2023 Premier League Darts

The 2023 Cazoo Premier League Darts is a darts tournament, organised by the Professional Darts Corporation – the nineteenth edition of the tournament. The event began on Thursday 2 February 2023, at the SSE Arena in Belfast, and will finish with the play-offs, at The O2 Arena in London on Thursday 25 May 2023.[1]

2023 Cazoo Premier League Darts
Winner
Runner-up
Score
Dates
2 February – 25 May 2023
Edition
19th
Number of players
8
Venues
17
Premier League Darts
< 2022 | 2023 | 2024 >

Michael van Gerwen is the defending champion after beating Joe Cullen 11–10 in the 2022 final.[2]

Format

As introduced in 2022's tournament, the 2023 Premier League Darts uses an eight-person knockout bracket every night. Each of the seven matches will be played over the best-of-11 legs. The players will be guaranteed to meet each other once in the quarter-finals throughout the first seven weeks and once in the quarterfinals in weeks 9–15, with weeks 8 and 16 being drawn based on the league standings at that point. Players will receive two points per semi-final finish, three points per runner-up finish, and five points per final win.[3]

Following the regular phase, the top four players in the league table will contest the two knockout semi-finals with 1st playing 4th and 2nd playing 3rd.

Venues

The 2023 tournament will keep the same 17 venues used in the 2022 Premier League. On 8 October 2022, it was announced that Liverpool and Brighton were switching dates, after Liverpool had been awarded the hosting duties for the Eurovision Song Contest.[4]

Locations of the 2023 Premier League venues in the UK and Ireland.
Other locations of the 2023 Premier League venues in Europe.
Northern Ireland Belfast Wales Cardiff Scotland Glasgow Republic of Ireland Dublin
SSE Arena Belfast
Thursday 2 February		 Motorpoint Arena Cardiff
Thursday 9 February		 OVO Hydro
Thursday 16 February		 3Arena
Thursday 23 February
England Exeter England Liverpool England Nottingham England Newcastle
Westpoint Arena
Thursday 2 March		 M&S Bank Arena
Thursday 9 March		 Motorpoint Arena Nottingham
Thursday 16 March		 Utilita Arena Newcastle
Thursday 23 March
Germany Berlin England Birmingham England Brighton Netherlands Rotterdam
Mercedes-Benz Arena
Thursday 30 March		 Utilita Arena Birmingham
Thursday 6 April		 Brighton Centre
Thursday 13 April		 Rotterdam Ahoy
Thursday 20 April
England Leeds England Manchester England Sheffield Scotland Aberdeen
First Direct Arena
Thursday 27 April		 AO Arena
Thursday 4 May		 Utilita Arena Sheffield
Thursday 11 May		 P&J Live
Thursday 18 May
England London
The O2
Thursday 25 May

Prize money

The prize money for the 2023 tournament is expected to remain at £1 million, including a £10,000 bonus to each night's winner.[5][6]

StagePrize 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 would receive an additional £10,000 towards their prize money. Those who make it out of the last 8 each receive 2 points, the runner-up will receive 3 points and the winner receives 5.

The top 4 players on the PDC Order of Merit automatically qualified, with the remaining four announced following the conclusion of the Masters on 29 January 2023.[7]

Player Appearance in
Premier League		 Consecutive
Streak		 Order of Merit
Rank on 30/1/23		 Previous best performance
 Michael Smith 6th 2 1 Runner-up (2018)
 Peter Wright 10th 10 2 Runner-up (2017)
 Michael van Gerwen 11th 11 3 Winner (2013, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022)
 Gerwyn Price 5th 2[lower-alpha 1] 4 5th place (2019, 2020)
 Jonny Clayton 3rd 3 7 Winner (2021)
 Nathan Aspinall 3rd 1 9 Runner-up (2020)
 Dimitri Van den Bergh 2nd 1 11 5th place (2021)
 Chris Dobey 3rd 1 21 Debut
  1. Price qualified for the 2021 Premier League Darts, but withdrew following a positive COVID-19 test.

League stage

The fixtures were announced on 30 January 2023.[7]

    25 May – Play-offs

    The top four players of the league stage contest in the play-offs to decide the champion of the Premier League.

    England The O2, London

    Score
    Semi-finals (best of 19 legs)
     – 
     – 
    Final (best of 21 legs)
     – 
    Night's Total Average:
    Highest Checkout:
    Most 180s In One Match:
    Night's 180s:

    Standings

    Five points are awarded for a night win, three points for the runner-up and two points for the semi-finalists. When players are tied on points, leg difference is used first as a tie-breaker, after that legs won against throw and then tournament average.

    The top 4 players after 16 nights advance to the play-offs on 25 May.


    Pos Name Nights Matches Legs Scoring
    Pts W RU SF QF Pld W L LF LA LD LWAT 100+ 140+ 180 A[9] HC CR C%
    1  Michael van Gerwen 25 3 2 2 2 21 15 6 111 81 +30 41 208 142 52 97.74 170 111/286 38.95%
    2  Gerwyn Price 20 3 1 1 4 18 12 6 96 75 +21 40 191 111 50 96.12 156 96/241 39.83%
    3  Michael Smith 15 1 2 2 4 17 9 8 81 80 +1 25 206 109 55 97.32 148 81/216 37.50%
    4  Nathan Aspinall 15 0 1 6 2 17 8 9 74 86 –12 26 191 121 52 95.44 143 74/214 34.57%
    5  Jonny Clayton 12 1 1 2 5 15 7 8 65 73 –8 22 182 95 31 94.31 120 65/159 40.88%
    6  Chris Dobey 10 1 1 1 6 14 6 8 64 68 –4 24 140 80 37 96.00 170 64/154 41.55%
    7  Dimitri Van den Bergh 9 0 1 3 5 14 5 9 63 68 –5 24 151 89 34 95.87 140 63/163 38.65%
    8  Peter Wright 2 0 0 1 8 10 1 9 36 59 –23 10 134 66 19 93.65 156 36/96 37.50%
    As of 30 March 2023 (Week 9)


    (C) Champion after the playoffs, (RU) Runner-up after the playoffs

    Streaks
    Player Nights
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Play-offs
     Michael van Gerwen RU SF QF W SF RU QF
     Gerwyn Price QF W QF RU QF W SF
     Michael Smith QF SF W SF QF RU QF RU
     Nathan Aspinall SF RU SF QF SF QF SF
     Jonny Clayton QF SF RU QF W
     Chris Dobey W QF RU SF QF DNQ
     Dimitri Van den Bergh SF QF RU QF SF QF SF QF
     Peter Wright QF SF QF
    Legend: DNQDid not qualifyQFLost in QuarterfinalsSFSemi-finalistRURunner-upWNight winner

    Positions by Week
    Player Nights
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
     Michael van Gerwen 2 4 1
     Gerwyn Price 5 3 6 3 4 2
     Michael Smith 7 6 1 2 3 4 3
     Nathan Aspinall 4 2 4 3 4 3 4
     Jonny Clayton 8 7 6 7 5
     Chris Dobey 1 5 6 7 6 5 6
     Dimitri Van den Bergh 3 5 3 5 6 7
     Peter Wright 6 7 8

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