Premier League Darts 2025: Is Luke Littler playing? Who else might get picked? When does tournament start?

The line-up for Premier League Darts 2025 was revealed live on Sky Sports News, with the final four names confirmed for this season's showpiece.

New world champion and reigning Premier League champion Luke Littler, world No 1 Luke Humphries, Michael van Gerwen and Rob Cross are set to earn automatic picks due to their spots in the top four on the PDC Order of Merit.

The PDC had a raft of options for the remaining four places but selected Nathan Aspinall, Stephen Bunting, Chris Dobey and Gerwyn Price, with former world champions Gary Anderson, Peter Wright and Michael Smith among those to miss out.

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PDC chief executive Matt Porter told Sky Sports: "We have to look for the star quality and people who can perform on the big stage. It's going to be an interesting announcement.

"We're certainly not going to please everybody but we feel we have to make the decisions that are right for the millions who will watch on TV and the 150,000 who will join us in the big arenas.

"Whatever decision we make, so long as people are talking about it, we've made the right decision."

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How does the Premier League work?

Matches take place every Thursday night between February and May and are played in different venues around the United Kingdom, Ireland and Europe, including Germany and the Netherlands.

Since 2022, the format has been an eight-person knockout bracket every night, with each of the players meeting once across week 1-7 and then again in weeks 9-15 with weeks 8 and 16 drawn based on league standings.

The points system is as follows:

• Nightly winner: 5 points
• Runner-up: 3 points
• Losing semi-finalists: 2 points

After week 16, the top four in the table contest the semi-finals and the final at The O2 arena in London.

First plays fourth and second plays third in the best-of-19-leg semi-finals before a best-of-21-leg final.

2025 BetMGM Premier League schedule

• Night 1 - The SSE Arena, Belfast - Thursday February 6
• Night 2 - OVO Hydro, Glasgow - Thursday February 13
• Night 3 - 3Arena, Dublin - Thursday February 20
• Night 4 - Westpoint Exeter - Thursday February 27
• Night 5 - The Brighton Centre - Thursday March 6
• Night 6 - Motorpoint Arena, Nottingham - Thursday March 13
• Night 7 - Utilita Arena, Cardiff - Thursday March 20
• Night 8 - Utilita Arena, Newcastle - Thursday March 27
• Night 9 - Uber Arena, Berlin - Thursday April 3
• Night 10 - AO Arena, Manchester - Thursday April 10
• Night 11 - Rotterdam Ahoy, Rotterdam - Thursday April 17
• Night 12 - M&S Bank Arena, Liverpool - Thursday April 24
• Night 13 - Utilita Arena, Birmingham, Thursday May 1
• Night 14 - First Direct Arena, Leeds - Thursday May 8
• Night 15 - P&J Live, Aberdeen - Thursday May 15
• Night 16 - Utilita Arena, Sheffield - Thursday May 22
• Play-Offs - The O2, London - Thursday May 29

Premier League Darts winners

• 2005: Phil Taylor
• 2006: Phil Taylor
• 2007: Phil Taylor
• 2008: Phil Taylor
• 2009: James Wade
• 2010: Phil Taylor
• 2011: Gary Anderson
• 2012: Phil Taylor
• 2013: Michael van Gerwen
• 2014: Raymond van Barneveld
• 2015: Gary Anderson
• 2016: Michael van Gerwen
• 2017: Michael van Gerwen
• 2018: Michael van Gerwen
• 2019: Michael van Gerwen
• 2020: Glen Durrant
• 2021: Jonny Clayton
• 2022: Michael van Gerwen
• 2023: Michael van Gerwen
• 2024: Luke Littler

Who will be in the 2025 Premier League Darts line-up? Find out live on Sky Sports News from 4.30pm, Monday. Then watch every night of the tournament live on Sky Sports from Thursday February 6.