Sunday's 2026 PDC Qualifying School action will offer the final opportunity for players to win automatic two-year Tour Cards in the UK and Europe Q Schools.In addition to the four daily Tour Card winners, a further 13 Tour Cards will be awarded on a pro-rata basis to players from the respective Final Stage Orders of Merit following Day Four: 8 in Europe, and 5 in the UK. Jimmy van Schie has already secured a Tour Card through the EU Order of Merit, but could instead win one outright.Play starts at 12:00pm GMT in both the UK and EU Q-Schools.UK Q-School:https://tv.dartconnect.com/event/pdcukqs26fse4https://www.dartsrankings.com/qschool-uk-finalEU Q-School:https://tv.dartconnect.com/event/pdceuqs26fse4https://www.dartsrankings.com/qschool-eu-finalDay 6 roundup: https://www.pdc.tv/news/2026/01/10/mcguirk-and-sykes-among-five-names-claim-tour-cards-2026-pdc-q-school
EU once again delivering a shitshow board, with Board 15 having all of van Schie, Merkx, de Zwaan, Geeraerts and Klose and incredibly a chance for van Schie v Merkx in the L64 again.
I have a bad feeling that after today, Sex Man, Hendo and Underbooks will hold a grand total of zero tour cards.
>>152918563Unterbuchner could be in trouble against Speedjobber Landman who is currently 3rd. If Unterbuchner wins his board he should be fine.
The two additional "top up" replacements in the UK and EU schools are Callum Wilson and Joseph Heywood (Alan Norris was ahead of Heywood but appears to have not chosen to accept the top-up) & Leon Janssen (who is Dutch but for some reason has been entered as German) and actual German Florian Drews.
>Merv v Army CaptainFucking lol.
>>152918635Oh, and I missed out Wim Dierckx who has been included as a third top-up in the EU school.
>>152918546lmao
>>152918823And also overlooked Michael Burgoine, Jamie McKinnon and Simon Stothart. That's a lot of top ups to guarantee a 128 player field. Nathan Girvan one of those who has fucked off today alongside McDyke.
Unterbuchner just pulled himself out of a pit by doing this. Match is leveled again.
Kilian Hohnstedt the first to be eliminated on the Final Day as Baetens beats him 6-1.
>>152918546Does Van Schie have to play today? He already secured his tour card
>>152918877>Does Van Schie have to play today?Yes>He already secured his tour cardYes
>>152918873>BaetensPossibly plays Turetta (if he wins) the next roundRIP to one of them
Landman taking out 135 to win it, RIP Underbooks. Great game by the way.
Untershitter out. S
>>152918888CheckedLandman on 8 now..
>>152918798Ends 6-0 to Merv, Scarrott with a poor performance. John Fat has also lost 6-0 to Thorpe.
Guys... it might be Hendover soon.
Van Schie missing multiple darts for the match against Geeraerts. Went 5-1 up and has decided to job.
>Jose needing a 22 dart leg to level 5-5
Beatens also keeping his hopes alive with a win. However, he's now at 5, probably needs at least an L8 appearance, more likely even an L4. Merv also with a comfortable L128 win, now at 6.
>>152918915But gets over the line eventually for 6-4.
>>152918915>see, I COULD crush you if I wanted, but I also want a free Sunday, so have your winsigma as fuck
>>152918928but van schie won
>Homola-Merkx nextMerkx on 7 now..
>>152918930I jumped the gun :(
>>152918926Geeraets was still in contention for Oom with 5, so good news for Dirty Harry, Turetta, Beatens, de Zwaan and a few more who are also lurking.
Hendo not ready to call it a day yet, came back from 2-5 down to level it. However Slevin with the darts in the decider.
He did it, the absolute madman. 14 dart break to complete a 2-5 comeback.
Burton has a TC after beating Chaplin
Fallon's on, got bummed in first leg.
