Premier League Darts 2025 Night 11 Preview and Order of Play | Rivals collide in Rotterdam
Premier League Darts heads to Holland for Night 11 of the league phase as the big names do battle in Rotterdam on Thursday.
Six nights remain before the top four players in the league table progress to The O2 for the play-offs, and all eight players remain in contention for the title.
Nathan Aspinall became the fifth different player to clinch a weekly title when he triumphed on home soil in Manchester last time out, moving in to the top four in the process.
Aspinall is one of three players locked on 15 points, alongside Michael van Gerwen and Gerwyn Price – whom he faces in this week’s quarter-finals.
The Asp is in the midst of an inspired run of form which has led him to a maiden European Tour title, a first weekly Premier League title of the season, as well as the final of a Players Championship event in Rosmalen on Monday.
The Stockport star is bidding to make it back-to-back triumphs in Rotterdam, having claimed the Night 12 title at the Ahoy Arena 12 months ago.
Price, meanwhile, has two weekly titles to his name, having prevailed in Dublin and Nottingham during the first half of the campaign, and the Welshman became the fourth different player to hit a nine-darter in this year’s Premier League as he landed a perfect leg for the second year running in Manchester.
A winner of three Players Championship titles already this year, Price starts the night in third spot in his quest to reach the play-offs for only the second time.
All eyes will be on home favourite Van Gerwen as he returns to a sold-out Ahoy Arena to take on a resurgent Stephen Bunting.
However, Rotterdam has not proven to be a happy hunting ground for MVG in recent years, with successive quarter-final exits and complaints over an apparent breeze on the stage.
The seven-time Premier League champion has reached just one weekly final so far this season but has consistently put points on the board by reaching a further six semi-finals.
He was forced to withdrew from Night Nine in Berlin through injury and finally ended a run of four consecutive first round exits on the ProTour by reaching the Last 16 in nearby Rosmalen on Tuesday.
Bunting enjoyed contrasting fortunes in Berlin as he ended an eight-match losing streak by going on to claim a maiden weekly title, but he remains on five points following a 6-1 hammering at the hands of a rampant Luke Humphries last week.
International Open winner earlier this month, Bunting is now at a career-high fourth in the Order of Merit and will be out to spoil the party by silencing the partisan Dutch crowd.
Elsewhere, reigning champion and table-topper Luke Littler takes on Rob Cross in the fourth quarter-final of the evening.
Littler remains in pursuit of a record-breaking fifth weekly title of the campaign and is five points clear at the summit, all but assured of a place in the play-offs.
The current World Champion has landed a staggering 113 maximums during this season’s Premier League and boasts the only ton-plus tournament average (103.1) of the field.
Former finalist Cross is out to avoid a third straight quarter-final defeat after slipping to sixth in the table, three points adrift of the top four.
Ominously for ‘Voltage’, he has lost 12 of his 14 previous meetings with Littler, including all four of their Premier League fixtures so far this term.
The opening match of the night sees second-placed Humphries take on second-from-bottom Chris Dobey.
Humphries’ two nightly titles came inside the opening four weeks of the season, and he has since lost in two finals in the space of the last three weeks.
Last year’s Premier League runner-up registered the third highest average in the history of the competition (118.43) in a 6-1 demolition of Bunting, and went on to defeat Littler 6-4 before losing out to Aspinall in the final by the same scoreline.
Dobey has won just four of his 14 matches so far, leaving him eight points adrift of the play-off places, and he will be out to avenge his defeat to Humphries on home soil in Newcastle three weeks ago.
The action gets under way from 6pm BST, with all matches to be contested over the best of 11 legs.
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Premier League Darts 2025 Night 11 Schedule
Thursday April 17
6pm-10pm
Quarter-Finals
Chris Dobey v Luke Humphries
Gerwyn Price v Nathan Aspinall
Stephen Bunting v Michael van Gerwen
Luke Littler v Rob Cross
Semi-Finals
Dobey/Humphries v Price/Aspinall
Bunting/Van Gerwen v Littler/Cross
Final
