2024 Austrian Darts Open

The 2024 Austrian Darts Open, known as the 2024 NEO.bet Austrian Darts Open for sponsorship reasons, was a professional darts tournament that took place at the Steiermarkhalle in Premstätten, Austria from 26 to 28 April 2024. It was the fifth of thirteen European Tour events on the 2024 PDC Pro Tour. It featured a field of 48 players and £175,000 in prize money, with £30,000 going to the winner.

Jonny Clayton was the defending champion after defeating Josh Rock 8–6 in the 2023 final. Clayton was beaten 6–3 by in the third round.

Luke Littler won his second European Tour title of 2024 after beating 8–4 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

A massive overhaul in the qualification for the 2024 European Tour events was announced on 7 January.

For the first time, both the PDC Order of Merit and the PDC Pro Tour Order of Merit rankings were used to determine 32 of the 48 entrants for the event. The top 16 on the PDC Order of Merit qualified, along with the highest 16 ranked players on the PDC ProTour Order of Merit (after the PDC Order of Merit players were removed). From those 32 players, the 16 highest ranked players on the PDC ProTour Order of Merit were seeded for the event. The seedings were confirmed on 4 April.

The remaining 16 places went to players from four qualifying events – 10 from the Tour Card Holder Qualifier (held on 10 April), four from the Host Nation Qualifier (to be held on 25 April), one from the Nordic & Baltic Associate Nation Qualifier (held on 5 April) and one from the East European Associate Member Qualifier (held on 6 April).

Luke Humphries and Gary Anderson withdrew and were replaced by Richard Veenstra and Ricky Evans. Krzysztof Ratajski and Joe Cullen moved up to become the 15th and 16th seeds respectively. After the draw was made, Gerwyn Price withdrew and was replaced by Daniel Klose, who went straight in at the second round.

The following players took part in the tournament:

:Seeded Players
# ''(third round)''
# ''(second round)''
# ''(withdrew)''
# ''(second round)''
# ''(third round)''
# ''(quarter-finals)''
# ''(third round)''
# ''(second round)''
# ''(second round)''
# ''(quarter-finals)''
# ''(third round)''
# ''(second round)''
# ''(semi-finals)''
# ''(semi-finals)''
# ''(third round)''
# ''(runner-up)''

:Order of Merit Qualifiers
:* ''(second round)''
:* ''(second round)''
:* ''(third round)''
:* ''(second round)''
:* ''(second round)''
:* ''(quarter-finals)''
:* ''(quarter-finals)''
:* ''(first round)''
:* ''(first round)''
:* ''(first round)''
:* ''(second round)''
:* (champion)
:* ''(first round)''
:* ''(first round)''

:Tour Card Qualifier
:* ''(second round)''
:* ''(second round)''
:* ''(first round)''
:* ''(second round)''
:* ''(second round)''
:* ''(first round)''
:* ''(first round)''
:* ''(first round)''
:* ''(first round)''
:* ''(third round)''

:Host Nation Qualifier
:* ''(first round)''
:* ''(first round)''
:* ''(first round)''
:* ''(first round)''

:Nordic & Baltic Qualifier
:* ''(second round)''

:East European Qualifier
:* ''(first round)''

:Reserve List
:* ''(second round)''
:* ''(first round)''
:* ''(third round)''

Draw

Numbers to the left of players' names show the seedings for the top 16 in the tournament. The three reserves are indicated by (Alt). The figures to the right of a player's name state their three-dart average in a match. Players in bold denote match winners.

References

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2024 PDC Pro Tour
2024 PDC European Tour
2024 in Austrian sport
April 2024 sports events in Austria