>>152918973>got bummed in first leg.giwtwm (bumming her)
UK Board 2 has>Thorpe 5 (now 6 after beating Part)>Claydon 4>Hughes 5>Eichen 3>Aldridge 6
Thanks for nothing, Noguera. Failed to hold in 21, and so allowing Gawlas a good chance at qualifying via Oom, he's now at 8.
>>152918967Oh goody, another 2 years of him being shit on Tour.
Unterbuchner officially out after Turetta won his first match. Jeroen Caron another of the 7 pointers out first match against Ben Robb
>>152918992To be fair to Gormlas, he was averaging 100+ for most of that match
Merkx wins, on 8 now
Jim Williams OUT. GOOD.
>>152919021Not technically, Turetta could lose 6-0 and drop below again.
https://recap.dartconnect.com/games/6963908fd4dde88a6a28fe02>38 dart legHope Roes takes some time away from the board, game has clearly gone
QUICK, SOMEONE CALL MATT PORTER.DO SOMETHING, PDC!
>>152919047>66 averagehttps://recap.dartconnect.com/matches/69639813d4dde88a6a290484That's pathetic.
Finally time for Sex Man.>>152919059The one leg she won way because Cass jobbed hard on the doubles, should have lost 6-0. JC creaming his pants right now.
Good start for Stefano Bozicek against van den Herik as he kicks off with a score of 7 on throw in the final leg.
Sex Haver looking good
de Zwaan is on.>>152919158Up 4-1, but hel'll need a deep run, not sure if he can do it with his current numbers.
Aldridge on fire
>114.10Hot damn.
>>152919174wins it with 3 12s, 1 13, 2 14sgot one 12-darter against him
>>152919174>>152919181>>152919188https://recap.dartconnect.com/matches/69639f91d4dde88a6a290a95Absolutely unreal scoring, fucking hell.
Big match starting in EU.
His car crash might actually cause Carroll to miss out on a card. Has been decent otherwise.
Shanghai Sex
>>152919036He is now, David Cameron has won big
Manby buggering up a bunch of match darts
>>152919229Nope, Cameron losing 6-0 puts him at +12 to Undershitter's +13
>>152919232Stormed off like a total cunt after McGuirk beat him yesterday, didn't even look him in the eye: https://youtu.be/5IdNlyIWJas?t=380
>>152919232againmanages to go from 40 to 32 but wins it
>>152919244Nope. Winner of Baetens v Turetta would be ahead of him regardless of the outcome.
Sex Man and Man By won, Devon out. de Zwaan looking good. Turetta meanwhile with a 10-darter.
>>152919258well duh, cut off is going to be 8-9 anywayWas just looking at the table without knowing the bracket.
David Sharp might have a sweaty day ahead of himself
>>152919290https://recap.dartconnect.com/matches/696391ecd4dde88a6a28ff1b>losing to McGoon of all people from 5-4 up and not having a match dart
The WDF will have two of its World Champions in 2026 as Andy Baetens' hopes of keeping his Tour Card come to an end at the hands of Michele Turetta. The other is of course Neil Duff who will never ever do Q-School.
Harry Ward done
JImmy van Schie's Q-School is over as Merkx gets revenge for yesterday. 96 average and a 9th point for Alexander the Great, van Schie finishes on 12 points.
Klose(5) vs de Zwaan(6) next, both still with a chance to qualify via Oom with a deep run. However for Klose it likely needs to be a L4 appearance.
Landman through, somehow (opponent busted on 30)on 9 now
Aldridge in trouble.Needs a break.
>>152919545Gets broken in 14 instead. Brutal.
>>152919545>>152919565Made a mess of a bunch of doubles
>>152919545>>152919565If he keeps the standard on the Challenge Tour he will annihilate it. Incredible week for him despite not getting a card.Patrick Bulen also out in the EU, creates a bit of a gap now with Turetta the only player left in on 7 points. If Turetta beats Martijn Dragt next there's an active gap of 2 points.
Our favorite Fat Scot one leg from elimination once more.
>>152919611105 to force a decider!
>>152919611Huge 105 with Monk waiting on D12!
