2025 Flanders Darts Trophy Betting Preview

It feels like a lifetime since the World Matchplay,  which was won by Luke Littler. The Euro Tour is back this weekend, check out James Punt’s 2025 Flanders Darts Trophy outright betting preview below.

2025 Flanders Darts Trophy

The Euro Tour returns with a second running of the Flanders Darts Trophy, taking place in Antwerp, Belgium. Last year’s event saw Dave Chisnall beating Ricardo Pitreczko in the final.

The summer holidays are over for most of the players and many returned to action in the two Players Championship events in Milton Keynes on Monday and Tuesday. Luke Littler made a rare appearance but Humphries, Price, Rock, Aspinall, Dobey and Anderson opted to stay away. Those players who had been away on World Series duties probably just needed the break, but that didn’t stop Stephen Bunting from turning up and reaching both finals and winning PC25 on Tuesday.

I assumed Littler would be making a rare Euro Tour appearance at the 2025 Flanders Darts Trophy this weekend as we are not in Germany. Littler has only played in Belgium three times and has won twice, and he has decided to play a Euro Tour event once again. The big players are now trying to get their game sharpened up for the big money events between now and the World Championships.

We have a fairly full field this weekend. Only Humphries, Aspinall and Anderson have pulled out, so far. Three players from the reserve list have got the call up. Ratajski, Slevin and Wenig will join in the first-round stage.

2025 Flanders Darts Trophy: The Seeds

1 Luke Littler 

Made a rare visit to the Players Championship on Monday, won three matches before losing to Rob Cross. Littler won both the World Series matches down under and his 2025 win rate is an impressive 77% and he has won three Majors, including the World Championship, a Euro Tour title and two World Series titles.

Littler is the only player to be averaging over 100 in the last 12 months. He has won the Belgian Darts Open for the last two years, so he is happy to play in this country. Lost in the third round here last year. Obvious favourite.

2 Michael Van Gerwen 

Still struggling to find his best form. He has played very little darts since the announcement that his marriage has ended. He has played just twelve matches since the end of the Premier League in May and won seven of them.

MVG played earlier this week and won four from six. He played well enough, but he remains hard to fancy in terms of winning the title.

3 Stephen Bunting 

The second-best player in the world on recent form? I would say so. He has now won five titles in 2025 and while he must have been tempted to have a rest after the World Series events in Australia and New Zealand, he went to Milton Keynes earlier this week and shot the lights out.

The Bullet has won thirteen of his last fourteen matches and hit eleven tons plus averages in his last fifteen. He only lost the final of PC24 7-8 and he was in immense form. He hit 69 180s across his fourteen matches at the Players Championships.

I have to say that my only concern is that he looked knackered after winning PC25. He has played in everything lately, travelling the globe and the tank will run dry at some point.

4 Jonny Clayton 

Another winner on the Euro Tour in 2025 and he played some good stuff earlier this week. He has won eight of his last ten matches, was a semi-finalist at the World Matchplay before the summer break, so his form remains intact.

After the break, he hit five ton plus averages earlier this week and his 6-8 loss to Bunting in the final of PC25 on Tuesday was his only duff performance, averaging just 91. Certainly, the Ferret makes the short list.

5 Chris Dobey 

Skipped the Players Championship events earlier in the week, but he is well up the OOM and can afford to do so. His Euro Tour trophy cabinet remains empty, and he has made the trip to Belgium this weekend in his quest to finally get one of these titles in his hands.

Hollywood has reached two quarter finals and a semi-final in the last five Euro Tour events, so he is getting closer to his second ever final. Dobey has won six of his last ten matches most of those in the World series events down under. He reached two semi-finals, but his recent form is typically Dobey. Some excellence interspersed with some very ordinary performances. A lack of consistency makes it hard to win titles.

