LITTLER HEADLINES 2025 PREMIER LEAGUE LINE-UP, AS BUNTING & DOBEY RETURN
Reigning champion Luke Littler and world number one Luke Humphries will headline the 2025 BetMGM Premier League Darts line-up, as Stephen Bunting and Chris Dobey return to the elite tournament.
Teenage sensation Littler stormed to victory on his Premier League debut last May – hitting a nine-darter against Humphries in the final – before capping off a fairy-tale rise by lifting the World Darts Championship title last Friday at Alexandra Palace.
The newly crowned World Champion will be among the star attractions in this year’s eight-player line-up, as the sport’s biggest names compete across 17 weeks of action from February until May.
Former World Champion Humphries – the runner-up to Littler last year – also makes his second Premier League appearance, having lifted the World Cup, World Matchplay and Players Championship Finals titles in 2024.
Dutch superstar Michael van Gerwen, the World Championship runner-up on Friday, will be chasing a record-extending eighth Premier League crown in 2025, as he prepares to feature for a 13th consecutive campaign.
The three-time World Champion will be joined by world number four Rob Cross – the 2019 runner-up who celebrated World Series of Darts glory at Madison Square Garden in New York back in June.
Elsewhere, Bunting will make his long-awaited Premier League return – having previously competed in the 2015 season and as a Challenger in 2020 – following a landmark 2024 season, which saw him climb to a career-high of fifth on the PDC Order of Merit.
Bunting clinched his maiden PDC televised title in January’s Masters, and also progressed to the UK Open quarter-finals and World Championship semi-finals to continue his impressive resurgence.
Gerwyn Price will make his seventh Premier League appearance in 2025, after enjoying a welcome return to form at the World Darts Championship.
Price – the 2023 Premier League runner-up – won a World Series of Darts event in Copenhagen last summer, and reached the last eight at Alexandra Palace to cement his place in the world’s top ten.
Price was edged out in the quarter-finals by former Masters champion Dobey, who will feature in his second Premier League campaign this year – having made his debut in 2023.
Bedlington star Dobey claimed a hat-trick of ProTour titles in a prolific 2024 season, and his run to the semi-finals at the World Championship saw him break into the world’s top ten for the first time.
Two-time televised title winner Nathan Aspinall completes the eight-player line-up, after the popular Stockport star recorded back-to-back fifth-place finishes in the last two editions of the Premier League.
“We are really excited by this year’s line-up, which I’m sure will entertain our incredible crowds across the UK and Europe,” said PDC Chief Executive Matt Porter.
“The BetMGM Premier League will reach a huge live audience across the next four months, following record-breaking ticket sales for the 2025 season.
“All eight players have pedigree on the biggest stage, and fresh from some brilliant performances at the World Darts Championship we’re looking forward to 17 brilliant weeks of competition.”
UK Director at BetMGM, Sam Behar, added: “We’re delighted by the line-up for the 2025 BetMGM Premier League Darts.
“Given his heroics in the World Darts Championship, Luke Littler unsurprisingly heads the betting at 6/4.
“However, there’s such quality amongst all eight players that you could make a case for any of them emerging victorious in May, and we can’t wait for it to all get underway.”
The 2025 BetMGM Premier League – which begins in Belfast on February 6 – will see the eight stars contesting 16 mini-events during the season, with each league night comprising quarter-finals, semi-finals and a final over the best of 11 legs.
Points will be awarded each night to form the league table, from which the top four players will progress to the Play-Offs, which will be held at The O2 in London on Thursday May 29.
The 2025 BetMGM Premier League will be broadcast live on Sky Sports in the UK & Ireland, through the PDC’s worldwide broadcast partners including DAZN and Viaplay, and on PDCTV for Rest of the World Subscribers.
2025 BetMGM Premier League Field
Luke Humphries
Luke Littler
Michael van Gerwen
Rob Cross
Stephen Bunting
Gerwyn Price
Chris Dobey
Nathan Aspinall
BetMGM Premier League – Outright Odds
6/4 – Luke Littler
3/1 – Luke Humphries
9/2 – Michael van Gerwen
12/1 – Rob Cross, Stephen Bunting, Gerwyn Price
16/1 – Chris Dobey
33/1 – Nathan Aspinall
—-‘ENDS—–
Images: PDC
