Littler beats Humphries to go top of Premier League

World number one Luke Littler won his fifth night of the Premier League Darts season to return to the top of the table.

The 19-year-old backed up his win in Liverpool last week with another impressive performance in Aberdeen to climb above Jonny Clayton.

The pair are already guaranteed a place at the season-ending play-offs at London's O2 Arena on 28 May, but it was a big night for the chasing pack with world number two Luke Humphries reaching just his second final of the season.

He took Littler to a last-leg decider - the fourth between the pair in 13 weeks - but the teenager came out on top.

Humphries broke in leg seven, capitalising on Littler missing on bullseye, and then held to move within one leg of a first night win of the year.

But Littler, who is now one night win away from matching his record-breaking tally of six last year, claimed three legs on the spin.

He broke in leg 10 set up the decider and despite missing three match darts on his favourite double 10, he wrapped victory with his fourth.

In a high-quality affair, Littler averaged 104.11 to Humphries' 103.10.

More to follow.

Premier League Darts night 13 results

Quarter-finals

Josh Rock 3-6 Luke Littler

Stephen Bunting 5-6 Gerwyn Price

Jonny Clayton 2-6 Gian van Veen

Luke Humphries 6-3 Michael van Gerwen

Semi-finals

Littler 6-1 Price

Van Veen 3-6 Humphries

Final

Littler 6-5 Humphries

Premier League Darts table

Premier League Darts week 14 fixtures

Thursday, 7 May - First Direct Arena, Leeds

Quarter-finals

Gerwyn Price v Jonny Clayton

Luke Littler v Michael van Gerwen

Josh Rock v Luke Humphries

Gian van Veen v Stephen Bunting

Premier League Darts format and points system

Premier League Darts is played across 16 initial weeks in the league stage with quarter-finals, semi-finals and a final each night.

Each of the eight players is guaranteed to face the other seven in the quarter-finals in weeks one to seven and 9-15, with week eight and week 16 fixtures compiled according to the table. It means we will get fourth v fifth in Sheffield on the final league-stage night, with the play-off spots potentially on the line.