Premier League Darts 2025 Night 13 Preview and Order of Play | Big guns do battle in Birmingham
Premier League Darts heads to Birmingham for Night 13 on Thursday as the battle for play-off places continues.
Just four nights of league fixtures remain before the top four players in the league table will progress to The O2 to compete for the sport’s most prestigious invitational title.
A sold-out Utilita Arena plays host to Night 13, with a repeat of last week’s final among the stand-out quarter-final ties.
Gerwyn Price defeated Luke Humphries 6-4 to clinch the Night 12 title in Liverpool, and the decorated duo face a rematch in the second city.
Price picked up his third nightly win of the season on Merseyside to consolidate third spot and open up a three-point gap between himself and the chasing pack.
The Welshman is bidding to reach the play-offs for only the second time in seven Premier League appearances and will be keen to pick up from where he left off last week, having registered a trio of averages in excess of 104.
Humphries last claimed a weekly title on Night Four in Exeter – where he overcame Price in the quarter-finals.
The world number one has finished runner-up in three of the last five weeks and already has one foot in the play-offs on 26 points, four adrift of league leader Luke Littler.
Defending champion Littler looks to bounce back from last week’s quarter-final exit when he takes on rock bottom Stephen Bunting.
Littler was beaten in a deciding leg by Michael van Gerwen in Liverpool, marking only his fourth quarter-final loss of a campaign which has seen him secure a record-equalling four nightly wins and hit a record-equalling 128 maximums.
The reigning World Champion is set to surpass that 180 record he set last year as he bids to avenge his semi-final defeat to Bunting in Rotterdam a fortnight ago.
Bunting prevailed 6-5 on that occasion with a 106.4 average but remains rooted to the foot of the table on eight points, having averaged just 91 in a disappointing 6-1 defeat to Rob Cross on home soil in Liverpool last week.
Cross is the only player in this year’s field yet to reach a single weekly final, having lost in seven semi-finals from 12 nights to date.
However, he remains just three points adrift of the top four and could close the gap on Van Gerwen if he can pull off a crucial victory in their quarter-final showdown.
Van Gerwen’s only final so far came on Night Seven in Cardiff, and the Dutchman has never failed to win a weekly title since this format was introduced in 2022.
He has remained in fifth position for the last three nights, with Nathan Aspinall occupying that crucial fourth spot by virtue of more nights won.
Aspinall, who has narrowly missed out on the play-offs in each of the last two seasons, will be out to keep matters in his own hands by adding to his points tally in Birmingham.
Winner on Night Ten in Manchester, ‘The Asp’ averaged 104 last time out but was helpless in defeat to a ruthless Humphries – who averaged 113.5 in a 6-3 success.
Aspinall takes on his close friend Chris Dobey in a repeat of their recent semi-final in Rotterdam – which Dobey won 6-2 with a ton-plus average on his way to clinching the Night 11 title.
Dobey remains in outside contention for the play-offs on 12 points but knows he can ill-afford to lose any further ground if he is to have a chance of reaching finals night for the first time.
The action gets under way from 7pm BST, with all matches to be contested over the best of 11 legs.
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Premier League Darts 2025 Night 13 Schedule
Thursday May 1
Quarter-Finals
Luke Littler v Stephen Bunting
Nathan Aspinall v Chris Dobey
Luke Humphries v Gerwyn Price
Rob Cross v Michael van Gerwen
Semi-Finals
Littler/Bunting v Aspinall/Dobey
Humphries/Price v Cross/Van Gerwen
Final