RIP Hendo, would have needed a 9 to go on.
Mental final leg.
>>152919611what a ridiculous final leg
>>152919635And then he hits a 12. Fucking Monk.
Unsexy Steve goes on to L32, now sits at 9 points.
Jurjen van der Velde through, on 7 now
Eternal Q-School failure Jarred Cole fails again.
Zwaantje!
Coulson moves into 2nd on the UK Order of Merit, De Zwaan through in Kalkar.
de Zwaan beats Klose, now has 7 points. Two more wins could be enough for him. One probably not, since there are quite a few 7- and 8 points-players still in.
Sam Spivey missed D12 to finish 138 for a 6-5 win, only for Robbie Martin to finish 120 instead and leapfrog his opponent in the UK Order of Merit!
Faes out now, stays on 8
Sexy and Unsexy Steve both warming up. Can't see Beaton getting a card without winning the day. Could reach no more than 9 points otherwise, and with the current Oom, 9 does not look safe at all.
https://youtu.be/Mn2sMplz5Z4?t=380Pre-match interview with Hendo before Monk dumped him out, completely unrecognisable from his peak days. Fair play to him, you wouldn't think he was 52 even by Scottish standards.
I'll be honest: I have no idea who Marvin Kraft is, and how he amassed 8 points despite being mid, or how he's in the lead against Cameron despite being mid at best again.
Big Swedish Beard 6-4 Big Italian Moustache
Turetta in trouble against Dragt! Could leave a huge opening for the rest of the EU field if he goes.
Sex Man won, only 4 more wins to go.
>>152920080And he is out! Italy will have no Tour Card holders for 2026 at least. Merkx has been hammered 6-2 by de Zwaan.
Thorpe beats Aldridge-beater Eichen, on 8 now..!
Landman was 4-1 ahead, it's 4-5 now
Took me some time to figure this one out. Big Boris scored T20 T20, and then for some reason wanted to set up 32 with S25, but hit double bull instead. Typical Big Boris move, should have just gone 17 for D20.Also, for the millionth time:>write post>solve captcha>oh wait, I want to change a word>click in the post window>captcha immediatly invalidates>sigh>get a new one>"You have to wait a while before doing this again"Bravo!
Pratnemer in big trouble against Sevada, Landman survives match darts from Campbell
>>152920239Pratnemer should be fine anyway
>>152920239>Landman survives match darts from CampbellLandman wins
>>152920239And survives a bull attempt on 72 to rake the Leaf and return to the Tour to speedjob for another two years!
Pratnemer loses 6-4 having had darts for a deciding leg.Stephen Burton has beaten Steve Lennon.
>>152920299>Pratnemer loses 6-4 having had darts for a deciding leg.BUT GETS HIS CARD ANYWAY!
Manby wins, on 9 now
De Zwaan (7th) v Harrysson (8th) with the winner securing a Tour Card.Manby has moved into the Tour Card spots in the UK. Merv v Jenson Walker into an 11th leg.
>>152920335>Merv v Jenson Walker into an 11th leg.Which Merv wins. Fuck.
Merv squashes a kids dream for the year.
It'll be Manby-Beaton in the L16
>>152920437Potential Thorpe-King in the Last 8 too.
Coulson lostHe'd have been safe with 10 points, stays on 9
Unsexy Steve very unlikely to get a card now, sitting on last yellow spot and would rely on two players ahead of him winning the day, and no one overtaking him from behind. Not sure if even possible.Liam Meandl-Lawrance in the lead in L32 vs Marvin Kraft, shit game. Good news: No chance he gets in on Oom.
Waites outOne that could have ended on 9 loses to Wilson, who can't win via the OoM
Szekely/Brejcha and LML/Kraft both complete shite matches
>>152920519
Imagine Manby losing his next match 6-4, especially if Thorpe and King get another win.
>>152920515>jobs a final on the first day>2 wins over the course of the next 3 daysdid Waites even want a card?
