Premier League Darts is one of the biggest tournaments on the PDC calendar each year. 16 weeks of action in major cities throughout the UK and Europe, before finishing with the play-offs at a sold out O2 Arena in London.
Despite not being a ranking tournament – meaning player earnings don’t count towards their ranking money on the PDC Order of Merit – it’s one of the most lucrative tournaments financially for the select players to be involved in.
With a total prize fund of £1,250,000, the 8 players involved are guaranteed to earn a minimum of £80,000 just to take part.
| Position | Prize Money |
| Winner | £350,000 |
| Runner-up | £170,000 |
| Semi-finalists (x2) | £110,000 |
| 5th place | £95,000 |
| 6th place | £90,000 |
| 7th place | £85,000 |
| 8th place | £80,000 |
| Weekly winner bonus (x16) | £10,000 |
| Total prize fund | £1,250,000 |
Not only is it the second largest prize fund of all professional darts competitions but it also has the fewest entrants (by far).
When you include the added exposure of being on tv for the 16 weekly tournaments, it’s obvious why so many players have making the Premier League Darts line-up as one of their main goals within the sport.
For the third consecutive season, Luke Littler would finish top of the table during the league phase and would go on to lift his second Premier League title on Finals Night.
LITTLER WINS A CLASSIC! ☢️🏆
— PDC Darts (@OfficialPDC) May 28, 2026
What. A. Match! 🤯
Luke Littler denies Luke Humphries in the GREATEST Premier League final of all-time, prevailing in a decider to win the title for a second time! 🙌 pic.twitter.com/gyTJrWqKzw
Despite a slow start to the campaign, he matched his nightly win record (x6) from last season and combined with winning the title, The Nuke earned more than double any other player! 🤯
Below, we’ve tallied up the weekly win bonuses and final league positions to show the total player earnings for the 2026 Premier League Darts campaign…
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Josh Rock – £80,000
8th place finish – £80,000
Josh Rock was one of the form players of 2025, reaching the semi-final of the UK Open, World Matchplay and World Series of Darts Finals whilst also winning the World Cup of Darts representing Northern Ireland.
He also had some of the most exciting games of the year including the semi-final Matchplay clash against Luke Littler and World Cup of Dart final where his partnership with Daryl Gurney had heavy scoring and clutch finishing to beat Jonny Clayton and Gerwyn Price of Wales.
This combined with breaching the top 10 in rankings and still being considered a relatively young talent meant that there weren’t too many people surprised to see him make the 2026 Premier League line-up for the first time in his career.
His debut season would not go to plan though as Rocky would go winless for the first SEVEN weeks of Premier League action!
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He would also lose five consecutive weeks to end what would ultimately be a disappointing debut campaign for Rock.
Without any bonuses for a nightly win, Rock would finish with £80,000 earned for his 8th place finish.
Despite his struggles, he still had one of the most memorable moments of the year hitting a nine-darter in front of his home crowd in Belfast:
Gian van Veen – £85,000
7th place finish – £85,000
Gian van Veen would be another young talent to make his debut for the 2026 Premier League.
The Giant had a breakout season last year winning the European Championship and finishing runner-up to Luke Littler at the 2026 World Darts Championship.
He flew up to being ranked 3rd in the world and earned an automatic qualification as a result.
Gian would start the season flying, making the final three times during the first four weeks. His season went downhill soon after though as he had kidney stones and missed Night 7 as a result.
This lost him the early momentum he’d built up and then he was involved in arguably the most controversial moment of the season for the incident with Luke Littler in Manchester on Night 9.
He would not reach the final again during the final six weeks of play and would finish the season in 7th place overall.
This earned him £85,000 for his final position and like fellow debutant Rock, he also would not win a night so received no further bonuses.
Michael van Gerwen – £100,000
6th place finish – £90,000
Weekly winner bonus (x1) – £10,000
Michael van Gerwen is the leading Premier League title winner having won the title seven times during his career to date.
He would miss the play-offs in 2025 for only the second time in his career and has been struggling for form the last few seasons due to well publicised issues in his personal life.
He would win the first night of the season and would also come runner-up the following week, teasing that he could be a force during this campaign.
That wasn’t to be the case though as MVG would withdraw from the third week and then make the final on two more occasions during the season.
A 6th place finish is the joint-lowest of his career.
Defending large winning prize money at the World Matchplay in July and World Darts Championship later in the year, MVG faces a real possibility of dropping outside the top four in the PDC Order of Merit with some predictions seeing him fall outside the top 10… 😳
You’d think he’d still be a guaranteed pick for the PDC, however, his form this year is what could dictate that decision.
During this campaign MVG earned £100,000 for his 6th place finish combined with a single nightly win bonus.
Stephen Bunting – £115,000
5th place finish – £95,000
Weekly winner bonus (x2) – £20,000
After struggling in the 2025 Premier League Darts campaign, Stephen Bunting was a much debated name between fans when he was included in the line-up once again this year.
