The qualification criteria changed again for the 2021 tournament, as there were no Summer, Autumn or Winter Series events, as well as no Home Tour, and no events organized by the BDO, which dissolved in 2020. The addition of qualifiers from the PDC Challenge and Development Tours replaced BDO representation. The qualifiers were:
Qualifying Tournaments } Since the list of qualifiers from the main tournaments produced fewer than the required number of 16 players, the field was to be filled from the reserve lists. The first list consisted of the winners from 2021 European Tour events, with the winners ordered based on Order of Merit position at the cut-off date. However, Gerwyn Price, who had already qualified, won both European Tour events, and thus this list produced no new competitors. Since there were still fewer than 16 qualifiers after European Tour champions were included, the players with the most
2021 Players Championship titles were added. Order of Merit position served as a tiebreaker.
PDC Qualifying Event A further eight places in the Grand Slam of Darts were filled by winners of a qualifying event on 5 November. These are the qualifiers: • • • • • • • •
Additional qualifiers The winners of these tournaments and tours also qualified for the tournament, in place of BDO/WDF representation. ==Draw==