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2025 Premier League Darts

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2025 BetMGM Premier League Darts
Winner
Runner-up
Score
Dates
6 February – 29 May 2025
Edition
21st
Number of players
8
Venues
17
Premier League Darts
< 2024 | 2025 | 2026 >

The 2025 Premier League Darts, also known as the 2025 BetMGM Premier League Darts for sponsorship reasons, is an ongoing darts tournament organised by the Professional Darts Corporation – the twenty-first edition of the tournament. The event began on Thursday 6 February 2025, at the SSE Arena in Belfast, and will conclude with the play-offs, at The O2 Arena in London on Thursday 29 May 2025.[1]

Luke Littler is the defending champion after defeating Luke Humphries 11–7 in the 2024 final.[2][3][4]

Format

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The 2025 Premier League Darts uses the same format that was introduced for the 2022 edition.[5] It remains an eight-person knockout bracket every night, with each of the seven matches played as the first to six legs. The players are guaranteed to meet each other once in the quarter-finals throughout the first seven weeks, and once in the quarter-finals in weeks 9–15, with weeks 8 and 16 being drawn based on the league standings at that point. Players receive two points per semi-final finish, three points per runner-up finish, and five points per final win.

Following the league phase, the top four players in the table will contest the two knockout semi-finals with 1st playing 4th and 2nd playing 3rd.[6]

Venues

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Locations of the 2025 Premier League venues in the UK and Ireland.
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Other locations of the 2025 Premier League venues in Europe.
Northern Ireland Belfast Scotland Glasgow Republic of Ireland Dublin England Exeter
SSE Arena Belfast

Thursday 6 February

OVO Hydro

Thursday 13 February

3Arena

Thursday 20 February

Westpoint Arena

Thursday 27 February

England Brighton England Nottingham Wales Cardiff England Newcastle
Brighton Centre

Thursday 6 March

Motorpoint Arena Nottingham

Thursday 13 March

Utilita Arena Cardiff

Thursday 20 March

Utilita Arena Newcastle

Thursday 27 March

Germany Berlin England Manchester Netherlands Rotterdam England Liverpool
Uber Arena

Thursday 3 April

AO Arena

Thursday 10 April

Rotterdam Ahoy

Thursday 17 April

M&S Bank Arena

Thursday 24 April

England Birmingham England Leeds Scotland Aberdeen England Sheffield
Utilita Arena Birmingham

Thursday 1 May

First Direct Arena

Thursday 8 May

P&J Live

Thursday 15 May

Utilita Arena Sheffield

Thursday 22 May

England London
The O2

Thursday 29 May

Prize Money

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The prize money for the 2025 edition of the tournament remains at £1 million, including a £10,000 bonus to each night's winner.[7][8]

Stage Prize Money
Winner £275,000
Runner-up £125,000
Semi-finalists (x2) £85,000
5th place £75,000
6th place £70,000
7th place £65,000
8th place £60,000
Weekly Winner Bonus (x16) £10,000
Total £1,000,000

Players

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The top four players on the PDC Order of Merit—Luke Humphries, Luke Littler, Michael van Gerwen and Rob Cross—automatically qualified. The remaining four players were announced on 6 January 2025 live on Sky Sports News.[9][10] The announcement saw two changes made from 2024 lineup, with Stephen Bunting and Chris Dobey replacing Peter Wright and Michael Smith.[11][12] Former participants and Scottish World Cup duo Wright and Gary Anderson were not selected, marking the first Premier League line-up to not feature a player representing Scotland since 2010.[13] Reigning World Grand Prix champion Mike De Decker became the first victor of a premier event televised on Sky Sports to miss out on selection the following year.[14]

