European Darts Trophy prize money
The PDC has paid £905k across the six editions of the European Darts Trophy we hold, from 2015 to 2026. The 2026 pot was £230,000 between 48 players, a European Tour weekend played in Mülheim and later in Göttingen, and Wessel Nijman took £35,000 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 six pots below add up to the £905,000 the field has shared. Michael van Gerwen has taken more out of the European Darts Trophy than anyone else: £97,000 from six appearances. Four of the six were played at Lokhalle, Göttingen.
Every European Darts Trophy pot
The six editions we hold, and what each one paid
| EDITION | CHAMPION | PLAYERS | THE POT | WINNING IT |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Wessel Nijman | 48 | £230,000 | £35,000 |
| 2025 | Nathan Aspinall | 48 | £175,000 | £30,000 |
| 2018 | Michael van Gerwen | 48 | £135,000 | £25,000 |
| 2017 | Michael van Gerwen | 48 | £135,000 | £25,000 |
| 2016 | Michael van Gerwen | 48 | £115,000 | £25,000 |
| 2015 | Michael Smith | 48 | £115,000 | £25,000 |
| 6 editions | four different champions | 288 | £905,000 | £165,000 |
The pot, season by season
season running total
The prize fund has gone from £115,000 in 2015 to £230,000 in 2026, which is £115,000 more and 100% up. Winning it has moved with it, from £25,000 to £35,000, and the champion's share of the pot has gone from 22% to 15%. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches £905,000.
What each finishing place pays
The seven bands at the 2026 European Darts Trophy
Nothing here stacks. A player who lost in the semi-finals collected £10,000 and not that plus every band beneath it, which is why the seven bands come to £230,000 rather than to the £78,500 a ladder reading would put on the champion alone. The 2026 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 Darts Trophy draws we hold, across the six editions
| # | PLAYER | PLAYED | TITLES | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Michael van Gerwen | 6 | 3 | £97,000 |
| 2 | Michael Smith | 4 | 1 | £39,000 |
| 3 | Wessel Nijman | 2 | 1 | £39,000 |
| 4 | Nathan Aspinall | 2 | 1 | £32,000 |
| 5 | Gerwyn Price | 6 | £29,500 | |
| 6 | James Wade | 5 | £22,000 | |
| 7 | Rob Cross | 4 | £21,500 | |
| 8 | Dave Chisnall | 6 | £21,000 | |
| 9 | Mensur Suljović | 3 | £16,500 | |
| 10 | Peter Wright | 5 | £16,000 | |
| 11 | Ryan Joyce | 3 | £16,000 | |
| 12 | Martin Schindler | 6 | £15,000 | |
| 13 | Jermaine Wattimena | 5 | £13,500 | |
| 14 | Joe Cullen | 5 | £12,750 | |
| 15 | Damon Heta | 2 | £12,500 | |
| 16 | Stephen Bunting | 5 | £12,500 | |
| 17 | Daryl Gurney | 5 | £12,250 | |
| 18 | Simon Whitlock | 4 | £11,500 | |
| 19 | Ian White | 4 | £11,000 | |
| 20 | Ross Smith | 2 | £11,000 | |
| 21 | Chris Dobey | 4 | £10,500 | |
| 22 | Jelle Klaasen | 3 | £10,500 | |
| 23 | Josh Rock | 2 | £10,500 | |
| 24 | Niko Springer | 2 | £10,500 | |
| 25 | Ricky Evans | 5 | £10,500 | |
| 26 | Dirk van Duijvenbode | 3 | £10,250 | |
| 27 | Niels Zonneveld | 1 | £10,000 | |
| 28 | Gian van Veen | 2 | £9,000 | |
| 29 | Kim Huybrechts | 3 | £9,000 | |
