The entry list for the Players Championship 9 and 10 double-header has been confirmed, with the PDC ProTour heading to the Robin Park Tennis Centre in Wigan on April 13 and 14. Each tournament features a £15,000 winner's prize and a total purse of £150,000, with a 128-player field of PDC Tour Card holders and PDPA Associate Members competing across both days.
Notably absent are Luke Littler and Michael van Gerwen, along with Gary Anderson, Pero Ljubic, Oskar Lukasiak, and Ryan Searle. They are replaced by the highest-ranked players on the Challenge Tour Order of Merit: Joe Hunt, Tommy Lishman, Aden Kirk, Martijn Dragt, Jack Tweddell, and Tommy Morris.
The entrants include world number two Luke Humphries and reigning European champion Gian van Veen, as well as other elite names such as Nathan Aspinall, James Wade, Stephen Bunting, Jonny Clayton, and Josh Rock. For these players, competing in Players Championship events is the only route to qualifying for the Players Championship Finals, the last major before the World Darts Championship in late November.
The full list of participants includes Nathan Aspinall, Keane Barry, Owen Bates, Stefan Bellmont, Filip Bereza, Sebastian Bialecki, Tom Bissell, Andy Boulton, Bradley Brooks, Stephen Bunting, Stephen Burton, Dave Chisnall, Jonny Clayton, Gabriel Clemens, Cam Crabtree, Rob Cross, Joe Cullen, Niall Culleton, Maximilian Czerwinski, Mike De Decker, Jeffrey de Graaf, Jeffrey de Zwaan, Cor Dekker, Chris Dobey, Kevin Doets, Brendan Dolan, Martijn Dragt, Tavis Dudeney, Ritchie Edhouse, Matthias Ehlers, Ricky Evans, Adam Gawlas, Andrew Gilding, Kai Gotthardt, Beau Greaves, Rhys Griffin, Dominik Gruellich, Daryl Gurney, Stefaan Henderyck, Damon Heta, Yorick Hofkens, Justin Hood, Max Hopp, Luke Humphries, Joe Hunt, James Hurrell, Kim Huybrechts, Ryan Joyce, Tytus Kanik, Nick Kenny, Mervyn King, Aden Kirk, Christian Kist, Marvin Kraft, Maik Kuivenhoven, Darius Labanauskas, Chris Landman, Sietse Lap, Adam Leek, Adam Lipscombe, Tommy Lishman, Jim Long, Thomas Lovely, Martin Lukeman, Charlie Manby, Mickey Mansell, Shane McGuirk, Ryan Meikle, Cameron Menzies, Arno Merk, Alexander Merkx, Tommy Morris, Wessel Nijman, Danny Noppert, William O'Connor, Dennie Olde Kalter, Rob Owen, Adam Paxton, Ricardo Pietreczko, Darryl Pilgrim, Wesley Plaisier, Benjamin Pratnemer, Gerwyn Price, Samuel Price, Krzysztof Ratajski, Madars Razma, Cristo Reyes, Greg Ritchie, Josh Rock, Rusty-Jake Rodriguez, Stephen Rosney, Pascal Rupprecht, Callan Rydz, Martin Schindler, Connor Scutt, Karel Sedlacek, David Sharp, Michael Smith, Ross Smith, Carl Sneyd, Alan Soutar, Jeffrey Sparidaans, Niko Springer, Mensur Suljovic, Tom Sykes, Tyler Thorpe, Viktor Tingstrom, Thibault Tricole, Jack Tweddell, Raymond van Barneveld, Dimitri Van den Bergh, Jurjen van der Velde, Dirk van Duijvenbode, Jimmy van Schie, Gian van Veen, Marvin van Velzen, Mario Vandenbogaerde, Richard Veenstra, James Wade, Adam Warner, Jermaine Wattimena, Leon Weber, Lukas Wenig, Ian White, Scott Williams, Luke Woodhouse, Peter Wright, and Niels Zonneveld.