The 2025 BetMGM Premier League season continues in Exeter on Thursday, as Gerwyn Price begins his bid for back-to-back nightly wins against league leader Luke Humphries.
Price defeated Humphries on his way to victory in Dublin last week, while also seeing off reigning champion Luke Littler and a resurgent Nathan Aspinall to triumph in the Irish capital.
The Welshman will now lock horns with world number one Humphries for a third consecutive week on Thursday February 27, as Night Four of the darting roadshow takes place at Westpoint Exeter.
Humphries launched a superb comeback to defeat Price in the Night Two semi-finals, although Price returned the favour on Night Three, converting a trio of ton-plus checkouts to close out a 6-3 success.
Having finished top of the league phase in 2023, Price endured a disappointing campaign 12 months ago, but following a strong start to the year, he’s starting to transfer performances into victories.
“I felt like I was playing pretty well last year, but I wasn’t getting the results,” said the 2020/21 World Champion, who was also a winner on the PDC ProTour earlier this month.
“I was missing a couple of chances on the doubles and getting punished for it.
“That doesn’t seem to be happening this year. I’m taking my chances, I’m playing really well and the results are coming.
“I was just happy to get a win in Dublin. It is five vital points for me early on in the Premier League, and it gives me a good boost leading into Exeter this week.”
Price and Humphries’ latest showdown will headline Thursday’s action, as the league's current top two collide in the South West.
Night Two winner Littler will also aim to return to winning ways when he takes on former Masters champion Stephen Bunting, who is yet to register a victory in this year’s competition.
Bunting suffered his third consecutive quarter-final defeat in Dublin last Thursday, despite registering a ton-plus average in a high-quality affair against Humphries.
Littler, meanwhile, occupies fourth spot in the embryonic table, after Price fended off his late fightback at the 3Arena to celebrate a fifth successive win over the teenage superstar.
The winner of Littler and Bunting’s clash will face either Chris Dobey or Aspinall, who go head-to-head in the evening’s penultimate quarter-final.
Aspinall claimed the nightly spoils in Exeter last season, and he opened his 2025 account in Dublin last Thursday, overcoming Rob Cross and Michael van Gerwen to reach the Night Three showpiece.
Night One runner-up Dobey is level with Aspinall on three points, after following up his Belfast exploits with narrow 6-4 quarter-final defeats against Humphries and Van Gerwen.
Aspinall has remarkably won nine of the pair’s ten meetings dating back to March 2015, yet Bedlington star Dobey is confident of addressing that record on Thursday.
"I need to win this one for bragging rights," quipped former Masters champion Dobey.
"Nathan has been telling everybody about his record against me over the last few weeks, so that makes me even more hungry to turn the tables!
"It's a massive game. Me and Nathan are already on the same points, so we'll both be up for it and hopefully it will be a cracker.
"I feel like my game is there. It's just a matter of when it's going to happen on the big stage, and fingers crossed it happens tomorrow night!"
Elsewhere, seven-time Premier League champion Van Gerwen will face Cross in a battle of the former World Champions in the evening’s curtain-raiser.
Van Gerwen has recorded a trio of semi-final appearances to kick off his campaign, while Cross followed up a run to the Night One semi-finals with back-to-back quarter-final exits in Glasgow and Dublin.
Cross has won five of his last six big stage meetings against the Dutch superstar, although Van Gerwen has averaged 105, 109 and 99 in his quarter-final victories so far this season.
The 2025 Premier League sees eight of the sport’s biggest names contesting 16 mini-events during the season, with each league night comprising quarter-finals, semi-finals and a final over the best of 11 legs.
Ranking points will be awarded per night - with five to the winner, three to the runner-up and two to the semi-finalists - to form the league table from which the top four players will progress to the Play-Offs at The O2 in London on Thursday May 29.
The 2025 BetMGM Premier League will be broadcast live on Sky Sports in the UK & Ireland, through the PDC's worldwide broadcast partners including DAZN and Viaplay, and on PDCTV for Rest of the World Subscribers (outside of the UK, Ireland, Germany, Austria & Switzerland).
2025 BetMGM Premier League
Night Four - Thursday February 27
Westpoint Exeter
Quarter-Finals
Michael van Gerwen v Rob Cross
Gerwyn Price v Luke Humphries
Chris Dobey v Nathan Aspinall
Stephen Bunting v Luke Littler
Semi-Finals
Van Gerwen/Cross v Price/Humphries
Dobey/Aspinall v Bunting/Littler
Final
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All matches best of 11 legs
