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Players Championship 2020 Event Eight Draw: The First Round line-up for Sunday’s ProTour event in Barnsley

Jamie Shaw in Players Championship 15 Mar 2020
Gary Anderson in action (Photo by Chris Dean/PDC)

The draw for Players Championship Eight has been confirmed, with 128 players battling it out in Barnsley.

The eighth of 30 Players Championship events to be held across the year will feature 128 players competing at the Barnsley Metrodome on Sunday March 15.

The event carries a total prize fund of £75,000, with money acquired counting towards both the ProTour Order of Merit and main Order of Merit.

World number one Michael van Gerwen will be out to clinch his first ProTour title of the season, while World Champion Peter Wright and World Matchplay champion Rob Cross also feature.

Gary Anderson, Nathan Aspinall and Ryan Searle are bidding to follow up their triumphs in previous weekends, while the likes of Michael Smith, Dave Chisnall, Glen Durrant, Daryl Gurney and Ian White are also in action.

In-form Dirk van Duijvenbode, Jamie Hughes, Gabriel Clemens and Devon Petersen will also be out to mount a challenge for glory.

Play commences at 12pm GMT, with matches up to and including the Quarter-Finals to be contested over the best of 11 legs, while Semi-Finals are best of 13 and the final is best of 15.

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Players Championship Eight Draw

Sunday March 15

First Round

Michael van Gerwen v Maik Kuivenhoven
Mike van Duivenbode v Gavin Carlin
Darren Webster v Scott Waites
Alan Tabern v Gary Blades
Steve Beaton v Derk Telnekes
Marko Kantele v Graham Usher
Jose De Sousa v Daniel Ayres
Dirk van Duijvenbode v Adam Hunt
Joe Cullen v Jamie Lewis
Arjan Konterman v Luke Woodhouse
Gabriel Clemens v Jeff Smith
Martin Schindler v Mickey Mansell
Glen Durrant v Ryan Murray
Connor Scutt v Robert Thornton
Chris Dobey v Scott Mitchell
Steve Lennon v Ryan Meikle
James Wade v Wesley Harms
James Hubbard v Jason Lowe
Dimitri Van den Bergh v Nathan Derry
Ciaran Teehan v Jim Walker
Jonny Clayton v Barrie Bates
Nick Kenny v Josh Payne
Danny Noppert v Richard North
Martijn Kleermaker v Luke Humphries
Daryl Gurney v Vincent Van der Meer
Steve West v Peter Jacques
Justin Pipe v Carl Wilkinson
Harry Ward v Niels Zonneveld
Rob Cross v Conan Whitehead
Steve Brown v Matthew Edgar
Keegan Brown v Kirk Shepherd
Kai Fan Leung v Michael Barnard
Ian White v William Borland
Aaron Beeney v Diogo Portela
John Henderson v Lisa Ashton
Robert Collins v Mark McGeeney
Jermaine Wattimena v Dom Taylor
Gary Anderson v Andy Hamilton
Stephen Bunting v Ross Smith
Stu Wilson v Rowby-John Rodriguez
Dave Chisnall v Adam Huckvale
Darren Penhall v Andrew Gilding
Mervyn King v Simon Stevenson
Jelle Klaasen v Benito van de Pas
Jamie Hughes v Geert Nentjes
David Pallett v Jonathan Worsley
Vincent van der Voort v Christian Bunse
Kyle Anderson v Damon Heta
Peter Wright v Colin Osborne
Scott Taylor v Reece Robinson
William O’Connor v Scott Baker
Ryan Searle v Bradley Brooks
Jeffrey De Zwaan v Mike De Decker
Ron Meulenkamp v Jan Dekker
Brendan Dolan v Devon Petersen
Adrian Gray v Kim Huybrechts
Nathan Aspinall v Madars Razma
Ted Evetts v Carl Hamilton
Ricky Evans v Jitse Van der Wal
Darius Labanauskas v Eddie Lovely
Michael Smith v Andy Boulton
James Wilson v Wayne Jones
Simon Whitlock v Ryan Joyce
Joe Murnan v Brian Raman