Luke Littler returned to winning ways on the Premier League stage with a sensational Night Five triumph in Cardiff last night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Littler found himself in unfamiliar territory upon arrival in the Welsh capital, languishing in seventh position following a sluggish start to the season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, the world number one got his campaign firmly back on track with victories over Josh Rock, Gerwyn Price and Jonny Clayton in front of a sell-out crowd at the Utilita Arena.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Littler kicked off proceedings with a hard-fought win over Rock, defying a 103.72 average from the Northern Irishman to set up a semi-final showdown against Price.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The World Champion then produced the performance of the tournament so far to topple home hero Price 6-3, averaging north of 111 and wrapping up victory with a majestic 170 checkout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Little repeated the feat in Thursday’s showpiece, converting his second 170 outshot of the evening en route to a 6-4 success against Welsh number one Clayton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The pair traded breaks of throw in the opening exchanges, before Clayton landed a clinical 86 kill on the bull and left 46 after nine darts in leg four to close in on a 3-1 lead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Littler responded with the magical big-fish finish to restore parity, and the outrageous quality continued in leg seven, with the Warrington wonderkid wiring double 15 for a nine-darter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Having achieved perfection in Cardiff 12 months ago, Littler came agonisingly close to another moment of history, but ended up losing the leg as Clayton fired in a brilliant 11-dart hold to regain control at 4-3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, Littler wrestled back the initiative with a 13-dart hold followed by a clutch 80 checkout, before pinning tops to claim a precious five league points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“It took a while to get settled in, as I did in the first year, but tonight I did really well and I’m proud of myself,”\u00a0reflected Littler, who climbs to third in the league table.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Every week I have felt good, but I’ve just not shown it until tonight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I slowed it down a little bit tonight, but I felt very confident. It wasn’t looking good in seventh spot!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Tonight, I just had to focus on myself. Against Gezzy and Jonny, I had to put the performances in, and that’s what I’ve done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“We’ll take it to Minehead now and see how we do in the UK Open!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Clayton enjoyed a successful return to home soil, defeating Gian van Veen and Luke Humphries to extend his lead at the top of the table to five points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 51-year-old overcame Van Veen 6-4 in the quarter-finals, as the league’s top two ahead of Thursday’s play went head-to-head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Clayton then toppled Humphries by the same scoreline in the semi-finals, punishing a profligate display from the reigning champion to reach a second nightly final in three weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Humphries had kicked off Thursday’s action with a comprehensive 6-1 victory over Michael van Gerwen, reeling off five straight legs to dispatch the seven-time Premier League champion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the evening’s other quarter-final, Price edged past Night Four winner Stephen Bunting in a deciding-leg shoot-out, surviving a match dart to surge up to second in the table.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Price, Littler and Van Veen are tied on nine points apiece, with Van Gerwen a point adrift in fifth spot, two points ahead of Humphries in sixth position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bunting has slipped to seventh after surrendering a 3-1 lead against Price, while Rock is yet to open his account following a fifth consecutive quarter-final exit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rock and Bunting will lock horns on Night Six of the BetMGM Premier League next Thursday, as the darting roadshow rolls into Nottingham’s Motorpoint Arena.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Littler and Price will renew their rivalry in a repeat of last year’s Nottingham showpiece, while Clayton and Van Gerwen collide in a battle of the former champions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Elsewhere, Humphries faces Van Veen in a crucial encounter, with the Dutchman aiming to continue his remarkable recent record against the 2023\/24 World Champion. Semi-Finals: <\/strong>Jonny Clayton 6-4 Luke Humphries; Luke Littler 6-3 Gerwyn Price<\/p>\n\n\n\n Final: <\/strong>Luke Littler 6-4 Jonny Clayton<\/p>\n\n\n\n Luke Littler returned to winning ways on the Premier League stage with a sensational Night Five triumph in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-10192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsbeat","tag-darts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Luke-Littler-1.jpg",2000,1553,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Luke-Littler-1-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Luke-Littler-1-300x233.jpg",300,233,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Luke-Littler-1-768x596.jpg",640,497,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Luke-Littler-1-1024x795.jpg",640,497,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Luke-Littler-1-1536x1193.jpg",1536,1193,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Luke-Littler-1.jpg",2000,1553,false],"morenews-large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Luke-Littler-1-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"morenews-medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Luke-Littler-1-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"info":["admin"]},"category_info":"Newsbeat<\/a>","tag_info":"Newsbeat","comment_count":"0","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Luke-Littler-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10194,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10192\/revisions\/10194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
RESULTS
Quarter-Finals: <\/strong>Luke Humphries 6-1 Michael van Gerwen; Jonny Clayton 6-4 Gian van Veen; Gerwyn Price 6-5 Stephen Bunting; Luke Littler 6-4 Josh Rock<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/a> <\/td> NW<\/td> MW<\/td> L<\/td> +\/-<\/td> Legs Won<\/td> LWAT<\/td> Pts<\/td><\/tr> Jonny Clayton<\/td> 1<\/td> 8<\/td> 4<\/td> +14<\/td> 61<\/td> 24<\/td> 14<\/td><\/tr> Gerwyn Price<\/td> 1<\/td> 5<\/td> 4<\/td> -1<\/td> 46<\/td> 17<\/td> 9<\/td><\/tr> Luke Littler<\/td> 1<\/td> 4<\/td> 4<\/td> -3<\/td> 36<\/td> 13<\/td> 9<\/td><\/tr> Gian van Veen<\/td> 0<\/td> 6<\/td> 5<\/td> 0<\/td> 53<\/td> 16<\/td> 9<\/td><\/tr> Michael van Gerwen<\/td> 1<\/td> 5<\/td> 3<\/td> +1<\/td> 39<\/td> 17<\/td> 8<\/td><\/tr> Luke Humphries<\/td> 0<\/td> 3<\/td> 5<\/td> 0<\/td> 38<\/td> 12<\/td> 6<\/td><\/tr> Stephen Bunting<\/td> 1<\/td> 3<\/td> 4<\/td> +2<\/td> 32<\/td> 7<\/td> 5<\/td><\/tr> Josh Rock<\/td> 0<\/td> 0<\/td> 5<\/td> -18<\/td> 12<\/td> 3<\/td> 0<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"