Gary Anderson won his first European Tour event by defeating Justin Pipe 6–5 in the final.
[2] [3] The top 16 players from the PDC ProTour Order of Merit Archived 2013-11-27 at archive.today on the 17 January 2014 automatically qualified for the event.
[4] In a change from previous European Tour events, this year there will be 48 players in each tournament instead of 64.
[5] 20 places were on offer at the UK Open Qualifier held in Wigan on 19 January.
[6] Eight and four places were awarded in the European and Host Nation Qualifiers respectively, which were held at the venue the day before the event started.