| Tournament Name: | 2017 European Darts Trophy |
| Dates: | 13–15 October 2017 |
| Venue: | Lokhalle |
| Location: | Göttingen |
| Organisation: | PDC |
| Format: | Legs |
| Prize Fund: | £135,000 |
| Winners Share: | £25,000 |
| High Checkout: | 170 James Richardson (first round) |
| Winner: | Michael van Gerwen |
| Prev: | Event 11 |
The 2017 European Darts Trophy was the twelfth of twelve PDC European Tour events on the 2017 PDC Pro Tour. The tournament took place at Lokhalle, Göttingen, Germany, between 13–15 October 2017. It featured a field of 48 players and £135,000 in prize money, with £25,000 going to the winner.
Michael van Gerwen was the defending champion after defeating Mensur Suljović 6–5 in the final of the 2016 tournament, and he retained his title by defeating Rob Cross 6–4 in the final.
This is how the prize money is divided:
| Stage (num. of players) | Prize money | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | align=center | (1) | align=center | £25,000 |
| Runner-up | align=center | (1) | align=center | £10,000 |
| Semi-finalists | align=center | (2) | align=center | £6,000 |
| Quarter-finalists | align=center | (4) | align=center | £4,000 |
| Third round losers | align=center | (8) | align=center | £3,000 |
| Second round losers | align=center | (16) | align=center | £2,000 |
| First round losers | align=center | (16) | align=center | £1,000 |
| Total | align=center colspan=2 | £135,000 | ||
The top 16 entrants from the PDC ProTour Order of Merit on 21 September automatically qualified for the event and were seeded in the second round.
The remaining 32 places went to players from five qualifying events - 18 from the UK Qualifier (held in Dublin on 28 September), eight from the West/South European Qualifier (held on 21 September), four from the Host Nation Qualifier (held on 12 October), one from the Nordic & Baltic Qualifier (held on 12 August) and one from the East European Qualifier (held on 27 August).
Mensur Suljović withdrew prior to the start of the tournament for family reasons. As he was a seeded player, all seeds from 7–16 moved up one place, with the highest-ranked qualifier, Stephen Bunting, being assigned as the 16th seed. An extra Host Nation Qualifier was made available as a result.[1]
The following players took part in the tournament:
Top 16[2]
Simon Whitlock (semi-finals)
Kim Huybrechts (semi-finals)UK Qualifier
West/South European Qualifier
Zoran Lerchbacher (second round) Dimitri Van den Bergh (first round)Host Nation Qualifier
Nordic & Baltic Qualifier
East European Qualifier[3]
Krzysztof Ratajski (second round)