Premier League Darts TV details and odds ahead of Liverpool showpiece

Premier League Darts returns to Liverpool for the first time in almost two years on Thursday, with St Helens’ Michael Smith hoping to bounce back from his night one quarter-final exit.

Due to problems caused by the Covid-19 Pandemic, Liverpool was missed off the list of host venues in 2021, though as things return to some sort of normality, that includes the PDC’s long-awaited return to Merseyside.

The Premier League’s annual four-month tour got underway last Thursday in Cardiff, debuting an exciting new format. With that being said, there’s a lot to catch up on and to speculate ahead of Night 2’s matches, so here is all you need to know about the event:

The M&S Bank Arena hosts the Premier League Darts once again in Liverpool on Thursday, as it had done annually from 2008 to 2020.

The event gets underway at 7pm and can be watched from home on TV via Sky Sports Arena. This can also be accessed on the move via the Sky Go app, or alternatively a Now TV Sports subscription will allow you to tune into the event.

As mentioned already, the 18th edition of the competition has undergone radical change to its original round robin format.

Previously, 10 of the sport’s finest went up against one another at each venue, playing one best-of-12-legs match per night. In 2021, 10 players were used permanently, as opposed to the 9 regulars plus one guest challenger format utilised in 2019 and 2020.

Two points were awarded for a win, and one was awarded for a draw in the league’s table, with the bottom two players eliminated at the end of phase one’s 10 matches.

The remaining eight then played another six matches throughout phase two, with the top four progressing to the Play-Offs in May for a stab at the title.

Now, that format has