The tournament takes place at Halle 39 in Hildesheim, Germany, between 14 and 16 October 2016.

It featured a field of 48 players and £115,000 in prize money, with £25,000 going to the winner.

Michael van Gerwen was the defending champion, but he lost in the third round to Daryl Gurney.

[1] The prize money of the European Tour events stays the same as last year.

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.