The list of participants for PDC European Q-School 2025 in Kalkar has been announced by the PDC. The entry list has 498 participants, which is slightly less than last year. They will compete for PDC Tour Cards to gain entry to the lucrative Pro Tour circuit.
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As in the past two years, the Q-School is divided into two phases. The first phase will take place from Jan. 6 to 8, followed by the final phase from Jan. 9 to 12.
Players who lost their PDC Tour Card last season or finished in the top eight on the Challenge Tour and Development Tour are immediately qualified for the final stage. The remaining participants must start in the first stage. Qualification for the final stage is possible by reaching the last eight on one of the three days in Kalkar. Should that fail, players must ensure that as many points as possible are won. Each win in a full round (without byes) earns one point. Via the Q-School Order of Merit of the first stage, players also advance to the final stage.
Among others, Kenny Neyens, Brian Raman, David Cameron, Romeo Grbavac, Max Hopp, Liam-Maendl Lawrance, Jarno Bottenberg, Cor Dekker, Ron Meulenkamp, Damian Mol, Dennie Olde Kalter, Derk Telnekes and Noa-Lynn van Leuven will start the Q-School from the first stage. For Jeffrey de Zwaan, Danny Jansen, Maik Kuivenhoven, Geert Nentjes, Owen Roelofs, Jeffrey Sparidaans, Jurjen van der Velde, Jimmy van Schie, Danny van Trijp, Marvin van Velzen, Boris Krcmar and Rowby-John Rodriguez, among others, they have been directly admitted to the final stage.
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Tour Card distribution during final stage
During the final stage, Tour Cards are only actually distributed. Of the 29 Tour Cards available, eight will be distributed immediately. At both the British and European Q-School, four days of play will be completed during the final phase. The eight direct cards will go to all daily winners at the tournaments.
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The remaining 21 Tour Cards can be earned through the Q-School Order of Merit. At both events, points can be earned per win (not counting preliminaries, ed.).
With several constant results, players can still get a Tour Card this way, without having a day's success. At the European Q-School twelve Tour Cards can still be distributed via the ranking, in Milton Keynes at the UK Q-School only nine.
Directly admitted to the final stage
Stefan Bellmont
Jeffrey De Zwaan
Adam Gawlas
Dominik Gruellich
Andreas Harrysson
Dragutin Horvat
Danny Jansen
Daniel Klose
Robbie Knops
Boris Krcmar
Maik Kuivenhoven
Darius Labanauskas
Jacques Labre
Alexander Merkx
Kayden Milne
Geert Nentjes
Rowby-John Rodriguez
Owen Roelofs
Karel Sedlacek
Jeffrey Sparidaans
Jurjen van der Velde
Jimmy van Schie
Danny van Trijp
Marvin van Velzen
Participants first phase of the Q-School
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Ralf Abelmann
Baris Acar
Laurens Admiraal
Ersan Alan
Thomas Allard
Marcel Althaus
Alen Alukic
Rino Ameel
Alexandre Antunes
Max Arsenijevic
Gergo Ascsillan
Justin Atellinghusen
Marcel Aulich
Yoshihisa Baba
Miroslav Babik
Tim Backer
Radek Bacík
Rok Bahor
Ronald Balfoort
Richard Balogh
Angelo Balsamo
Mindaugas Barauskas
Jannis Barkhausen
Daniel Bauerdick
Jarod Becker
Finn Behrens
Fabio Bendoni
