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The 2025 Premier League Darts, also known as the BetMGM Premier League Darts for sponsorship reasons, is an upcoming darts tournament, organised by the Professional Darts Corporation – the twenty-first edition of the tournament. The event will begin 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.

Luke Littler is the defending champion after defeating Luke Humphries 11–7 in the 2024 final.

Format

The 2025 Premier League Darts will use 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 will 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 O2 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.

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 returning to the Premier League while Peter Wright and Michael Smith were not selected. With former participants and Scottish World Cup duo Wright and Gary Anderson not selected, this was the first time since the 2010 edition that no players representing Scotland were included in the lineup. 2024 World Grand Prix champion Mike De Decker became the first winner of a premier event televised on Sky Sports to miss out on selection.

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)

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

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 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

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	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0/0	0.00%
2	Luke Littler	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0/0	0.00%
3	Michael van Gerwen	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0/0	0.00%
4	Rob Cross	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0/0	0.00%
5	Stephen Bunting	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0/0	0.00%
6	Gerwyn Price	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0/0	0.00%
7	Chris Dobey	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0/0	0.00%
8	Nathan Aspinall	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0/0	0.00%

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

As of 6 February 2025

Streaks

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

Positions by week

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

Broadcasting rights

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

References

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