The 2026 Premier League Darts reaches its halfway point on Thursday evening as Night Eight takes place at the sold-out Uber Arena in Berlin. The action features four quarterfinal clashes, with Luke Humphries facing Michael van Gerwen, Gerwyn Price taking on Gian van Veen, and Luke Littler meeting Stephen Bunting, while Jonny Clayton opens against Josh Rock. The schedule lists matches starting at 7:15 PM, with quarterfinals followed by semifinals and a final at 10:15 PM.
Berlin has been a Premier League venue since 2018 and hosted the final in 2022, where Michael van Gerwen claimed his sixth title by beating Joe Cullen after Cullen missed a match dart. Recent nightly winners in the city include Jonny Clayton in 2023, Van Gerwen in 2024, and Stephen Bunting in 2025, who stunned the field with wins over Nathan Aspinall, Luke Humphries, and Gerwyn Price despite having zero points after eight nights last season.
In the quarterfinals, Jonny Clayton tops the table after seven nights with two nightly titles and only one quarterfinal exit, while Josh Rock is still searching for his first points in his debut campaign. Clayton leads their head-to-head 6-2 from a 6-2 win on the opening night in Newcastle. Luke Humphries, the titleholder, has won his last three opening matches and sits fourth, coming off a Belgian Darts Open title last weekend where he beat Michael van Gerwen 7-2 with a 105.96 average. Van Gerwen, fifth in the standings, started with a nightly win in Newcastle and a runner-up finish in Antwerp but has not won a match since skipping Night 3 due to health issues; he scraped two points last week when Gian van Veen withdrew. Their Premier League head-to-head is tied at 1-1, with Van Gerwen winning 6-2 in Newcastle and Humphries 6-1 in Cardiff.
Luke Littler, second in the table after two nightly titles in the past three weeks, faces Stephen Bunting, who sits seventh with seven points. Littler has been consistently booed in German venues and skips tournaments there when possible, but he beat Bunting 6-3 last week in their first Premier League meeting this season. Bunting won four of their thirteen prior meetings, though Littler took the last three. Gian van Veen returns after missing last week in Dublin and the Belgian Darts Open due to kidney stones, saying on Wednesday he expects to be fit; he has slipped to sixth place after being second after week four. Gerwyn Price, third with twelve points, let a 5-0 lead slip in last week's final against Littler but has won nine of their eleven meetings with Van Veen, though Van Veen won their most recent clash 6-5.
