Premier League Darts 2025 Play-Offs Preview and Order of Play | Final four face off at The O2
The final four face off for the right to be crowned 2025 Premier League Darts champion at The O2 in London on Thursday.
After 16 weeks of fierce competition across the UK, Ireland and Europe, the top four players in the league table lock horns in a quest for the sport’s most prestigious invitational title.
Three players are bidding to add their name to the Premier League roll of honour for the first time, while reigning champion Luke Littler looks to become only the third player to successfully retain the crown.
Littler is vying to follow in the footsteps of Phil Taylor and Michael van Gerwen in defending this title and cap off what has been a remarkable campaign.
The 18-year-old smashed a host of records en route to finishing top of the table for the second successive year, including five nightly wins, 45 points and a staggering 169 maximums.
Littler secured his maiden major title here 12 months ago with the aid of a magnificent nine-darter in the final and is now gearing up for the first major title defence of his career in front of a sell-out crowd of around 14,000 in the capital.
The reigning World Champion won 27 of 37 matches played during the league phase, averaging 102.4 for the tournament, and starts out on Finals Night with a showdown against his former nemesis Gerwyn Price.
Price had won six consecutive meetings between the pair before Littler snapped that streak with back-to-back wins in Manchester and Leeds.
Ominously for Price, Littler is yet to suffer defeat in a major semi-final, winning each of his last seven since his historic debut appearance at the World Championship in 2023/24.
Price returns for only his second appearance in the play-offs, having finished runner-up to Michael van Gerwen at The O2 two years ago.
The Welshman has enjoyed a welcome return to form in this year’s Premier League, securing a hat-trick of nightly victories, while also landing nine-darters in Manchester and Aberdeen.
However, he comes into Finals Night on the back of successive quarter-final exits in Aberdeen and Sheffield, notably squandering a 5-1 lead at the hands of Chris Dobey last week which meant he finished fourth in the final standings.
The second semi-final sees last year’s runner-up Luke Humphries take on 2020 runner-up Nathan Aspinall.
Humphries is bidding to go one better than last year’s debut runner-up spot and complete darts’ ‘Triple Crown’ by adding this trophy to his 2024 World Championship and 2024 World Matchplay triumphs.
The world number one secured nightly wins in Belfast, Exeter and Leeds to seal a second-place finish for the second successive season, as well as hitting a nine-darter in Brighton.
Humphries, who boasts a tournament average of 99.7, is out to maintain his clinical record in major semi-finals, having won each of his last ten dating back to the 2023 World Matchplay.
Aspinall, meanwhile, is featuring in the Play-Offs for the first time since 2021, having seen off seven-time champion Michael van Gerwen last week to secure a third place finish.
The world number nine, who picked up weekly titles in Manchester and Aberdeen, spent eight of the first nine weeks outside of the top four before enjoying a memorable second half of the campaign.
Aspinall’s two previous play-off appearances came during the covid period in 2020 and 2021, and the Stockport star makes his long-awaited debut on The O2 stage in search of a third major title.
The action gets under way from 7pm BST, with semi-final matches to be contested over the best of 19 legs and the final best of 21.
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Premier League Darts 2025 Play-Offs Schedule
Thursday May 29
7pm-10.30pm
Semi-Finals
Luke Littler v Gerwyn Price
Luke Humphries v Nathan Aspinall
Final
