The PDC European Tour reaches a special milestone this weekend. With the first edition of the Slovak Darts Open in Bratislava, the 25th different tournament will be played since the European Tour was founded in 2012. What began as a modest series of five events has grown over fourteen years into one of the key circuits in professional darts, with events staged across Europe.
The Slovak Darts Open is the ninth event of the 2026 European Tour season, and it is also the first ever European Tour tournament to be held in Slovakia. Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, welcomes the European darts elite for the first time this weekend and immediately writes itself into the history books as the host of the 25th unique Euro Tour tournament.
Since the start of the European Tour, numerous events have come and gone. The outright leader in terms of number of editions is the German Darts Championship, which is being staged for the thirteenth time this year. Close behind are the European Darts Open, the Austrian Darts Open, and the European Darts Grand Prix, each of which has been held twelve times. The International Darts Open now stands at eleven editions.
The introduction of the Slovak Darts Open underlines how strongly the European Tour has developed since 2012. Where the tour consisted of just five events in its first year, the number of tournaments has now expanded considerably. For darts fans in Slovakia, this weekend marks a historic moment as they have the chance to see the biggest names in the sport up close during an official European Tour event.
Whoever takes the title home on Sunday evening will be added as the first winner of the Slovak Darts Open to an ever-growing roll of honor of winners on the PDC European Tour, giving this new event an immediate special place within the European darts landscape.
