2023 Premier League Darts

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2023 Cazoo Premier League Darts
Winner
Netherlands Michael van Gerwen
Runner-up
Wales Gerwyn Price
Score
11–5
Dates
2 February – 25 May 2023
Edition
19th
Number of players
8
Venues
17
Premier League Darts
< 2022 | 2023 | 2024 >

The 2023 Cazoo Premier League Darts was a darts tournament, organised by the Professional Darts Corporation – the nineteenth edition of the tournament. The event began on Thursday 2 February 2023, at the SSE Arena in Belfast, and finished with the play-offs, at The O2 Arena in London on Thursday 25 May 2023.[1][2]

Michael van Gerwen was the defending champion after beating Joe Cullen 11–10 in the 2022 final.[3] He successfully defended the title, beating Gerwyn Price 11–5 in the final.

Format[edit]

As introduced in 2022's tournament, the 2023 Premier League Darts used an eight-person knockout bracket every night. Each of the seven matches was played over the best-of-11 legs. The players were guaranteed to meet each other once in the quarter-finals throughout the first seven weeks and once in the quarterfinals in weeks 9–15, with weeks 8 and 16 being drawn based on the league standings at that point. Players received two points per semi-final finish, three points per runner-up finish, and five points per final win.[4]

Following the regular phase, the top four players in the league table contested the two knockout semi-finals with 1st playing 4th and 2nd playing 3rd.[2]

Venues[edit]

The 2023 tournament kept the same 17 venues used in the 2022 Premier League. On 8 October 2022, it was announced that Liverpool and Brighton were switching dates, after Liverpool had been awarded the hosting duties for the Eurovision Song Contest.[5]

Other locations of the 2023 Premier League venues in Europe.
Northern Ireland Belfast Wales Cardiff Scotland Glasgow Republic of Ireland Dublin
SSE Arena Belfast
Thursday 2 February
Cardiff International Arena
Thursday 9 February
OVO Hydro
Thursday 16 February
3Arena
Thursday 23 February
England Exeter England Liverpool England Nottingham England Newcastle
Westpoint Arena
Thursday 2 March
M&S Bank Arena
Thursday 9 March
Nottingham Arena
Thursday 16 March
Newcastle Arena
Thursday 23 March
Germany Berlin England Birmingham England Brighton Netherlands Rotterdam
Mercedes-Benz Arena
Thursday 30 March
Arena Birmingham
Thursday 6 April
Brighton Centre
Thursday 13 April
Rotterdam Ahoy
Thursday 20 April
England Leeds England Manchester England Sheffield Scotland Aberdeen
First Direct Arena
Thursday 27 April
AO Arena
Thursday 4 May
Utilita Arena Sheffield
Thursday 11 May
P&J Live
Thursday 18 May
England London
The O2
Thursday 25 May

Prize money[edit]

The prize money for the 2023 tournament remained at £1 million, including a £10,000 bonus to each night's winner.[6][7]

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[edit]

The format introduced in 2022 continued, which would encompass eight players, each playing against each other in a knockout tournament each night. The winner of each night received an additional £10,000 towards their prize money. Those who make it out of the last 8 each receive 2 points, the runner-up received 3 points and the winner received 5.

The top 4 players on the PDC Order of Merit automatically qualified, with the remaining four announced following the conclusion of the Masters on 29 January 2023.[8]

Player Appearance in
Premier League
Consecutive
Streak
Order of Merit
Rank on 30/1/23
Previous best performance
 Michael Smith 6th 2 1 Runner-up (2018)
 Peter Wright 10th 10 2 Runner-up (2017)
 Michael van Gerwen 11th 11 3 Winner (2013, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022)
 Gerwyn Price 5th 2[a] 4 5th place (2019, 2020)
 Jonny Clayton 3rd 3 7 Winner (2021)
 Nathan Aspinall 3rd 1 9 Runner-up (2020)
 Dimitri Van den Bergh 2nd 1 11 5th place (2021)
 Chris Dobey 3rd 1 21 Debut
  1. ^ Price qualified for the 2021 Premier League Darts, but withdrew following a positive COVID-19 test.

League stage[edit]

The fixtures were announced on 30 January 2023.[8]

  1. ^ withdrew due to injury

25 May – Play-offs[edit]

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)
107.54 Gerwyn Price  10–2  Jonny Clayton 90.19
97.90 Michael Smith  8–10  Michael van Gerwen 101.45
Final (best of 21 legs)
99.50 Gerwyn Price  5–11  Michael van Gerwen 105.43
Night's Total Average: 100.33
Highest Checkout:  Michael van Gerwen 170
Most 180s:  Michael van Gerwen 12
Night's 180s: 25

Standings[edit]

Five points are awarded for a night win, three points for the runner-up and two points for the semi-finalists. When players are tied on points, nights won is used first as a tie-breaker and after that overall matches won.[citation needed]

The top 4 players after 16 nights advance to the play-offs on 25 May.

Pos Name Nights Matches Legs Scoring
Pts W RU SF QF Pld W L LF LA LD LWAT 100+ 140+ 180 A[11] HC CR C%
1  Gerwyn Price (RU) 39 4 5 2 5 36 24 12 191 144 +47 76 343 221 112 98.31 158 191/486 39.30%
2  Michael Smith 33 4 3 2 7 32 20 12 158 141 +17 55 340 214 102 97.70 164 158/401 39.40%
3  Michael van Gerwen (C) 33 3 2 6 5 32 19 13 159 132 +27 61 295 191 87 98.19 170 159/420 37.85%
4  Jonny Clayton 24 2 2 4 8 28 14 14 122 137 –15 42 319 159 50 94.70 170 122/277 44.04%
5  Nathan Aspinall 24 1 1 8 6 28 13 15 124 140 –16 48 297 198 82 95.72 143 124/342 36.25%
6  Dimitri Van den Bergh 16 1 1 4 10 24 9 15 102 115 –13 44 232 149 59 95.59 151 102/260 39.23%
7  Chris Dobey 14 1 1 3 11 23 8 15 93 116 –23 35 220 130 62 97.32 170 93/250 37.20%
8  Peter Wright 9 0 1 3 12 21 5 16 86 115 –29 29 225 125 44 93.45 156 86/224 38.39%
As of 25 May 2023 (Week 16)

(C) Champion after the playoffs, (RU) Runner-up after the playoffs

Streaks[edit]

Player Nights
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Play-offs
 Gerwyn Price QF W QF RU QF W SF W RU QF RU RU
 Michael Smith QF SF W SF QF RU QF RU QF RU QF W QF SF

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