| 30 | Danny Noppert | 3 | £8,500 | |
| 31 | Gary Anderson | 1 | £8,500 | |
| 32 | Jonny Clayton | 3 | £8,500 | |
| 33 | Krzysztof Ratajski | 4 | £8,500 | |
| 34 | Mervyn King | 4 | £8,500 | |
| 35 | Cameron Menzies | 2 | £8,000 | |
| 36 | Luke Humphries | 2 | £8,000 | |
| 37 | Richard Veenstra | 1 | £8,000 | |
| 38 | Vincent van der Voort | 4 | £8,000 | |
| 39 | Mike De Decker | 2 | £7,500 | |
| 40 | Ryan Searle | 2 | £7,500 | |
| 41 | Luke Woodhouse | 3 | £7,000 | |
| 42 | Kevin Doets | 2 | £6,250 | |
| 43 | Richard North | 1 | £6,000 | |
| 44 | Alan Norris | 3 | £5,500 | |
| 45 | Andrew Gilding | 3 | £5,500 | |
| 46 | Benito van de Pas | 3 | £5,500 | |
| 47 | Keegan Brown | 3 | £5,500 | |
| 48 | Max Hopp | 3 | £5,500 | |
| 49 | Steve West | 4 | £5,500 | |
| 50 | T. Jenkins | 2 | £5,500 | |
| 51 | Cristo Reyes | 3 | £5,000 | |
| 52 | Dimitri Van den Bergh | 3 | £5,000 | |
| 53 | Jeffrey de Zwaan | 3 | £5,000 | |
| 54 | K. Huybrechts | 1 | £5,000 | |
| 55 | Robert Thornton | 3 | £5,000 | |
| 56 | Paul Krohne | 2 | £4,750 | |
| 57 | Jan Dekker | 2 | £4,500 | |
| 58 | Andy Boulton | 1 | £4,000 | |
| 59 | Darren Webster | 2 | £4,000 | |
| 60 | Cam Crabtree | 1 | £3,500 | |
| 61 | Darius Labanauskas | 1 | £3,500 | |
| 62 | James Wilson | 2 | £3,500 | |
| 63 | Jamie Caven | 2 | £3,500 | |
| 64 | Justin Pipe | 2 | £3,500 | |
| 65 | Karel Sedláček | 1 | £3,500 | |
| 66 | Lukas Wenig | 1 | £3,500 | |
| 67 | M. Smith | 1 | £3,500 | |
| 68 | Ritchie Edhouse | 2 | £3,500 | |
| 69 | Zoran Lerchbacher | 2 | £3,500 | |
| 70 | Marko Kantele | 2 | £3,250 | |
| 71 | John Henderson | 1 | £3,000 | |
| 72 | Kevin Painter | 2 | £3,000 | |
| 73 | Matthew Edgar | 1 | £3,000 | |
| 74 | Steve Beaton | 1 | £3,000 | |
| 75 | Adam Hunt | 2 | £2,750 | |
| 76 | Boris Krčmar | 1 | £2,500 | |
| 77 | Brendan Dolan | 2 | £2,500 | |
| 78 | Christian Kist | 2 | £2,500 | |
| 79 | Ricardo Pietreczko | 1 | £2,500 | |
| 80 | Raymond van Barneveld | 2 | £2,250 | |
| 81 | A. Jenkins | 1 | £2,000 | |
| 82 | Adrian Lewis | 1 | £2,000 | |
| 83 | Dragutin Horvat | 1 | £2,000 | |
| 84 | Florian Hempel | 1 | £2,000 | |
| 85 | Florian Preis | 1 | £2,000 | |
| 86 | Gabriel Clemens | 1 | £2,000 | |
| 87 | James Richardson | 1 | £2,000 | |
| 88 | Jason Lovett | 1 | £2,000 | |
| 89 | Jonas Masalin | 1 | £2,000 | |
| 90 | Jyhan Artut | 2 | £2,000 | |
| 91 | Kai Gotthardt | 1 | £2,000 | |
| 92 | Keane Barry | 1 | £2,000 | |
| 93 | Mario Vandenbogaerde | 1 | £2,000 | |
| 94 | Mickey Mansell | 1 | £2,000 | |
| 95 | René Eidams | 1 | £2,000 | |
| 96 | Rowby-John Rodriguez | 1 | £2,000 | |
| 97 | Sebastian Bialecki | 1 | £2,000 | |
| 98 | Shane McGuirk | 1 | £2,000 | |
| 99 | Simon Stevenson | 2 | £2,000 | |
| 100 | Toni Alcinas | 1 | £2,000 | |
| 101 | William O'Connor | 1 | £2,000 | |
| 102 | Wojciech Brulinski | 1 | £2,000 | |
| 103 | Andy Jenkins | 1 | £1,500 | |
| 104 | Andy Smith | 1 | £1,500 | |
| 105 | Darren Johnson | 1 | £1,500 | |
| 106 | Devon Petersen | 1 | £1,500 | |
| 107 | Josh Payne | 1 | £1,500 | |
| 108 | Kyle Anderson | 1 | £1,500 | |
| 109 | Vincent Kamphuis | 1 | £1,500 | |