>>152920523Kraft probably getting his card despite consistently throwing absolute dross
>>152920539I checked his performances over the final stage. A single game from 13 with a 90+ average. LML gone, Kraft on tour.Landman and van der Velde playing utter shite as well
>>152920539>>152920523Absolute joke of a tour card, but at least he removed LML.
>>152920527Manby has to beat Sex and he's sure of a cardhmm
>>152920562Can't wait for the R1 sub-80 jobathon between him and Bereza at Players Championship 19
Seems like Landman speedjobbed the bar after securing his tour card.
Bog Boris gets rid of Gawlas but the Czech will surely have enough points to get a Card.
>>152920605Maybe he's just being nice
>>152920633Still a mystery to me how Big Boris isn't doing better on tour. He's just terribly inconsistent it seems.
>>152920335>De Zwaan (7th) v Harrysson (8th)Happening now
>>152920637Could be. Could also imagine some of the players close to van der Velde in Oom seething right now, no matter if shenanigans involved or not.
Damn, lots of good matches starting now, can't follow them all.>Marvin Kraft vs de SousaEverything about this game feels wring at this point in the competition.
Unreal stat
Van der Velde batters Landman which means De Zwaan/Harrysson becomes a straight shootout for a Tour Card! JdZ led 2-0 but now 2-2.>>152920701Holy kek.
Damn. Carroll with 7 points despite only playing for three days. Kinda sad to see.
Sex Man holding on... for now.
De Zwaan/Harrysson a best of 3 for a Tour Card.
Manby striking back with a 115 checkout to break for 4-2. Maybe the Sex Age is over, and it's time for Champagne.
Is this Kraft guy a troll or what?
>>152920838Potential Dennie Olde Kalter level form on the Tour next year. Only without making a Players Championship final and getting anally violated by Littler.
>>152920818Now the best of 501 points. Harrysson broke to throw for the card and did NOTHING.
De Zwaan!
Stephen Rosney becomes the third Irishman to get a Tour Card after Stephen Burton beats him. Odd way to get a card but he won't care.
>SevadaWith that, Rupprecht in contention for an Oom spot, one more win should be enough.
127 for a card for Manby!
MANBY AND THORPE ARE ON TOUR
>Thorpe beat Cocks>Manby beat Sexright-o
Sex out, Thorpe won, that's the card for Thorpe. One more win could mean Oom card for King, since there are still three people in the comp who are deep in the green. King just with a big hold for 5-4.
Think the PDPA will need to have a word with Marvin Kraft by the way, averaging 65 against Jose and has somehow won a leg.
>>152920945two legs, even
Way to go for a decider, Merv now looking good for a card, but not safe yet.
>>1529209893
>>152920994If he loses 6-0 to Thorpe he will be out altogether.
A very odd way to phrase this, but a 6-3 defeat or better for JdZ guarantees his card.
Rupprecht vs de Zwaan next, if I read the Oom correctly, it's a shootout for a tour card, since Rupprecht, in case of a win, couldn't fall behind already safe Gawlas any longer, even with a 0-6 in a follow-up match. Maybe there'd be some equal leg difference magic, not sure.
>>152921030Rupprecht needs to win the match, de Zwaan needs to win 6 legs.The bottom half outright card will be one of the following:>Mika Donnevert v Jose de Sousa>Pascal Rupprecht v Jeffrey de Zwaan
>>152921024Maybe if you turn it around?>De Zwaan has a card with, at worst, a 6-3 defeat
The Kraftback is off! de Souce still with a chance to win back his card, who would have thought? Funnily enough, he will face Donnevert, another german player who didn't look too impressive so far.>>152921046>de Zwaan needs to win 6 legs.3 or 4 I thought, not sure. Same with Rupprecht, if he wins 6-5 and then loses 6-0, it could actually not be enough, but again, not sure if it's possible. Even if for some tiebreaker reason he falls behind Gawlas, it could still be enough.
>>152921046>de Zwaan needs to win 6 legs.For fuck's sake. I meant 3 legs.
