2024 Austrian Darts Open

2024 Austrian Darts Open
Tournament information
Dates	26–28 April 2024
Venue	Steiermarkhalle
Location	Premstätten
Country	Austria
Organisation(s)	PDC
Format	Legs
Prize fund	£175,000
Winner's share	£30,000
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The 2024 Austrian Darts Open will be the fifth of thirteen PDC European Tour events on the 2024 PDC Pro Tour. The tournament will take place at the Steiermarkhalle, Premstätten, Austria from 26 to 28 April 2024. It will feature a field of 48 players and £175,000 in prize money, with £30,000 going to the winner.

Jonny Clayton is the defending champion after defeating Josh Rock 8–6 in the 2023 final.

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.

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 ProTour 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.

The following players will take part in the tournament:

Seeded Players

1.  Dave Chisnall
2.  Damon Heta
3.  Gerwyn Price
4.  Rob Cross
5.  Jonny Clayton
6.  Michael van Gerwen
7.  Josh Rock
8.  Dirk van Duijvenbode
9.  Ryan Searle
10.  Danny Noppert
11.  Peter Wright
12.  Ricardo Pietreczko
13.  Stephen Bunting
14.  Ross Smith
15.  Krzysztof Ratajski
16.  Joe Cullen

Order of Merit Qualifiers

•  Dimitri Van den Bergh
•  Chris Dobey
•  Daryl Gurney
•  Andrew Gilding
•  Raymond van Barneveld
•  Gian van Veen
•  Martin Schindler
•  Ryan Joyce
•  José de Sousa
•  James Wade
•  Brendan Dolan
•  Luke Littler
•  Gabriel Clemens
•  Mike De Decker

Tour Card Qualifier

•  Danny Lauby
•  Jeffrey de Zwaan
•  Karel Sedláček
•  Dom Taylor
•  Wessel Nijman
•  Martin Lukeman
•  Arron Monk
•  Graham Hall
•  Madars Razma
•  Ritchie Edhouse

Host Nation Qualifier

• TBC
• TBC
• TBC
• TBC

Nordic & Baltic Qualifier

•  Darius Labanauskas

East European Qualifier

•  Romeo Grbavac

Reserve List

•  Richard Veenstra
•  Ricky Evans

Draw

	First round (best of 11 legs) 26 April					Second round (best of 11 legs) 27 April					Third round (best of 11 legs) 28 April					Quarter-finals (best of 11 legs) 28 April					Semi-finals (best of 13 legs) 28 April					Final (best of 15 legs) 28 April
						1	Dave Chisnall
						16	Ross Smith
						8	Gary Anderson
						9	Josh Rock
						4	Gerwyn Price
						13	Peter Wright
						5	Rob Cross
						12	Danny Noppert
						2	Damon Heta
						15	Stephen Bunting
						7	Michael van Gerwen
						10	Dirk van Duijvenbode
						3	Luke Humphries
						14	Ricardo Pietreczko
						6	Jonny Clayton
						11	Ryan Searle