The 2020 European Championship has a total prize fund of £500,000, the same as its previous edition.[4]
The following is the breakdown of the fund:
Position (no. of players)
Prize money (Total: £500,000)
Winner
(1)
£120,000
Runner-up
(1)
£60,000
Semi-finalists
(2)
£32,000
Quarter-finalists
(4)
£20,000
Last 16 (second round)
(8)
£10,000
Last 32 (first round)
(16)
£6,000
Qualification
The 2020 tournament continued the new qualification system used in the two previous editions: the top 32 players from the European Tour Order of Merit qualified for the tournament.[5] The Order of Merit is solely based on prize money won in the four European tour events during the season, reduced from the planned 13 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
As with the previous tournaments, players were drawn in a fixed bracket by their seeded order with the top qualifier playing the 32nd, the second playing the 31st and so on.
Glen Durrant (who would've been 23rd seed) had to withdraw from the tournament after testing positive for COVID-19 the week before,[6] allowing William O'Connor to enter the tournament as the 32nd seed.[5]
The following players qualified for the tournament: