The elite of arrer-chuckers are invited to play this year’s Premier League Darts, an event which runs for almost four months, with the eight competitors getting going in Belfast on February 6th.
Premier League 2025: Thursday Nights Are Back
Luke Littler is the defending champion, having won the title last May. He beat Luke Humphries 11-7 in the final, hitting a nine-dart finish to go 6-5 up. He and Humphries are the favourites for this year’s competition.
Premier League Darts 2025: Format
Every week the eight players go into a knockout bracket, with seven matches – quarter-finals, semi-finals and final – played over the first to six legs. The players are guaranteed to meet each other once in the quarter-finals in the first seven weeks and once in the quarter-finals in weeks nine to 15. Weeks eight and 16 are drawn based on league standings at that point.
Players receive two league points for a semi-final finish, three points for a runner-up finish and five for winning a final. Following the 16-week league phase, the top four players in the table contest the playoffs at the O2 Arena in London, with the table-topper facing whoever finished fourth in one semi-final and second and third in the league meeting in the other semi. The semi-finals are best of 19 legs, with the final played over best of 21 legs.
Premier League Darts 2025: Schedule
Most of the Premier League action takes place in England, but the opening night is in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Weeks two and 14 are in Scotland, week three in Ireland, week seven in Wales, before April dates in Germany and the Netherlands. Here’s how the year is going to unfold.
Feb 6 SSE Arena (Belfast)
Feb 13 OVO Hydro (Glasgow)
Feb 20 3Arena (Dublin)
Feb 27 Westpoint Arena (Exeter)
Mar 6 Brighton Centre (Brighton)
Mar 13 Motorpoint Arena (Nottingham)
Mar 20 Utilita Arena (Cardiff)
Mar 27 Utilita Arena (Newcastle)
April 3 Uber Arena (Berlin)
April 10 AO Arena (Manchester)
April 17 Rotterdam Ahoy (Rotterdam)
April 24 M&S Bank Arena (Liverpool)
May 1 Utilita Arena (Birmingham)
May 8 First Direct Arena (Leeds)
May 15 P&J Live (Aberdeen)
May 22 Utilita Arena (Sheffield)
May 29 The O2 (London)
Premier League Darts 2025: Who’s In?
There are no debutants in the Premier League this year, all eight in the line-up have previous experience of the competition. All will be chasing a first prize of £275,000. The Lukes – Littler and Humphries – dominate the outright betting. Michael van Gerwen, who just lost the final of the World Championship to Littler, is seeking to win the Premier League for the eighth time.
The Dutchman is the most successful Premier League player ever. Littler is the only other previous champion in this year’s line-up, but there are four former runner-ups included. Humphries, Rob Cross, Nathan Aspinall and Gerwyn Price have all been in a Premier League final and get another crack this year.
Stephen Bunting and Chris Dobey, both losing semi-finalists in the last World Championship, have struggled in their previous Premier League outings. Bunting finished eighth of 10 in his only previous appearance in 2015, while Dobey finished seventh of eight in 2023. The pair will hope for better in their second attempt this year.
By Adrian Mills
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