2025 Grand Slam of Darts qualifiers: Littler, Humphries headline field

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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 qualified 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.

PlayerRoute
Luke LittlerSeveral ways
Luke HumphriesSeveral ways
Michael van Gerwen2025 World Series of Darts Winner & 2025 PDC WC Runner-up
Josh Rock2025 World Cup of Darts Winner
Daryl Gurney2025 World Cup of Darts Winner
Martin Lukeman2024 Grand Slam of Darts Runner-up
James Wade2025 UK Open Runner-up & 2025 World Matchplay Runner-up
Gerwyn Price2025 World Cup of Darts Runner-up
Jonny Clayton2025 World Cup of Darts Runner-up & 2025 World Masters Runner-up
Gian van Veen2025 European Championship Winner

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Additional qualifiers

A maximum of eight players can qualify through these spots.

PlayerRoute
Jurjen van der Velde2024 PDC World Youth Championship Runner-up
Stefan Bellmont2025 PDC Challenge Tour OoM Winner
Cam Crabtree2025 PDC Development Tour OoM Winner
Lisa Ashton2025 Women's World Matchplay Winner
Beau Greaves2025 PDC Women's Series OoM Winner
Alexis Toylo (Replacing Lourence Ilagan)2025 PDC Asian Championship Winner
Alex Spellman2025 CDC Continental Cup Winner

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European Tour winners

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

However 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

PlayerRoute
Nathan AspinallEuropean Darts Trophy, European Darts Open, German Darts Championship
Stephen BuntingInternational Darts Open & Swiss Darts Trophy
Gary AndersonEuropean Darts Grand Prix
Martin SchindlerAustrian Darts Open
Niko SpringerHungarian 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 Dobey3x PC Event Titles
Damon Heta2x PC Event Titles

PDC Tour Card holder qualifying event

Eight players qualified through a tour card qualifier event that took place on Oct. 31.

PlayerRoute
Ricky EvansTour Card Qualifier #1
Luke WoodhouseTour Card Qualifier #2
Connor ScuttTour Card Qualifier #3
Wessel NijmanTour Card Qualifier #4
Danny NoppertTour Card Qualifier #5
Karel SedlacekTour Card Qualifier #6
Michael SmithTour Card Qualifier #7
Lukas WenigTour Card Qualifier #8

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