European Darts Open prize money
The PDC paid £115k to the 48 players at the 2015 European Darts Open, the European Tour weekend in the Rhineland, at Düsseldorf and then Leverkusen. Winning it was worth £25,000, and the smallest payment at the event was £1,000.
A player is paid once, for where the run ended. The band is the whole of it rather than a step on the way to it, so a player who lost in the semi-finals collected £5,000 and not that plus every band beneath it. Read as single payments the seven bands come to £115,000, which is the pot. Read as a ladder they do not: the champion alone would take £48,000, against the £25,000 Robert Thornton was actually paid for the title.
What each finishing place paid
The seven bands the 48 players are divided into
| FINISHING PLACE | PLAYERS | EACH | THE BAND |
|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | 1 | £25,000 | £25,000 |
| Runner-up | 1 | £10,000 | £10,000 |
| Semi-finalists | 2 | £5,000 | £10,000 |
| Quarter-finalists | 4 | £3,500 | £14,000 |
| Last 16 | 8 | £2,000 | £16,000 |
| Last 32 | 16 | £1,500 | £24,000 |
| Last 48 | 16 | £1,000 | £16,000 |
| The whole pot | 48 | — | £115,000 |
What each band took between them
How far each band got
Winning it paid 25 times what the last 48 band paid. Inside a band nothing separates one player from another: the sixteen players who lost in the round of 32 were all paid £1,500, whether they lost by a leg or by a mile.
The money does not stack
What the champion took, and what a ladder would have paid
This is the one thing about darts money that is worth getting right, because every other prize fund on this site works the other way. A club in the Champions League is paid for reaching the last sixteen and paid again for reaching the last eight, and the run is worth the sum of them. In darts there is no sum: a player is paid for where the run ended and for nothing before it. Multiply each band by the players in it and the total is £115,000, which is what the PDC put up. Add the bands the other way and the champion alone takes £48,000.
Who collected it
Every one of the 48 players, and what the finish was worth
| PLAYER | BAND | PAID |
|---|---|---|
| Robert Thornton | Winner | £25,000 |
| Kim Huybrechts | Runner-up | £10,000 |
| James Wade | Semi-finalists | £5,000 |
| Michael van Gerwen | Semi-finalists | £5,000 |
| Alan Norris | Quarter-finalists | £3,500 |
| Brendan Dolan | Quarter-finalists | £3,500 |
| Jelle Klaasen | Quarter-finalists | £3,500 |
| Vincent van der Voort | Quarter-finalists | £3,500 |
| Devon Petersen | Last 16 | £2,000 |
| Johnny Haines | Last 16 | £2,000 |
| Justin Pipe | Last 16 | £2,000 |
| M. Smith | Last 16 | £2,000 |
| Mark Webster | Last 16 | £2,000 |
| Mervyn King | Last 16 | £2,000 |
| Simon Whitlock | Last 16 | £2,000 |
| Terry Jenkins | Last 16 | £2,000 |
| Benito van de Pas | Last 32 | £1,500 |
| Dave Chisnall | Last 32 | £1,500 |
| Dimitri Van den Bergh | Last 32 | £1,500 |
| Dirk van Duijvenbode | Last 32 | £1,500 |
| Ian White | Last 32 | £1,500 |
| Jamie Lewis | Last 32 | £1,500 |
| Joe Cullen | Last 32 | £1,500 |
| John Henderson | Last 32 | £1,500 |
| Jyhan Artut | Last 32 | £1,500 |
| Kevin McDine | Last 32 | £1,500 |
| Mark Walsh | Last 32 | £1,500 |
| Mensur Suljović | Last 32 | £1,500 |
| Peter Wright | Last 32 | £1,500 |
| Rowby-John Rodriguez | Last 32 | £1,500 |
| Steve Beaton | Last 32 | £1,500 |
| Wes Newton | Last 32 | £1,500 |
| Andrew Gilding | Last 48 | £1,000 |
| Andy Smith | Last 48 | £1,000 |
| Barrie Bates | Last 48 | £1,000 |
| Christian Kist | Last 48 | £1,000 |
| Christian Soethe | Last 48 | £1,000 |
| Daryl Gurney | Last 48 | £1,000 |
| Eddie Dootson | Last 48 | £1,000 |
| Gerwyn Price | Last 48 | £1,000 |
| Leo Hendriks | Last 48 | £1,000 |
| Maik Langendorf | Last 48 | £1,000 |
| Michael Rosenauer | Last 48 | £1,000 |
| Mike De Decker | Last 48 | £1,000 |
| Nathan Aspinall | Last 48 | £1,000 |
| Stephen Bunting | Last 48 | £1,000 |
| Stuart Kellett | Last 48 | £1,000 |
| Tomas Seyler | Last 48 | £1,000 |
Robert Thornton was paid £25,000 for winning it rather than that on top of every band beneath, which is what makes the seven bands add up to £115,000, the whole of what the PDC put up.
