2009 Premier League Darts

The 2009 Whyte & Mackay Premier League is a darts tournament organised by the Professional Darts Corporation.

The tournament will kick-off at the Liverpool Echo Arena which hosted the biggest ever crowd for a PDC event of almost 8,000 in 2008.

New venues in Edinburgh and Exeter will join some of the UK's biggest arenas, including Belfast's Odyssey, the Manchester Evening News Arena, Birmingham's National Indoor Arena, the Sheffield Arena and Newcastle's Metro Radio Arena.

The tournament will come to a conclusion with the play-offs on Monday 25 May at the Wembley Arena - coinciding with the Football League play-offs at the neighbouring Wembley Stadium over the same weekend.

The Westpoint Arena in Exeter and the Royal Highland Showground in Edinburgh will host Premier League Darts for the first time, with three venues to stage the event in Scotland next year alongside the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre in Glasgow and the Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre.

Qualification

The eight competitors for the 2009 Whyte & Mackay Premier League Darts will be confirmed in January, with the top six players from the PDC Order of Merit following the Ladbrokes.com World Darts Championship joined by two Wildcard selections.

Based on current rankings the qualifiers would be as follows:

# Phil Taylor
# Raymond van Barneveld
# James Wade
# John Part
# Terry Jenkins
# Wayne Mardle
# "wildcard"
# "wildcard""(correct as of September 15, 2008)"

Venues

Results

Week 1

flagicon|ENG Liverpool Echo Arena, Liverpool, 2009-02-05

Week 2

flagicon|SCO Royal Highland Showground, Edinburgh, 2009-02-12

Week 3

flagicon|ENG Ricoh Arena, Coventry, 2009-02-19

Week 4

flagicon|NIR Odyssey, Belfast, 2009-02-26

Week 5

flagicon|ENG Metro Radio Arena, Newcastle, 2009-03-05

Week 6

flagicon|ENG Manchester Evening News Arena, Manchester, 2009-03-12

Week 7

flagicon|ENG The Brighton Centre, Brighton, 2009-03-19

Week 8

flagicon|ENG National Indoor Arena, Birmingham, 2009-03-26

Week 9

flagicon|SCO Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre, Glasgow, 2009-04-02

Week 10

flagicon|ENG Westpoint Arena, Exeter, 2009-04-09

Week 11

flagicon|ENG Trent FM Arena, Nottingham, 2009-04-16

Week 12

flagicon|SCO Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre, Aberdeen, 2009-04-23

Week 13

flagicon|ENG Sheffield Arena, Sheffield, 2009-04-30

Week 14

flagicon|WAL Cardiff International Arena, Cardiff, 2009-05-07

Final

flagicon|ENG Wembley Arena, London, 2009-05-25

Table

Top four qualify for Final after Week 14.
NB: LWAT = Legs Won Against Throw. Players separated by +/- leg difference if tied.