Bunting had a similar campaign to what Josh Rock had this year where he went eight weeks before eventually picking up his first Premier League win (where he’d go on to win the night).
It would be a big improvement for The Bullet this time around though where two nightly wins and a handful of semi-final runs saw him finish in 5th place.
Outside of Premier League Darts, Bunting has slipped down to 9th in the rankings and without a deep major tournament run since the 2025 World Matchplay almost a year ago, he’ll need a strong second half of 2026 to keep his name in the mix for the 2027 line-up…
With a 5th placed finish and two nightly wins, Bunting earned £115,000.
Gerwyn Price – £130,000
Semi-finalist – £110,000
Weekly winner bonus (x2) – £20,000
After a very bad 2024 season (by his standards) Gerwyn Price returned to form in 2025 making several semi-final runs – including the 2025 Premier League – and a number of quarter-final runs.
While he was a questionable pick in 2025 due to his form, Price’s A-game is top tier and has put in some incredible performances over the last few campaigns.
His Week 9 win in Manchester was statistically one of the best in Premier League Darts history.
Price stated several times though that he wasn’t chasing nightly wins and wanted to just keep stacking quarter-final wins to ensure his place at Finals Night.
His plan worked, however, he was the only player of the four semi-finalists not to win a Premier League title and it was not to be this year either.
Price would lose in a deciding leg 10-9 to Luke Littler to finish as a semi-finalist for the second year in row.
With two nightly wins and a semi-final place, Price would secure £130,000 for his campaign overall.
With Price defending very little prize money this year, a push for top four in the rankings and automatic qualification to next year’s tournament is a very realistic possibility for The Iceman should he maintain his form from the last 12 months.
Jonny Clayton – £150,000
Semi-finalist – £110,000
Weekly winner bonus (x4) – £40,000
Jonny Clayton had played in three Premier League campaigns prior to this year and had qualified for Finals Night in each of them.
He won the Premier League during his debut campaign in 2021 and finished top of the table the following year. Surprisingly, despite his consistency, The Ferret would then be left out of the following two Premier League line-ups.
A strong run last year including runner-up at the World Masters and then three straight semi-final finishes in ranked major tournaments, Clayton would work his way up to 5th in the rankings and earn a call-up again.
The bookies had him favourite to finish BOTTOM of the 2026 Premier League table and Clayton has since said about how much it hurt him to be overlooked like this and it gave him additional motivation.
It definitely paid off as Clayton stormed to four nightly wins and would hold top spot in the table for an extended period of time before eventually finishing in second place.
He suffered the same fate as Gerwyn Price though losing a last-leg decider to Luke Humphries in the semi-final on Finals Night.
Despite the disappointing end, Clayton is the Premier League is top class and you’d expect to see him again after the season he just had.
Four nightly wins and a semi-final finish means Jonny Clayton earned £150,000 in total.
Luke Humphries – £180,000
Runner-up – £170,000
Weekly winner bonus (x1) – £10,000
Luke Humphries was the defending champion coming into the 2026 Premier League after securing his first title in 2025.
It was a tale of two halves for Cool Hand though as he was in unfamiliar territory struggling for form and trying to secure qualification to the play-offs with just a few weeks to go…
It’s fair to say something wasn’t clicking for him as he had the highest average across the campaign being the only player to cross the hundred mark at 101.20.
He admits his finishing was letting him down at crucial moments but fortunately he found momentum at the back-end of the season. He made it to the final for four consecutive weeks at the end of the season, winning Night 15 in the process (which helped secure his play-off place).
After beating Jonny Clayton in the semi-final, Humphries made it a Luke vs Luke final for the third straight year.
He would ultimately lose a last leg decider to the 19-year-old but admitted he can’t be too disappointed to end with a defeat in such a closely contested game.
Whilst only securing a single nightly bonus, the runner-up finish boosted Humphries up to £180,000 earned across the campaign.
Luke Littler – £410,000
Winner – £350,000
Weekly winner bonus (x6) – £60,000
Currently top of the PDC Order of Merit having earned a staggering £2,929,500 over the last 24 months, Luke Littler couldn’t add to his ranking prize money tally during this tournament, though he would still earn a significant amount after another world class campaign!
Five weeks in, Littler was yet to reach a final with many questioning whether the world champion and world number one was ‘interested’ or taking the Premier League seriously.
He would eventually kick into gear though finishing top of the table for the third year in a row and equaling his own record of nightly wins at six.
Despite close games in the semi-final and final, The Nuke was still able to find a way to win and averaged 111.67 to lift the title. The joint-second highest winning finals average in Premier League history.
After the incident in Manchester and some fan backlash to follow, Littler would get overwhelmed with emotion during his pre-match interview and admitted to telling his girlfriend Faith “I don’t want to do this anymore”.
While an emotionally difficult campaign for the youngster, he would eventually secure his 6th consecutive major title as he continues to dominate darts.
With six nightly wins and the title, Luke Littler would secure a huge £410,000 in prize money for the campaign.
You can see highlights from the epic final provided by Sky Sports Darts YouTube below:
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