Premier League Darts 2026 | Night Three Glasgow Preview and Order of Play
Premier League Darts heads to Glasgow for Night Three on Thursday as the big names go head-to-head at the Hydro.
The sport’s most prestigious roadshow event moves north of the border as another sell-out crowd prepares to welcome the elite names.
Michael van Gerwen and Gerwyn Price have clinched the opening two weekly titles, leaving Luke Littler and Luke Humphries outside of the top four in the early standings.
This week’s quarter-finals were set to be headlined by a clash between seven-time Premier League champion Van Gerwen and 2024 champion Littler.
The pair met in last week’s semi-finals in Antwerp, with Van Gerwen prevailing 6-4 with a 100.7 average en route to his second successive final.
However, Van Gerwen has been forced to withdraw from this week’s trip to Glasgow through illness, meaning Littler receives a bye through to the semi-finals.
Littler has just two points to his name after following up his opening night exit to Gian van Veen in the quarter-finals with a semi-final defeat on the Premier League’s first visit to Belgium.
The reigning and back-to-back World Champion will be keen to get his campaign off and running and replicate last year’s triumph in Glasgow – which marked the first of his six weekly titles.
Under tournament rules, Littler collects two league points and +1 leg difference, while Van Gerwen receives no league points and -6 leg difference.
Defending Premier League champion Humphries looks to continue his blistering run of form when he faces struggling debutant Josh Rock.
Humphries warmed up for the trip to Glasgow by claiming his first Players Championship title since October 2024 on Tuesday, registering six ton-plus averages in the process.
The world number two was narrowly denied in a deciding leg by Littler in last year’s final in Glasgow and will be determined to go one better after picking up just two points in the opening two nights.
Rock is one of two players stranded on zero points so far after enduring a difficult start to his debut campaign, losing 6-2 to Jonny Clayton in Newcastle despite averaging 101.8, before going down to Van Gerwen by the same scoreline seven days later with an average of just 79.3.
Welsh counterparts Price and Clayton collide for the second week running as ‘The Iceman’ bids to continue his dominant recent record over his World Cup teammate.
Price has won 27 of their 38 previous meetings in total, including each of their ten, stretching back to the 2023 Premier League.
Price claimed a deciding-set victory in this year’s World Masters, as well as a 6-5 triumph in last week’s semi-finals en route to sealing the £10,000 weekly bonus.
Clayton battled back from 4-0 down with six consecutive legs to see off Stephen Bunting in last week’s quarter-finals and sits third in the early league table.
Bunting, who finished bottom of the pile last season, aims to get off the mark at the third time of asking when he faces European Champion Van Veen.
Bunting lost his opening eight matches of the campaign in 2025 and will be hoping history does not repeat itself, though his form remains encouraging, having finished runner-up at Players Championship 3 in Wigan on Monday.
Van Veen enjoyed a fine start to life in the Premier League by reaching the final on Night One, but was edged out in a deciding leg by Price in last week’s quarter-finals despite establishing a 4-2 lead.
The action gets under way from 7pm GMT, with all matches to be contested over the best of 11 legs.
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Premier League Darts 2026 Night Three Schedule
Thursday February 19
7pm-11pm
Quarter-Finals
Stephen Bunting v Gian van Veen
Luke Humphries v Josh Rock
Michael van Gerwen 0-/wo Luke Littler
Jonny Clayton v Gerwyn Price
Semi-Finals
Bunting/Van Veen v Humphries/Rock
Luke Littler v Clayton/Price
Final