Oh shit, just realised that Szekely is still in and is 2-5 down to Boris. If Krcmar wins, De Zwaan will get his Tour Card because nobody else can get to 10 points.
>>152921160it happened
>>152921160AND CONFIRMEDTHE BLACK COBRA IS BACK
Merv got the first leg against Thorpe, that means he at least can't fall behind Spivey any longer.Rupprecht and de Zwaan facing each other is bad news for Harryson I suppose, because that means they can't both remove themselves from Oom by winning directly. So he has to hope that whoever wins this wins the day, and van de Velde also wins a card directly - no idea if this is possible, or if it is even correct in the first place.>>152921183>>152921177Deserved, looked good overall.
Thorpe getting a card by only turning up on two days is so funny
Rupprecht and de Zwaan absolutely killing it by the way. And Donnevert with an early break against Jose.
Vetjens-Lap will never end
>>152921218I believe that the only way Harrysson gets a Tour Card is if the winner of Rupprecht/de Zwaan and van der Velde get the cards outright, BUT van der Velde has to play Boris in the "final". A win for van der Meijden and he moves onto 9 points.
Pascal "Knecht" Rupprecht really turning up here
>>152921275so you're saying there's a chance
>>152921252Lap wins
>Thorpe getting card>Immediatly jobbing to MervSharp and Coulson seething.
One more leg for Merv's card
with his 5th leg won, Merv should be safe
De Zwaan saving Merkx, possibly
Rupprecht getting raped while throwing for the match, could cost him his card.
>>152921301>when you bribe a kid to throw a match using money from the bank account the tax man doesn't know about
>>152921308definitely!
JdZ win a 15 dart holdRupprecht still with a good chance, will get a card if JdZ wins outright
>>152921314>rupprecht was 5-2 up and missed match dartsK W A B
oh waita lot is riding on Big Boris now
That loss for Rupprecht confirms the return of Jurjen van der Velde. Cue someone spraying Raid in JvdV's eyes when he gets ambushed at the World Masters prelims.
Merv is back. Fuck's sake.
>>152921333Merkx needs either both Van der Velde and Van der Meijden to lose or one of these or De Zwaan to win a TC outright
Manby winning means David Sharp gets his tour card after being eliminated several hours ago
Brutal finish from de Zwaan to beat Rupprecht, taking out 80 while Rupprecht on tops for the win.Rupprecht now relies on de Zwaan or van de Velde to win a card directly. In that case he should be safe, since I don't think someone else could overtake him while NOT winning a card directly. Al always, I could be wrong on this.
>>152921380Sharp will be found dead on the floor of Arena MK from stress. What a way to get a Tour Card, kek.
Burton losing means Derek Coulson will not get a card
>>152921389All depends on van der Meijden
>>152921400>one of Lewis Pride/Andrew Cass/Samuel Price will job on the Tour for two yearsI haven't got a clue who any of them are.
>>152919290>>152921397Imagine sitting there sweating for three hours, rooting for random dudes for the results you need lmao
Oh wait, van der Meijden could of course overtake Rupprecht. So I think it's like this:de Zwaan and vdV winning directly => Rupprecht safeone of them winning directly => depends on van der Meijden: If he loses: Rupprecht in, otherwise outnone of them winning: He's fucked.>>152921417Yeah, looks like. He's playing Big Boris right now.
>>152921427Samuel Price started today with 0 points.Incredible if he manages to grab a card.
>>152921373Bow down, peasant.
>>152921443>he was a Day 3 top-upmfw
>>152921432Pascal only needs one of Jdz or JvdV to win outright. It's Harrysson who needs both to do it.
do Sousa gone by the way, lost to Donnevert, who was shit the last 3 days, but decided to turn up today it seems.
>Boris busting 76 and then managing to miss every dart at D18 two visits later, with one hitting single 1????????????
Price or Pride
Pri*e derby for a card
>>152921565>>152921568we had the Gerwe/yn derby, now get ready for the Pric/de derby!
