Kim Huybrechts was the defending champion, but lost in the semi-finals to Michael van Gerwen.
Van Gerwen went on to win the title after defeating Peter Wright 6–2 in the final.
[1] The prize money of the European Tour events stays the same as last year.
[2] The top 16 players from the PDC ProTour Order of Merit Archived 2012-12-05 at archive.today on 27 July automatically qualified for the event and were seeded in the second round.
Arron Monk also withdrew for personal reasons the day the tournament began, thus giving Robbie Green a bye to the second round.