The 2015 Gibraltar Darts Trophy was the second of nine

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events on the

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. The tournament took place at the Victoria Stadium,

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, between 20–22 March 2015. It featured a field of 48 players and £115,000 in prize money, with £25,000 going to the winner. The defending champion was

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, having beaten Steve Beaton 6–4 in the previous year's final, but he was defeated in the semi-finals after losing 6–2 to

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, who then lost the final 6–3 to Michael van Gerwen.

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 th
PDC ProTour Order of Merit
on the 16 January 2015 automatically qualified for the event. The remaining 32 places went to players from three qualifying events - 20 from the UK Qualifier (held in

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on 18 January), eight from the European Qualifier (held in Bielefeld on 24 January) and four from the Host Nation Qualifier (held at the venue the day before the event started). The following players took part in the tournament: :Top 16 :# Gary Anderson ''(third round)'' :# Michael van Gerwen (winner) :# Michael Smith ''(second round)'' :# Peter Wright ''(second round)'' :#

''(semi-finals)'' :# Robert Thornton ''(second round)'' :# Brendan Dolan ''(second round)'' :# Mervyn King ''(quarter-finals)'' :# Justin Pipe ''(third round)'' :# Ian White ''(second round)'' :# Simon Whitlock ''(third round)'' :# Vincent van der Voort ''(third round)'' :# Kim Huybrechts ''(quarter-finals)'' :# Stephen Bunting ''(second round)'' :# Steve Beaton ''(second round)'' :#

''(runner-up)'' :UK Qualifier :* Kevin McDine ''(second round)'' :* Andy Jenkins ''(first round)'' :*

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''(third round)'' :* Brian Woods ''(third round)'' :*

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''(first round)'' :*

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''(first round)'' :* Andrew Gilding ''(first round)'' :* Kevin Painter ''(second round)'' :*

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''(first round)'' :* Andy Smith ''(third round)'' :* Jamie Lewis ''(semi-finals)'' :* Mark Webster ''(first round)'' :* Steve West ''(first round)'' :* Gerwyn Price ''(quarter-finals)'' :*

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''(second round)'' :* Kurt Parry ''(first round)'' :* Daryl Gurney ''(first round)'' :* Wayne Jones ''(third round)'' :* Tony Newell ''(second round)'' :*

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''(first round)'' :European Qualifier :* Rowby-John Rodriguez ''(first round)'' :* Benito van de Pas ''(second round)'' :*

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''(first round)'' :* Ronny Huybrechts ''(first round)'' :* Cristo Reyes ''(second round)'' :* Dimitri Van den Bergh ''(second round)'' :*

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''(quarter-finals)'' :*

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''(second round)'' :Host Nation Qualifier :* Manuel Vilerio ''(first round)'' :*

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''(first round)'' :* Antony Lopez ''(second round)'' :* John Duo ''(first round)''

Draw

References

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