| 110 | Wes Newton | 1 | £1,500 | |
| 111 | Alan Soutar | 1 | £1,250 | |
| 112 | Callan Rydz | 1 | £1,250 | |
| 113 | Connor Scutt | 1 | £1,250 | |
| 114 | Daniel Klose | 1 | £1,250 | |
| 115 | Dominik Gruellich | 1 | £1,250 | |
| 116 | Laurin Welk | 1 | £1,250 | |
| 117 | Martin Lukeman | 1 | £1,250 | |
| 118 | Michael Unterbuchner | 1 | £1,250 | |
| 119 | Chris Quantock | 1 | £1,000 | |
| 120 | Christian Bunse | 1 | £1,000 | |
| 121 | Christian Soethe | 1 | £1,000 | |
| 122 | Connie Finnan | 1 | £1,000 | |
| 123 | David Pallett | 1 | £1,000 | |
| 124 | George Killington | 1 | £1,000 | |
| 125 | James Hubbard | 1 | £1,000 | |
| 126 | Jamie Bain | 1 | £1,000 | |
| 127 | Jamie Lewis | 1 | £1,000 | |
| 128 | János Végső | 1 | £1,000 | |
| 129 | Jeffrey de Graaf | 1 | £1,000 | |
| 130 | Joe Murnan | 1 | £1,000 | |
| 131 | John Bowles | 1 | £1,000 | |
| 132 | Jonathan Worsley | 1 | £1,000 | |
| 133 | Justin Webers | 1 | £1,000 | |
| 134 | Kevin Münch | 1 | £1,000 | |
| 135 | Madars Razma | 1 | £1,000 | |
| 136 | Maik Langendorf | 1 | £1,000 | |
| 137 | Manfred Bilderl | 1 | £1,000 | |
| 138 | Mark Barilli | 1 | £1,000 | |
| 139 | Mark Dudbridge | 1 | £1,000 | |
| 140 | Mark Frost | 1 | £1,000 | |
| 141 | Mark Wilson | 1 | £1,000 | |
| 142 | Matthew Dennant | 1 | £1,000 | |
| 143 | Mick Todd | 1 | £1,000 | |
| 144 | Nico Blum | 1 | £1,000 | |
| 145 | Robbie Green | 1 | £1,000 | |
| 146 | Robert Allenstein | 1 | £1,000 | |
| 147 | Robert Marijanović | 1 | £1,000 | |
| 148 | Ronny Huybrechts | 1 | £1,000 | |
| 149 | Steffen Siepmann | 1 | £1,000 | |
| 150 | Yordi Meeuwisse | 1 | £1,000 |
The fifteen biggest earners
Michael van Gerwen has £97,000 of the £905,000 the European Darts Trophy has paid out, which is 10.7% of it, and the other 149 players have shared the rest. 84 of the 150 have been in the draw once.
Frequently asked questions
How much is European Darts Trophy prize money?
£230,000 at the 2026 event, split between 48 players. Winning it paid £35,000, which is 15% of the pot, and the smallest payment was £2,000.
Who has won the most European Darts Trophy prize money?
Michael van Gerwen, with £97,000 from six appearances and three titles. Across the six editions on this page the tournament has paid out £905,000 in all.
How much has European Darts Trophy prize money gone up?
From £115,000 in 2015 to £230,000 in 2026, which is £115,000 more, or 100%. Winning it has gone from £25,000 to £35,000.
Who has won the European Darts Trophy?
Michael van Gerwen has won it three times, more than anybody else on this page, and four different players have taken the title across the six editions we hold. Wessel Nijman won the 2026 one.
What does losing early at the European Darts Trophy pay?
£2,000 at the 2026 event, which is the last 48 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 2026 edition is at European Darts Trophy prize money 2026, and the other five we hold are in the table above. Michael van Gerwen has taken £97,000 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 European Championship 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.