The 2024 Premier League Darts, also known as the BetMGM Premier League Darts for sponsorship reasons, was a darts tournament, organised by the Professional Darts Corporation – the twentieth edition of the tournament. The event began on Thursday 1 February 2024, at the Cardiff International Arena in Cardiff, and finished with the play-offs, at The O2 Arena in London on Thursday 23 May 2024.
Michael van Gerwen was the defending champion, after beating Gerwyn Price 11–5 in the 2023 final. However, he lost 10–5 to Luke Humphries in the semi-finals.
Luke Littler won his first major title and his first Premier League title on debut, beating Humphries 11–7 in the final. He became the youngest player to win a major PDC tournament and hit a nine-dart finish in the final.
On night 10, Gerwyn Price also hit a nine-dart finish during his semi-final match against Michael Smith.
Format The 2024 Premier League Darts remained an eight-person knockout bracket every night, with each of the seven matches played as the first to six legs. The players were guaranteed to meet each other once in the quarter-finals throughout the first seven weeks, and once in the quarter-finals in weeks 9–15, with weeks 8 and 16 being drawn based on the league standings at that point. Players received two points per semi-final finish, three points per runner-up finish, and five points per final win.
Following the league phase, the top four players in the table contested the two knockout semi-finals with 1st playing 4th and 2nd playing 3rd.
Venues
Cardiff Berlin Glasgow Newcastle Cardiff International ArenaThursday 1 February Mercedes-Benz ArenaThursday 8 February OVO HydroThursday 15 February Newcastle ArenaThursday 22 February Exeter Brighton Nottingham Dublin Westpoint ExeterThursday 29 February Brighton CentreThursday 7 March Nottingham ArenaThursday 14 March 3ArenaThursday 21 March Belfast Manchester Birmingham Rotterdam SSE Arena BelfastThursday 28 March Manchester ArenaThursday 4 April Arena BirminghamThursday 11 April Rotterdam AhoyThursday 18 April Liverpool Aberdeen Leeds Sheffield Liverpool ArenaThursday 25 April P&J LiveThursday 2 May Leeds ArenaThursday 9 May Sheffield ArenaThursday 16 May London The O2Thursday 23 May
Prize money The prize money for the 2024 tournament remained at £1 million, including a £10,000 bonus to each night's winner. Stage Prize money Winner £275,000 Runner-up £125,000 Semi-finalists (x2) £85,000 5th place £75,000 6th place £70,000 7th place £65,000 8th place £60,000 Weekly Winner Bonus (x16) £10,000 Total £1,000,000
Players The format introduced in 2022 continued, which would encompass eight players, each playing against each other in a knockout tournament each night. The winner of each night received an additional £10,000 towards their prize money. Those who make it out of the last 8 each receive 2 points, the runner-up received 3 points and the winner received 5.
The top 4 players on the PDC Order of Merit automatically qualified. The remaining 4 were announced on 4 January 2024.
PlayerAppearance inPremier LeagueConsecutiveStreakOrder of Merit Rank on 1 February 2024Previous best performance 1st 1 1 12th 12 2 7th 3 3 Runner-up (2018) 4th 2 4 Runner-up (2020) 6th 3 5 Runner-up (2023) 5th 1 6 Runner-up (2019) 11th 11 8 Runner-up (2017) 1st 1 31 Debut
League stage
The fixtures were released on 23 January 2024.