Cois Berben
Paul Bereths
Sergio Beretta
Filip Bereza
Christian Bernhardt
Ferre Bervoets
Alberto Bezjian
Fabian Bihl
Daniel Blum
Nico Blum
Jan Boelen
Luc Bogaert
Moritz Bohrmann
Bartholomaus Bonsch
Andras Borbely
Janos Borzsei
Robin Bos
Pau Bota Ramos
Jarno Bottenberg
Marco Bout
Xavier Bracke
Jannes Bremermann
Serge Brisset
Rohan Brouwers
Frank Bruns
Benjamin Buergin
Patrick Bulen
Marc Burmeister
Michael Busscher
Luis Camacho
David Cameron
Jeroen Caron
Iain Cash
Riccardo Castelli
Maurizio Castrovinci
Dominik Cavajda
Finn Chudziak
Vojtech Cibula
Jason Claeys
Mark Clari
Ulrich Coussaert
Nick Crouwel
Maximilian Czerwinski
Ruben Daemen
Massimo Dalla Rosa
Lukas Dallmann
Massimo Dante
Matthias Debaus
Stefan Dees
Cor Dekker
Patrick Dekker
Pascal Devroey
Hugo Albertus Deysel
Stefano Di Poce
Wim Dierckx
Danny Diller
Jan-Willem Dispa
Daniel Drewes
Jan Dueckers
Joachim Duerbeck
Sascha Dupke
Hallgrimur Egilsson
Sandro Egli
Matthias Ehlers
Thomas Ehlers
Rene Eidams
Julian Ellwart
Lars Elsenheimer
Luitsen Elzinga
Johan Engstrom
Nuno Enxuto
Marcel Erba
Dominic Ferrero
Sebastian Fey
Dominik Filippi
Domenik Fink
Alex Flohr
Mika Flueckiger
Levy Frauenfelder
Lukas Fraulob
Bastiaan Fredriksen
Tobias Frese
Matthias Orn Fridriksson
Dominic Fritz
Jan Fukar
Jorge Garcia del Pozo
Dani Garrido
Marcel Gerdon
Bjorn Germonpre
Christian Goedl
Marcel Gomula
Joaquim Goncalves
Frank Gosch
Kai Gotthardt
Paul Goyer
Jonas Graversen
Romeo Grbavac
Daniel Grochotzky
Miroslaw Grudziecki
Yasa Guener
Marcel Gugger
Mitja Gustorf
Maurice Gutgesell
Manuel Gutjahr
Jessy Guyot
Ricardo Ham
Tomas Hamrozi
Kevin Harms
Pascal Hartung
Dylan Hauser
Marcel Hausotter
Andreas Heimann
Felix Hein
Angela Heinrich
Niels Heinsoe
Simeon Heinz
Stefaan Henderyck
Raoul Hendriks
Joshua Hermann
Roger Hertig
Stefan Hesse
Rick Hessing
Juergen Heuberger
Marcel Hexel
Nick Hijmans
Moritz Hilger
Marcel Hoentsch
Yorick Hofkens
Jan Hofmann
Kilian Hohnstedt
Max Hopp
Andreas Houf
Bohuslav Hrbek
Dennis Hubrich
Michael Hurtz
Andreas Hyllgaardhus
Tim Jacobi
Kamil Janowicz
Javanico Jansen
Ulrich Jansen
Gyorgy Jehirszki
Cedric Jeske
David Jeske
Martin Jongen
Karl Jonsson
Andreas Toft Jorgensen
Jordy Jozee
Marco Jungwirth
Jose Justicia
Rene Kaehler
Paul Kalashnikov
Sven Kammann
Tytus Kanik
Marko Kantele
Sylwester Karbowiak
Lukasz Karcz
Fetih Kaya
Guerkan Kaynarcalidan
Krzysztof Kciuk
Jeffrey Keen
Rene Kern
Marciano Kilian
Marcus Kirchmann
Martijn Klasens
Oliver Klein
Patrick Klingelhoefer
Jens Kniest
Kevin Knopf
Mikkel Devantie Knudsen
Jerzy Kobylarz
Marvin Koch
Maik Koehler
Gillian Koehoorn
Thomas Kohnlein
Arjan Konterman
Marvin Kraft
Sergio Krassen
Barna Krekacs
Tom Veje Kristensen
Petr Krivka
Elias Kuhlig
Carsten Kupka
Maikel Kustermans
Daniel Labbozzetta
Martijn Lageweg
Gergely Lakatos
Bent Lambertsen
Frieder Lang
Kevin Lankhuizen
Sietse Lap
Witold Lewandowski
Jan Luca Limburg
Kieran Lindour
Patrick Link
Pero Ljubic
Viktor Luft
Oskar Lukasiak
Nandor Major
Remo Mandiau
Samuele Maranelli
Lionel Maranhao
Francesco Marcone
Hendrik Marquardt
Alexander Masek
Chris Massilge
Tomas Materna
Damon Medema
Raoul Meijer
Bryan Menzel
Arno Merk
Ruben Mesters
Ron Meulenkamp
Erik Meulenmeesters
John Michael
Alexander Michalczyk
Andrea Micheletti
Michel Michiels
Gerrit Mielke
Jeroen Mioch
Oliver Misselke
Christopher Moeller
Fabian Moeller
Damian Mol
Rik Mollink
Dominik Moravcik
Stevie Moreira