6 Rob Cross 

Played earlier this week and played some good darts. He beat Luke Littler on Monday before losing the quarter final to Stephen Bunting. Cross has won seven of his last ten matches and on the whole is playing very well. He is much more consistent than the likes of Dobey, but his Euro Tour record this season is poor.

Voltage has played in five events and not yet got beyond the third round. That is played eight and won just three matches. He is better than that and I wouldn’t rule out a good run, but he is likely to find someone better at some stage.

7 James Wade 

Did us proud at the World Matchplay, ending up as the runner up to Luke Littler for us at nice odds. He returned to action earlier this week and won a couple of matches but clearly wasn’t quiet out of holiday mode.

Wade has reached a couple of Euro Tour semi-finals in 2025, including one in Belgium at the start of the season. He has not made a Euro Tour final since 2018, but a good run is possible if he can find the form that took him to the Matchplay final.

8 Damon Heta 

Runner up at the European Darts Open in May, but his recent form sees seven defeats in his last ten matches.

9 Gerwyn Price

Winner of the last Euro Tour event and winner of seven of his last ten matches. He has hit eight ton plus averages in those ten and is very much in contention this weekend.

10 Dave Chisnall 

Shows us flashes of the old Chizzy, but his run of poor form is a long one. His best Euro Tour performance in 2025 was a quarter final in ET1, which was in Belgium. That is just about the only straw to clutch to when considering his chances.

Since then, he has not got beyond the third round and he has now lost his last four opening matches on the Euro Tour. Chisnall has lost five of his last ten matches and is hard to fancy.

11 Peter Wright 

Has not been able to pull a rabbit out of the hat in 2025. He did so last year when he won the German Darts Championship on this very weekend last year. He backed that up with a quarter final here.

His recent form sees just four wins from his last ten matches, and he hasn’t put in a good performance since his run to the quarter-finals of the European Darts Grand Prix back in early May. Wright has lost half of his opening matches.

12 Ross Smith 

Looked like a Euro Tour title was going his way earlier in the season. Smith reached two quarter finals, a semi-final and a final in the first five events, but since losing the final of the Austrian Darts Open, he has failed to get beyond the third round in the following four.

His recent form sees seven wins from his last ten matches and he was a semi-finalist on Monday. He just lacks the consistency of the elite players and I think there is a lack of self-belief when it gets to the business end of tournaments.

13 Danny Noppert 

Specialist quarter final loser. He has lost nine of his last ten Euro Tour quarter finals. Noppert’s recent form sees five sub 90 averages in his last ten and he just can’t be on anyone’s short list.

14 Josh Rock 

Must be getting very frustrated by his inability to win more tournaments. He won on the Euro Tour last year but since that win, he has lost two quarter finals and two semi-finals. He picked up a Players Championship title earlier this season and of course won the World Cup of Darts with Daryl Gurney, but given the strength of his game, he should winning more titles, more regularly.

Rock has made the semi-finals in the last two Majors and that will have added to his frustration. If you look at his stats, he is right up there with the best, but he needs to get more comfortable about winning.

Could he win this weekend, yes. Will he be a good value bet? No. Rock didn’t play earlier this week, preferring a rest after doing the World Series events down under. He has won six of his last ten matches.

15 Martin Schindler 

A two-time Euro Tour winner in 2024 and has won another in 2025. He showed some good form earlier this week, reaching the semi-final of PC25, losing 6-7 to Jonny Clayton. Perfectly capable of a good run.

16 Ryan Searle 

Once more gets elevated to seeded status. He was not happy with the new qualifying criteria for the Euro Tour, meaning that he would have to play in the first round. As it has turned out he has been promoted to seeded status in five of the previous nine events.

He hasn’t taken advantage of that and has only gone beyond the third round once in 2025, losing a quarter final. His recent form sees five defeats in his last ten matches and he just isn’t playing very well and is struggling to string wins together.

2025 Flanders Darts Trophy: Best of the Rest

Players coming in at the first round have an extra match to play, which is a big disadvantage, but there have been five unseeded players in finals this season. None have won.

