2026 Grand Slam of Darts

Background

The 2026 Grand Slam of Darts is the 20th EDition of the tournament to be staged by the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) since the inaugural edition in 2007. First held at the Wolverhampton Civic Hall, the tournament originally involved top darts players from both the PDC and its rival, the British Darts Organisation (BDO). PDC chairman Barry Hearn promoted it as an event "to discover the greatest of them all". The tournament was mostly dominated by PDC representatives with the exception of the 2010 event, where Scott Waites became the first and only BDO player to win the title by overturning an 8–0 deficit to defeat James Wade 16–12 in the final. Following the dissolution of the BDO in 2020, the 2021 event was the first edition to not feature representatives from the organisation, being replaced by additional qualifiers from the PDC's feeder systems. In 2018, the Grand Slam trophy was renamed to the Eric Bristow Trophy in honour of the five-time world champion who died in April the same year.

The 2025 edition took place from 8 to 16 November 2025 at the WV Active Aldersley in Wolverhampton, England. Online casino Mr Vegas, owned by Malta-based [...] company Videoslots, continued its sponsorship of the event after becoming title sponsor in 2023. Luke Littler entered the tournament as defending champion after defeating Martin Lukeman 16–3 in the 2024 final to win his first Grand Slam title – his first major ranking title. It was the last edition of the tournament to feature a 32-player field, with the number of participants increasing to 48 in 2026. Littler was the pre-tournament favourite to win the title, with Sky Sports pundits also predicting Gerwyn Price to claim his fourth Grand Slam. Littler also entered the tournament aiming to become the world number one on the PDC Order of Merit. He achieved this by reaching the final, thereby overcoming the gap of less than £75,000 between him and Luke Humphries at the top of the ranking.

Format

The number of legs required to win increased as the tournament progressed:

• Group stage: Best of 9 legs
• Second round: Best of 19 legs
• Quarter-finals, semi-finals and final: Best of 31 legs

Prize money

The prize fund increased to £1,000,000, with £200,000 going to the winner. The winner also received the Eric Bristow Trophy.

Broadcasts

The tournament was broadcast on Sky Sports in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Other broadcasters included DAZN in Germany, Austria and Switzerland; Viaplay in the Netherlands and the Nordic countries; Fox Sports in Australia; Sky Sport in New Zealand; Peacock and FanDuel in the United States; Nova in Czechia and Slovakia; L'Équipe in France; Sport1 in Hungary; VTM in Belgium; CANAL+ in Poland and Zonasport in Croatia. It was also available on the PDC's streaming service, PDCTV, for international subscribers outside of the UK, Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

Qualification

The first 40 participants were decided by the following criteria:

• Finalists from PDC televised events over the previous twelve months (up to a maximum of 24 players)
• Additional qualifiers (up to a maximum of 12 players)
• European Tour events winners (to fill up to 40 players)
• Players Championship event winners (to fill up to 40 players)

The list of qualifiers were invited in the following order:

Televised event finalists

Additional qualifiers

European Tour

As the list of qualifiers from the main tournaments produced fewer than the required number of players (40), the field was filled from the reserve lists. The first list consisted of the winners from 2026 European Tour events, in which the winners were ordered firstly by number of wins, then PDC Order of Merit position order at the cut-off date.

Players Championships

As there were still not enough qualifiers after European Tour events were added, the winners of 2026 Players Championship events were added, firstly in order by number of wins, then in Order of Merit order.

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PDC Tour Card holder qualifying event

The qualifiers were: