The 2023 German Darts Championship was the thirteenth of thirteen
PDC European Tour The PDC European Tour is a series of darts tournaments held across Europe organized by the Professional Darts Corporation. Starting in 2012 with five events, the number of events has steadily risen with eight held in 2013 and 2014, nine in 2015, te ...
events on the
2023 PDC Pro Tour
The 2023 PDC Pro Tour is the current series of non-televised darts tournaments organised by the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC). Players Championships and European Tour events are the events that make up the Pro Tour. There will be thirty Pla ...
. The tournament took place at Halle 39,
Hildesheim
Hildesheim (; nds, Hilmessen, Hilmssen; la, Hildesia) is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany with 101,693 inhabitants. It is in the district of Hildesheim, about southeast of Hanover on the banks of the Innerste River, a small tributary of the L ...
,
Germany
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from 13 to 15 October 2023. It featured a field of 48 players and £175,000 in prize money, with £30,000 going to the winner.
The defending champion was , who defeated 8–5 in the
2022 final, but he lost 6–7 to in the semi-finals.
Pietreczko won his first European Tour and his first PDC ranking title as well, defeating 8–4 in the final., He became only the second German player to win a PDC ranking title, and the first since in 2019.
Prize money
The prize money was increased for the first time in 4 years for all European Tours:
* Seeded players who lost in the second round of the event were not credited with prize money on any Order of Merit.
Qualification and format
The top 16 entrants from the
PDC ProTour Order of Merit on 23 August 2023 automatically qualified for the event and are seeded in the second round.
The remaining 32 places went to players from six qualifying events – 24 from the Tour Card Holder Qualifier (held on 6 September), two from the Associate Member Qualifier (held on 21 May), the two highest ranked Germans automatically qualified, alongside two from the Host Nation Qualifier (held on 12 October), one from the Nordic & Baltic Associate Member Qualifier (held on 15 July), and one from the East European Associate Member Qualifier (held on 4 June).
Gerwyn Price
Gerwyn Stephen Price (born 7 March 1985) is a Welsh professional darts player and former professional rugby union and rugby league player. Nicknamed "The Iceman", he competes in events of the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC), where he is cu ...
withdrew and was replaced by
Ross Smith from the Reserve List. Under PDC Rules, Price is replaced as a seed by the player ranked highest on the ProTour OoM at the entry deadline, which was also Smith.
The following players took part in the tournament:
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Draw
Notes
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:German Darts Championship
2023 PDC Pro Tour
2023 PDC European Tour
2023 in German sport