Luke Humphries will be aiming to defend his Premier League Darts title at 2026 Finals Night – but three other players will stand in his way on a bumper Thursday evening when the competition reaches its climax.
When is Finals Night?
Premier League Finals Night takes place on Thursday May 28 at London’s O2 arena, which you can watch live on Sky Sports Main Event and Sky Sports Action from 7pm.
The O2 arena will transform as tens of thousands of darts fans descend to see one of Humphries, Luke Littler, Jonny Clayton and Gerwyn Price – the players who finished in the top four of the Premier League table – be crowned the champion for 2026.
What is the format?
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Watch Littler’s nine-darter from all angles as ‘The Nuke’ hit perfection on Finals Night of the 2024 Premier League
Three matches will decide who takes home the huge £275k prize, comprising two semi-finals and a final.
Finals Night is a longer format than the best-of-11 legs we see in the regular rounds, with each semi-final contested over 19 legs (first to 10) before a final that is the best-of-21 legs (first to 11).
Due to being first and second in the standings, Littler and Clayton will throw first in their semi-finals.
The order of the throw in the final will then be decided by a bull-off in the practice room.
What is the prize fund?
The prize fund for the entire competition is £1.25m.
Each of the four semi-finalists are guaranteed £110,000, with the runner-up taking home £170,000 and the winner claiming £350,000.
There was also a weekly winner bonus of £10,000, which Littler has pocketed on six occasions heading to Sheffield, Clayton four times, Price twice and Humphries once.
2026 prize money breakdown
- Champion: £350,000
- Runner-up: £170,000
- Semi-finalists: £110,000
- Fifth place: £95,000
- Sixth place: £90,000
- Seventh place: £85,000
- Eighth place: £80,000
Nightly win: £10,000
Total: £1,250,000
Bonus prize money available
Nine-darter: Set of 18-carat gold darts worth £30,000
Who are the previous winners?
Some people have dominated this format, but none more than Van Gerwen who has triumphed on a record seven occasions.
‘The Green Machine’ took victory in 2013 before completing four in a row in 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019.
He then was also victorious in 2022 and 2023, beating Price in the 2023 edition.
Of course, the most recent winner was Humphries, while the previous year Littler hit a nine-darter in the final on his debut.
Clayton, Glenn Durrant, Raymond van Barneveld, Gary Anderson, Phil Taylor and James Wade have also won since the Premier League’s inception in 2005.
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After stretching his Premier League nine-darter record to five, take a look at all of Gerwyn Price’s previous nines in the competition
Have there been any nine-darters?
There have been a total of 21 nine-dart finishes in Premier League history with three of them coming on Finals Night and, remarkably, five coming across the 2025 campaign.
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The legendary Taylor famously threw TWO of them in the same match when he beat Wade 10-8 in arguably the greatest final of them all in 2010.
‘The Power’ went 180, 180 and then completed the first by finishing off T20, T17 and D18 before going the more traditional route later in the clash with 180, 180, T20, T19 and D12 for a moment of pure greatness.
The third was struck by ‘The Wizard’ Simon Whitlock during his semi-final victory against Andy Hamilton in 2012 as the Australian pinned the holy grail with 180, 180, T20, T15 and D18.
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Simon Whitlock hit a nine-darter against Andy Hamilton in the semi-finals of the 2012 Premier League Play-Offs
Then ‘The Nuke’ added himself to that list last year, with a T20, T19, D12 exit that added his name to an exemplary list.
The 2025 edition of the tournament delivered like no other when it came to perfect legs, with Littler, Humphries, Price twice in Manchester and Aberdeen, and Rob Cross finding perfection, while Josh Rock hit an incredible nine-dart finish on his debut in Belfast this year.
Watch or stream Finals Night on Sky Sports
The Premier League concludes at The O2 arena, London on Thursday May 28 as table-topping Littler plays either Humphries or Price in the first semi-final, and Clayton faces Humphries or Price in the race-to-10 legs with the final a race to 11. Watch Finals Night of Premier League Darts, in London, live on Sky Sports Main Event and Sky Sports Action from 7pm – stream with NOW.
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