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2025 European Darts Open

The 2025 European Darts Open (known for sponsorship reasons as the 2025 Elten Safety Shoes European Darts Open) was a professional darts tournament that took place at the Ostermann-Arena, Leverkusen, Germany, from 30 May to 1 June 2025. It was the eight of fourteen PDC European Tour events on the 2025 PDC Pro Tour. It featured a field of 48 players and £175,000 in prize money, with £30,000 going to the winner.

Dave Chisnall was the defending champion after defeating Ross Smith 8–6 in the 2024 final. However, he lost 6–5 to Cameron Menzies in the second round.

Nathan Aspinall won his second European Tour title, also his second of 2025, by beating Damon Heta 8–6 in the final.

Prize money

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

  • 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.

Qualification and format

In a change from the previous year, the top 16 on the two-year main PDC Order of Merit ranking were now seeded and entered the tournament in the second round, while the 16 qualifiers from the one-year PDC Pro Tour Order of Merit ranking entered in the first round.

In another change, the 16 Pro Tour Order of Merit qualifiers will be drawn against one of the 16 other qualifiers in the first round.

The seedings were confirmed on 9 May.

The remaining 16 places went to players from four qualifying events – 10 from the Tour Card Holder Qualifier (held on 14 May), four from the Host Nation Qualifier (held on 17 May), one from the Nordic & Baltic Associate Member Qualifier (held on 9 May), and one from the East European Associate Member Qualifier (held on 16 February).

Rob Cross, Luke Humphries and Michael van Gerwen withdrew and were replaced by Madars Razma, and . , Mike De Decker and Gian van Veen moved up to become the 14th, 15th and 16th seeds respectively.

The following players took part in the tournament:

Seeded Players
  1. (quarter-finals)
  2. (semi-finals)
  3. (runner-up)
  4. (quarter-finals)
  5. (champion)
  6. (third round)
  7. (second round)
  8. (third round)
  9. (second round)
  10. (second round)
  11. (second round)
  13. (second round)
  14. (second round)
  15. (third round)
  16. (second round)
Pro Tour Order of Merit Qualifiers
* (quarter-finals)
* (semi-finals)
* (first round)
* (third round)
* (third round)
* (second round)
*
* (second round)
* (first round)
* (third round)
* (second round)
* (first round)
* (third round)
* (first round)
Tour Card Qualifier
* (second round)
* (first round)
* (first round)
* (second round)
* (second round)
* (second round)
* (second round)
* (first round)
* (first round)
* (first round)
Host Nation Qualifier
* (first round)
* (first round)
* (first round)
* (first round)
Nordic & Baltic Qualifier
*
East European Qualifier
* (first round)
Reserve List
* (first round)
* (quarter-finals)

Draw

Notes

References