Player Appearance in
Premier League 		Consecutive
Streak 		Order of Merit
Rank 		Previous best performance
 Luke Humphries 2nd[a] 2 1 Runner-up: (2024)
 Luke Littler 2nd 2 2 Winner: (2024)
 Michael van Gerwen 13th 13 3 Winner: (2013, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023)
 Rob Cross 6th 2 4 Runner-up: (2019)
 Stephen Bunting 2nd[b] 1 5 8th: (2015)
 Gerwyn Price 7th 4 9 Runner-up: (2023)
 Chris Dobey 2nd[c] 1 10 7th: (2023)
 Nathan Aspinall 5th[d] 3 11 Runner up: (2020)

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  1. ^ Humphries had previously appeared as a one-off challenger in both 2019 and 2020.
  2. ^ Bunting had additionally appeared as a one-off challenger in 2020.
  3. ^ Dobey had additionally appeared as a one-off challenger in 2019 and 2020.
  4. ^ Aspinall had additionally appeared as a one-off challenger in 2019.

League stage

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The fixtures were released on 22 January 2025.[16][17] Match winners are shown in bold and all players are accompanied by their three-dart average for the match.[18]

29 May – Play-offs

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The top four players of the league stage contest in the play-offs to decide the champion of the Premier League.

England The O2, London

Score
Semi-finals (best of 19 legs)
   
   
Final (best of 21 legs)
   
Night's Total Average:
Highest Checkout:  
Most 180s:  
Night's 180s:

Standings

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Five points are awarded for a night win, three points for the runner-up and two points for the losing semi-finalists. When players are tied on points, nights won is used first as a tie-breaker and after that overall matches won.

The top four players after 16 nights will advance to the play-offs.

Pos Name Nights Matches Legs Scoring
Pts W RU SF QF Pld W L LF LA LD LWAT 100+ 140+ 180 A HC CR C%
1  Luke Humphries 5 1 0 0 0 3 3 0 18 8 10 6 30 24 4 100.08 140 18/28 64.29%
2  Chris Dobey 3 0 1 0 0 3 2 1 13 14 –1 5 28 19 9 95.63 170 13/31 41.94%
3  Michael van Gerwen 2 0 0 1 0 2 1 1 11 11 0 4 33 11 9 103.63 114 11/35 31.43%
4  Rob Cross 2 0 0 1 0 2 1 1 10 10 0 3 28 12 5 93.49 132 10/25 40.00%
5  Luke Littler 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 5 6 –1 2 16 7 6 113.91 161 5/11 45.45%
6  Gerwyn Price 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 4 6 –2 2 10 8 3 96.21 124 4/9 44.44%
7  Stephen Bunting 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 4 6 –2 2 16 7 2 94.03 137 4/13 30.77%
8  Nathan Aspinall 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 2 6 –4 1 14 5 1 95.73 93 2/10 20.00%

(C) Champion
(RU) Runner-up
(E) Eliminated
(Q) Qualified

As of 6 February 2025

Streaks

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Player Nights
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Play-offs
 Luke Humphries W
 Chris Dobey RU
 Michael van Gerwen SF
 Rob Cross SF
 Luke Littler QF
 Gerwyn Price QF
 Stephen Bunting QF
 Nathan Aspinall QF
Legend: DNQ Did not qualify DNP Did not participate QF Lost in Quarterfinals SF Semi-finalist RU Runner-up W Night winner

Positions by week

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Player Nights
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
 Luke Humphries 1
 Chris Dobey 2
 Michael van Gerwen 3
 Rob Cross 4
 Luke Littler 5
 Gerwyn Price 6
 Stephen Bunting 7
 Nathan Aspinall 8

Broadcasting rights

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In the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, the tournament is broadcast live on Sky Sports.[23][24] Viaplay and DAZN also air the tournament. The PDC's streaming service, PDCTV, is broadcasting the tournament for Rest of the World subscribers.[25]