1 February – Night 1 Cardiff International Arena, Cardiff
Night 1 Statistics Night's Total Average: Highest Checkout: 124 Most 180s: 10 Night's 180s: 33
8 February – Night 2 Mercedes-Benz Arena, Berlin
Night 2 Statistics Night's Total Average: Highest Checkout: and 170 Most 180s: 13 Total 180s: 49
15 February – Night 3 OVO Hydro, Glasgow
Night 3 Statistics Night's Total Average: Highest Checkout: 144 Most 180s: 13 Total 180s: 50
22 February – Night 4 Newcastle Arena, Newcastle
Night 4 Statistics Night's Total Average: Highest Checkout: 170 Most 180s: 11 Total 180s: 50
29 February – Night 5 Westpoint Exeter, Exeter
Night 5 Statistics Night's Total Average: Highest Checkout: (x2) 160 Most 180s: 9 Total 180s: 32
7 March – Night 6 Brighton Centre, Brighton
Night 6 Statistics Night's Total Average: Highest Checkout: 143 Most 180s: 15 Total 180s: 39
14 March – Night 7 Nottingham Arena, Nottingham
Night 7 Statistics Night's Total Average: Highest Checkout: 146 Most 180s: 12 Total 180s: 44
21 March – Night 8 3Arena, Dublin
Night 8 Statistics Night's Total Average: Highest Checkout: 132 Most 180s: 14 Total 180s: 44
SSE Arena, Belfast
Night 9 Statistics Night's Total Average: Highest Checkout: 150 Most 180s: 9 Total 180s: 33
4 April – Night 10 Manchester Arena, Manchester
Night 10 Statistics Night's Total Average: Highest Checkout: 167 Most 180s: 11 Total 180s: 40 Nine-Dart Finish:
11 April – Night 11 Arena Birmingham, Birmingham
Night 11 Statistics Night's Total Average: 96.37 Highest Checkout: 152 Most 180s: 8 Total 180s: 29
18 April – Night 12 Rotterdam Ahoy, Rotterdam
Night 12 Statistics Night's Total Average: 94.87 Highest Checkout: 170 Most 180s: 11 Total 180s: 44
25 April – Night 13 Liverpool Arena, Liverpool
Night 13 Statistics Night's Total Average: 98.68 Highest Checkout: 138 Most 180s: 8 Total 180s: 30
2 May – Night 14 P&J Live, Aberdeen
Night 14 Statistics Night's Total Average: 98.82 Highest Checkout: 146 Most 180s: 13 Total 180s: 39
9 May – Night 15 Leeds Arena, Leeds
Night 15 Statistics Night's Total Average: 95.58 Highest Checkout: 146 Most 180s: 11 Total 180s: 39
16 May – Night 16 Sheffield Arena, Sheffield
Night 16 Statistics Night's Total Average: 96.34 Highest Checkout: 170 Most 180s: 9 Night's 180s: 35
23 May – Play-offs The top four players of the league stage contest in the play-offs to decide the champion of the Premier League.
The O2, London
Score Semi-finals (best of 19 legs) 10–5 10–5 Final (best of 21 legs) 11–7 Night's Total Average: 100.55 Highest Checkout: 144 Most 180s: 14 Night's 180s: 30 Nine-dart finish:
Standings
Five points were awarded for a night win, three points for the runner-up and two points for the losing semi-finalists. When players are tied on points, nights won is used first as a tie-breaker and after that overall matches won.
The top four players after 16 nights advanced to the play-offs.
Name Nights Matches Legs Scoring100+140+1801 (C)4042733523123063 99.20170/39.10%2 (RU)3642553321124066 100.46170/41.42%3 294138291712853 98.10152/41.50%4 292356311714–245 96.45170/39.26%5 252338291514447 95.73170/36.29%6 170349261016–1534 97.38144/41.07%7 120231123716–2729 98.41170/40.60%8 40021418216–4318 93.02156/35.47%
(C) Champion(RU) Runner-up(E) Eliminated (Q) Qualified
Streaks Player Nights 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Play-offs colspan=4 colspan="2" colspan="2" colspan="2" colspan="3" colspan="2" colspan="2" colspan=3 colspan=4 colspan=3 colspan=2 colspan=2 colspan=3 colspan=3 Rowspan=4 colspan=2 colspan=6 colspan="2" colspan=2 colspan=4 colspan=2 colspan=6 colspan=7 Legend: Did not qualify Did not participate Lost in Quarterfinals Semi-finalist Runner-up Night winner
Positions by week Player Nights 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 3 2 3 5 2 1 2 1 8 6 4 5 6 2 1 2 1 2 5 2 1 2 3 4 3 4 3 1 2 5 6 4 5 4 6 7 4 6 4 3 4 3 4 3 4 5 4 5 6 4 3 4 5 6 7 6 2 4 5 6 7 6 7 7 8
References
External links Professional Darts Corporation, official website PDC Professional Darts Corporation, official website, Tournaments