{"id":9575,"date":"2026-01-05T17:59:35","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T17:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=9575"},"modified":"2026-01-05T17:59:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T17:59:35","slug":"luke-littler-headlines-premier-league-darts-2026-line-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=9575","title":{"rendered":"Luke Littler headlines Premier League Darts 2026 line-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">World champion Luke Littler will headline this year&#8217;s Premier League Darts line-up with Jonny Clayton, Stephen Bunting, Gerwyn Price and debutant Josh Rock confirmed as wildcards.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 16-week competition will also feature defending champion Luke Humphries and Michael van Gerwen when it begins on 5 February in Newcastle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dutchman Gian van Veen, who Littler beat last week to secure his second world crown, will also make his debut in the competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The format sees each league night comprise quarter-finals, semi-finals and a final over the best of 11 legs, followed by a finale at London&#8217;s O2 Arena on 28 May made up of the top four point scorers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/darts\/articles\/cp3z19gz312o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World champion Luke Littler wi&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[251],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9575"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}