{"id":410337,"date":"2026-02-06T02:04:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T02:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/410337\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T02:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T02:04:07","slug":"premier-league-darts-2026-results-michael-van-gerwen-beats-gian-van-veen-to-win-opening-night-in-newcastle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/410337\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier League Darts 2026 results: Michael van Gerwen beats Gian van Veen to win opening night in Newcastle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Premier League Darts is played across 16 initial weeks in the league stage with quarter-finals, semi-finals and a final each night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Each of the eight players is guaranteed to face the other seven in the quarter-finals in weeks one to seven and 9-15, with week eight and week 16 fixtures done off the table. It means we will get fourth v fifth in Sheffield on the final league-stage night, with the play-off spots potentially on the line.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Players earn two points per quarter-final win, an additional point if they win their semi-final and five for winning the night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The top four players after the group stage progress to the play-off night at London&#8217;s O2 Arena on 23 May, with first facing fourth and second against third in a best-of-19-leg match. The final, which is the best of 21 legs, follows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If players are level on points after the 16 weeks then places are decided by nights won and then matches won.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Premier League Darts is played across 16 initial weeks in the league stage with quarter-finals, semi-finals and a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-410337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}