The Grand Slam of Darts is right around the corner, taking place in November.

It’s one of the biggest darts events of the year, and is also one of the hardest events to qualify for.

The tournament’s field consists of 32 players, qualifying through various routes.

Who has qualified so far for the 2025 Grand Slam of Darts?

There are several different ways a player can qualify for the event.

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TV finalists

Up to 16 players can qualify if they were a runner-up or finalist at any TV ranked major in the last 12 months.

Player Route
Luke Littler Several ways
Luke Humphries Several ways
Michael van Gerwen 2025 World Series of Darts Winner & 2025 PDC WC Runner-up
Josh Rock 2025 World Cup of Darts Winner
Daryl Gurney 2025 World Cup of Darts Winner
Martin Lukeman 2024 Grand Slam of Darts Runner-up
James Wade 2025 UK Open Runner-up & 2025 World Matchplay Runner-up
Gerwyn Price 2025 World Cup of Darts Runner-up
Jonny Clayton 2025 World Cup of Darts Runner-up & 2025 World Masters Runner-up

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Additional qualifiers

A maximum of eight players can qualify through these spots.

Player Route
Gian van Veen 2024 PDC World Youth Championship Winner 
Jurjen van der Velde 2024 PDC World Youth Championship Runner-up
Stefan Bellmont 2025 PDC Challenge Tour OoM Winner
Cam Crabtree 2025 PDC Development Tour OoM Winner
Lisa Ashton 2025 Women’s World Matchplay Winner
Beau Greaves 2025 PDC Women’s Series OoM Winner
Alexis Toylo (Replacing Lourence Ilagan) 2025 PDC Asian Championship Winner
Alex Spellman 2025 CDC Continental Cup Winner

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European Tour winners

After the TV finalist/additional qualifiers are determined, qualifiers will come from players who won European Tour events in 2025.

How ever many qualifiers through this route it takes to get the total to 24 players or less after the first three routes will be the cut off.

The criteria for the ET winners selected is first number of ET event titles in 2025, and then position on the Main OoM on the cut-off date.

*The following five players are the only qualifiers through this route since the rest of the ET winners already qualified through other routes

Player Route
Nathan Aspinall European Darts Trophy, Europea Darts Open, German Darts Championship
Stephen Bunting International Darts Open & Swiss Darts Trophy
Gary Anderson European Darts Grand Prix
Martin Schindler Austrian Darts Open
Niko Springer Hungarian Darts Trophy

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Players Championship event winners

Similar to the qualifiers through the ET route, players can qualify through this route, up to a total of 24 for the event through the previous four routes so far.

The same applies where tiebreakers are determined by the number of PC titles and then positioning on the Main OoM on the cut-off date.

Chris Dobey 3x PC Event Titles

*TBD after the European Championship and the final Players Championship events take place

PDC Tour Card holder qualifying event

Eight players will qualify through a tour card qualifier event that will take place on Oct. 31.

Player Route
  Tour Card Qualifier #1
  Tour Card Qualifier #2
  Tour Card Qualifier #3
  Tour Card Qualifier #4
  Tour Card Qualifier #5
  Tour Card Qualifier #6
  Tour Card Qualifier #7
  Tour Card Qualifier #8

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