2021 Premier League Darts

The tournament format will revert to that used in 2018, with a permanent list of ten players, instead of nine players and a guest "challenger" each week, as had been used in 2019 & 2020..[2]

Phase 1: In each round, the ten players play each other in five matches. Phase 1 matches have a maximum of twelve legs, allowing for the winner being first to seven or a six-six draw. At the end of Phase 1, the bottom two players are eliminated from the competition.

Phase 2: In each round, the remaining eight players play each other in four matches. Phase 2 matches have a maximum of fourteen legs, allowing for the winner being first to eight or a seven-seven draw. At the end of Phase 2, the bottom four players in the league table are eliminated from the competition.

Play-off Night: The top four players in the league table contest the two knockout semi-finals with 1st playing 4th and 2nd playing 3rd. The semi-finals are first to 10 legs (best of 19). The two winning semi-finalists meet in the final which is first to 11 legs (best of 21).

The Brighton Centre was restored to the calendar, having last hosted the Premier League in 2017. The initial calendar also restored rounds in Birmingham, Belfast, Leeds, Berlin, Rotterdam, Glasgow, Manchester, Newcastle, Sheffield and London; all of which had been scheduled for 2020 but cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic; with Berlin replacing London as the scheduled host of the final. Milton Keynes and Coventry, which hosted rounds in 2020 following the pandemic, are not currently scheduled to be on the 2021 calendar.[1]

Liverpool

Glasgow

Exeter

Nottingham

Leeds

Cardiff

Sheffield

Aberdeen

Manchester

Birmingham

Newcastle

London

Belfast

Dublin

Brighton

Locations of the 2021 Premier League venues in the UK and Ireland.

Berlin

Rotterdam

Other locations of the 2021 Premier League venues in Europe.

Cardiff	Dublin	Newcastle	Rotterdam
Motorpoint Arena Cardiff	3Arena	Utilita Arena	Rotterdam Ahoy
Exeter	Belfast	Nottingham	Manchester
Westpoint Arena	SSE Arena Belfast	Motorpoint Arena Nottingham	Manchester Arena
Brighton	Liverpool	Sheffield	Aberdeen
Brighton Centre	M&S Bank Arena	FlyDSA Arena	P&J Live
Birmingham	Glasgow	Leeds	London
Utilita Arena	SSE Hydro	First Direct Arena	The O2 Arena
Berlin
Mercedes Benz Arena

The prize money for the 2021 tournament will remain at £825,000.

Nine of the ten players in this year's tournament were announced following the 2021 PDC World Darts Championship on 3 January. The top four on the PDC Order of Merit are joined by six wildcards. The tenth was announced following the 2021 Masters, with the final of that event serving effectively as a play-off between Mervyn King and Jonny Clayton, with the winner qualifiying.

Player	Appearance in Premier League	Consecutive Streak	Order of Merit Rank on 3/1/21	Previous best performance	Qualification
Gerwyn Price	4th	4	1	5th (2019, 2020)	PDC Order of Merit
Michael van Gerwen	9th	9	2	Winner (2013, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019)
Peter Wright	8th	8	3	Runner-up (2017)
Rob Cross	4th	4	4	Runner-up (2019)
Nathan Aspinall	2nd	2	5	Runner-up (2020)	Wildcard
Gary Anderson	10th	2	8	Winner (2011, 2015)
Dimitri Van den Bergh	1st	1	10	Debut
Glen Durrant	2nd	2	13	Winner (2020)
José de Sousa	1st	1	15	Debut
Jonny Clayton	1st	1	18	Debut

• PDC Professional Darts Corporation, official website
• PDC Professional Darts Corporation, official website, Tournaments