2015 European Darts Trophy
darts tournament
The 2015 European Darts Trophy was the seventh of nine PDC European Tour events on the 2015 PDC Pro Tour. The tournament took place at the RWE-Sporthalle in Mülheim, Germany from 11 to 13 September 2015. It featured a field of 48 players and £115,000 in prize money, with £25,000 going to the winner.
Michael Smith won the title by defeating Michael van Gerwen 6–2 in the final.
Prize money
The prize fund was increased to £115,000 after being £100,000 for the previous two years.
Qualification and format
The top 16 players from the PDC ProTour Order of Merit Deprecated link archived 2013-11-27 at archive.today on 30 June 2015 automatically qualified for the event. The remaining 32 places went to players from three qualifying events - 20 from the UK Qualifier (held in Wigan on 3 July), eight from the European Qualifier (held in Mülheim on 10 September) at the same time as the European Darts Matchplay and four from the Host Nation Qualifier (held at the venue the day before the event started).
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