| Tournament Name: | 2009 PartyPoker.net European Championship |
| Dates: | 29 October–1 November 2009 |
| Venue: | Claus Event Center |
| Location: | Hoofddorp |
| Organisation: | PDC |
| Format: | Legs Final – best of 21 |
| Prize Fund: | £200,000 |
| Winners Share: | £50,000 |
| Winner: | Phil Taylor |
| Prev: | 2008 |
| Next: | 2010 |
The 2009 PartyPoker.net European Championship was the second edition of the PDC tournament, the European Championship, which allows the top European players to compete against the highest ranked players from the PDC Order of Merit. The tournament took place from 29 October–1 November 2009 at the Claus Event Center in Hoofddorp, Netherlands.[1] It featured a field of 32 players and £200,000 in prize money, with £50,000 going to the winner.
World number one and defending champion Phil Taylor successfully defended his title, defeating Steve Beaton 11–3 in the final with a record tournament average of 111.54.
| Position (no. of players) | Prize money (Total: £200,000) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | align=center | (1) | align=center | £50,000 | |
| Runner-Up | align=center | (1) | align=center | £20,000 | |
| Semi-finalists | align=center | (2) | align=center | £10,000 | |
| Quarter-finalists | align=center | (4) | align=center | £7,500 | |
| Last 16 (second round) | align=center | (8) | align=center | £5,000 | |
| Last 32 (first round) | align=center | (16) | align=center | £2,500 | |
The top 16 players from the PDC Order of Merit after the Players Championship double-header in Nuland automatically qualified for the event. The top 8 from these rankings were also the seeded players. The remaining 16 places went to the top 8 non-qualified players from the 2009 Players Championship Order of Merit, and then to the top 8 non-qualified players from the 2009 Continental Europe Order of Merit.
PDC Top 16
| Players Championship qualifiers
| European qualifiers
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Draw and schedule of play as follows:[2]
Scores after player's names are three-dart averages (total points scored divided by darts thrown and multiplied by 3)| Player | Played | Legs Won | Legs Lost | 100+ | 140+ | 180s | High Checkout | 3-dart Average | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Phil Taylor | 5 | 47 | 11 | 37 | 111.54 | ||||
| Colin Lloyd | 3 | 20 | 20 | 12 | 97.78 | ||||
| Gary Anderson | 3 | 18 | 16 | 14 | 97.56 | ||||
| James Wade | 4 | 35 | 26 | 14 | 96.76 | ||||
| Jelle Klaasen | 4 | 28 | 26 | 15 | 96.26 | ||||
| Mervyn King | 3 | 21 | 21 | 5 | 95.90 | ||||
| Colin Osborne | 2 | 12 | 11 | 5 | 81 | 95.47 | |||
| Andy Hamilton | 2 | 11 | 12 | 6 | 112 | 94.98 | |||
| Raymond van Barneveld | 2 | 13 | 14 | 8 | 122 | 94.65 | |||
| Steve Beaton | 5 | 39 | 36 | 21 | 94.39 | ||||
| Andy Smith | 1 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 96 | 93.65 | |||
| Vincent van der Voort | 1 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 80 | 93.58 | |||
 Mensur Suljović | 2 | 11 | 12 | 1 | 135 | 93.07 | |||
| Jamie Caven | 2 | 14 | 13 | 9 | 124 | 92.65 | |||
 John Part | 1 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 55 | 92.27 | |||
| Robert Thornton | 2 | 6 | 13 | 4 | 95 | 92.17 | |||
| Mark Walsh | 3 | 21 | 21 | 9 | 91.88 | ||||
| Toon Greebe | 1 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 70 | 91.02 | |||
| Terry Jenkins | 1 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 60 | 90.30 | |||
| Adrian Lewis | 1 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 48 | 89.68 | |||
| Alan Tabern | 1 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 61 | 89.60 | |||
| Ronnie Baxter | 2 | 7 | 11 | 1 | 110 | 89.58 | |||
 Paul Nicholson | 1 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 124 | 89.18 | |||
| Co Stompé | 1 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 100 | 88.07 | |||
| Roland Scholten | 1 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 85 | 87.92 | |||
| Dennis Priestley | 1 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 70 | 87.51 | |||
| Wes Newton | 1 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 58 | 86.54 | |||
| Wayne Jones | 1 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 68 | 86.40 | |||
| Kevin Painter | 1 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 50 | 85.35 | |||
 Carlos Rodríguez | 1 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 66 | 84.97 | |||
| Michael van Gerwen | 2 | 13 | 11 | 5 | 170 | 84.51 | |||
| Remco van Eijden | 1 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 65 | 83.35 |