The race to qualify for the 2025 BOYLE Sports World Grand Prix concludes this weekend, as Basel plays host to the Swiss Darts Trophy.
The year’s penultimate European Tour event will be held at the St. Jakobshalle from September 26-28, as a 48-player field compete for the £30,000 top prize on Swiss soil.
This also represents the final opportunity for players to secure their qualification for the BOYLE Sports World Grand Prix, which will take place from October 6-12 at Leicester’s Mattioli Arena.
The top 16 players from the PDC Werner Rankings Ladder will qualify for next month’s double-start event in Leicester, and they will be joined by 16 qualifiers from the 12-month ProTour rankings.
World number one Luke Humphries will headline a star-studded field, as he bids to repeat his 2023 success in the East Midlands.
Elsewhere, World Champion Luke Littler will feature alongside six-time World Grand Prix champion Michael van Gerwen, world number four Stephen Bunting and two-time winner James Wade.
Former champions Jonny Clayton and Gerwyn Price will also star in Leicester, with 2016 runner-up Gary Anderson set to be joined by his World Cup partner Peter Wright - a finalist in 2018.
German number one Martin Schindler heads up the 16 qualifiers from the one-year ProTour rankings, in a list which also includes reigning World Grand Prix champion Mike De Decker.
World Youth Champion Gian van Veen will be one of several Dutch stars in action, with Dirk van Duijvenbode, Jermaine Wattimena and debutant Wessel Nijman all assured of qualification.
2017 champion Daryl Gurney – who celebrated World Cup glory earlier this year – is also poised to compete alongside 2022 runner-up Nathan Aspinall and German newcomer Niko Springer.
Springer catapulted himself into the qualification places with victory at last weekend’s Hungarian Darts Trophy, which leaves Krzysztof Ratajski occupying the final provisional place in the 32-player field.
William O’Connor and two-time runner-up Raymond van Barneveld are currently £2,500 adrift of Ratajski, with the likes of Niels Zonneveld and Ricardo Pietreczko still harbouring slender hopes of qualification.
The table below displays the latest standings in the race to the BOYLE Sports World Grand Prix, which will take place at Leicester’s Mattioli Arena from October 6-12, televised on Sky Sports and through the PDC's global broadcast partners.
The tournament will be broadcast live on Sky Sports in the UK, through the PDC's worldwide broadcast partners including DAZN and Viaplay, and on PDCTV (excluding UK, Germany, Austria & Switzerland based subscribers).