2025 Belgian Darts Open

2025 Blåkläder Belgian Darts Open
Tournament information
Dates	7–9 March 2024
Venue	Oktoberhallen
Location	Wieze, Belgium
Organisation(s)	Professional Darts Corporation (PDC)
Format	Legs
Prize fund	£175,000
Winner's share	£30,000
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The 2025 Belgian Darts Open, known as the 2025 Blåkläder Belgian Darts Open for sponsorship reasons, is an upcoming professional darts tournament taking place at the Oktoberhallen in Wieze, Belgium from 7–9 March 2025. It will be the first of fourteen PDC European Tour events on the 2025 PDC Pro Tour.[1] It will feature a field of 48 players and £175,000 in prize money, with £30,000 going to the winner.

Luke Littler is the defending champion after defeating Rob Cross 8–7 in the 2024 final.[2][3]

Prize money

The prize fund remained at £175,000, with £30,000 to the winner:

Stage (num. of players)		Prize money
Winner	(1)	£30,000
Runner-up	(1)	£12,000
Semi-finalists	(2)	£8,500
Quarter-finalists	(4)	£6,000
Third round losers	(8)	£4,000
Second round losers	(16)	£2,500*
First round losers	(16)	£1,250*
Total	£175,000

• Pre-qualified players from the Orders of Merit who lose in their first match of the event shall not be credited with prize money on any Order of Merit. A player who qualifies as a qualifier, but later becomes a seed due to the withdrawal of one or more other players shall be credited with their prize money on all Orders of Merit regardless of how far they progress in the event.[4]

Qualification and format

In a change from the previous year, the top 16 on the two-year main PDC Order of Merit ranking will now be seeded and enter the tournament in the second round, while the 16 qualifiers from the one-year PDC Pro Tour Order of Merit ranking will enter in the first round.[5][6] The seedings were confirmed on 7 February.[7]

The remaining 16 places will go to players from four qualifying events – 10 from the Tour Card Holder Qualifier (held on 12 February),[8] four from the Host Nation Qualifier (held on 6 March), one from the Nordic & Baltic Associate Member Qualifier (held on ? February), and one from the East European Associate Member Qualifier (held on 1 February).[9]

The following players will take part in the tournament:

Seeded Players  Luke Humphries  Luke Littler  Michael van Gerwen  Rob Cross  Stephen Bunting  Jonny Clayton  Dave Chisnall  Damon Heta  Gerwyn Price  Nathan Aspinall  Chris Dobey  Danny Noppert  Peter Wright  James Wade  Gary Anderson  Dimitri Van den Bergh

Pro Tour Order of Merit Qualifiers  Ryan Searle  Josh Rock  Martin Schindler  Ross Smith  Daryl Gurney  Gian van Veen  Raymond van Barneveld  Cameron Menzies  Mike De Decker  Michael Smith  Wessel Nijman  Ritchie Edhouse  Jermaine Wattimena  Dirk van Duijvenbode  Ricardo Pietreczko  Luke Woodhouse

Tour Card Qualifier  Cam Crabtree  Thomas Lovely  Ryan Joyce  Thibault Tricole  Matthew Dennant  Darryl Pilgrim  Jim Long  Matt Campbell  James Hurrell  Owen Bates Host Nation Qualifier         Nordic & Baltic Qualifier East European Qualifier  Boris Krčmar

Draw

	First round (best of 11 legs) 7 March					Second round (best of 11 legs) 8 March					Third round (best of 11 legs) 9 March					Quarter-finals (best of 11 legs) 9 March					Semi-finals (best of 13 legs) 9 March					Final (best of 15 legs) 9 March
						1	Luke Humphries
						16	Dimitri Van den Bergh
						8	Damon Heta
						9	Gerwyn Price
						4	Rob Cross
						13	Peter Wright
						5	Stephen Bunting
						12	Danny Noppert
						2	Luke Littler
						15	Gary Anderson
						7	Dave Chisnall
						10	Nathan Aspinall
						3	Michael van Gerwen
						14	James Wade
						6	Jonny Clayton
						11	Chris Dobey

References

1. Gorton, Josh (28 August 2024). "PDC European Tour expanded to 14 events with 2025 dates confirmed". PDC. Retrieved 5 February 2025.
2. "Luke Littler hits nine darter as he wins Belgian Open". BBC Sport. 10 March 2024. Retrieved 10 March 2024.
3. "Luke Littler hits nine-darter as he wins Belgian Open". Sky News. 11 March 2024. Retrieved 9 February 2025.
4. "PDC Order of Merit Rules | 2025 PDC Order of Merit Rules, as at January 13 2025". PDC.
5. Shaw, Jamie (13 January 2025). "PDC confirm further controversial changes to European Tour criteria in 2025". Live Darts. Retrieved 5 February 2025.
6. Gill, Samuel (13 January 2025). "PDC European Tour rules change again in controversial move seeming to protect big names". Darts News. Retrieved 5 February 2025.
7. Gorton, Josh (7 February 2025). "2025 ET1-2 Seeds & Tour Card Holder qualifier entries confirmed". Professional Darts Corporation. Retrieved 7 February 2025.
8. "PDC ET01 Tour Card Holder Qualifier". DartConnect. 12 February 2025.
9. "PDC ET01 E. Europe Qualifier". DartConnect. 1 February 2025.