Michele Moscelli
Maikel Mossou
Oliver Mueller (FfO)
Bert Jan Mulder
Mike Mus
Dominik Nebe
Dimitri Nees
Kenny Neyens
Calvin Nicolai
Niels Aagaard Nielsen
Maximilian Nirschl
Steven Noster
Boris Nowak
Jurgen Nuijten
Gabriel Florin Olar
Dennie Olde Kalter
Miguel Olejnik
Anton Ostlund
Marcel Otter
Danijel Ozbolt
Ceyhan Ozdemir
Steven Paesschesoone
Jonathan Parvaneh
Martin Paunoch
Jonny Pedersen
Igor Perak
Luca Pfaff
Sebastian Pigache
Robert Pijpers
Ivan Springborg Poulsen
Benjamin Pratnemer
Florian Preis
Davy Proosten
Marek Purgy
Kurt Quidousse
Niko Quiel
Daniel Racoveanu
Mladen Radosavljevic
Miroslav Rajnoha
Brian Raman
Vinay Ramnath
Riccardo Rech
Maurice Reetz
Jiri Rehak
Marco Reichenpfader
Leon Remde
Bjorn Reschke
Moritz Richter
Giuseppe Rizzo
Ben Robb
Mario Robbe
Davy Robijns
Angel Rodriguez
Rusty-Jake Rodriguez
Noah Roeschlein
Franz Roetzsch
Dmitrii Rogov
Brandon Roland
Gabriel Rollo
Tomislav Rosandic
Michael Rosenauer
Colin Rosenberger
David Rosi
Gustav Valdemar Rosted
Helena Rubes
Kristof Sarens
Naoya Sato
Steffen Scheffler
Donny Scheurwater
Felix Schiertz
David Schlichting
Lenny Schlueter
Jan Schmidt
Clemens Schmiedlau
Felix Schmitt
Martin Schmitz
Mathias Schockaert
Fabian Schoen
Martijn Schoenmakers
Rob Scholing
Dennis Scholz
Tim Scholz
Zeno Schoonheydt
Fabian Schor
Stefan Schroder
Frank Schroeder
Stefan Schroeder
Nico Schunke
Patrick Schwab
Philipp Schweder
Vitezslav Sedlak
Diederik Seghers
Denys Sennikov
Jack Anthony Sheppard
Robin Smees
Michal Smejda
Dalibor Smolik
Florian Socha
Jonas Sorensen
Clemens Spoolder
Nils Stahlhut
Giovanni Stecconi
Kai Steernberg
Sebastian Steyer
Bruno Stoeckli
Dustin Straver
Sascha Stuhlemmer
Rainer Sturm
Pal Szekely
Jozsef Szlanyina
Stefan Taferner
Pedro Teixeira Rodrigues
Derk Telnekes
Jordy Testroote
Simon Teysen
Dominik Thiel
Nicolas Thuillier
Gerko Tibbe
Christian Till
Max Timmers
Viktor Tingstrom
Jody Tobback
Roman Tomczak
Christopher Toonders
Chi-Minh Tran
Patrick Tringler
Bernhard Trinker
Simon Trommler
Kevin Troppmann
Paolo Trutalli
Niek Tuik
Egor Tvorogov
Nazmi Uguz
Ricardo Ulrich
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Lukas Unger
Ronny Ungethuem
Michael Unterbuchner
Zdenek Vaisar
Attila Valyi
Kevin Van Hove – Speltincx
Danny Van Klompenburg
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Born Van Put
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Loek Van den Berg
Xanti Van den Bergh
Wouter Van der Vegt
James Vanbesien
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Lukasz Waclawski
Richard Wagenaar
Markus Walchshaeusl
Marcel Walpen
Leon Weber
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Frederic Willems
Stefan Windeck
Dennis Winkelmann
Pascal Wirotius
Fabian Wolter
Michael Woraczek
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- Ultimately it is a bye for whoever draws Barney. It will be another stroppy and sulky performance once he goes behind. Barney was excellent but really must completely call it a day now.richieburnettrocks07-11-2026
