2024 Premier League Darts

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2024 BetMGM UK Premier League Darts
Winner
Runner-up
Score
Dates
1 February – 23 May 2024
Edition
20th
Number of players
8
Venues
17
Nine Dart Finish
 Gerwyn Price
Premier League Darts
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The 2024 Premier League Darts, also known as the BetMGM Premier League Darts for sponsorship reasons, is the ongoing darts tournament, organised by the Professional Darts Corporation – the twentieth edition of the tournament. The event began on Thursday 1 February 2024, at the Utilita Arena in Cardiff, and will finish with the play-offs, at The O2 Arena in London on Thursday 23 May 2024.[1][2]

Michael van Gerwen is the defending champion, after beating Gerwyn Price 11–5 in the 2023 final.[3]

Format[edit]

The 2024 Premier League Darts will remain an eight-person knockout bracket every night, with each of the seven matches played 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 contest the two knockout semi-finals with 1st playing 4th and 2nd playing 3rd.

Venues[edit]

Other locations of the 2024 Premier League venues in Europe.
Wales Cardiff Germany Berlin Scotland Glasgow England Newcastle
Utilita Arena Cardiff
Thursday 1 February
Mercedes-Benz Arena
Thursday 8 February
OVO Hydro
Thursday 15 February
Utilita Arena Newcastle
Thursday 22 February
England Exeter England Brighton England Nottingham Republic of Ireland Dublin
Westpoint Arena
Thursday 29 February
Brighton Centre
Thursday 7 March
Motorpoint Arena Nottingham
Thursday 14 March
3Arena
Thursday 21 March
Northern Ireland Belfast England Manchester England Birmingham Netherlands Rotterdam
SSE Arena Belfast
Thursday 28 March
AO Arena
Thursday 4 April
Utilita Arena Birmingham
Thursday 11 April
Rotterdam Ahoy
Thursday 18 April
England Liverpool Scotland Aberdeen England Leeds England Sheffield
M&S Bank Arena
Thursday 25 April
P&J Live
Thursday 2 May
First Direct Arena
Thursday 9 May
Utilita Arena Sheffield
Thursday 16 May
England London
The O2
Thursday 23 May

Prize money[edit]

The prize money for the 2024 tournament remained 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[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. The remaining 4 were announced on 4 January 2024.[2]

Player Appearance in
Premier League
Consecutive
Streak
Order of Merit Rank on 1 February 2024 Previous best performance
 Luke Humphries 1st[a] 1 1 Debut
 Michael van Gerwen 12th 12 2 Winner (2013, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023)
 Michael Smith 7th 3 3 Runner-up (2018)
 Nathan Aspinall 4th[b] 2 4 Runner-up (2020)
 Gerwyn Price 6th 3 5 Runner-up (2023)
 Rob Cross 5th 1 6 Runner-up (2019)
 Peter Wright 11th 11 8 Runner-up (2017)
 Luke Littler 1st 1 31 Debut
  1. ^ Humphries had previously appeared as a one-off challenger in both 2019 and 2020.
  2. ^ Aspinall had additionally appeared as a one-off challenger in 2019.

League stage[edit]

The fixtures were released on 23 January 2024.[4]

23 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)
   
   
Final (best of 21 legs)
   
Night's Total Average:
Highest Checkout:
Most 180s:
Night's 180s:

Standings[edit]

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 4 players after 16 nights advance to the play-offs on 23 May.

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 Littler (Q) 36 4 2 5 3 31 21 10 165 136 29 57 359 174 99 99.86 170 165/420 39.29%
2  Luke Humphries (Q) 28 3 1 5 5 27 16 11 136 109 27 55 279 190 87 100.49 167 136/332 40.96%
3  Nathan Aspinall 25 2 3 3 6 27 15 12 137 127 10 46 315 205 69 95.75 170 137/370 37.03%
4  Michael van Gerwen 24 4 0 2 8 24 14 10 118 116 2 43 277 138 64 97.95 152 118/279 42.29%
5  Michael Smith 22 1 3 4 6 26 13 13 123 130 –7 37 299 155 83 96.68 170 123/312 39.42%
6  Rob Cross 17 0 3 4 7 24 10 14 110 118 –8 33 272 164 53 97.47 144 110/267 41.20%
7  Gerwyn Price (E) 12 0 2 3 8 20 7 13 88 110 –22 26 197 144 61 99.21 170 88/216 40.74%
8  Peter Wright (E) 4 0 0 2 12 16 2 14 56 92 –36 18 190 100 40 93.48 156 56/165 33.94%

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

As of 2 May 2024

Streaks[edit]

Player Nights
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Play-offs
 Luke Littler SF RU QF SF QF W RU QF W
 Luke Humphries QF SF RU QF SF W QF SF QF SF
 Nathan Aspinall QF RU W QF RU SF RU SF QF W SF QF
 Michael van Gerwen QF W QF SF QF W QF SF QF
 Michael Smith W SF QF RU QF RU QF SF RU QF SF DNQ
 Rob Cross SF QF SF RU SF QF RU
 Gerwyn Price RU QF SF QF SF QF RU QF SF QF
 Peter Wright QF SF QF SF QF
Legend: DNQ Did not qualify QF Lost in Quarterfinals SF Semi-finalist RU Runner-up W Night winner

Positions by week[edit]

Player Nights
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
 Luke Littler 3 2 3 5 2 1 2 1
 Luke Humphries 8 6 4 5 6 2 1 2 1 2

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