2025 NORDIC DARTS MASTERS PREVIEW
What, When and Where is the Nordic Darts Masters?
The 2025 Nordic Darts Masters is set to take place on the 6th and 7th of June 2025 in Copenhagen, Denmark. It takes place at the Forum Copenhagen, a large arena in the Frederiksberg area of the city, and has been held there since the first edition in 2021.
It will be the third of this year’s seven World Series events, and the first since January’s double-header in Bahrain and the Netherlands. The event has had four different winners in its four editions.​
Gerwyn Price won the 2024 edition of the Nordic Masters. Photo: PDC Website
What is the Format and Session Plan?
World Series events take place over just two days with evening sessions and feature 16 players: eight PDC representatives and eight regional representatives.
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Round one features eight games, with PDC representatives facing regional representatives, and takes place on the first day.
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Day two then sees a single session with the quarter-finals, semi-finals and final.
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The sessions both get underway at 19:00 local time and are both fully sold out.
Who Qualifies for the Nordic Masters?
The PDC representatives are hand-picked, whereas there are qualifying rules for the regional representatives for this event, who all come from the Nordic & Baltic region
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To get the eight regional representatives:
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Any player from that region with an active PDC tour card gets a spot
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Any remaining spots go to the top players from the PDC Nordic & Baltic tour
Who are the PDC Representatives?
The eight seeded players are big stars selected by the PDC. This includes seven of the eight players from the recently concluded Premier League:
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Luke Humphries
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Luke Littler
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Michael van Gerwen
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Stephen Bunting
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Rob Cross
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Gerwyn Price
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Nathan Aspinall
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The one exception is the selection of Jonny Clayton over Chris Dobey, which was confirmed before Clayton’s recent win at the Dutch Darts Championship.
Who are the Tour Card Holder Qualifiers?
Any PDC tour card holder from the Nordic & Baltic region automatically secures a spot.
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Madars Razma
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First and only Latvian player to win a PDC tour card at Q School
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Current World Number 45
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Three-time PDC ranking event finalist and former major quarterfinalist
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Benjamin Reus
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Second Danish player to win a PDC tour card at Q School in 2024
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Current World Number 92
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Had an individual average of 114.7 during a 2023 World Cup game
Jeffrey de Graaf
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Returned to the PDC tour in 2024 after a five-year break
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Born in the Netherlands but now represents Sweden after a naturalisation period
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Beat Gary Anderson in straight sets at the 2025 PDC World Championship
Cor Dekker
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Also born in the Netherlands but now represents Norway
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Became the first Norwegian to win a PDC tour card at 2025 Q School
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Hit a nine-darter on the 2024 Euro Tour
Oskar Lukasiak
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Won a PDC tour card through the EU Q School Order of Merit in 2025
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PDC World Cup of Darts quarterfinalist with Sweden in both 2023 and 2024
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Won a title on the 2024 PDC Challenge Tour
Viktor Tingstrom
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One of two Swedish players alongside Lukasiak to win a tour card in 2025
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Part of the 2024 WDF Europe Cup winning team
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Winner of the WDF 2024 Finnish Masters
Who are the Tour Card Holder Qualifiers?
The top two players on the rolling 12-month PDC Nordic & Baltic rankings qualify.
Andreas Harrysson
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First Swedish player to win a Champions Week title at the Modus Super Series
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Won two titles on the 2024 PDC Challenge Tour
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Part of the 2024 WDF Europe Cup winning team
Darius Labanauskas
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Had a PDC tour card between 2019 and 2023
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First Lithuanian player to win a PDC World Championship game
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Current leader of the 2024 PDC Challenge Tour rankings
Betting Tips for the Nordic Darts Masters
Bunting to return to form?
Stephen Bunting has produced his best results of the year on the World Series, and after a poor Premier League campaign could offer some value in the outright market.
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Labanauskas to get a win for the qualifiers?
Despite not having had a tour card for the past few years, Darius Labanauskas seems to be in better form than nearly all of the other regional representatives, and could be their best hope at getting a win over a PDC star.
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SF1 winner the way to go?
In all events with action-packed final sessions, it is often beneficial to back the finalist whose semi-final win came earlier in the night, as they have more of a break before the decisive showdown.
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Betting Odds for the Nordic Masters 2025 TBC.
Best Betting Sites for the 2025 Nordic Masters
Who Have the Past Finalists Been?
The first edition in 2021 saw history made, with Fallon Sherrock becoming the first woman to reach a televised PDC final in a mixed event, but she was beaten 11-7 by Michael van Gerwen, who picked up his 16th World Series title.
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In 2022, we saw Dimitri van den Bergh win his first World Series title, beating Gary Anderson 11-5 in the final.
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In 2023, Peter Wright picked up his first World Series title since 2019 with an 11-5 win over Gerwyn Price.
Gerwyn Price is the reigning Nordic Darts Masters Champion having beaten Rob Cross 8-5 in last year’s final to take his World Series title count to four.
No regional representative has ever reached the final.
Which Nordic & Baltic Players Have Won at the Event?
In the four editions of the event so far, only two Nordic & Baltic players have won matches.
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Madars Razma beat Nathan Aspinall 6-4 in round one of the inaugural edition in 2021
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Johan Engström, who isn’t in this year’s edition, beat Peter Wright 6-5 last year
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No Nordic & Baltic player won a game in either 2022 or 2023, and no non-PDC representative has ever reached the semi-finals
