World number one Luke Humphries got the better of fellow Englishman Nathan Aspinall to claim a superb victory in the final of the US Darts Masters. Humphries, 30, followed up his World Masters and Premier League titles with an 8-6 win in the World Series of Darts event at New York’s Madison Square Garden. Aspinall...
England’s Luke Humphries and Luke Littler are out of the World Cup of Darts after suffering a shock defeat by hosts Germany in the last 16. The German pair of Martin Schindler and tournament debutant Ricardo Pietreczko took advantage of a string of missed doubles and some sloppy play by the top two players in...
PA Media Former world champion Gerwyn “The Iceman” Price beat teenage sensation Luke “The Nuke” Littler in March with darts made by Lee Huxtable He is one of the most successful designers in the sports industry with a legion of world champions to his name. But Lee Huxtable is not widely known outside the world...
Victory was also payback for Humphries after he lost last year’s final to Littler as their rivalry continues to grow. Since first playing each other in the 2024 World Championship final, the pair have faced off a further 22 times with Littler claiming 13 wins to Humphries’ 10. They are the two top-ranked players in...
World number one Luke Humphries gained revenge on Luke Littler as he won a pulsating final to win the Premier League for the first time. After losing to world champion Littler in last year’s final, Humphries triumphed 11-8 in the repeat as the world’s top two duked it out at O2 Arena. The emergence of...
Littler’s popularity and stardom extends far wider than a darts audience. He was invited into Tottenham midfielder James Maddison’s box, external during his first World Championship campaign and did a Hot Lap around Silverstone with Lando Norris before the British Grand Prix in 2024. He is an avid Manchester United fan and has visited their...
“It’s been pretty much life-changing, I’d say.” Identical twins Harry and Alfie, from Devon, both dream of becoming professional darts players after being inspired by teenage darts sensation Luke Littler, who became the youngest winner of the PDC World Championship in January. They go to Teignbridge Darts Academy in Newton Abbot – one of seven...
Luke Humphries ended his 10-week wait for a Premier League nightly victory with a tense 6-5 win over Luke Littler in Leeds. The 30-year-old, who had not won a final since beating Littler on Night 4 in Exeter, came from 2-0 down to beat ‘The Nuke’ in a thriller. World number one Humphries averaged 100.96,...
Teenager Luke Littler created more history by becoming the first player to win five nights in a Premier League season with a 6-4 victory over Michael van Gerwen in Birmingham. The 18-year-old, who is the youngest world darts champion after his success in January, has also secured his place in the season-ending play-offs at O2...
Darts player Andy Jenkins has been banned for 11 years and fined more than £17,000 for match-fixing. A Darts Regulation Authority (DRA) disciplinary committee found Jenkins, 54, guilty of fixing 12 matches in which he was involved between February 2022 and July 2023. Jenkins had denied match-fixing but admitted placing 88 bets on matches between...
Premier League Darts is played across 16 initial weeks in the league stage with quarter-finals, semi-finals and a final each night. Each of the eight players is guaranteed to face the other seven in the quarter-finals in weeks one to seven and 9-15, with week eight and week 16 fixtures done off the table. It...
Chris Dobey won his first Premier League night of 2025 with a 6-2 win over Stephen Bunting on an evening of shocks in Rotterdam. The all-English final was one few would have predicted, featuring the bottom two going into night 11. Dobey was in his first final since a 6-1 opening-night loss to Luke Humphries,...
Nathan Aspinall delighted his home crowd in Manchester as he claimed his first nightly win of the year to move into the Premier League play-off places. The 33-year-old from Stockport came back from 3-0 down to beat world number one Luke Humphries 6-4 in the final. After Humphries missed a dart to go 4-0 up,...
Stephen Bunting beat fellow Englishman Nathan Aspinall 8-5 to win the International Open in Germany – his first European Tour title. Bunting had ended a run of eight match defeats in the Premier League on Thursday when he won night nine in Berlin. The 39-year-old continued his impressive form on German soil with a confident...
“Don’t get me wrong, there have been times through the Premier League where I’ve thought, ‘Could I finish on zero points’?” Bunting told Sky Sports. “But to get off the mark tonight and to win a night is such a special feeling. “This is going to give me huge confidence and I can’t wait to...