Around this on the darts calendar
What else was played either side of it
| EVENT | CHAMPION | PLAYERS | THE POT |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grand Slam of Darts 2015 | Michael van Gerwen | 32 | £400,000 |
| World Grand Prix 2015 | Robert Thornton | 32 | £400,000 |
| European Championship 2015 | Michael van Gerwen | 32 | £300,000 |
| Players Championship Finals 2015 | Michael van Gerwen | 32 | £300,000 |
| UK Open 2015 | Michael van Gerwen | 147 | £300,000 |
| Masters 2015 | Michael van Gerwen | 16 | £200,000 |
| World Series of Darts Finals 2015 | Michael van Gerwen | 24 | £155,000 |
| Dutch Darts Masters (European Tour) 2015 | Michael van Gerwen | 48 | £115,000 |
| European Darts Grand Prix 2015 | Kim Huybrechts | 48 | £115,000 |
| European Darts Matchplay 2015 | Michael van Gerwen | 48 | £115,000 |
| European Darts Trophy 2015 | Michael Smith | 48 | £115,000 |
| German Darts Championship 2015 | Michael van Gerwen | 48 | £115,000 |
| German Darts Masters (European Tour) 2015 | Michael van Gerwen | 48 | £115,000 |
| Gibraltar Darts Trophy 2015 | Michael van Gerwen | 48 | £115,000 |
| International Darts Open 2015 | Michael Smith | 48 | £115,000 |
| PDC World Championship 2016 | Gary Anderson | 72 | £1,500,000£1.5m |
| World Matchplay 2016 | Michael van Gerwen | 32 | £450,000 |
| European Championship 2016 | Michael van Gerwen | 32 | £400,000 |
| Grand Slam of Darts 2016 | Michael van Gerwen | 32 | £400,000 |
| Players Championship Finals 2016 | Michael van Gerwen | 64 | £400,000 |
The 20 events on this site played closest in time to this one, oldest first. Together with the 2015 European Darts Open they paid out £6,240,000.
Frequently asked questions
How much did the 2015 European Darts Open winner get?
£25,000, and Robert Thornton is who collected it. It is the whole of what the champion was paid: there is no separate payment for each round on the way to it.
What was the European Darts Open prize money in 2015?
£115,000 across the 48 players. It is split into seven bands by finishing place, from £25,000 down to £1,000, and the bands add up to the pot exactly.
What is the smallest payment at the European Darts Open?
£1,000. That is the last 48 band, which covers sixteen players who lost the first match. No player at the 2015 event collected less.
Does European Darts Open prize money add up round by round?
No. A player is paid once, for where the run ended, and the band is the whole of it. A player who lost in the semi-finals collected £5,000 and not that plus every band beneath it. Add the seven bands up as single payments and they come to £115,000, which is the pot; add them as a ladder and the champion alone would take £48,000.
Which band pays out the most at the European Darts Open?
Winner, at £25,000. Nobody else at the event is paid more in one payment.
Where to next
The rest of the darts money
Robert Thornton took £25,000 here and £398,000 in all. European Darts Open prize money puts this edition beside the other 7 we hold. 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, European Championship prize money, UK Open prize money, World Series of Darts Finals prize money, Masters prize money, International Darts Open prize money, Austrian Darts Open prize money, European Darts Grand Prix prize money, German Darts Championship prize money, Premier League Darts prize money, German Darts Grand Prix prize money, Czech Darts Open prize money, PDC World Masters prize money, Gibraltar Darts Trophy prize money, European Darts Trophy prize money, Belgian Darts Open prize money, Baltic Sea Darts Open prize money, Hungarian Darts Trophy prize money, Dutch Darts Masters (European Tour) prize money, European Darts Matchplay prize money, Dutch Darts Championship prize money, US Darts Masters prize money, New Zealand Darts Masters prize money, Nordic Darts Masters prize money, German Darts Open prize money, German Darts Masters (European Tour) prize money, Flanders Darts Trophy prize money, Swiss Darts Trophy prize money, Bahrain Darts Masters prize money, Danish Darts Open prize money, Australian Darts Masters prize money, Poland Darts Open prize money, Slovak Darts Open prize money, Dutch Darts Masters prize money, Poland Darts Masters prize money, German Darts Masters prize money, Melbourne Darts Masters prize money, Austrian Darts Championship prize money, Belgian Darts Championship prize money, Auckland Darts Masters prize money, Brisbane Darts Masters prize money, New South Wales Darts Masters prize money, Shanghai Darts Masters prize money, Saudi Arabia Darts Masters prize money, Women's World Matchplay prize money, Perth Darts Masters prize money, Queensland Darts Masters prize money and Dubai Duty Free Darts Masters prize money. Darts prize money ranks all 793 players across the £91,450,000 the 268 events paid out. Where a competition pays again at every round rather than once at the end, see Champions League prize money, and for the shape darts shares with football at national level, World Cup prize money.