Luke Littler won his second Premier League title on a thrilling night at the O2, as Welsh duo Gerwyn Price and Jonny Clayton bowed out in the semi-finals.

Both semi-finals and the showpiece final between Littler and rival Luke Humphries went down to a deciding leg, with the teenager winning his second title, following his first in 2024.

World number one Littler produced a staggering 111.67 average and crashed in 12 maximums to triumph in a last-leg thriller at The O2, as Humphries fell agonisingly short in his bid for back-to-back titles.

Having met in the final for the last two years, the trilogy went the way of Littler, who fought back from 6-3 and 7-5 down to join Phil Taylor, Michael van Gerwen and Gary Anderson in becoming a multiple Premier League champion.

For the first time in Premier League history, finals night saw all 59 legs contested in the capital, as Littler and Humphries edged past Welsh duo Price and Clayton in their respective semi-finals.

Littler booked his place in a third consecutive Premier League final with a pulsating 10-9 victory over Price, defying the Welshman’s inspired fightback to triumph in a last-leg shoot-out.

Following an even start to proceedings, Littler rattled off five legs without reply to race into a 9-4 lead, before Price responded in kind to set up a thrilling finale.

Yet, despite averaging 100.42 and converting a trio of ton-plus checkouts, the Welshman was unable to complete the miraculous comeback, as Littler fired in a timely 14-dart hold to prevail.

Humphries, meanwhile, overturned a 9-7 deficit to deny Jonny Clayton in another epic last four showdown, surviving a match dart in the decider to account for the 2021 champion.

Clayton won seven out of eight legs from 6-2 adrift to threaten a famous victory, but Humphries regained his poise with a three-leg flurry in the closing stages, sparked by a clinical 121 checkout.

Humphries kicked off Thursday’s showpiece with back-to-back 13-darters, only for Littler to respond with a hat-trick of legs in 12, 13 and 11 darts to seize the initiative.

The pendulum shifted once again, however, as Humphries levelled in leg six, before converting successive 134, 112 and 121 checkouts to power into a 6-3 lead.

The unrelenting brilliance continued as Littler won four of the next five legs – featuring a hat-trick of 11-darters – to restore parity at seven apiece, before Humphries edged back ahead at 8-7.

Littler’s brutal scoring power was beginning to take its toll and although Humphries stood firm, the World Champion conjured up a magical ten-darter in leg 19 to move to the cusp of glory at 10-9.

Nevertheless, Humphries was handed a reprieve when Littler missed a match dart at tops in the penultimate leg, and he capitalised with a clinical two-dart 68 kill to set up a grandstand finish.

Reigning champion Humphries had the advantage of throw in the decider, but there was to be another twist, as Littler made amends on tops in the decider to cap off an extraordinary tussle.

“Gez [Gerwyn Price] should be proud of himself and I think Jonny [Clayton] has to be really, really proud of himself,” champion Littler said afterwards.

“I think the bookies had him at 50-1 to win the whole Premier League, the lowest out of us, me and the other seven.”

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