Luke Littler Premier League odds revealed as new World Darts Champion attempts to defend title
LUKE LITTLER’S Premier League defence kicks off in just a few weeks’ time.
And the brand new world champion is a short priced favourite to make it back-to-back victories in this competition – in just his second appearance.
The Premier League kicks off on February 6 in Belfast[/caption]Premier League darts
Players taking part in 2025
- Luke Littler
- Luke Humphries
- Michael van Gerwen
- Gerwyn Price
- Stephen Bunting
- Rob Cross
- Chris Dobey
- Nathan Aspinall
The 17-year-old gained success in last year’s Premier League as a pretty good consolation prize, having narrowly missed out on world championship glory just over 12 months ago.
Littler – who has racked up 11 senior PDC titles in since his breakthrough – would go onto exact revenge on Luke Humphries at the 02 Arena in May’s final.
With that £500,000 prize from Ally Pally in his back pocket, he’s now poised to dominate the sport moving forward, and likely for quite some time.
So Premier League sponsors BetMGM aren’t taking any chances and have installed him as the 6/4 favourite to successfully defend his title.
He leads the eight-man field ahead of Premier League runner-up Luke Humphries (3/1) and World Champion runner-up Michael van Gerwen at 6/1, who has won this competition a record seven times.
2023 runner-up Gerwyn Price is a 12/1 shot, just ahead of Stephen Bunting at 14/1.
Rob Cross and Chris Dobey are both 16s with Nathan Aspinall the big outsider at 40/1.
Premier League Darts 2025: Dates and venues
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
UK Director at BetMGM, Sam Behar, said: “Luke Littler has enjoyed a phenomenal rise, and we’ve seen the early money on him to defend his BetMGM Premier League Darts title.
“He’s 6/4 to win it back-to-back, following his imperious display to win the PDC World Championship.
“Luke Humphries faced Littler in the final last time out and the 2024 world champion is 3/1 second favourite with BetMGM, while seven-time Premier League winner Michael van Gerwen is 9/2.
“The BetMGM Premier League gets underway in Belfast on 6th February and it promises to be a spectacular few months of darts with the likes of Littler and Humphries joined this year by Stephen Bunting and Chris Dobey on the big stage.”
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