| Tournament Name: | 2020 Belgian Darts Championship |
| Dates: | 28 February–1 March 2020 |
| Location: | Hasselt |
| Organisation: | PDC |
| Format: | Legs |
| Prize Fund: | £140,000 |
| Winners Share: | £25,000 |
| High Checkout: | 170 Ryan Searle |
| Winner: | Gerwyn Price |
| Next: | Event 2 |
The 2020 Belgian Darts Championship was the first of four PDC European Tour events on the 2020 PDC Pro Tour. The tournament took place at the Expo Hasselt, Hasselt, Belgium, from 28 February–1 March 2020.[1] [2] It featured a field of 48 players and £140,000 in prize money, with £25,000 going to the winner.
This was the first PDC European Tour event to take place in Belgium.
Gerwyn Price won his third European Tour title with an 8–3 win over Michael Smith in the final.
This is how the prize money is divided, with the prize money being unchanged from the 2019 European Tour:[3]
| 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 | £6,500 |
| Quarter-finalists | align=center | (4) | align=center | £5,000 |
| 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 | £140,000 | ||
The top 16 entrants from the PDC ProTour Order of Merit on 4 February will automatically qualify for the event and will be seeded in the second round.[4]
The remaining 32 places will go to players from four qualifying events and to two invitees – 24 from the Tour Card Holder Qualifier (held on 14 February), two from the Associate Member Qualifier (held on 27 February), three from the Host Nation Qualifier (held on 27 February) and one from the East European Associate Member Qualifier (held on 7 February).
The two highest ranked Belgian players on the cut-off date will also qualify.
From 2020, all Tour Card holders will enter into one qualifier instead of two separate ones for the UK and Europe. For this tournament, there is no Nordic & Baltic qualifier due to the event being a late addition to the calendar. The place will be taken by an extra Host Nation qualifier.
The following players will take part in the tournament:
Top 16
Krzysztof Ratajski (quarter-finals)
Mensur Suljović (quarter-finals)Tour Card Holders Qualifier
Rowby-John Rodriguez (first round)
Damon Heta (second round)
Kai Fan Leung (first round)
Mike De Decker (second round)
Steve Lennon (second round)Associate Member Qualifier
Dimitri Van den Bergh (second round) Kim Huybrechts (second round)Host Nation Qualifier
Jeffrey Van Egdom (first round) Ronny Huybrechts (second round) Geert De Vos (first round)East European Qualifier
Benjamin Pratnemer (first round)