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Players Championship Finals: Start date, venue, format, prize money breakdown, history & more

Everything you need to know about the 2025 Players Championship Finals as Luke Humphries bids to make it three successive victories in the competition after reigning supreme last year.

A total of 64 players will toe the oche at Butlin's Minehead Resort in a bid to land a share of the increased bumper £600,000 prize fund.

Michael van Gerwen has made this tournament his own down the years, capturing the title seven times, although it's 'Cool Hand' who heads into the 2025 event as the reigning champion after beating Luke Littler 11-7 in the 2024 final.

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Players Championship Finals - Dates

When does the Players Championship Finals start?

The 2025 Players Championship Finals will get underway on Friday 21st November, with the event drawing to a climax a couple of days later on Sunday 23rd November.

Players Championship Finals - Prize Money

Winner (1):

£120,000

Runner-Up (1):

£60,000

Semi-Final Losers (2):

£30,000

Quarter-Final Losers (4):

£20,000

Third Round Losers (8):

£10,000

Second Round Losers (16):

£6,500

First Round Losers (32):

£3,500

The 2025 Players Championship Finals will feature a £500,000 prize pot which features a £120,000 cut for the tournament winner.

First round losers will pocked £3,500 with prize money increasing the deeper a player goes on in the tournament.

Players Championship Finals - Venue & Location 

The 2025 Players Championship Finals will be held at the Butlin's Resort in Minehead.

The holiday venue first staged the event in 2012 and it has been the home of the tournament since then, although the 2020 renewal (during the Covid-19 pandemic) was moved to the Ricoh Arena in Coventry.

The event had previously been held at the Circus Tavern in Purfleet and the Doncaster Dome, but it's at Butlin's, Minehead, that the Players Championship Finals has found its spiritual home.

Players Championship Finals - Format

What is the format of the Players Championship Finals?

The Players Championship Finals is a straight knockout featuring 64 players.

Those 64 players will be those to have accumulated the most money in the 30 Players Championship events during the 2025 season.

The first two rounds of the competition will be contested over the best-of-11 legs; the third round and quarter-finals are best-of-19 legs, with the semi-finals and final contested over 21 legs.

  • First Round: Best-of-11 legs
  • Second Round: Best-of-11 legs
  • Third Round: Best-of-19 legs
  • Quarter-Finals: Best-of-19 legs
  • Semi-Finals: Best-of-21 legs
  • Final: Best-of-21 legs

Players Championship Finals - History

The Players Championship Finals were first introduced into the PDC’s darting calendar in 2009 to serve as a culmination of the numerous Pro Tour events that are held across the season.

Phil Taylor lifted the inaugural crown and since then the tournament has continued to grow, forming a key part of the end-of-year build-up towards the prestigious World Darts Championship.

'The Power' reigned supreme in the event on three occasions, four less than the most decorated player in competition history, Michael van Gerwen (seven).

2023 and 2024 champion Luke Humphries is the only other player to have captured multiple Players Championship Finals titles, with the likes of Gary Anderson, Peter Wright and the colourful Paul Nicholson having all triumphed once.

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