The 2019 European Darts Matchplay was the eleventh of thirteen
PDC European Tour The PDC European Tour is a series of darts tournaments held across Europe organized by the Professional Darts Corporation. Starting in 2012 with five events, the number of events has steadily risen with eight held in 2013 and 2014, nine in 2015, ten ...
events on the
2019 PDC Pro Tour The 2019 PDC Pro Tour was a series of non-televised darts tournaments organised by the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC). Players Championships and European Tour events are the events that make up the Pro Tour. There were 43 PDC ProTour events he ...
. The tournament took place at the Maimarkthalle,
Mannheim
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, from 6–8 September 2019. It featured a field of 48 players and £140,000 in prize money, with £25,000 going to the winner.
Michael van Gerwen
Michael van Gerwen (; born 25 April 1989) is a Dutch professional darts player. He is currently PDC Order of Merit, ranked number 3 in the world, having been number 1 from 2014 to 2021. He is also a three-time PDC World Darts Championship, PDC ...
was the defending champion after defeating
William O'Connor 8–2 in
the previous year's final. Van Gerwen reached a third European Tour final in five events, but lost in his third successive final appearance as
Joe Cullen won his first stage title with an 8–5 success.
Prize money
This is how the prize money is divided:
* Seeded players who lose in the second round do not receive this prize money on any Orders of Merit.
Qualification and format
The top 16 entrants from the
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on 25 June will automatically qualify for the event and will be seeded in the second round.
The remaining 32 places will go to players from six qualifying events – 18 from the UK Tour Card Holder Qualifier (held on 2 August), six from the European Tour Card Holder Qualifier (held on 2 August), two from the West & South European Associate Member Qualifier (held on 5 September), four from the Host Nation Qualifier (held on 5 September), one from the Nordic & Baltic Qualifier (held on 23 August), and one from the East European Qualifier (held on 24 August).
From 2019, the Host Nation, Nordic & Baltic and East European Qualifiers will only be available to non-Tour Card holders. Any Tour Card holders from the applicable regions will have to play the main European Qualifier.
The following players will take part in the tournament:
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Michael van Gerwen
Michael van Gerwen (; born 25 April 1989) is a Dutch professional darts player. He is currently PDC Order of Merit, ranked number 3 in the world, having been number 1 from 2014 to 2021. He is also a three-time PDC World Darts Championship, PDC ...
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Ian White ''(third round)''
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Gerwyn Price
Gerwyn Stephen Price (born 7 March 1985) is a Welsh professional darts player and former professional rugby union and rugby league player. Nicknamed "The Iceman", he competes in events of the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC), where he is cu ...
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Dave Chisnall
Dave Chisnall (born 12 September 1980) is an English professional darts player who plays in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events. He began his career in the British Darts Organisation (BDO) and was the runner-up in their World Champions ...
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Daryl Gurney
Daryl Gurney (born 22 March 1986) is a Northern Irish professional darts player who plays in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events. Gurney is a winner of two majors, having won the World Grand Prix in 2017 in his native Ireland, and the ...
''(third round)''
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Peter Wright ''(second round)''
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James Wade
James Martin Wade (born 6 April 1983) is an English professional darts player, currently playing in the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC). He became the youngest player to win a major PDC title, when he won the 2007 World Matchplay at the ...
''(semi-finals)''
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Adrian Lewis
Adrian Lewis (born 21 January 1985) is an English professional darts player currently playing in the PDC. He is a two-time PDC World Darts Champion, winning in 2011 and 2012. He is nicknamed Jackpot, as he won a jackpot gambling in Las Vegas ...
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Krzysztof Ratajski
Krzysztof Ratajski (Polish pronunciation: ; born 1 January 1977) is a Polish professional darts player who plays in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events. His biggest achievement to date was winning the 2017 World Masters. Ratajski also pl ...
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Nathan Aspinall
Nathan Aspinall (born 15 July 1991) is an English professional darts player currently playing in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events. He won the 2019 UK Open with a 170 checkout in the final leg against former World Champion Rob Cross.
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Joe Cullen (champion)
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Rob Cross ''(quarter-finals)''
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Ricky Evans ''(third round)''
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Glen Durrant
Glen Durrant (born 24 November 1970), nicknamed "Duzza", is an English former professional darts player who played in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events. He previously won the BDO World Darts Championship three times consecutively ...
''(quarter-finals)''
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Jonny Clayton
Jonny Clayton (born 4 October 1974) is a Welsh professional darts player who plays in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events. Nicknamed The Ferret, he was half of the Welsh team that won the 2020 PDC World Cup of Darts before winning his ...
''(quarter-finals)''
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Mensur Suljović
Mensur Suljović (Serbian Cyrillic: Менсур Суљовић; born 5 March 1972) is an Austrian professional darts player. He plays in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events, having previously played in the British Darts Organisation (BD ...
