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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
Nine-dart finish
 Luke Humphries
 Rob Cross
 Luke Littler
 Gerwyn Price
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]

Night five saw two nine-dart finishes. Humphries hit the first in his 6–4 loss to Rob Cross.[5] Cross then hit his own perfect leg in his semi-final against Nathan Aspinall, a match he lost 6–5.[6] Littler hit the third nine-dart finish of the tournament in his night seven final win against Michael van Gerwen. On night ten, Gerwyn Price hit the fourth nine dart-finish in his 6–3 quarter final loss against Littler.

Format

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The 2025 Premier League Darts uses the same format that was introduced for the 2022 edition.[7] 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.[8]

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.[9][10]

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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Luke Littler is the defending champion going into the tournament.

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.[11][12] The announcement saw two changes made from 2024 lineup, with Stephen Bunting and Chris Dobey replacing Peter Wright and Michael Smith.[13][14] 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.[15] 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.[16]

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.[18][19] Match winners are shown in bold and all players are accompanied by their three-dart average for the match.[20]

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 Littler 30 4 2 2 3 25 18 7 135 97 38 50 115 97 122 103.27 170 135/315 42.85%
2  Luke Humphries 23 2 3 2 4 23 14 9 114 103 11 44 153 116 62 98.86 167 114/278 41.00%
3  Nathan Aspinall 17 1 2 3 5 20 10 10 90 94 –4 39 120 67 66 95.31 170 90/243 37.03%
4  Gerwyn Price 15 2 1 1 7 17 8 9 81 78 4 35 102 50 47 95.92 170 81/204 39.70%
5  Michael van Gerwen 15 0 1 6 4 18 8 11 82 92 –10 35 112 64 51 96.87 122 82/216 37.96%
6  Chris Dobey 12 1 1 2 7 17 7 10 73 79 –6 30 103 49 54 95.87 170 73/180 40.55%
7  Rob Cross 12 0 0 6 5 17 6 11 76 88 –12 27 93 62 45 99.42 170 76/190 40.00%
8  Stephen Bunting 8 1 1 0 9 15 5 10 53 79 –26 21 85 52 48 98.65 170 53/146 36.30%

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

As of 17th April 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 Littler QF W QF RU W RU W QF SF
 Luke Humphries W RU SF W QF RU SF RU QF
 Nathan Aspinall QF RU SF RU QF SF QF W SF
 Gerwyn Price QF SF W QF W QF RU QF
 Michael van Gerwen SF QF SF RU QF WD SF QF
 Chris Dobey RU QF SF QF SF QF W
 Rob Cross SF QF SF QF
 Stephen Bunting QF W QF RU
Legend: DNQ Did not qualify WD withdrew 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 Littler 5 2 4 2 1
 Luke Humphries 1 2
 Nathan Aspinall 8 7 5 3 6 4 3
 Gerwyn Price 6 2 3 5 3 4 3 4
 Michael van Gerwen 3 4 3 4 5
 Chris Dobey 2 4 6 7 6
 Rob Cross 4 5 7 6 5 6 7
 Stephen Bunting 7 8

Top averages

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The table lists all players who achieved an average of at least 105 in a match. In the case one player has multiple records, this is indicated by the number in brackets.

# Player Night Round Average Result
1  Luke Humphries 10 Quarter Final 118.43 Won
2  Luke Littler 1 Quarter Final 113.91 Lost
3  Luke Littler (2) 7 Final 112.50 Won
4  Luke Littler (3) 4 Quarter Final 112.34 Won
5  Rob Cross 5 Quarter Final 111.19 Won
6  Rob Cross (2) 11 Quarter Final 110.15 Lost
7  Luke Littler (4) 8 Quarter Final 109.98 Won
8  Luke Littler (5) 4 Semi Final 109.67 Won
9  Michael van Gerwen 2 Quarter Final 109.16 Won
10  Luke Littler (6) 11 Quarter Final 108.56 Won
11  Luke Littler (7) 6 Semi Final 107.82 Won
12  Luke Littler (8) 7 Semi Final 107.67 Won
13  Gerwyn Price 6 Semi Final 107.25 Won
14  Rob Cross (3) 5 Semi Final 106.91 Lost
15  Luke Humphries (2) 8 Semi Final 106.73 Won
16  Nathan Aspinall 5 Quarter Final 106.46 Won
17  Stephen Bunting 11 Semi Final 106.43 Won
18  Luke Littler (9) 5 Semi Final 106.11 Won
19  Luke Humphries (3) 2 Quarter Final 106.07 Won
20  Michael van Gerwen (2) 1 Quarter Final 105.91 Won
21  Stephen Bunting (2) 10 Quarter Final 105.33 Lost
22  Luke Humphries (4) 1 Quarter Final 105.19 Won

Incidents

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Night two of the 2025 Premier League in Glasgow was marred by disruptive crowd behaviour, particularly whistling sounds aimed at Gerwyn Price during his semi-final match with Luke Humphries, as well as at Humphries himself along with opponent Luke Littler during the final. The disruption led to referee Kirk Bevins asking the crowd to stop whistling during his officiating of the latter contest.[31] Price responded to the hecklers by whistling back at them as Humphries jokingly covered his ears.[32] Sky Sports presenter Abigail Davies showed her displeasure with the crowd in a social media post, claiming "There is no way you can be a fan of the sport if you do that."[33] Nightly winner Littler also gave his thoughts, stating that the intervention by Bevins only made the situation worse. He added: "Obviously, they've got to step in at some point and say something. But yeah, that was pretty bad, but I got the win."[31] The PDC issued a statement on the crowd's behaviour the following day, condemning any excessive whistling or booing while players throw and reiterating that they would remove any spectators acting inappropriately.[34][35]

On night five, Littler addressed media after his second nightly win and spoke about a member of the crowd throwing a pint at Nathan Aspinall moments before the final. He provided further comments surrounding crowd behaviour, stating: "I think we all know some have been good, some have been a bit bad. But that is the darts fans for you, they are either good or they are either bad."[36]

Broadcasting rights

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In the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, the tournament is broadcast live on Sky Sports.[37][38] Viaplay and DAZN also air the tournament. The PDC's streaming service, PDCTV, is broadcasting the tournament for Rest of the World subscribers.[39]

References

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