THE PDCs biggest-ever year will see over 150 days of action in 2015, with the new PDC calendar including new venues in Germany and the Netherlands on an expanded European Tour. The growth of the PDCs professional circuit will continue in 2015, with the development of a number of areas throughout the spectrum of PDC events. The year will kick off from January 14-17 with the 2015 PDC Qualifying School, with the four-day event in Wigan giving any player the chance to attempt to win a PDC Tour Card. All PDPA members will then be able to enter the six UK Open Qualifiers which will be held across two three-day treble-headers during February, before the UK Opens Televised Finals are held at the Butlins Minehead Resort from March 6-8. Two further treble-header weekends will also be held on the PDC ProTour during the series of 20 Players Championship events which will take place during the year, with tournaments to be held on Friday, Saturday and Sunday in Coventry in May and in Barnsley in June. A further seven Players Championship double-header weekends will also be held, while the ever-expanding PDC European Tour will grow by one tournament to feature nine events during 2015. The years events will begin in Hildeshiem at the end of January for the first of seven events to be held in Germany, in addition to the return to Gibraltar - in March - and a first visit to Venray in the Netherlands in June. Munich and Lingen in Germany are set to welcome PDC events for the first time during 2015, alongside established European Tour venues in Hildeshiem, Dusseldorf, Leipzig and Sindelfingen. The Challenge Tour - open to PDPA Associate Members who competed at Qualifying School but did not win a Tour Card - and Youth Tour systems will each have stand-alone weekends during 2015. Each weekend will feature four tournaments across two days, with both Development Tours having four weekends of action during the year to provide 16 tournaments. The PDCs televised action in 2015 will begin with the Premier League Darts, which will kick off in Leeds on February 5 with the first of 16 successive Thursdays of action in the ten-player event. The action will head to Bournemouth, Liverpool, Belfast, Exeter, Nottingham, Glasgow and Dublin before Judgement Night in Manchester sees the bottom two players relegated. The remaining eight players will then face each other once more across league nights in Sheffield, Aberdeen, Cardiff, Birmingham, Newcastle and Brighton before the top four players compete in the Play-Offs at The O2 in London on May 21. Tickets for the 2015 Betway Premier League Darts will go on Priority Sale to LIVEPDC.TV Annual Subscribers on Monday September 29 and on General Sale on Monday October 6. Junes World Cup of Darts in Frankfurt will be followed by the nine-day World Matchplay from July 18-26 at the Winter Gardens in Blackpool, with Octobers World Grand Prix and European Championship kicking off a busy autumn of major televised events. November will see the Grand Slam of Darts in Wolverhampton - which will be ranked for the first time next year - followed by The Masters and the Players Championship Finals, which in 2015 will also feature the World Youth Championship final held between the semi-finals and final of the main event. The early rounds of the World Youth Championship will take place on October 30 in Coventry, featuring 64 qualifiers from around the world, on a day which will also feature the Grand Slam of Darts qualifiers held. Ticket information for PDC major tournaments and European Tour events in 2015 will be posted at pdc.tv/tickets once available. Entry for the 2015 PDC Qualifying School will be available later in 2014, with information to be posted at pdc.tv and pdpa.co.uk. Dates and venues for World Series of Darts events will be confirmed in due course. To download a printable version of the 2015 PDC Event Calender, CLICK HERE 2015 PDC Calendar DATE VENUE TOURNAMENT JANUARY 14 - 17 Wigan PDC Qualifying School 18 Wigan European Tour 1 / 2 - UK qualifier TBC Dorchester Hotel Awards Dinner 30 - Feb 1 Hildesheim, Germany European Tour 1 FEBRUARY 5 Leeds Premier League Darts 1 6 Wigan UK Open Qualifier 1 7 Wigan UK Open Qualifier 2 8 Wigan UK Open Qualifier 3 12 Bournemouth Premier League Darts 2 19 Liverpool Premier League Darts 3 20 Wigan UK Open Qualifier 4 21 Wigan UK Open Qualifier 5 22 Wigan UK Open Qualifier 6 26 Belfast Premier League Darts 4 MARCH 5 Exeter Premier League Darts 5 6 - 8 Minehead UK Open Finals 12 Nottingham Premier League Darts 6 13 Barnsley European Tour 3 / 4 - UK qualifier 14 Barnsley Players Championship 1 15 Barnsley Players Championship 2 19 Glasgow Premier League Darts 7 20 - 22 Gibraltar European Tour 2 21 Wigan Challenge Tour 1, 2 22 Wigan Challenge Tour 3, 4 26 Dublin, Ireland Premier League Darts 8 APRIL 2 Manchester Premier League Darts 9 4 - 6 Munich, Germany European Tour 3 9 Sheffield Premier League Darts 10 11 Barnsley Players Championship 3 12 Barnsley Players Championship 4 16 Aberdeen Premier League Darts 11 23 Cardiff Premier League Darts 12 25 Coventry Youth Tour 1, 2 26 Coventry Youth Tour 3, 4 30 Birmingham Premier League Darts 13 MAY 1 Coventry Players Championship 5 2 Coventry Players Championship 6 3 Coventry Players Championship 7 7 Newcastle Premier League Darts 14 14 Brighton Premier League Darts 15 15 Crawley European Tour 5 / 6 - UK qualifier 16 Crawley Players Championship 8 17 Crawley Players Championship 9 21 London Premier League Darts Play-Offs 30 Wigan Challenge Tour 5, 6 31 Wigan Challenge Tour 7, 8 JUNE 5 - 7 Venray, Netherlands European Tour 4 11 - 14 Frankfurt, Germany World Cup 19 Barnsley Players Championship 10 20 Barnsley Players Championship 11 21 Barnsley Players Championship 12 26 - 28 TBC European Tour 5 27 Coventry Youth Tour 5, 6 28 Coventry Youth Tour 7, 8 JULY 3 Wigan European Tour 7 / 8 - UK qualifier 4 Wigan Players Championship 13 5 Wigan Players Championship 14 11 Wigan Challenge Tour 9, 10 12 Wigan Challenge Tour 11, 12 10 - 12 Dusseldorf, Germany European Tour 6 18 - 26 Blackpool World Matchplay AUGUST SEPTEMBER 11 - 13 Leipzig, Germany European Tour 7 12 Coventry Youth Tour 9, 10 13 Coventry Youth Tour 11, 12 18 - 20 Lingen, Germany European Tour 8 19 Coventry Challenge Tour 13, 14 20 Coventry Challenge Tour 15, 16 25 Barnsley European Tour 9 - UK qualifier 26 Barnsley Players Championship 15 27 Barnsley Players Championship 16 OCTOBER 3 Dublin, Ireland Players Championship 17 4 Dublin, Ireland Players Championship 18 5 - 11 Dublin, Ireland World Grand Prix 16 - 18 Sindelfingen, Germany European Tour 9 23 - 25 Muelheim, Germany European Championship 24 Wigan Youth Tour 13, 14 25 Wigan Youth Tour 15, 16 30 Coventry Grand Slam - qualifier 30 Coventry World Youth Championship - L64 31 Coventry Players Championship 19 NOVEMBER 1 Coventry Players Championship 20 7 - 15 Wolverhampton Grand Slam of Darts 21 - 22 Edinburgh The Masters 27 - 29 Minehead Players Championship Finals 29 Minehead World Youth Championship Final 30 Coventry World Championship - PDPA qualifier DECEMBER TBA London World Darts Championship NOTE: Events in Italics still have details to be confirmed
Posted on: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 09:28:56 +0000
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