German Darts Championship: Dates, location, history & how to watch

The German Darts Championship, the ninth of 13 European Tour events hosted by the PDC, is staged in Hildesheim and features many of the biggest names in the sport.

The winner will collect £30,000 and Germany's Ricardo Pietreczko is the defending champion.

German Darts Championship dates

The German Darts Championship will be held between Friday 30th August and Sunday 1st September 2024.

German Darts Championship times

There are two sessions on each of the three days. The afternoon session begins at 12:00 and the evening session gets going at 18:00.

German Darts Championship venue

The German Darts Championship is staged at the 7,500-capacity Halle39 in Hildesheim in Germany.

German Darts Championship how to watch

The German Darts Championship can be watched via the PDC's own channel, PDC TV.

German Darts Championship who is playing

There are 48 players taking part at the German Darts Championship, with 32 of them in action in round one on Friday.

The 16 match winners will go on to round two where the 16 seeded players lie in wait.

The top seed this year is Dave Chisnall, who won the previous European Tour event, the European Darts Open in Leverkusen in June.

Chizzy was also a finalist in the first-ever German Darts Championship, back in 2012.

Seeded two is Gary Anderson followed by Welshman Gerwyn Price at No.3.

Luke Littler, the only two-time winner on the European Tour this year, is seeded 13, Michael Smith is No.15 and one place below him is Michael van Gerwen.

German fans will be roaring on six of their own stars, with two of them - reigning champion Pietreczko and Martin Schindler - among the 16 seeds who will join the competition on Saturday.

Among the big names starting out in round one are Raymond van Barneveld, James Wade, Nathan Aspinall, Peter Wright and Dimitri van den Bergh, which guarantees some mouthwatering round two ties.

The biggest absentee is world No.1 and world champion Luke Humphries.

How many times has the German Darts Championship taken place?

This will be the 12th running of the German Darts Championship and the 11th to be staged at Halle39 in Hildesheim.

The first event - the only one to be held at the Tempodrom in Berlin - took place in 2012.

Colin Lloyd hit a nine-darter in that event, but it was the legendary Phil Taylor who lifted the trophy after beating Chisnall 6-2 in the final.

Who are the previous winners of the German Darts Championship?

There have been nine different winners of the German Darts Championship with only one man having won it more than once - Van Gerwen.

The Green Machine, a prodigious winner on the European Tour, first took the title in 2015 when he beat Anderson 6-2 in the final.

Three years later and with the final now being played over a best-of-15 legs, the Dutchman pipped James Wilson 8-6 to land the spoils.

He completed his hat-trick in 2022 with an 8-5 success over Rob Cross.

Van Gerwen also reached the 2017 final where he lost to Peter Wright, Snakebite's only triumph in three finals.

The Scot was beaten in last year's final by Pietreczko, the home hero who brought the house down when he landed the winning double.

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