Alexander Merkx is a Tour Card holder!
It's over for Van der Meijden
Merkx now it. Sweaty times for Rupprecht and Harrysson.
I don't know what those two were doing, they altered between good streaks and comedyjobbed back and forth, but in the end Boris won.
>>152921675Andreas shitting himself, van der Velde 4-1 down to Sietse Lap. JdZ 2-0 up on Donnevert.
Thorpe buzzin, absolutely buzzin
>>152921813it's called bussin'
>>152921833Thorpe's bussy?
>JEFFREY LEADING 5-1https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KE-Ze-VPeESURELY IT CAN'T HAPPEN AGAIN?
Any success for women at Q school or has it been a blowout again?Think Fallon finding success after dumping Menzies would probably be the killing blow for him mentally.
>>152921888maybe he feels responsible for her being shit
>>152921888of course not, they were all craphayter got close in stage 1 but fallon has been rubbish
good of de Zwaan to keep his head in the game and not let this last day ultrajobber on to the tour
De Zwaan wins the day!
>>152921861IT CAN'TA 145 TO SECURE A CARD OUTRIGHT AND PUT PASCAL RUPPRECHT BACK ON TOUR!NOW HARRYSSON HOPING AGAINST HOPE AS LAP IS 5-3 UP ON JvdV
>>152921888they were shit, including the man.
>>1529219225-4!
>merv averaging 66fucking prick
it's ogre for Dirty HarryLap running away with the leg
Sietse Lap slowly to a finalWill be done at 19:00
And confirmation that Andreas Harrysson misses out on a Tour Card by 6 legs.His losses:>Day 1, L8: 2-6 v Sparidaans (79.35)>Day 2, L64: 1-6 v Maat (80.65)>Day 3, L128: 2-6 v Knops (92.52)>Day 4, L16: 5-6 v de Zwaan (85.23)If he had tried to make those first three defeats close, he would have got his card.
>>152922046And if that wasn't bad enough, Derek Coulson missed out on legs WON. Had he won just one more leg, he would have taken the Tour spot away from David Sharp. Q-School at its best/worst.
Charlie Manby secures an outright Tour Card by battering Merv 6-2.
Two straight shootouts to end Q-School this year.
Pride/Price goes to a deciding leg.
Pride pissing and shitting himself hard, Price a little less
>>152922223did that man just hit D3 going for Tops?
>>152922256D5 of course*Samuel Price wins a Tour Card as someone who didn't even pass the First Stage of Q-Schoolincredible
SAMUEL PRICE WINS A TOUR CARD! I can't wait to see "G. Price" on the Sky graphics at the Worlds.>>152922256I think Pride missed the bull on 128 and hit single 20.>>152922268Shades of Adam Lipscombe last year only getting a call-up because David Pallett had fucked it off.
Lap 3-2 up but somehow starts the leg with a score of 17.
>>152922322energy management
>>152922326checking in during the worlds and seeing the energy management meme still going was funny as fuck, even if a lot of tourists for the worlds didn't really acknowledge it.I can't even remember what match or which commentator started that shit. I want to say it was John Part.
BIG DICK BORIS
>>152922366Marijanovic on German comms IIRC
>BorisOh boy, another decider.
>>152922380Found it in the archive.What made it even funnier at the time was the games went in a way that ended up supporting the theory.
One deciding leg of 501 to close Q-School for 2026.
>26NOT the year you get your card, idiot
>180>26Boris bringing out the classics.
>Krcmarfucked it>>152921989you're not even that far off, lel
And Sietse Lap closes Q-School to claim a Tour Card for the first time. Given how slowly some of the scores went in on DartConnect, here's hoping he achieves very little.
>>152922500>Woodhouse bringing the low energy once more
>>152922500Fuck, that's my post, didn't even remember I brought that in here. Well, all credit goes to Rob.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt3b89IZmScThey had the final three visits from the Pride/Price match on the YouTube update. Absolute KINO footage.
