Premier League Darts 2025 line-up revealed as Luke Littler looks to defend title
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The field for this year’s Premier League Darts has been announced, with eight players set to battle it out over 16 weeks before finals night in London. Luke Littler won the event on debut last year and it was a sign of more success to come as he has begun 2025 with his first World Championship title.
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The man he beat in the Alexandra Palace final, Michael van Gerwen, is back in the Premier League field yet again, as is the player he dethroned as world champ, Luke Humphries. There seemed to be few other nailed-on picks this year, though, with most of the rest of the places in the competition up for debate.
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The PDC has settled on the following eight players, who will begin their Premier League campaigns on February 6 in Belfast. On the criteria for selecting players, PDC chief executive Matt Porter told Sky Sports News: ‘So we have eight players and we pick the top four in the world, they have earned their right by virtue of their rankings.
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‘Then we look at the other contenders, players who have maybe performed well throughout the year or players who have got that big-stage profile, that big-stage presence, players who have got a decent CV from recent years, players who we feel are perhaps ready to prove a point, players who are in form….
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‘It’s quite open, to be brutally honest, and it’s generally quite a wide-ranging debate because there are a lot of candidates. ‘There is always someone who is disappointed and someone who maybe feels a bit unlucky but as long as people are talking about it, we’ve done our job.’.
