The Amateur Darts Circuit (ADC) have unveiled the Ultra Darts League (UDL), a new televised city-team league for amateur darts players across the UK and Ireland.
Twenty founding city teams, in North and South divisions of ten, will compete from March 2027, with the UDL Finals in November and the UDL 1217 Finals in December, and every featured fixture live on Pluto TV and ADC LIVE.
UDC 1217 will feature the very best youth players in the UK and Ireland from ages 12 to 17, with Lewis Cook, Jayden Walker and Jack Johnson all present at the launch night at St James Park in Newcastle.
Three-time world champion Michael van Gerwen has been named a UDL Ambassador, and a multi-year partnership between Winmau and the ADC as a whole, covering the Ultra Darts League and the wider circuit, has also been confirmed.
Scott Hunt, UDL Founder and Global Operations Director at the ADC, said:
“The Ultra Darts League is the future of team darts.”
“Twenty founding cities, picked purely on form, all five players on the oche at once, live on TV, and anyone can earn a shirt for a £5 membership. For six years the ADC has built the ladder; tonight we have put a top on it. The pride of pulling on your city’s shirt, the derbies, the cut-throat of ten players at the oche at once: that is what we are building. Twenty cities is where we start, not where we
stop.
As the league grows we will add more cities and more opportunity for more players,and the long-term ambition is to take it into Premier League stadiums.”
The Teams:
North:
Scotland: Glasgow Shock & Aberdeen Force
North East: Newcastle Reign, Middlesbrough Power
North West: Manchester Mayhem, Carlisle Edge
Yorkshire & Humber: Leeds Empire, Sheffield Rush
Ireland: Dublin Fury
Northern Ireland: Belfast Might
South:
Wales: Cardiff Blaze, Wrexham Surge
Midlands: Birmingham Forge, Stoke Terriers
East of England: Norwich Royals, Colchester Legion
South East & London: Portsmouth Armada, London Dynasty
South West: Exeter Storm, Bristol Sonic
Season One begins in March 2027.
Team announcements, fixtures and player registration will follow at ultradartsleague.com
