The Players Championship Finals draw has been confirmed, with Luke Littler not defending his title in Minehead.
Littler did not enter enough behind-closed doors Players Championship events this year to give himself a realistic chance of being in the top 64 on the ProTour ranking to qualify for the last tournament before the World Darts Championship.
Josh Rock and Nathan Aspinall were among the other stars to miss out but all of darts’ other big names have qualified, with Dutchman Wessel Nijman the top seed as he won six Players Championship events this year.
Nijman will face England’s Henry Coates, who was the final qualifier, in the first round while tournament favourite Luke Humphries goes up against Darryl Pilgrim.
Seven-time Players Championship Finals champion Michael van Gerwen takes on Connor Scutt, while former world champions Gary Anderson and Rob Cross are in line to meet in the second round.
Beau Graves will face former Lakeside champion Christian Kist and there could be an exciting clash between Gerwyn Price and Gian van Veen should they win their opening matches.
The schedule will be confirmed at a later date with the tournament running from November 27-29.
Players Championship Finals Draw
(in draw bracket order)
Top half
Wessel Nijman (1) vs Henry Coates (64)
Gabriel Clemens (32) vs Dave Chisnall (33)
Charlie Manby (16) vs Martin Schindler (49)
Cameron Menzies (17) vs Mensur Suljovic (48)
Beau Greaves (8) vs Christian Kist (57)
Tom Bissell (25) vs Rob Owen (40)
Ross Smith (9) vs Michael Smith (56)
Niels Zonneveld (24) vs Niko Springer (41)
Luke Woodhouse (4) vs Alexander Merkx (61)
Stephen Bunting (29) vs Max Hopp (36)
Sebastian Bialecki (13) vs Gerwyn Price (52)
Jeffrey de Graaf (20) vs Gian van Veen (45)
Jermaine Wattimena (5) vs Keane Barry (60)
Ryan Searle (28) vs Brendan Dolan (37)
William O’Connor (12) vs James Hurrell (53)
Tommy Morris (21) vs Callan Rydz (44)
Bottom half
Chris Dobey (2) vs Mike De Decker (63)
Richard Veenstra (31) vs Joe Cullen (34)
Cristo Reyes (15) vs Darius Labanauskas (50)
Michael van Gerwen (18) vs Connor Scutt (47)
Luke Humphries (7) vs Darryl Pilgrim (58)
Krzysztof Ratajski (26) vs Damon Heta (39)
Danny Noppert (10) vs Scott Williams (55)
Jonny Clayton (23) vs Tom Sykes (42)
Kevin Doets (3) vs Ritchie Edhouse (62)
James Wade (30) vs Justin Hood (35)
Dirk van Duijvenbode (14) vs Alan Soutar (51)
Maik Kuivenhoven (19) vs Daryl Gurney (46)
Andrew Gilding (6) vs Bradley Brooks (59)
Kim Huybrechts (27) vs Joe Hunt (38)
Karel Sedlacek (11) vs Gary Anderson (54)
Rob Cross (22) vs Mickey Mansell (43)
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