Michael van Gerwen

Luke Littler goes into the World Grand Prix as champion and world number one, but his season has just hit its first real wobble. This piece explains why Leicester's double-in, double-out format arrives at…

The World Grand Prix returns to Leicester with a format that can undo even the calmest player, and this piece explains why that oddity matters as much as the £150,000 top prize. Read on to understand how the…

Michael van Gerwen's title defence at the World Series of Darts Finals lasted one match, and the identity of the player who ended it raises its own question about fine margins in this sport. This article…

Luke Humphries walked into Budapest as the man everyone expected to still be standing on Sunday. He wasn't. This piece explains how a player fresh off a title win can still lose, and why the survivors from a…

How does a Challenge Tour top-up player leave Hildesheim with a ranking title? This piece explains what Henry Coates' 8-4 final win says about a day that also removed two of darts' biggest Dutch names early.

Luke Littler produced one of the great World Matchplay nights in Blackpool, flirting with a second nine-darter after landing his first - yet the scoreboard tells a different story of how hard Nathan Aspinall…

James Wade has finished runner-up at the World Matchplay six times without ever adding a second title. This article looks at what his scrappy first-round win over Jermaine Wattimena in Blackpool actually tells…

Luke Littler has just added the World Cup of Darts to an already staggering collection of major titles, and the 2026 season is far from over. This piece examines what the victory means for his pursuit of a…

All four top seeds are through to the semi-finals of the 2026 World Cup of Darts in Frankfurt, but the path there was anything but smooth. This piece cuts through the drama of Sunday afternoon's…

England's two Lukes entered Frankfurt as overwhelming favourites and left as history-makers. This piece examines how Littler and Humphries turned expectation into a record-breaking performance, what their 10-5…

The World Cup of Darts is back in Frankfurt and, for the first time in years, the pundit community is genuinely split. England arrive as the overwhelming favourites on paper, yet Northern Ireland return as…

The 2026 Nordic Darts Masters final in Copenhagen delivered a fiercely contested deciding leg, a controversial crowd atmosphere, and a timely title for a resurgent Michael van Gerwen. This piece examines what…

Ross Smith had stood on the wrong side of four European Tour finals before Sunday in Riesa. This piece examines how the 37-year-old finally converted that fifth opportunity, what it took to get past Michael…

Day two of the International Darts Open in Riesa was defined not by the favourites coasting through, but by the chaos around them. This piece digs into the fightbacks, the squandered leads and what the results…

Michael van Gerwen's victory at Players Championship 15 in Leicester was not merely a title win - it was a signal that one of the sport's most decorated competitors has found top gear again at precisely the…

Thursday night in Birmingham is not merely another regular-season fixture. It is a potential elimination round in everything but name, with three players fighting to avoid being cut loose before the Premier…

England's two best players are heading back to the World Cup of Darts with unfinished business after last year's shock exit at the hands of Germany. This piece examines what has changed, what Wales lose…

Saturday in Graz delivered everything a darts fan could want: a perfect nine-dart leg, the tournament's top seed sent home in a final-leg decider, and seven seeds eliminated before the tournament's second day…

With three Premier League nights remaining before the O2 showpiece, Luke Humphries finds himself in unfamiliar territory: fighting for his play-off life rather than coasting through as he did last year. This…

Night 14 of the 2026 Premier League Darts season in Leeds produced one of its most compelling evenings yet, with every match bar one going to a deciding leg. This piece examines what Littler's record-equalling…

Wessel Nijman is rapidly rewriting what elite-level PDC floor darts looks like in 2026, and this piece examines just how far his transformation has taken him. We also chart what the continued absence of a…

Kevin Doets arrived in Hildesheim having twice fallen at the semi-final stage the previous week. This piece examines how the 27-year-old Dutchman finally converted that near-miss momentum into a first PDC…

Luke Littler produced one of the great Premier League Darts recoveries in Aberdeen on Thursday night, reeling off three consecutive legs from 5-3 down to beat Luke Humphries 6-5 in the Night 13 final and seize…

Luke Littler delivered one of the performances of his Premier League campaign on Night 12 in Liverpool, brushing aside Luke Humphries, Michael van Gerwen, and Jonny Clayton in a single evening to dramatically…

Michael Unterbuchner's attempt at pre-match wit has gone spectacularly wrong. After joking that he did not know who Van Gerwen was, the German was dispatched 6-2 and subjected to a very public dressing-down.…

Jonny Clayton produced one of the performances of the Premier League Darts season so far in Rotterdam, coming from behind to beat Luke Littler in the Night 11 final and open a five-point gap at the top of the…

Three weeks after one of the most talked-about moments in Premier League Darts this season, Gian van Veen is standing his ground. The Dutchman has heard Luke Littler's version of events and remains completely…