Fixtures

Grand Slam of Darts 11/08 16:30 1 Gian van Veen vs Lisa Ashton View
Grand Slam of Darts 11/09 13:00 3 Gian van Veen vs Brisbane Wolves Reserves View
Grand Slam of Darts 11/09 13:00 2 Gian van Veen vs Josh Rock View
Players Championship Finals 11/21 12:00 6 Gian van Veen vs Luke Humphries View
Players Championship Finals 11/21 18:00 - Gian van Veen vs Luke Humphries View
World Youth Championship 11/23 14:00 1 Beau Greaves vs Gian van Veen View

Results

European Championship 10/26 20:35 1 Luke Humphries v Gian van Veen 10-11
European Championship 10/26 18:10 2 Gian van Veen v Michael van Gerwen 11-9
European Championship 10/26 12:00 3 Ryan Joyce v Gian van Veen 5-10
European Championship 10/25 11:00 4 Ryan Searle v Gian van Veen 2-10
European Championship 10/23 18:10 5 Gian van Veen v Damon Heta 6-3
European Tour 14 10/19 19:15 2 Gian van Veen v Nathan Aspinall 6-7
European Tour 14 10/19 17:05 3 Danny Noppert v Gian van Veen 3-6
European Tour 14 10/19 11:35 4 Jonny Clayton v Gian van Veen 1-6
European Tour 14 10/18 11:05 5 Gian van Veen v Niels Zonneveld 6-4
Players Championship 31 10/14 12:05 57 Gian van Veen v James Hurrell 5-6
World Grand Prix 2025 10/07 19:50 5 Borroni/Rossi v Gian van Veen 2-0
Players Championship 30 10/02 14:50 5 Niels Zonneveld v Gian van Veen 6-5

Wikipedia - Gian van Veen

Gian van Veen (born 23 April 2002) is a Dutch professional darts player who competes in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events, where he is currently ranked world number fifteen. A professional since 2023, Van Veen won his first PDC ranking title at Players Championship 6 on the 2025 PDC Pro Tour. He is a two-time European Championship semi-finalist. Van Veen has also finished as runner-up in two events on the PDC European Tour.

In his youth career, Van Veen found success in the PDC's youth system, most notably winning the PDC World Youth Championship in 2024. He has also won nine PDC Development Tours, topping the rankings in 2023.

History

2022

Van Veen attended 2022 PDC Pro Tour Qualifying School. He reached the final stage but lost his opening games on the first two days, losing 6–3 to Mario Vandenbogaerde in the last 16 in event three and to Ricardo Pietreczko 6–4 in the last 32 in event four. This meant he failed to gain a PDC Tour Card but gained access to the secondary tour, the 2022 Challenge Tour.

On 15 July 2022, Van Veen won his only Challenge Tour (CT) title to-date at CT12, defeating David Pallett 5–4 in a deciding leg in the final.

While participating in the Challenge Tour, Van Veen suffered with dartitis, a neurological condition which makes it difficult to release a dart. Van Veen has spoken out about it, stating that dartitis actually made him play better, and that an opponent had accused him of cheating while he suffered with it.

On 4 November 2022, Van Veen reached the final of the Players Championship 29 event, losing 4–8 to Gerwyn Price in the final.

2023

In January 2023, he attended 2023 PDC Pro Tour Qualifying School (Q–School) and won a PDC Tour Card by finishing ninth on the European Q–School Order of Merit.

On 27 August, he reached his second Pro Tour final. He finished as the runner-up at Players Championship 18, being defeated by Gerwyn Price 8–1 in the final.

He qualified for the 2023 European Championship, held in late-October, and reached his first PDC major semi-final. He achieved victories against Damon Heta, Daryl Gurney and Michael van Gerwen. He lost to James Wade 11–9 in the semi-finals.

Van Veen won 6 titles and topped the 2023 Development Tour Order of Merit, ahead of Luke Littler. On 26 November, Littler beat Van Veen 6–4 in the 2023 PDC World Youth Championship final.

2024

Van Veen made his PDC World Championship debut in the 2024 edition. He was eliminated in the first round by Hong Kong qualifier Man Lok Leung, who overturned a 2–0 deficit to defeat Van Veen 3–2 in a major upset.

Van Veen won two 2024 Development Tour (DT) titles: DT5 on 25 February, with a 5–0 whitewash of Dylan Slevin in the final; and DT7 on 3 May, with a 5–1 win against Nathan Rafferty.

On 22 September 2024, he reached his third Pro Tour final. In his first PDC European Tour final, he finished as runner-up after missing a match dart at the bullseye. He was defeated by Michael van Gerwen 8–7. In November, he reached his second PDC major quarter-final at the Grand Slam. He was defeated by Gary Anderson 16–14.

Having been defeated by Luke Littler in the previous year's final, Van Veen defeated fellow Dutchman Jurjen van der Velde 6–5 to win the 2024 World Youth Championship.

2025

Van Veen (right) and his Dutch teammate Danny Noppert at the 2025 PDC World Cup of Darts

Van Veen made his third UK Open appearance at the 2025 event. He reached the quarter-finals for the first time, before losing there to world champion Luke Littler 10–4. He reached the final of Players Championship 5 by defeating Luke Littler 7–6 in the semi-finals – ending Littler's 19-match winning streak. In the final, he led 7–4 against Joe Cullen but missed six match darts on his way to an 8–7 loss. The following day, he won his first ranking PDC title by winning Players Championship 6, defeating world number one Luke Humphries 8–3 in the final.

Following Players Championship 30, Van Veen reached the top 16 in the world on the PDC Order of Merit for the first time.