Slovak Darts Open prize money
The PDC paid £230k to the 48 players at the 2026 Slovak Darts Open, the European Tour weekend at Incheba in Bratislava. Winning it was worth £35,000, and the smallest payment at the event was £2,000.
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 £10,000 and not that plus every band beneath it. Read as single payments the seven bands come to £230,000, which is the pot. Read as a ladder they do not: the champion alone would take £78,500, against the £35,000 Wessel Nijman 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 | £35,000 | £35,000 |
| Runner-up | 1 | £15,000 | £15,000 |
| Semi-finalists | 2 | £10,000 | £20,000 |
| Quarter-finalists | 4 | £8,000 | £32,000 |
| Last 16 | 8 | £5,000 | £40,000 |
| Last 32 | 16 | £3,500 | £56,000 |
| Last 48 | 16 | £2,000 | £32,000 |
| The whole pot | 48 | — | £230,000 |
What each band took between them
How far each band got
Winning it paid 17.5 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 £3,500, whether they lost by a leg or by a mile. It is also why the largest single line in the table is not the champion. The sixteen players in the last 32 band took £56,000 between them, more than the £35,000 the title paid.
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 £230,000, which is what the PDC put up. Add the bands the other way and the champion alone takes £78,500.
Who collected it
Every one of the 48 players, and what the finish was worth
| PLAYER | BAND | PAID |
|---|---|---|
| Wessel Nijman | Winner | £35,000 |
| Rob Cross | Runner-up | £15,000 |
| Ross Smith | Semi-finalists | £10,000 |
| Tom Sykes | Semi-finalists | £10,000 |
| Andrew Gilding | Quarter-finalists | £8,000 |
| Jermaine Wattimena | Quarter-finalists | £8,000 |
| Mike De Decker | Quarter-finalists | £8,000 |
| Nathan Aspinall | Quarter-finalists | £8,000 |
| Cameron Menzies | Last 16 | £5,000 |
| Chris Dobey | Last 16 | £5,000 |
| Danny Noppert | Last 16 | £5,000 |
| Kevin Doets | Last 16 | £5,000 |
| Michael van Gerwen | Last 16 | £5,000 |
| Ryan Joyce | Last 16 | £5,000 |
| Ryan Searle | Last 16 | £5,000 |
| Stephen Bunting | Last 16 | £5,000 |
| Benjamin Pratnemer | Last 32 | £3,500 |
| Damon Heta | Last 32 | £3,500 |
| Dave Chisnall | Last 32 | £3,500 |
| Gerwyn Price | Last 32 | £3,500 |
| Gian van Veen | Last 32 | £3,500 |
| Jim Long | Last 32 | £3,500 |
| Joe Cullen | Last 32 | £3,500 |
| Jonny Clayton | Last 32 | £3,500 |
| Kim Huybrechts | Last 32 | £3,500 |
| Krzysztof Ratajski | Last 32 | £3,500 |
| Luke Woodhouse | Last 32 | £3,500 |
| Madars Razma | Last 32 | £3,500 |
| Martin Schindler | Last 32 | £3,500 |
| Niels Zonneveld | Last 32 | £3,500 |
| Tyler Thorpe | Last 32 | £3,500 |
| William O'Connor | Last 32 | £3,500 |
| Adrián Dudek | Last 48 | £2,000 |
| Cristo Reyes | Last 48 | £2,000 |
| Daryl Gurney | Last 48 | £2,000 |
| Dirk van Duijvenbode | Last 48 | £2,000 |
| Gabriel Váraljay | Last 48 | £2,000 |
| Ján Sliacky | Last 48 | £2,000 |
| Jeffrey de Graaf | Last 48 | £2,000 |
| Johan Engström | Last 48 | £2,000 |
| Juraj Holub | Last 48 | £2,000 |
| Justin Hood | Last 48 | £2,000 |
| Karel Sedláček | Last 48 | £2,000 |
| Keane Barry | Last 48 | £2,000 |
| Mervyn King | Last 48 | £2,000 |
| Niko Springer | Last 48 | £2,000 |
| Owen Bates | Last 48 | £2,000 |
| Peter Kelemen | Last 48 | £2,000 |
Wessel Nijman was paid £35,000 for winning it rather than that on top of every band beneath, which is what makes the seven bands add up to £230,000, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| UK Open 2026 | Luke Littler | 160 | £750,000 |
| PDC World Masters 2026 | Luke Littler | 88 | £500,000 |
| Austrian Darts Open 2026 | Josh Rock | 48 | £230,000 |
| Baltic Sea Darts Open 2026 | Luke Woodhouse | 48 | £230,000 |
| Belgian Darts Open 2026 | Luke Humphries | 48 | £230,000 |
| Czech Darts Open 2026 | Luke Littler | 48 | £230,000 |
| European Darts Grand Prix 2026 | Gerwyn Price | 48 | £230,000 |
| European Darts Open 2026 | Krzysztof Ratajski | 48 | £230,000 |
| European Darts Trophy 2026 | Wessel Nijman | 48 | £230,000 |
| German Darts Grand Prix 2026 | Nathan Aspinall | 48 | £230,000 |
| Hungarian Darts Trophy 2026 | Ross Smith | 48 | £230,000 |
| International Darts Open 2026 | Ross Smith | 48 | £230,000 |
| Poland Darts Open 2026 | Luke Littler | 48 | £230,000 |
| Australian Darts Masters 2026 | James Wade | 16 | £100,000 |
| Bahrain Darts Masters 2026 | Michael van Gerwen | 16 | £100,000 |
| New Zealand Darts Masters 2026 | Jonny Clayton | 16 | £100,000 |
| Nordic Darts Masters 2026 | Michael van Gerwen | 16 | £100,000 |
| Saudi Arabia Darts Masters 2026 | Luke Littler | 16 | £100,000 |
| US Darts Masters 2026 | Luke Humphries | 16 | £100,000 |
| Women's World Matchplay 2026 | Beau Greaves | 8 | £40,000 |
The 20 events on this site played closest in time to this one, oldest first. Together with the 2026 Slovak Darts Open they paid out £4,650,000.
Frequently asked questions
How much did the 2026 Slovak Darts Open winner get?
£35,000, and Wessel Nijman 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 Slovak Darts Open prize money in 2026?
£230,000 across the 48 players. It is split into seven bands by finishing place, from £35,000 down to £2,000, and the bands add up to the pot exactly.
What is the smallest payment at the Slovak Darts Open?
£2,000. That is the last 48 band, which covers sixteen players who lost the first match. No player at the 2026 event collected less.
Does Slovak 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 £10,000 and not that plus every band beneath it. Add the seven bands up as single payments and they come to £230,000, which is the pot; add them as a ladder and the champion alone would take £78,500.
Which band pays out the most at the Slovak Darts Open?
Last 32, at £56,000. That is sixteen players on £3,500 each, and it is more than the champion is paid for winning the whole thing.
Where to next
The rest of the darts money
Wessel Nijman took £35,000 here and £337,250 in all. Slovak Darts Open prize money puts this edition beside the other 0 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, European Darts Open 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, 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.