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The European Championship is a PDC Major tournament and was first played in 2008.
It is played on the Continent as the PDC wants to give European players who are not in the Top 16 of the Order of Merit and don´t have the chance to take part in the British Pro Tour circuit a chance to take part in a Major tournament.
32 players take part in the tournament.

How to qualify is not easy to understand and the way changed till now every year. In 2010 it will be like this: As in most Major tournaments the Top 16 of the Order will take part. Qualified as well are the Top eight of the European Order of Merit. The last eight players come over the Players Championship Order of Merit. In 2014 the top 16 of the PDC Order of Merit qualify alongside with the top 8 UK or non European players of the Pro Tour Order of Merit plus seven non Uk players from thr Pro Tour Order of Merit plus one Scandinavian qualifier. In 2016 the European Tour Order of Merit was introduced for which all European Tour events count. From then the participants in the European Championship are the top 32 of the European Tour Order of Merit.
All Pro Tour events organised by the PDC Europe count to the European Order of Merit.

The tournament was first played over three days - on Friday the first round is played with twice eight matches in two session, on Saturday the eight second round matches take place in two sessions and on Sunday quarterfinals, semifinals and the final will take place. By now the tournament is played over four days - startind on Thrusday evening with the first round. On Friday afternoon the first round is pplayed to the end, on Friday night the second round begins. Saturday night the second round concludes. On Saturday the tournament is played in two sessions to the end.
The tournament is played in Legs - first round best of 11, second round and quarterfinals best of 19, semifinals and final best of 21.

The first year the tournament was played in Frankfurt in Germany, the second year in Hoofdorp in Holland, in the third year it returns to Germany to Dinslaken. 2011 it is played in Düsseldorf. In 2013 and 2014 it moved to Mühlheim. 2015 it for the first time took place in Hasselt in Belgium. 2018 the tournament moves to Dortmund, 2019 to Goettingen. 2020 it took place despite the Corona pandemic in Oberhausen, Germany, and in 2021 it will playey in Salzburg, Austria, after a shortened European Tour season with only two events.
The tournament will be televised by ITV 4 and in Germany by Sport1.

Winner

Price Money

	Winner	Runner-Up	Semifinals	Quarterfinals	Last 16	Last 32
2012	50 000 Pound	20 000 Pound	10 000 Pound	7500 Pound	5000 Pound	2500 Pound
2014	55 000 Pound	25 000 Pound	12 500 Pound	7500 Pound	5000 Pound	3000 Pound
2015	65 000 Pound	35 000 Pound	17 000 Pound	11 500 Pound	7000 Pound	4000 Pound
2016/17/18	100 000 Pound	40 000 Pound	20 000 Pound	15 000 Pound	10 000 Pound	5000 Pound
2019/20/21	120 000 Pound	60 000 Pound	32 000 Pound	20 000 Pound	10 000 Pound	6000 Pound

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