Luke Littler and Co can win £10k every week as Premier League Darts rules and format explained

As Luke Littler prepares to statesman the defence of his title, here's the lowdown connected the 2025 Premier League darts, including format, prize wealth and however to watch

Luke Littler is acceptable to statesman the defence of his Premier League darts rubric successful Belfast.

The teen stormed to triumph successful the darting roadshow past year, beating then-world champion Luke Humphries successful the last and hitting a nine-dart decorativeness to boot. Fresh from replacing Humphries arsenic world champion past month, the Nuke is favourite to support his crown.

However, satellite No.1 Humphries, seven-time Premier League champion Michael van Gerwen and the 5 different contenders volition person thing to accidental astir that implicit the 17-week tournament, which crosses the UK, Ireland and mainland Europe.

The opening nighttime successful Northern Ireland volition spot a repetition of the World Championship last betwixt Littler and Van Gerwen successful the quarter-finals. Here’s everything you request to cognize astir the 2025 Premier League, including line-up, format and prize money...

Line-up

Half of the eight-player line-up is decided by the PDC’s Order of Merit (the satellite rankings), with the apical 4 successful the database being selected automatically. They are Humphries, Littler, Van Gerwen and Rob Cross.

The different 4 players are wildcard picks decided by the PDC. As the Premier League is simply a showcase for darts, big-name players who tin enactment bums connected seats and eyeballs connected TV screens are often picked up of players higher up the rankings.

The subordinate 5th connected the list, Stephen Bunting, did marque the chopped aft a beardown 2024, on with Chris Dobey, erstwhile satellite champion Gerwyn Price and Nathan Aspinall. The likes of Jonny Clayton, Dave Chisnall, Damon Heta and World Grand Prix champion Mike De Decker missed out.

Format

For the 4th successive year, the Premier League volition spot a mini tourney each night, with quarter-finals, semi-finals and a final. The victor of each nighttime earns 5 points, with the runner-up collecting 3 and the semi-finalists gain 2 each.

The apical 4 players successful the league aft 16 weeks advancement to the play-offs astatine London’s O2 connected May 29, with archetypal playing 4th and 2nd facing 3rd successful the semi-finals.

Prize money

The Premier League boasts an wide prize money of £1million, making it 1 of the astir lucrative events successful darts. The victor of each nighttime earlier the play-offs pockets £10,000.

The wide victor banks £275,000, with the runner-up netting £125,000 and the losing semi-finalists earning £85,000. The players who don’t marque the play-offs are remunerated arsenic follows:

Fifth place: £75,000

Sixth place: £70,000

Seventh place: £65,000

Eighth place: £60,000

How the watch

Sky Sports, who person extended their long-running deal with the PDC to 2030, volition again beryllium the location of Premier League coverage. If you’re not a Sky Sports subscriber, you tin watercourse the enactment present done the Sky-owner NOW service, with regular and monthly passes available.

If that isn’t for you, Sky person made nighttime 1 successful Belfast disposable connected free-to-air transmission Sky Mix, with sum getting nether mode astatine 7pm connected Thursday.