Gian Van Veen 

Has won six of his last ten matches and is lacking the kind of consistency needed to win titles right now. Has reached a final in 2025 already and he has the game, but maybe not the form.

Wessel Nijman 

Has won eight of his last ten matches but like Van Veen, is just lacking a bit of consistency. He was a quarter finalist on Tuesday but lost heavily to Bunting. Nijman has reached two of the last three Euro Tour semi-finals, so he can be expected to have a good run again, but winning the whole thing? He will do one day.

Mike De Decker 

Was an unseeded finalist in the Belgian Darts Open at the start of the season but has not made a lot of progress since. De Decker has lost five of his last ten matches and he is blowing very hot and cold. His lack of consistency rules him out for me.

Dirk van Duijvenbode 

You can say much the same thing about Dirk as about De Decker. Plays some great stuff and some duff stuff. There are too many duffs to think he will get it over the line this weekend. Dirk has won seven of his last ten matches and he made a quarter final on Monday but eventually, he finds someone better or simply plays a stinker.

Jermaine Wattimena 

Won his first PDC title at PC23 just before the summer break. He didn’t show that sort form earlier this week and the break may have come at the wrong time for him. He has won eight of his last ten matches, and maybe he was just knocking the rust off at this week’s Players Championship events. Hard to assess.

Jeffrey de Graaf 

Won his first PDC title on Monday, beating the in-form Stephen Bunting. It was a very good performance in the final, but his passage to it was a mixed bag. I am a bit of a fan but I have to admit that his Euro Tour record is very poor. He lost his opening match on Tuesday and his first-round match at the World series qualifier after that. A bit of mental let down is to be expected.

Karel Sedlacek 

Not really a contender for the title, but he reached two quarter finals earlier this week. Evil Charlie has reached three Euro Tour quarter finals in the last five seasons. Not a great record but he doesn’t play in that many events. If he gets a good draw, he might have a run and he is often a good value outsider in matches.

The 2025 Flanders Darts Trophy Draw

First Quarter 

Features two of the big beasts. Luke Littler and Gerwyn Price. Their H2H record is 8-7 to Littler and he has won their last four in a row, including one of the World Series matches two weeks ago. Unless he takes the huff if the crowd don’t like him, Littler will be hard to beat. The Belgian crowds have tended to be a very fair bunch, so he should be fine, unless we get a coach load of Germans in the hall.

Second Quarter 

The in-form Jonny Clayton is the top seed in this quarter, but there is plenty of talent in with him. Dobey, Noppert and Ross Smith are all fine players, but not out and out tournament winners, especially on the Euro Tour.

First round entrants include Van Duijvenbode, De Graaf, Ratajski and Gurney. I wouldn’t expect any of them to be winning the title, but they are all good players. Clayton to make the semi-final would be my call, but there he is likely to face Littler with whom he is 1-2 in the H2H’s.

Third Quarter 

MVG, Schindler, Wade and Chisnall are the four seeds. Schindler looks to be in the best form of those four, with Wade in there as well. I prefer the Euro Tour pedigree of Schindler, even outside Germany.

The first-round entrants include Gian Van Veen who looks set to face MVG in round two. He is 0-2 against MVG on the Euro Tour in 2025, including losing a final. He also lost a final to MVG in 2024, so he is a bit of a bogeyman for Gian, but he has beaten him twice, once on TV. Mike de Decker faces Martin Lukeman in the first round and he is the home crowd hero. The winner of that match will face Schindler.

James Wade may well face a Belgian if Kim Huybrechts can beat Lukas Wenig, which is not a given. The out of form Dave Chisnall looks set to face Jermaine Wattimena in round two and it is not a bad draw for Wattimena. He has no sort of Euro Tour form however and hasn’t got beyond the third round in 2025. Will that first PDC title inspire him?

