PDC Schedule this Week: 🇳🇱 Players Championship 31 (28th) 🇳🇱 Players Championship 32 (29th) 🇨🇳 PDC China ProTour - Event 17-20 (31st-1st) 🇦🇺 ANZ Premier League - Finals (31st) 🇭🇺 Hungarian Super League - Finals (31st) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 JDC Super 16 Finals Weekend (31st-1st) African Darts Group: 🇿🇦 Continental Tour South - Event 4 (28th-29th) 🇿🇦 Women's Series South - Event 4 (29th) 🇿🇦 Continental Tour South - Event 5 (30t-31st) 🇿🇦 Women's Series South - Event 5 (31st) 🇿🇦 World Championship Qualifier - Africa South (1st) PDC Europe Start Regional Finals: 🇩🇪 Germany South (31st) 🇨🇭 Switzerland West (31st)

Got told 2 weeks ago they were sacking some staff at my uni because they’re merging, so they didn’t have space, and this included my favourte lecturer Baring in mind i’m studying Sports Journalism Here he is 2 weeks later…on TalkSport What a joke of a uni

📊 World Masters Race Update - Massive boosts this weekend for 🇵🇱 Ratajski and 🇩🇪 Schindler, who are now almost certainly confirmed to be in the event

Ross Smith changing his walk on is the best thing he's ever done

Not sure if I've ever seen someone get rinsed as much as Chris Mason has this weekend for being Ross Smith as a dark horse Justified to be fair, top seed and won a major title literally last month

PDC title winners this week: European Championship 2026: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Ross Smith ANZ Premier League Night 5: 🇦🇺 Tim Pusey Hungarian Super League Event 21: 🇭🇺 Patrik Kovács Event 22: 🇭🇺 László Ancsin Event 23: 🇭🇺 Richárd Balogh Event 24: 🇭🇺 Patrik Kovács PDCE Start Regional Finals Austria West: 🇦🇹 Christian Gödl PDC China City League Shenyang Event 9: 🇨🇳 Cheng Jin Shenyang Event 10: 🇨🇳 Gang Cui Wuhan Event 9: 🇨🇳 Hu Ling Wuhan Event 10: 🇨🇳 Xuejie Huang

High Averages in the PDC this week: 114.47 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Luke Littler - EC R16 107.00 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Ross Smith - EC QF 105.57 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Nathan Aspinall - EC R16 105.05 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Luke Littler - EC R32 103.81 🇧🇪 Kim Huybrechts - EC R32 103.40 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Luke Woodhouse - EC QF 103.16 🇩🇪 Martin Schindler - EC QF 103.66 🇦🇹 Christian Gödl - PDCE Start RF GS 103.03 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Gerwyn Price - EC QF 101.43 🇭🇺 Patrik Kovács - HSL21 R64

📊 Grand Slam of Darts Race - 🇩🇪 Martin Schindler qualifies having reached his first Premier Event Final this weekend in Dortmund - 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Henry Coates is also now confirmed, along with all remaining PC winners

Ross Smith becomes the 16th player to pick up 3 PDC Premier Titles! He draws level with John Part, Daryl Gurney, and Michael Smith!

For the first time since the 2024 European Championship, there is a new name on the list of players to reach a PDC Premier Event Final having not won a title

📊 World Championship Race Update - 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Ross Smith with a massive boost in terms of seedings, along with 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Stephen Bunting

📊 PDC Order of Merit Update - 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Ross Smith tops up an incredible weekend with a new career high ranking of #6!

European Championship | High Averages 114.47 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Luke Littler - R16 107.00 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Ross Smith - QF 105.57 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Nathan Aspinall - R16 105.05 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Luke Littler - R32 103.81 🇧🇪 Kim Huybrechts - R32 103.40 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Luke Woodhouse - QF 103.16 🇩🇪 Martin Schindler - QF 103.03 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Gerwyn Price - QF 100.79 🇵🇱 Krzysztof Ratajski - QF 100.74 🍀 Josh Rock - R32

European Championship | Roll of Honour: 2008: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Phil Taylor 2009: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Phil Taylor 2010: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Phil Taylor 2011: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Phil Taylor 2012: 🇦🇺 Simon Whitlock 2013: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Adrian Lewis 2014: 🇳🇱 Michael van Gerwen 2015: 🇳🇱 Michael van Gerwen 2016: 🇳🇱 Michael van Gerwen 2017: 🇳🇱 Michael van Gerwen 2018: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 James Wade 2019: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Rob Cross 2020: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Peter Wright 2021: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Rob Cross 2022: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Ross Smith 2023: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Peter Wright 2024: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Ritchie Edhouse 2025: 🇳🇱 Gian van Veen 2026: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Ross Smith 🆕

Players to win the same Premier Event Title multiple times (excluding the World Cup): 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Phil Taylor 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Rod Harrington 🇳🇱 Raymond van Barneveld 🇨🇦 John Part 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 James Wade 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Adrian Lewis 🇳🇱 Michael van Gerwen 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Gary Anderson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Rob Cross 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Gerwyn Price 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Peter Wright 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Luke Humphries 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Luke Littler 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Ross Smith 🆕

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Ross Smith | Career Honours: Premier Events: 🏆🏆 European Championship (2022, 2026) 🏆 World Series of Darts Finals (2026) ProTour: 🏆 Hungarian Darts Trophy (2026) 🏆 International Darts Open (2026) 🏆 8x Players Championships' (2021-2026)

Congratulations Ross Smith for qualifying for the 2027 Premier League

ROSS SMITH WINS THE EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Ross Smith regains the European Championship Title, a third Premier Event of his career, after a brilliant weekend in Dortmund as the top seed! ✅ 6-4 v. Karel Sedláček (91.83) ✅ 10-7 v. Damon Heta (96.19) ✅ 10-6 v. Luke Woodhouse (107.00) ✅ 11-7 v. Gerwyn Price (92.55) ✅ 11-8 v. Martin Schindler (92.92)

European Championship | Final (Bo21) - 3rd Break Martin Schindler fights back! He wins the penultimate session 4-1 to keep his hopes alive in this Final. Ross Smith is still only two legs away from the title 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Ross Smith 9⃣-6⃣ Martin Schindler 🇩🇪 Average: 93.94 - 92.09 180's: 8 - 4 Checkout Rate: 36% - 30% High Finish: 91 - 116

A week ago I said Ross Smith is the only the second 2 time Premier Title winner to never play in the Premier League, with the other being Rod Harrington (who won his titles 6 years before the PL began) We are only 3 legs away from him being the only 3 time Premier Title winner to never play in the Premier League SURELY he gets in next year?