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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 >

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]

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]

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Locations of the 2023 Premier League venues in the UK and Ireland.
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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]

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 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 31/1/23 		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[a] 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 1st 1 21 Debutant
  1. ^ Price qualified for the 2021 Premier League Darts, but withdrew following a positive COVID-19 test.

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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:

Table and streaks

Table

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 HC CR C%
1  Chris Dobey 5 1 0 0 1 4 3 1 23 18 +6 8 77 34 11 95.27 170 23/54 42.59%
2  Michael van Gerwen 5 0 1 0 0 3 3 1 17 13 +5 5 64 29 7 101.92 [citation needed] 114 17/34 50.00%
3  Nathan Aspinall 4 0 0 1 0 2 1 1 10 8 +2 4 30 16 5 95.96 [citation needed] 127 10/24 41.66%
4  Dimitri Van den Bergh 2 0 0 1 1 2 1 2 10 10 _2 3 43 17 6 93.73 [citation needed] 130 10/29 34.48%
5  Michael Smith 2 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 4 6 –2 1 24 8 1 91.29 116 4/9 44.44%
6  Gerwyn Price 2 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 3 6 –3 0 18 8 2 100.84 96 3/8 37.50%
7  Jonny Clayton 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 2 6 12 –6 2 49 15 5 100.49 156 6/17 35.29%
8  Peter Wright 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 2 5 12 –7 3 34 15 2 95.20 120 5/17 29.41%

(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
 Chris Dobey W QF
 Michael van Gerwen RU
 Dimitri Van den Bergh SF
 Nathan Aspinall SF
 Gerwyn Price QF DNQ
 Michael Smith QF
 Peter Wright QF QF
 Jonny Clayton QF QF
Legend: DNQ Did not qualify WD Withdrew QF Lost in Quarterfinals SF Semi-finalist RU Runner-up W Night winner

Positions by Week

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

References

  1. ^ "2023 Premier League schedule & ticket information confirmed". PDC. Retrieved 3 October 2022.
  2. ^ Gorton, Josh. "Van Gerwen wins Cullen classic to lift sixth Premier League title". Professional Darts Corporation. Retrieved 14 June 2022.
  3. ^ Allen, Dave. "Every Match Matters". Professional Darts Corporation. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
  4. ^ Allen, Dave. "2023 Cazoo Premier League schedule update". Professional Darts Corporation. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
  5. ^ "PDC chairman Hearn announces record prize money for 2022". PDC. PDC.
  6. ^ "2022 Cazoo Premier League Night One preview". PDC. PDC.
  7. ^ a b "2023 Cazoo Premier League fixtures confirmed". PDC. Retrieved 31 January 2023.

External links

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