Fourth Quarter

Stephen Bunting is the form player in the bottom half of the draw, but he has his work cut out just to make the semi-final. The other three seeds are Josh Rock, Rob Cross and Peter Wright. I think we can dismiss Snakebite, but Rock and Cross are hard to beat.

That said, Bunting is 5-0 against Rock and he beat the Ulsterman 6-0 in Australia a few weeks ago, and he didn’t even play well in that match. Against Cross, Bunting is well behind at 6-15. However, Bunting has won their last three, including a 6-1 win on Monday.

Of the first-round entrants, the big match is Nijman vs. Sedlacek, with the winner facing Rock. Sedlacek is a banana skin for both players. The Czech has already beaten Nijman in 2025, a 6-3 win in June.

2025 Flanders Darts Trophy Selections

If this goes to form, the final will be between Littler and Bunting. They are the best two players in the world right now. Littler has won sixteen of his last seventeen matches. That included winning the World Matchplay and two World Series titles. His only loss was in a floor event on Monday, and it is safe to say that Littler doesn’t care much about Players Championships.

The thing about Players Championships is that they are very hard to win. Seven short format matches in a day is tough and some draws can make it really tough. Bunting made two Players Championship finals this week and won one. He has therefore won thirteen of his last fourteen matches.

Busy Bunting

My biggest concern about Bunting is that he plays in everything. Littler plays a light schedule. This is only his third Euro Tour event in 2025. Bunting has played all nine. They both travelled to Australia and New Zealand for the World series but Littler only played in Monday’s Players Championship. Bunting played in both and was involved in a total of fourteen matches.

He looked tired after winning PC25 on Tuesday, not surprisingly. He got Wednesday and Thursday off before getting on another plane to travel to Antwerp. It is not a lot of time to recharge his batteries.

Is there anyone else worth considering? Jonny Clayton has good Euro Tour pedigree, winning three titles including one this season. He was impressive in the Players Championship, his defeat to Bunting in the final of PC25 excepted. That is his problem. In his half of the draw, he is very likely to have to beat Littler to make the final, and if it goes to form he is likely to face Bunting in that final.

Of course the big two beasts could have an off match and lose early on, but it is hard to see that right now.

2025 Flanders Darts Trophy – Odds & Tip

The early odds have Littler as a best price 3.00 favourite. Not a surprise and about right. Bunting can be backed at 15.00 if Betvictor will let you bet with them. However, once they clock that Luke Humphries, Anderson and Aspinall have withdrawn, they will have Bunting at 13.00 like everyone else.

Bunting is a bigger price than Josh Rock (11.00) despite that H2H record, and a bigger price than Price who will likely have to beat Littler just to reach the final.

Value

Any value in the outright market has to lie with Bunting in my book. Bunting has beaten Littler four times and three times in 2025, so if they did meet in the final, he would not be without a chance.

However, I do worry that fatigue might get to Bunting at some stage. He knows how to win on the Euro Tour and the way to operate between matches, but he has played an awful lot of darts recently, and done a lot of travelling. He is no athlete and it all might catch up with him at some point.

Crowd Concerns

The biggest threat to Littler is the crowd. He has enjoyed his trips to Belgium, and the crowds here tend to be big darts fans, rather than partisan pissheads. But, you never know. If they decide to give Littler a bit of stick, start shouting for the underdog (which is anyone he faces) Littler might have a strop.

This looks like a tournament were the best profits may come from the match betting, but I will have a modest interest on Bunting to win the 2025 Flanders Darts Trophy.

2025 Flanders Darts Trophy Tip: 0.5 point e/w Stephen Bunting to win the Flander Darts Trophy @ 13.00 generally available

I will try and cover as many sessions as possible at the 2025 Flanders Darts Trophy this weekend, but we have another Euro Tour – Formula 1 clash this. There will be some first-round selections posted tomorrow morning.

-JamesPunt