Over 800 players will compete in the 2025 PDC Qualifying Schools next week, with 29 Tour Cards on offer for players to secure a spot on the PDC circuit.
Following a sensational Paddy Power World Darts Championship, the focus now switches to Milton Keynes' Marshall Arena and Wunderland in Kalkar, as players from around the globe set their sights on a coveted two-year Tour Card.
Qualifying School will again feature concurrent events being staged in the UK and Germany, and is split into First Stage and Final Stage across seven days.
A total of 29 PDC Tour Cards will be on offer in Final Stage from January 9-12, with each of the daily winners in the UK and Europe receiving an automatic Tour Card.
The remaining 21 Tour Cards will be allocated to players from the UK and European Q School Final Stage Orders of Merit, and split on a pro-rata basis of total participants in each region.
First Stage will be held across three days, with the last eight players from each day qualifying automatically for Final Stage, while the remaining places in Final Stage - featuring 128 players at each venue – are decided from an Order of Merit.
There will be 474 players in First Stage action at European Qualifying School, with 354 players making the trip to the Marshall Arena for the opening three days of UK Qualifying School.
Players who lost their Tour Card at the end of 2024 will be exempt through to Final Stage in either the UK or European Qualifying School.
They will be joined at Final Stage by players in the top 16 from the respective 2024 Winmau Challenge Tour and Development Tour Orders of Merit who do not already have Tour Cards for 2025.
Three-time World Champion John Part will headline the high-profile names in action during First Stage of UK Qualifying School, alongside South African star Devon Petersen.
Former Grand Slam champion Scott Waites will also be in action, as 2022 Women’s World Matchplay winner Fallon Sherrock makes her return to home soil in Milton Keynes.
Germany's former World Youth Champion Max Hopp - a winner of two PDC ranking titles - will headline First Stage at European Qualifying School, as he targets a return to the professional circuit.
Women’s Series star Noa-Lynn van Leuven will also feature in Kalkar, as will Belgium’s Brian Raman, New Zealand’s Ben Robb and Poland’s Krzysztof Kciuk.
Australian icon Simon Whitlock will headline the list of Final Stage entries in UK Qualifying School, where he will be joined by fellow veteran star Mervyn King and two-time Women's World Matchplay winner Beau Greaves.
Dutch star Jeffrey de Zwaan and Austria's World Cup runner-up Rowby-John Rodriguez will compete in Final Stage at European Qualifying School, with Czech World Cup duo Karel Sedlacek and Adam Gawlas also eyeing an instant ProTour return.
Matches in the First Stage will be played over the best of nine legs, while the Final Stage encounters will be contested over the best of 11 legs.
Click here to see the First Stage entries for UK Qualifying School and European Qualifying School.
2025 PDC Qualifying Schools
UK Final Stage Exempt Players
Andy Boulton
Keegan Brown
Henry Coates
Lee Cocks
Tavis Dudeney
Lee Evans
Callum Goffin
Beau Greaves
Graham Hall
John Henderson
Jamie Hughes
Mervyn King
Aden Kirk
Jim Long
Charlie Manby
Arron Monk
Josh Payne
Christian Perez
Daniel Perry
Darryl Pilgrim
Adam Smith-Neale
Graham Usher
Adam Warner
Brandon Weening
Simon Whitlock
EU Final Stage Exempt Players
Stefan Bellmont
Jeffrey De Zwaan
Adam Gawlas
Dominik Gruellich
Andreas Harrysson
Dragutin Horvat
Danny Jansen
Daniel Klose
Robbie Knops
Boris Krcmar
Maik Kuivenhoven
Darius Labanauskas
Jacques Labre
Alexander Merkx
Kayden Milne
Geert Nentjes
Rowby-John Rodriguez
Owen Roelofs
Karel Sedlacek
Jeffrey Sparidaans
Jurjen van der Velde
Jimmy van Schie
Danny van Trijp
Marvin van Velzen