A look at the line-up, schedule and format for the 2026 Elten Safety Shoes Baltic Sea Darts Open, the eighth European Tour event of the season.
The three-day event sees 48 players battling it out at the MERKUR Ostseehalle in Kiel, Germany, with the first round being held across two sessions on Friday before the top 16 available players on the PDC Werner Rankings Ladder feature from Saturday.
The second round is played across two sessions on Saturday and the remaining 16 players then meet on Sunday afternoon, with the quarter-finals, semi-finals and final all being played across a bumper Sunday evening.
All four players who featured in the Premier League’s Final Night on Thursday sit out of the tournament, with Luke Littler never registering to play and Luke Humphries, Jonny Clayton and Gerwyn Price all since withdrawing.
Michael van Gerwen and Josh Rock are among the others to have pulled out of the event, leaving Gian van Veen scheduled to be the top seed ahead of James Wade, Stephen Bunting and Danny Noppert.
Chris Dobey, Nathan Aspinall and last week’s Ross Smith are among the other seeds in the field, with Daryl Gurney, Dave Chisnall and former world champion Rob Cross also in action and chasing the £35,000 first prize.
Elten Safety Shoes Baltic Sea Darts Open – full schedule
Friday May 29 (order of play TBC)
Afternoon session
Round one (best of 11 legs, from 1200 BST)
Ricky Evans v Teemu Harju
Karel Sedlacek v Jason Riedtke
Ryan Joyce v Christian Kist
Ian White v Jimmy van Schie
Krzysztof Ratajski v Daniel Klose
Alan Soutar v Dimitri Van den Bergh
Justin Hood v Max Hopp
Andrew Gilding v Jeffrey de Zwaan
Evening session
Round one (best of 11 legs, from 1800 BST)
Niels Zonneveld v Richard Veenstra
Kevin Doets v Lukas Wenig
Cameron Menzies v Rob Cross
James Hurrell v Sebastian Bialecki
Dirk van Duijvenbode v Paul Krohne
William O’Connor v Cristo Reyes
Joe Cullen v Marcel Hausotter
Niko Springer v Nandor Major
Saturday May 30
Afternoon session (best of 11 legs, 1200 BST)
Wessel Nijman v Ratajski/Klose
Luke Woodhouse v Gilding/De Zwaan
Mike De Decker v White/Van Schie
Daryl Gurney v Evans/Harju
Damon Heta v Sedlacek/Riedtke
Ryan Searle v Van Duijvenbode/Krohne
Dave Chisnall v Cullen/Hausotter
Jermaine Wattimena v Hood/Hopp
Evening session (best of 11 legs, 1800 BST)
Danny Noppert v O’Connor/Reyes
Chris Dobey v Hurrell/Bialecki
James Wade v Zonneveld/Veenstra
Stephen Bunting v Menzies/Cross
Nathan Aspinall v Doets/Wenig
Gian van Veen v Soutar/Van den Bergh
Martin Schindler v Joyce/Kist
Ross Smith v Springer/Major
Ross Smith won a European Tour title in Germany last week
Sunday May 31
Afternoon session (best of 11 legs, 1100 BST)
Round Three x 8
Evening session (1700 BST)
Quarter-Finals – best of 11 legs
Semi-Finals – best of 13 legs
Final – best of 15 legs
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