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- Probably i will receive a lot of backlash and hate for this reaction, but well, so be it. I am more than sick and tired of those lies of you Barry Hearn. How dare you defend yourself over the back of Fallon’s son! He has a disability and not an illness, so let me correct that for you! I know because I have the exact same disability. I have tried to reach out to Fallon in the past, and offered her to help her and her son, because I was struggling with the same problems, and I understood the boy. I wanted him to have finally someone who understood him. However she told me that she did not want my help, and I have respected Fallon’s choice. I have never asked Fallon for money. They don’t need money in that case. I only ever wanted the best for Fallon and Rory, but I have to be honest about the situation. Fallon should tell the true story and not be forced to tell lies. I don’t hate Fallon, and I don’t begrudge or envy a single penny that she gets, but this situation/case is just not fair. I hate the lies and the dishonesty and injustice. I don’t want Fallon to be hated because there is an unfair disadvantage created. Don’t proclaim your false lies over the back of Rory! I only stand for integrity and justice. I am precisely the one who always sticks up for Fallon. And you don't, you don't give a damn about them. You were never there for them, and now you only want to save your own position! You are just trying to talk your way out of your own bad behavior at the expense of someone with a disability. And to Fallon, I don’t know if this may ever reach you, and you read it, but I want you to know I love you and I love your son Rory very much, I am sorry how things developed and went. I hope you and Harriet are still friends. I am sorry if I were too persistent to you, or you experienced it that way, but it was never my intention. Please understand I have autism as well. As Barry Hearn would say, I am only just a human being too, and I also make mistakes and misjudge things sometimes. I promise you I did everything out of the deepest love and care for you and Rory. If I were you, I should just keep all the money, only please never be dishonest or tell lies anymore for Barry Hearn, or anyone else. I hope you have the best life, and I wish nothing more than the best for you. I have always loved the two of you. Farewell.Hiddo05-11-2026
- She is a professional. If darts is her income, she is a professional. Same as Adrian Lewis, Martin Adams. A tour card just means someone can play on the PDC tour. You could even make a case that Clayton wasn't a professional (until recently I believe) because he had employment elsewhere.BandB04-11-2026
- She's technically not a professional though as she doesn't hold a pro tour card.mr-pablo04-11-2026
- Such a shame that lakeside has been reduced to this. Fantastic venue,and previously a great tournament. Not any morerick6703-11-2026
- Seems to me that the top 16 players pick and choose whatever they want to play. Good,all the money will get spread out more. They get more money from exhibitions than tournaments so let them all withdrawrick6703-11-2026
- Play all legs and the winners split the pot. Luke gets the lot of he wins them all. If your occupation is darts player you can't enter, regardless of ability.BandB01-11-2026
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- Fair play to Fallon. But...shows the mockery when a professional players wins what was meant to be an amateur v Pro event, Littlers performance was poor, and what about the players who didn't get a game? Would have been better if the pot was split amoungst all the winners and they all got a leg.BandB31-10-2026