2025 Austrian Darts Open

The 2025 Austrian Darts Open, known as the 2025 Elten Safety Shoes Austrian Darts Open for sponsorship reasons, is an upcoming professional darts tournament taking place at the Steiermarkhalle in Premstätten, Austria from 25–27 April 2025. It will be the fifth of fourteen PDC European Tour events on the 2025 PDC Pro Tour. It will feature a field of 48 players and £175,000 in prize money, with £30,000 going to the winner.

2025 Elten Safety Shoes Austrian Darts Open
Tournament information
Dates	25–27 April 2025
Venue	Steiermarkhalle
Location	Premstätten, Austria
Organisation(s)	Professional Darts Corporation (PDC)
Format	Legs Final – first to 8 legs
Prize fund	£175,000
Winner's share	£30,000
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Luke Littler won the 2024 edition after beating Joe Cullen 8–4 in the final.^[1][2] However, Littler chose not to play in the event, and thus did not defend his title.

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.^[3]

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.^[4][5] The seedings were confirmed on 27 March.^[6]

The remaining 16 places will go to players from four qualifying events – 10 from the Tour Card Holder Qualifier (held on 2 April),^[7] four from the Host Nation Qualifier (held on 24 April),^[8] one from the Nordic & Baltic Associate Member Qualifier (held on 28 March)^[9] and one from the East European Associate Member Qualifier (held on 15 February).^[10]

The following players will take part in the tournament:

Seeded Players  Jonny Clayton  Stephen Bunting  Damon Heta  Nathan Aspinall  Chris Dobey  Dave Chisnall  James Wade  Gerwyn Price  Peter Wright  Danny Noppert  Josh Rock  Ross Smith  Ryan Searle  Dimitri Van den Bergh  Mike De Decker  Martin Schindler

Pro Tour Order of Merit Qualifiers  Gian van Veen  Daryl Gurney  Cameron Menzies  Wessel Nijman  Ritchie Edhouse  Joe Cullen  Luke Woodhouse  Raymond van Barneveld  Jermaine Wattimena  Andrew Gilding  Ryan Joyce  Dirk van Duijvenbode  Kevin Doets  Madars Razma  Krzysztof Ratajski  Ricardo Pietreczko

Tour Card Qualifier  Berry van Peer  Karel Sedláček  Nathan Rafferty  Tom Bissell  Ian White  Niko Springer  Mickey Mansell  Chris Landman  Matt Campbell  William O'Connor Host Nation Qualifier         Nordic & Baltic Qualifier  Teemu Harju East European Qualifier  György Jehirszki

Draw

	First round (best of 11 legs) 25 April					Second round (best of 11 legs) 26 April					Third round (best of 11 legs) 27 April					Quarter-finals (best of 11 legs) 27 April					Semi-finals (best of 13 legs) 27 April					Final (best of 15 legs) 27 April
						1	Jonny Clayton
						16	Martin Schindler
						8	Gerwyn Price
						9	Peter Wright
						4	Nathan Aspinall
						13	Ryan Searle
						5	Chris Dobey
						12	Ross Smith
						2	Stephen Bunting
						15	Mike De Decker
						7	James Wade
						10	Danny Noppert
						3	Damon Heta
						14	Dimitri Van den Bergh
						6	Dave Chisnall
						11	Josh Rock