References

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  1. ^ "BetMGM Premier League". PDC. 28 November 2024. Retrieved 6 January 2024.
  2. ^ Colman, Jonty (23 May 2024). "Littler beats Humphries to win Premier League Darts title". BBC Sport. Retrieved 6 January 2025.
  3. ^ Wellens, Megan (24 May 2024). "Premier League Darts: Luke Littler hits nine-darter on way to victory over Luke Humphries in final". Sky Sports. Retrieved 6 January 2025.
  4. ^ Liew, Jonathan (24 May 2024). "Luke Littler powers to Premier League Darts title with nine-dart delight". The Guardian. Retrieved 6 January 2025.
  5. ^ "Premier League Darts: Tournament to undergo the most radical change in its history". Sky Sports. 3 February 2022. Retrieved 6 January 2025.
  6. ^ "Premier League Darts 2025: Fixtures, results, table, averages, statistics, venues & Sky TV schedule". Sporting Life. 6 January 2025. Retrieved 6 January 2025.
  7. ^ "Premier League 2025". Mastercaller. Retrieved 6 January 2025.
  8. ^ Middleton, Emma (4 February 2025). "How does Premier League Darts work? | 2025 Premier League Darts fixtures, prize money, players". BBC Sport. Retrieved 6 February 2025.
  9. ^ "Premier League Darts 2025: Luke Littler to defend title as Stephen Bunting among wildcard picks in eight-player field". Sky Sports. 6 January 2025. Retrieved 6 January 2025.
  10. ^ "Premier League Darts 2025: Is Luke Littler playing? Who else might get picked? When does tournament start?". Sky Sports. 6 January 2025. Retrieved 6 January 2025.
  11. ^ Rathborn, Jack (6 January 2025). "Premier League Darts 2025 line-up revealed including Luke Littler, Luke Humphries and more". The Independent. Retrieved 6 January 2025.
  12. ^ McFarlane, Cam (6 January 2025). "2025 Premier League Darts Lineup Announced". Online Darts. Retrieved 15 January 2025.
  13. ^ Wood, Kieran (7 January 2025). "No Scottish player in Premier League Darts lineup for first time since 2010!". Darts News. Retrieved 7 January 2025.
  14. ^ Gill, Samuel (7 January 2025). "Mike de Decker becomes first Sky major winner ever to miss out on Premier League Darts selection". Darts News. Retrieved 7 January 2025.
  15. ^ "Premier League Darts 2025: Luke Littler, Luke Humphries, Michael van Gerwen and more player profiles". Sky Sports. 7 January 2025. Retrieved 8 January 2025.
  16. ^ Gorton, Josh (22 January 2025). "2025 Premier League Fixtures Confirmed". PDC. Retrieved 22 January 2025.
  17. ^ "Premier League Darts 2025: Fixtures, results, table, averages, statistics, venues & Sky TV schedule". Sporting Life. 6 February 2025. Retrieved 6 February 2025.
  18. ^ "Results of Premier League 2025". Mastercaller. Retrieved 6 February 2025.
  19. ^ "Premier League Darts 2025: Michael van Gerwen gets revenge over Luke Littler in classic". ESPN. 6 February 2025. Retrieved 6 February 2025.
  20. ^ Drury, Sam; Keogh, Frank (6 February 2025). "Premier League: Humphries beats Dobey 6-1 in Belfast final". BBC Sport. Retrieved 6 February 2025.
  21. ^ McKendry, Adam (6 February 2025). "Luke Humphries claims Premier League victory in Belfast with dominant display over Chris Dobey". Belfast Telegraph. Retrieved 6 February 2025.
  22. ^ "Premier League Darts table 2025 as Luke Littler defends his title". Sky Sports. 6 February 2025. Retrieved 6 February 2025.
  23. ^ Rathborn, Jack (6 February 2025). "What time does Luke Littler play in Premier League Darts tonight in Belfast?". The Independent. Retrieved 6 February 2025.
  24. ^ Potts, Michael (6 February 2025). "Premier League Darts on TV 2025: Channel, schedule and live stream". Radio Times. Retrieved 6 February 2025.
  25. ^ Gorton, Josh (6 February 2025). "Where to watch the 2025 BetMGM Premier League". PDC. Retrieved 7 February 2025.
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