European Championship prize money
The PDC has paid £5.3m across the eleven editions of the European Championship we hold, from 2015 to 2025. The 2025 pot was £600,000 between 32 players, the thirty-two players who won the most on the European Tour that year, and Gian van Veen took £120,000 of it.
A darts player is paid once, for where the run ended, so every pound of a pot lands on exactly one player and the eleven pots below add up to the £5,325,000 the field has shared. Michael van Gerwen has taken more out of the European Championship than anyone else: £437,000 from eleven appearances. Five of the eleven were played at Westfalenhallen, Dortmund.
Every European Championship pot
The eleven editions we hold, and what each one paid
| EDITION | CHAMPION | PLAYERS | THE POT | WINNING IT |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Gian van Veen | 32 | £600,000 | £120,000 |
| 2024 | Ritchie Edhouse | 32 | £600,000 | £120,000 |
| 2023 | Peter Wright | 32 | £600,000 | £120,000 |
| 2022 | Ross Smith | 32 | £500,000 | £120,000 |
| 2021 | Rob Cross | 32 | £500,000 | £120,000 |
| 2020 | Peter Wright | 32 | £500,000 | £120,000 |
| 2019 | Rob Cross | 32 | £500,000 | £120,000 |
| 2018 | James Wade | 32 | £400,000 | £100,000 |
| 2017 | Michael van Gerwen | 32 | £425,000 | £100,000 |
| 2016 | Michael van Gerwen | 32 | £400,000 | £100,000 |
| 2015 | Michael van Gerwen | 32 | £300,000 | £65,000 |
| 11 editions | seven different champions | 352 | £5,325,000£5.3m | £1,205,000£1.2m |
The pot, season by season
season running total
The prize fund has gone from £300,000 in 2015 to £600,000 in 2025, which is £300,000 more and 100% up. Winning it has moved with it, from £65,000 to £120,000, and the champion's share of the pot has gone from 22% to 20%. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches £5,325,000.
What each finishing place pays
The six bands at the 2025 European Championship
Nothing here stacks. A player who lost in the semi-finals collected £40,000 and not that plus every band beneath it, which is why the six bands come to £600,000 rather than to the £267,500 a ladder reading would put on the champion alone. The 2025 rate card has the players in each band and what the band paid out.
Who has taken the most out of it
Every player in the European Championship draws we hold, across the eleven editions
| # | PLAYER | PLAYED | TITLES | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Michael van Gerwen | 11 | 3 | £437,000 |
| 2 | Peter Wright | 11 | 2 | £349,000 |
| 3 | Rob Cross | 9 | 2 | £337,000 |
| 4 | James Wade | 10 | 1 | £313,000 |
| 5 | Gerwyn Price | 11 | £175,000 | |
| 6 | Michael Smith | 10 | £175,000 | |
| 7 | Danny Noppert | 7 | £171,000 | |
| 8 | Gian van Veen | 3 | 1 | £167,500 |
| 9 | Ross Smith | 6 | 1 | £166,000 |
| 10 | Luke Humphries | 5 | £140,000 | |
| 11 | Daryl Gurney | 9 | £129,000 | |
| 12 | Ritchie Edhouse | 2 | 1 | £126,000 |
| 13 | Dave Chisnall | 10 | £105,000 | |
| 14 | Joe Cullen | 9 | £104,000 | |
| 15 | Nathan Aspinall | 8 | £100,500 | |
| 16 | Mensur Suljović | 7 | £100,000 | |
| 17 | Jonny Clayton | 8 | £97,000 | |
| 18 | Dirk van Duijvenbode | 6 | £96,000 | |
| 19 | Jermaine Wattimena | 5 | £95,000 | |
| 20 | Chris Dobey | 6 | £94,500 | |
| 21 | Simon Whitlock | 6 | £83,000 | |
| 22 | Stephen Bunting | 9 | £78,000 | |
| 23 | Gary Anderson | 4 | £72,500 | |
| 24 | Ricardo Pietreczko | 3 | £65,000 | |
| 25 | Ryan Searle | 5 | £57,500 | |
| 26 | Ian White | 6 | £55,000 | |
| 27 | José de Sousa | 4 | £55,000 | |
| 28 | Krzysztof Ratajski | 7 | £51,500 | |
| 29 | Luke Woodhouse | 2 | £47,500 | |
| 30 | Martin Schindler | 6 | £46,000 | |
| 31 | Mervyn King | 7 | £42,000 | |
| 32 | Jelle Klaasen | 4 | £41,500 | |
| 33 | Kyle Anderson | 3 | £40,000 | |
| 34 | Max Hopp | 4 | £40,000 | |
| 35 | Steve West | 3 | £40,000 | |
| 36 | Vincent van der Voort | 4 | £39,000 | |
| 37 | Damon Heta | 5 | £38,500 | |
| 38 | Devon Petersen | 2 | £37,000 | |
| 39 | Gabriel Clemens | 5 | £33,000 | |
| 40 | Josh Rock | 4 | £32,500 | |
| 41 | Cristo Reyes | 4 | £32,000 | |
| 42 | William O'Connor | 3 | £31,000 | |
| 43 | Jeffrey de Zwaan | 3 | £30,000 | |
