The Players Championship 2025 season starts on Monday and Tuesday in Wigan with the first two of 34 Players Championship events. The Robin Park Leisure Centre in Wigan plays host to the two competitions, featuring 128 players and with a daily prize fund of £125,000. We take a look at some of the darting heavyweights flinging tungsten around this week in Lancashire.
Players Championship 2025: Huge Pro Tour Return in Wigan
The events, which run from next week until October 30, are the bread and butter of the PDC tour while they also act as qualifiers for the 64-player Players Championship Finals, staged in Minehead in November.
Players Championship 2025: Likely Lukes
Nearly all of the PDC’s top stars plus a whole rash of old hands and new faces are expected to be in Wigan hunting down the daily £15,000 winner’s cheques. Michael van Gerwen was the only notable absentee when the declarations for the two events were made, the Dutchman insisting he is going to juggle his workload more efficiently this year. As it stands, however, that means the seven other members of the Premier League will be in action, including Luke Humphries and Luke Littler.
World No.1 Humphries is very much the man to beat at the moment having struck gold at last weekend’s World Masters and followed up by landing the spoils on the first night of Premier League action in Belfast on Thursday. Cool Hand is a four-time Players Championship winner over the past two years while world champ Littler won three of the 30 events held in 2024, including the first one, also in Wigan, last February.
Players Championship 2025: Beady Eye Beau
Naturally, these one-day Players Championship events – best-of-11 leg shootouts until the semis (best of 13) and final (best of 15) – are cut-throat and keenly contested. And on any given day, anyone can win them. Last year the 30 PC contests produced 22 different winners, including some unlikely victors, including Alan Soutar, Brendan Dolan and Cameron Menzies.
One eye-catching inclusion in the field in Wigan is Beau Greaves, the reigning women’s world champion, who gets a place in next week’s double-header because she tops the fledgling 2025 Challenge Tour Order of Merit after five events. Greaves beat Stefan Bellmont 5-4 in the final of CT1 in Milton Keynes last month and 24 hours later she whitewashed John Henderson 5-0 with a 101-plus average in the final of CT3. The South Yorkshire thrower is a class act and while she may be the only woman in the field in Wigan, she won’t feel in any way intimidated.
Players Championship 2025: Super Searle
Clearly, darts fans are going to have their own fancies for the opening two PC events, but here’s a trio to consider. Ryan Searle was the ultimate fast starter in 2024, reaching the final of each of the first three events, winning the third. Put him on a shortlist alongside a couple of bright young hopes from the continent, the outstanding Wessel Nijman and Gian van Veen, both of whom are poised to have big years in 2025.
By Adrian Mills
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