2026 Baltic Sea Darts Open qualifiers: Is Luke Littler playing this weekend?

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The Euro Tour heads to Germany this upcoming weekend for the 2026 Baltic Sea Darts Open.

It's the eighth Euro Tour event of 2026, and this one will be held in Kiel.

Who will be competing in the 2026 Baltic Sea Darts Open?

Let's take a look at which 48 players will be taking the stage in Kiel.

*Qualifying list can change before the event if players withdraw

Seeded players

16 players enter the tournament as seeded players, with byes into the second round, which starts on Saturday.

1.  Luke Humphries (ENG)
2.  Gian van Veen (NED)
3.  Michael van Gerwen (NED)
4.  Jonny Clayton (WAL)
5.  James Wade (ENG)
6.  Stephen Bunting (ENG)
7.  Gerwyn Price (WAL)
8.  Danny Noppert (NED)
9.  Ryan Searle (ENG)
10.  Chris Dobey (ENG)
11.  Nathan Aspinall (ENG)
12.  Ross Smith (ENG)
13.  Martin Schindler (GER)
14.  Jermaine Wattimena (NED)
15.  Mike De Decker (BEL)
16.  Wessel Nijman (NED)

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Pro Tour order of merit qualifiers

The next 16 qualifiers are the highest-ranked players on the Pro Tour OoM that aren't already a part of the seeded player group.

•  Damon Heta (AUS)
•  Dirk van Duijvenbode (NED)
•  Luke Woodhouse (ENG)
•  Niko Springer (GER)
•  Niels Zonneveld (NED)
•  Krzysztof Ratajski (POL)
•  Daryl Gurney (NIR)
•  William O'Connor (IRL)
•  Joe Cullen (ENG)
•  Ryan Joyce (ENG)
•  Kevin Doets (NED)
•  Andrew Gilding (ENG)
•  Dave Chisnall (ENG)
•  Cameron Menzies (SCO)
•  Karel Sedláček (CZE)

Tour card qualifiers

An additional 10 players qualified through a tour card qualifier event earlier this year.

•  Alan Soutar (SCO)
•  Max Hopp (GER)
•  Ricky Evans (ENG)
•  Lukas Wenig (GER)
•  James Hurrell (ENG)
•  Jeffrey de Zwaan (NED)
•  Ian White (ENG)
•  Jimmy van Schie (NED)
•  Sebastian Białecki (POL)
•  Justin Hood (ENG)

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Host nation qualifiers

Four spots were given to players who qualified via the host nation qualifier route.

•  Paul Krohne (GER)
•  Marcel Hausotter (GER)
•  Daniel Klose (GER)
•  Jason Riedtke (GER)

Nordic & Baltic qualifier

•  Teemu Harju (FIN)

East European Qualifier

•  Nándor Major (HUN)

Reserve List

• Rob Cross (ENG)
• Dimitri Van den Bergh (BEL)

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