''(third round)''
:UK Qualifier
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Michael Smith ''(second round)''
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Simon Stevenson
Simon Stevenson (born 18 February 1972) is an English darts player, who currently competes in Professional Darts Corporation events.
Career
Stevenson first rose to prominence after winning the Rileys Plymouth qualifier for the 2014 UK Open. He ...
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Simon Whitlock
Simon Whitlock (born 3 March 1969) is an Australian professional darts player who plays in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) tournaments, having also played in the British Darts Organisation (BDO) between 2004 and 2009. He uses the nickname T ...
''(first round)''
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Mark McGeeney
Mark McGeeney (born 28 June 1972) is an English professional darts player from Coventry, Warwickshire. He currently plays in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events.
Career
BDO
In August 2010, McGeeney won the Weoley Castle Open, beatin ...
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Jamie Hughes ''(second round)''
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Ryan Meikle
Ryan Meikle ( born 13 August 1996) is an English professional darts player who plays in events of the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC).
Career
Born in Ipswich, Suffolk, Meikle is a barber by trade, hence his nickname of "The Barber". He wo ...
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Scott Taylor ''(second round)''
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John Henderson ''(second round)''
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Keegan Brown
Keegan Brown (born 5 November 1992) is an English professional darts player who plays in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events. He won the 2014 PDC World Youth Championship.
Career Early career
Brown began playing darts at the age of ni ...
''(second round)''
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Ryan Joyce
Ryan Joyce (born 20 September 1985) is a professional English darts player who plays in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events.
Career BDO
In 2014 he reached the Last 48 of the World Masters. He took part in the 2016 BDO World Trophy, he w ...
''(first round)''
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Steve Lennon ''(first round)''
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Robert Thornton ''(first round)''
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Bradley Brooks
Bradley Brooks (born 20 February 2000) is an English professional darts player who competes in Professional Darts Corporation events. He won the 2020 PDC World Youth Championship.
Career
In 2017, Brooks won the Junior Darts Corporation European ...
''(second round)''
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Ross Smith ''(first round)''
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William O'Connor ''(third round)''
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Brett Claydon
Brett Claydon (born 11 October 1982) is an English professional darts player who plays in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events.
Claydon won a PDC Challenge Tour event in 2014.
In 2021 at Q-School Claydon finished 11th on the UK Q-School ...
''(first round)''
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Matthew Edgar
Matthew Edgar (born 28 August 1986) is an English darts player currently competing in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events.
Career 2011
Edgar joined the PDC in 2011, and qualified for the UK Open. He defeated Nigel Heydon, Andy Pearce a ...
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Wayne Jones ''(third round)''
:European Qualifier
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Dirk van Duijvenbode
Dirk van Duijvenbode (born 30 June 1992) is a Dutch professional darts player who plays in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events. He is known for his energetic walk-on, combined with hardstyle music. More recently, he has become known for ...
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Jeffrey de Zwaan
Jeffrey de Zwaan (born 26 March 1996) is a Dutch professional darts player who plays in events of the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC).
Career
De Zwaan progressed through to the last 16 of the 2014 World Masters, where he lost 3–0 to Glen ...
''(first round)''
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Maik Kuivenhoven
Maik Kuivenhoven (born 25 September 1988) is a Dutch professional darts player currently playing in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events.
Career
In 2018, he qualified for his first PDC European Tour event, when he won one of the eight ...
''(first round)''
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Max Hopp
Max Hopp (born 20 August 1996) is a German professional darts player who competes in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events.
Career
Hopp reached the final of the 2011 WDF World Cup boys' singles, and won the boys' singles event at the 2012 ...
''(first round)''
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Kim Huybrechts
Kim Huybrechts (born 16 November 1985) is a Belgian professional darts player currently playing in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events. He made the final of a major TV event, the 2012 Players Championship Finals, losing to Phil Taylor 13 ...
''(second round)''
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Gabriel Clemens ''(second round)''
:West/South European Qualifier
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Wesley Plaisier
Wesley Plaisier (born 4 March 1990) is a Dutch professional darts player who is currently playing in the Professional Darts Corporation events.
Career
He attended European Q-School in 2019, but never got farther than the last 32, missing out on ...
''(first round)''
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Cody Harris ''(second round)''
:Host Nation Qualifier
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''(second round)''
:* Florian Hempel ''(first round)''
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Steffen Siepmann ''(first round)''
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Karsten Koch
Karsten Koch (born 22 February 1977) is a German professional darts player who plays in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events.
Koch first qualified for a PDC European Tour event in 2019, when he qualified for the 2019 German Darts Open, bu ...
''(second round)''
:Nordic & Baltic Qualifier
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Dennis Nilsson
Dennis Nilsson (born 21 March 1976) is a Swedish darts player and former strongman.
Career
Nilsson qualified for the 2012 PDC World Darts Championship, where he lost 4–2 to Japan's Haruki Muramatsu in the preliminary round.
He represented ...
''(first round)''
:East European Qualifier
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Krzysztof Kciuk ''(first round)''
Draw
References
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