2023 PDC Asian Championship

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The **2023 PDC Asian Championship** will be the second edition of the PDC Asian Championship tournament organized by the Professional Darts Corporation for Asian players. The tournament will feature 48 players from all around Asia, and will take place in the Kaikyō Messe Shimonoseki, Shimonoseki, Japan on 7–8 October 2023, with the four semi-finalists earning a place in the 2024 PDC World Darts Championship, and the winner also earning a place in the 2023 Grand Slam of Darts.

Christian Perez is the defending champion, after defeating Paolo Nebrida 7–5 in the 2022 final.

## Format

The 48 player main event on 7–8 October will be preceded by two days of Asian Series qualifiers in Shimonoseki, with four qualifying events being split across 5–6 October.

The 48 player main event will begin with a round-robin stage on 7 October, with the players split into 16 groups of three.

Each group winner progressed to compete in the last 16 later on 7 October, with 8 October featuring the quarter-finals, semi-finals and final.

In the Asian Series Qualifiers, players will receive one point per victory from the first full round drawn without byes to form the Order of Merit.

## Prize money

The total prize fund remained at US$100,000. The four semi-finalists of the tournament will earn a place in the 2024 PDC World Darts Championship, and the winner will earn a place in the 2023 Grand Slam of Darts as well.

## Qualifiers

The top 16 players on the 2023 PDC Asian Tour series Order of Merit are seeded in the group stages, and are joined by 32 more qualifiers.

The 48 player main event will be preceded by two days of Asian Series qualifiers in Shimonoseki, with four qualifying events, two being held on 5 October, and two being held on 6 October.

The last two players from each qualifier secured a place in the main event, alongside a further eight players from an Asian Championship Order of Merit.

A further sixteen regional qualifiers held all over Asia each produced one qualifier.

The qualifiers were:

1. Lourence Ilagan
2. Tomoya Goto
3. Paolo Nebrida
4. Reynaldo Rivera
5. Man Lok Leung
6. Lok Yin Lee
7. Jun Matsuda
8. Paul Lim
9. Rosendo Lubaton
10. Nitin Kumar
11. Zong Xiao Chen
12. Alexis Toylo
13. Christian Perez
14. Mohd Nasir Bin Jantan
15. Haruki Muramatsu
16. Mitsuhiko Tatsunami
**Event 1**

**Event 2**

**Event 3**

**Event 4**

**Asian Chamopionship Order of Merit Qualifiers**
* Xicheng Han
* Shailender Singh Dixit Thakur
* Jemel Ching Modesto
* Yuan Lun Han
* Cher Kai Ang
* Chaiyan Paiaree
* Hasan Haji Jafaar
* JinWook Lee
* Altantulkhuur Myagmarsuren
* Jenn Ming Tan
* Royden Lam
* Kam Weng Cheng
* Hussain Nadir Ali
* Rizwan Ahmed
* Andersen Tjoeng

## Draw

### Group stage

*All group matches are best of nine legs*
 *Only winners in each group qualify for the knock-out stage*

NB: P = Played; W = Won; L = Lost; LF = Legs for; LA = Legs against; +/− = Plus/minus record, in relation to legs; AVG = mean average; Pts = Points; Status = Qualified to knockout stage

## References

1. ↑ Philippines' Perez wins 2022 PDC Asian Championship. PDC.
2. ↑ Pre-qualified players confirmed for 2023 PDC Asian Championship. PDC.