2015 UK Open

The 2015 Coral UK Open was a darts tournament staged by the Professional Darts Corporation. It was the thirteenth year of the tournament where, following numerous regional qualifying heats throughout Britain, players competing in a single elimination tournament to be crowned champion. The tournament was held for the second time at the Butlin's Resort in Minehead, England, between 6–8 March 2015, and had the nickname, "the FA Cup of darts" as a random draw was staged after each round until the final.

Adrian Lewis was the defending champion, having won the fourth major title of his career after beating Terry Jenkins 11–1 in the 2014 final. This year however, he was defeated in the third round after losing 9–3 to Raymond van Barneveld. Michael van Gerwen won his first UK Open title by defeating Peter Wright 11–5 in the final.

UK Open qualifiers
There were six qualifying events staged in February 2015 to determine the UK Open Order of Merit Table. The tournament winners were:

The tournament featured 147 players. The results of the six qualifiers shown above were collated into the UK Open Order Of Merit. The top 32 players in the Order of Merit received a place at the final tournament. In addition, the next 64 players plus ties in the Order of Merit list qualified for the tournament, but started in the earlier rounds played on the Friday. A further 32 players qualified via regional qualifying tournaments.

Top 32 in Order of Merit (receiving byes into third round)
• 1. Michael van Gerwen

• 2. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Adrian Lewis

• 3. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Michael Smith

• 4. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Phil Taylor

• 5. Vincent van der Voort

• 6. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 James Wade

• 7. Jelle Klaasen

• 8. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Ian White

• 9. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Mark Webster

• 10. 🇧🇪 Kim Huybrechts

• 11. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Andrew Gilding

• 12. Brendan Dolan

• 13. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Dave Chisnall

• 14. Raymond van Barneveld

• 15. Robert Thornton

• 16. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Justin Pipe

• 17. Peter Wright

• 18. 🇦🇹 Mensur Suljović

• 19. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Jamie Caven

• 20. 🇦🇺 Paul Nicholson

• 21. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Alan Norris

• 22. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Eddie Dootson

• 23. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Mervyn King

• 24. Daryl Gurney

• 25. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Brian Woods

• 26. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Terry Jenkins

• 27. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Andy Hamilton

• 28. John Henderson

• 29. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Steve Beaton

• 30. 🇦🇺 Simon Whitlock

• 31. Gary Anderson

• 32. 🇩🇪 Max Hopp

Number 33–64 of the Order of Merit (receiving byes into second round)
• 1. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Ricky Evans

• 2. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 James Wilson

• 3. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Joe Murnan

• 4. 🇦🇺 Kyle Anderson

• 5. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Andy Smith

• 6. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Matthew Edgar

• 7. Jeffrey de Zwaan

• 8. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Kevin Painter

• 9. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Stephen Bunting

• 10. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Andy Boulton

• 11. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Dean Winstanley

• 12. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Joe Cullen

• 13. 🇧🇪 Ronny Huybrechts

• 14. 🇮🇪 William O'Connor

• 15. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Chris Dobey

• 16. Christian Kist

• 17. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Kevin McDine

• 18. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Wayne Jones

• 19. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Nathan Aspinall

• 20. Jan Dekker

• 21. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Nathan Derry

• 22. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Ronnie Baxter

• 23. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Mark Frost

• 24. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Ryan Harrington

• 25. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Dennis Smith

• 26. Benito van de Pas

• 27. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Darren Webster

• 28. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Terry Temple

• 29. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Andy Jenkins

• 30. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Dean Stewart

• 31. Jamie Bain

• 32. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Aaron Turner

Remaining Order of Merit qualifiers (starting in first and preliminary round)
• 1. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Stuart Kellett

• 2. Dirk van Duijvenbode

• 3. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Jonny Clayton

• 4. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Steve Hine

• 5. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Alan Tabern

• 6. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 John Bowles

• 7. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Darren Johnson

• 8. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Jay Foreman

• 9. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Johnny Haines

• 10. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Shaun Griffiths

• 11. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Mark Jones

• 12. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Josh Payne

• 13. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Wes Newton

• 14. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Brett Claydon

• 15. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Keegan Brown

• 16. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Adam Hunt

• 17. 🇧🇪 Mike De Decker

• 18. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 David Pallett

• 19. Joey ten Berge

• 20. Devon Petersen

• 21. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Lee Evans

• 22. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Colin Fowler

• 23. Mike Zuydwijk

• 24. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 James Richardson

• 25. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Mark Cox

• 26. 🇨🇦 John Part

• 27. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Matt Clark

• 28. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Ricky Sudale

• 29. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Nick Fullwell

• 30. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Jon Jukes

• 31. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Luke Woodhouse

• 32. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Steve Douglas

• 33. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Jason Wilson

• 34. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Robbie Green

• 35. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Ben Ward

• 36. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Alex Roy

• 37. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Jason Lovett

• 38. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Mick Todd

• 39. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Steve West

• 40. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Matt Padgett

• 41. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Mark Dudbridge

• 42. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Ian Moss

• 43. Jermaine Wattimena

• 44. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Dave Ladley

• 45. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Martyn Turner

• 46. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Jamie Robinson

• 47. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Mark Robinson

• 48. Mark Barilli

• 49. Connie Finnan

• 50. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Gerwyn Price

• 51. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Scott Dale

Riley qualifiers (starting in first and preliminary round)
32 amateur players qualified from Riley qualifiers held across the UK.

• 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Tommy Sanwell

• 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Dean Sanders

• 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Peter Hudson

• 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Stuart White

• 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Bradley Williams

• 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Dave Parletti

• 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Paul Dawkins

• 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Chris Packer

• 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Kevin Edwards

• 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 John Ferrell

• 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Rob Smith

• 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Kevin Smith

• 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Rory Duffy

• 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Lloyd Pennell

• 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Adi Acott

• 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Jason Mold

• 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Dave Prins

• 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Matthew Tedstone

• 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Mick Brooks

• Jim McEwan

• 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Lee Russell

• 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Lionel Sams

• 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Graham Hall

•  Derek Brand

• 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Mark Layton

• 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Gary O'Donnell

• 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Stephen Hardy

• 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Arron Fairweather

• 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Nigel Daniels

• 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Paul Hogan

• 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Adam Huckvale

• 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Simon Stevenson

Prize money
The prize fund was increased from £250,000 to £300,000 for this year's event.

Media coverage
Like the 2014 tournament, the 2015 tournament was broadcast live in the UK on ITV4 and ITV4 HD.