The Whyte & Mackay Premier League is a darts tournament which launched on January 20, 2005 on Sky Sports. The league is now played weekly from February to May, having originally started as a fortnightly fixture. The tournament originally featured seven players and now sees eight of the biggest names from the PDC circuit competing in a double round-robin format, with matches held across the country at different venues. The current sponsors are Whyte & Mackay who succeeded Holsten having signed a three-year contract to support the event in October 2007. [1] The prize fund will rise from £265,000 to £340,000 in 2008 - with the guaranteed minimum of £20,000 (previously £15,000) for each player that qualifies. The top prize of £100,000 matches the prize of the 2008 PDC World Champion. Phil Taylor has dominated this event, winning four of the five competitions to date. He went unbeaten throughout the first three seasons before James Wade ended his 44 match run in the first match of the 2008 season. A new champion will be crowned after Mervyn King defeated him in the 2009 semi-finals. Wade defeated King 13-8 in the final, to pick up the £125,000 first prize.

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Television Coverage

The matches have been broadcast on Thursday nights on Sky Sports since the tournament inception. Originally the league alternated with Premier League Snooker one week and Premier League Darts the next. From 2006, the snooker moved to late autumn - giving the Premier League darts a straight weekly run in the spring.

American sports channel OLN aired the 2006 Premier League Darts season on a slight delay, in August 2006.

German sports channel DSF (Deutsches Sport Fernsehen) has broadcasted many matches of the past two years live on TV and gives coverages of a selection of matches.

The PDC announced in January 2007 that the contract with Sky Television for coverage of the Premier League had been extended to 2010.

Previous Finals

• Finals between 2005 and 2008 were the best of 31 legs. The 2009 event will see a best of 25 legs final.

Year	Champion	Score	Runner-Up	Sponsor	Final Venue
2005	Phil Taylor	16 - 4	Colin Lloyd	888.com	G-Mex, Manchester
2006	Phil Taylor	16 - 6	Roland Scholten	Holsten	Plymouth Pavilions
2007	Phil Taylor	16 - 6	Terry Jenkins	Holsten	The Brighton Centre
2008	Phil Taylor	16 - 8	James Wade	Whyte & Mackay	Cardiff International Arena
2009	James Wade	13 - 8	Mervyn King	Whyte & Mackay	Wembley Arena





League Winners

These are the list of players who topped the league each year.

Year	Winner
2005	Phil Taylor
2006	Phil Taylor
2007	Phil Taylor
2008	Phil Taylor
2009	Phil Taylor





Tournament records

• Most titles : 4 - Phil Taylor''
• Longest unbeaten run : 44 matches - Phil Taylor (2005-2008)
• Biggest victories (group stages) : 11-1 Phil Taylor v Wayne Mardle (2005), 11-1 Phil Taylor v Peter Manley (2005).
• Biggest victories (final stages) : 16-4 Phil Taylor v Colin Lloyd (2005 final)
• Whitewashes (since removal of "dead" legs in 2006) : ''Colin Lloyd 8-0 Terry Jenkins (2007), "Phil Taylor 8-0 Wayne Mardle (2008)

Appearances

Phil Taylor is the only player to appear in every Premier League competition.


• 5 Phil Taylor 2005-2009
• 4 Peter Manley 2005-2008
• 4 Wayne Mardle 2005-2006, 2008-2009
• 4 Raymond van Barneveld 2006-2009
• 3 Terry Jenkins 2007-2009
• 3 Colin Lloyd 2005-2007
• 3 John Part 2005, 2008-2009
• 3 Roland Scholten 2005-2007
• 2 Adrian Lewis 2007-2008
• 2 James Wade 2008-2009
• 1 Ronnie Baxter 2006
• 1 Mark Dudbridge 2005
• 1 Mervyn King 2009
• 1 Jelle Klaasen 2009
• 1 Dennis Priestley 2007

References

1. Whyte & Mackay to sponsor Premier League planetdarts.tv