 in prize money, while the top-16 enter from the second round and receive £2,500 anyway. This amount eventually rises to the grand prize of £30,000 for the winner.

An important detail is that players who are automatically seeded via the Order of Merit and lose their first match will not be awarded prize money on the various rankings. This does apply to qualifiers who are later designated as seeded by the withdrawal of others.

Schedule European Darts Trophy 2025

Friday, March 21

First round

Afternoon session (from 12 p.m.)

Jermaine Wattimena v Marko Kantele

Cameron Menzies v Alan Soutar

Andrew Gilding v Callan Rydz

Ritchie Edhouse v Kevin Doets

Dirk van Duijvenbode v Boris Krcmar

Wessel Nijman v Paul Krohne

Ross Smith v Michael Unterbuchner

Luke Woodhouse v Dominik Gruellich

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