| 44 | Ricky Evans | 2 | £30,000 | |
| 45 | Kim Huybrechts | 5 | £29,000 | |
| 46 | Andrew Gilding | 3 | £28,500 | |
| 47 | Dimitri Van den Bergh | 4 | £28,500 | |
| 48 | Adrian Lewis | 3 | £28,000 | |
| 49 | Phil Taylor | 2 | £26,500 | |
| 50 | Raymond van Barneveld | 4 | £26,500 | |
| 51 | Darren Webster | 3 | £26,000 | |
| 52 | James Wilson | 2 | £25,000 | |
| 53 | Ryan Joyce | 1 | £25,000 | |
| 54 | Luke Littler | 2 | £22,500 | |
| 55 | Mike De Decker | 2 | £22,500 | |
| 56 | Brendan Dolan | 3 | £21,500 | |
| 57 | Alan Norris | 3 | £19,000 | |
| 58 | Benito van de Pas | 3 | £19,000 | |
| 59 | Rowby-John Rodriguez | 2 | £17,000 | |
| 60 | John Henderson | 2 | £16,500 | |
| 61 | Jamie Hughes | 2 | £16,000 | |
| 62 | Steve Beaton | 3 | £16,000 | |
| 63 | Cameron Menzies | 1 | £15,000 | |
| 64 | James Richardson | 2 | £15,000 | |
| 65 | Keane Barry | 2 | £13,500 | |
| 66 | Madars Razma | 2 | £13,500 | |
| 67 | Justin Pipe | 2 | £12,000 | |
| 68 | Ted Evetts | 2 | £12,000 | |
| 69 | Steve Lennon | 2 | £11,000 | |
| 70 | Adam Gawlas | 1 | £10,000 | |
| 71 | Florian Hempel | 1 | £10,000 | |
| 72 | Martijn Kleermaker | 1 | £10,000 | |
| 73 | Richard North | 1 | £10,000 | |
| 74 | William Borland | 1 | £10,000 | |
| 75 | Christian Kist | 2 | £9,000 | |
| 76 | Robert Thornton | 2 | £9,000 | |
| 77 | Terry Jenkins | 2 | £9,000 | |
| 78 | Niko Springer | 1 | £7,500 | |
| 79 | Wessel Nijman | 1 | £7,500 | |
| 80 | Adam Hunt | 1 | £6,000 | |
| 81 | Adam Smith-Neale | 1 | £6,000 | |
| 82 | Andy Hamilton | 1 | £6,000 | |
| 83 | Boris Krčmar | 1 | £6,000 | |
| 84 | Callan Rydz | 1 | £6,000 | |
| 85 | Darius Labanauskas | 1 | £6,000 | |
| 86 | Glen Durrant | 1 | £6,000 | |
| 87 | Joe Murnan | 1 | £6,000 | |
| 88 | Karel Sedláček | 1 | £6,000 | |
| 89 | Keegan Brown | 1 | £6,000 | |
| 90 | Lewis Williams | 1 | £6,000 | |
| 91 | Maik Kuivenhoven | 1 | £6,000 | |
| 92 | Martin Lukeman | 1 | £6,000 | |
| 93 | Ryan Meikle | 1 | £6,000 | |
| 94 | Jamie Caven | 1 | £5,000 | |
| 95 | Jan Dekker | 1 | £5,000 | |
| 96 | Paul Nicholson | 1 | £5,000 | |
| 97 | Ronny Huybrechts | 1 | £5,000 | |
| 98 | Magnus Caris | 1 | £4,000 |
The fifteen biggest earners
Michael van Gerwen has £437,000 of the £5,325,000 the European Championship has paid out, which is 8.2% of it, and the other 97 players have shared the rest. 28 of the 98 have been in the draw once.
Frequently asked questions
How much is European Championship prize money?
£600,000 at the 2025 event, split between 32 players. Winning it paid £120,000, which is 20% of the pot, and the smallest payment was £7,500.
Who has won the most European Championship prize money?
Michael van Gerwen, with £437,000 from eleven appearances and three titles. Across the eleven editions on this page the tournament has paid out £5,325,000 in all.
How much has European Championship prize money gone up?
From £300,000 in 2015 to £600,000 in 2025, which is £300,000 more, or 100%. Winning it has gone from £65,000 to £120,000.
Who has won the European Championship?
Michael van Gerwen has won it three times, more than anybody else on this page, and seven different players have taken the title across the eleven editions we hold. Gian van Veen won the 2025 one.
What does losing early at the European Championship pay?
£7,500 at the 2025 event, which is the last 32 band. A player is paid once, for where the run ended, so it is the whole of what going out there is worth rather than a first rung.
Where to next
The rest of the darts money
The 2025 edition is at European Championship prize money 2025, and the other ten we hold are in the table above. Michael van Gerwen has taken £437,000 out of it and £7,192,750 across every event on the site. For the other tournaments, see PDC World Championship prize money, World Matchplay prize money, Grand Slam of Darts prize money, Players Championship Finals prize money, World Grand Prix prize money and UK Open prize money. Darts prize money ranks all 793 players across the £91,450,000 the 268 editions on this site paid out. Where a competition pays again at every round rather than once at the end, see Champions League prize money.