# 2025 Premier League Darts

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 O$_2$ Arena in London on Thursday 29 May 2025.
Luke Littler is the defending champion after defeating Luke Humphries 11–7 in the 2024 final.
Night five saw two nine-dart finishes. Humphries hit the first in his 6–4 loss to Rob Cross. Cross then hit his own perfect leg in his semi-final against Nathan Aspinall, a match he lost 6–5.

## Format

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

## Venues

| Belfast | Glasgow | Dublin | Exeter |
| SSE Arena Belfast Thursday 6 February | OVO Hydro Thursday 13 February | 3Arena Thursday 20 February | Westpoint Arena Thursday 27 February |
| Brighton | Nottingham | Cardiff | Newcastle |
| Brighton Centre Thursday 6 March | Motorpoint Arena Nottingham Thursday 13 March | Utilita Arena Cardiff Thursday 20 March | Utilita Arena Newcastle Thursday 27 March |
| Berlin | Manchester | Rotterdam | Liverpool |
| Uber Arena Thursday 3 April | AO Arena Thursday 10 April | Rotterdam Ahoy Thursday 17 April | M&S Bank Arena Thursday 24 April |
| Birmingham | Leeds | Aberdeen | 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 |
| London ||||
| The O$_2$ Thursday 29 May ||||

## Prize money

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

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. The announcement saw two changes made from 2024 lineup, with Stephen Bunting and Chris Dobey replacing Peter Wright and Michael Smith. 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. 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.
| Player | Appearance in Premier League | Consecutive Streak | Order of Merit Rank | Previous best performance |
| Luke Humphries | 2nd | 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 | 1 | 5 | 8th: (2015) |
| Gerwyn Price | 7th | 4 | 9 | Runner-up: (2023) |
| Chris Dobey | 2nd | 1 | 10 | 7th: (2023) |
| Nathan Aspinall | 5th | 3 | 11 | Runner up: (2020) |
* ↑ Humphries had previously appeared as a one-off challenger in both 2019 and 2020.
* ↑ Bunting had additionally appeared as a one-off challenger in 2020.
* ↑ Dobey had additionally appeared as a one-off challenger in 2019 and 2020.
* ↑ Aspinall had additionally appeared as a one-off challenger in 2019.

## League stage

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

## 29 May – Play-offs

The top four players of the league stage contest in the play-offs to decide the champion of the Premier League.
The O$_2$, London
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* Final (best of 21 legs) ||
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## Standings

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 | Nights | Nights | Nights | Nights | Matches | Matches | Matches | Legs | Legs | Legs | Legs | Scoring | Scoring | Scoring | Scoring | Scoring | Scoring | Scoring |
| Pos | Name | Pts | W | RU | SF | QF | Pld | W | L | LF | LA | LD | LWAT | 100+ | 140+ | 180 | A | HC | CR | C% |
| 1 | Luke Littler | 16 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 10 | 4 | 76 | 58 | 18 | 26 | 72 | 63 | 70 | 103.87 | 170 | 76/170 | 44.71% |
| 2 | Luke Humphries | 15 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 70 | 57 | 13 | 25 | 115 | 86 | 41 | 99.63 | 167 | 70/156 | 44.87% |
| 3 | Gerwyn Price | 12 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 57 | 46 | 11 | 22 | 87 | 40 | 32 | 96.73 | 170 | 57/135 | 42.22% |
| 4 | Michael van Gerwen | 10 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 48 | 53 | –5 | 17 | 83 | 47 | 28 | 97.97 | 122 | 48/139 | 34.53% |
| 5 | Nathan Aspinall | 8 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 48 | 54 | –6 | 20 | 76 | 38 | 34 | 94.56 | 148 | 48/127 | 37.80% |
| 6 | Rob Cross | 8 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 49 | 51 | –2 | 18 | 67 | 51 | 24 | 99.78 | 144 | 49/116 | 42.24% |
| 7 | Chris Dobey | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 33 | 44 | –11 | 11 | 59 | 35 | 30 | 96.81 | 170 | 33/96 | 34.38% |
| 8 | Stephen Bunting | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 18 | 36 | –18 | 6 | 48 | 22 | 18 | 98.79 | 170 | 18/48 | 37.50% |
(C) Champion (RU) Runner-up (E) Eliminated (Q) Qualified
    As of 07 March 2025

## Streaks

| Player | Nights | Nights | Nights | Nights | Nights | Nights | Nights | Nights | Nights | Nights | Nights | Nights | Nights | Nights | Nights | Nights | Nights |
| Player | 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 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Luke Humphries | W | RU | SF | W | QF | QF | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Gerwyn Price | QF | SF | W | QF | QF | W | | | | | | | | | | |
| Michael van Gerwen | SF | SF | SF | QF | SF | SF | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Rob Cross | SF | QF | QF | SF | SF | SF | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Nathan Aspinall | QF | QF | RU | SF | RU | QF | | | | | | | | | | |
| Chris Dobey | RU | QF | QF | QF | QF | QF | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Stephen Bunting | QF | QF | QF | QF | QF | 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

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

## Incidents

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. Price responded to the hecklers by whistling back at them as Humphries jokingly covered his ears. 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." 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." 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.
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."

## Broadcasting rights

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