Humphries sees off Littler to retain 2024 Darts Players Championship Finals, prize money, past winners.
World number one Luke Humphries retained the Players Championship title with an 11-7 win over teenager Luke Littler in Minehead.
Humphries, who beat Littler to win the world title in January, averaged 103.69 and punched the air with delight as he came out on top again.
The 29-year-old, who has also won the World Matchplay this year, is only the second player after Michael van Gerwen to defend the Players title.
It was a third big final involving the pair after Littler beat Humphries to land the Premier League in May.
Littler was seeking his 11th title in an extraordinary debut season as a professional and second major TV ranking triumph this month after claiming the Grand Slam trophy a week ago.
Backed by a boisterous crowd, the 17-year-old was fancied to get the better of Humphries, who had not looked at quite his brilliant best during the tournament in Somerset but stepped up a level in the final.
Darts Players Championship Finals 2024: watch TV Channel, live stream.
The Ladbrokes Players Championship Finals will be broadcast live on ITV4 in the UK & Ireland, at PDCTV-HD for Rest of the World Subscribers and through the PDC's international broadcast partners, including RTL7 in the Netherlands and DAZN worldwide.
ITV4 - UK
DAZN - Germany, Austria, Switzerland, USA, Brazil
Fox - Australia
Sky Network - New Zealand
Viaplay - Netherlands, Iceland, Scandinavia
VTM - Belgium
Nova - Czech Republic, Slovakia
Sport 1 - Hungary
Setanta - Philippines
PDCTV - Subscribers outside UK, Germany, Austria & Switzerland
Matches from stage two on Friday and Saturday will be streamed live for PDCTV-HD Subscribers at video.pdc.tv
2024 Players Championship Finals Prize Fund, how much money winners will get.?
Winner: £120,000
Runner-Up: £60,000
Semi-Finalists: £30,000
Quarter-Finalists: £20,000
Third Round Losers: £10,000
Second Round Losers: £6,500
First Round Losers: £3,000
Total prize fund: £600,000
2024 Ladbrokes Players Championship Finals, Schedule, results.
Sunday November 24
Afternoon Session
Quarter-Finals
Luke Littler 10-3 Mike De Decker
Ross Smith 10-3 Scott Williams
Dirk van Duijvenbode 10-9 Connor Scutt
Luke Humphries 10-5 Ryan Joyce
Evening Session
Semi-Finals
Luke Littler 11-9 Ross Smith
Luke Humphries 11-8 Dirk van Duijvenbode
Final
Luke Humphries 11-7 Luke Littler
PDC Winmau World Youth Championship Final
Gian van Veen 6-5 Jurjen van der Velde
Darts Players Championship winners list: past champion by year 2009-2024
Year Champion Score Runner-up
2009 Phil Taylor (98.04) 16–9 Robert Thornton (88.52)
2010 Paul Nicholson (92.75) 13–11 Mervyn King (89.74)
2011 (Feb) Phil Taylor (97.01) 13–12 Gary Anderson (96.31)
2011 (Dec) Kevin Painter (96.28) 13–9 Mark Webster (93.31)
2012 Phil Taylor (103.57) 13–6 Kim Huybrechts (91.70)
2013 Michael van Gerwen (102.45) 11–7 Phil Taylor (102.64)
2014 Gary Anderson (101.01) 11–6 Adrian Lewis (95.37)
2015 Michael van Gerwen (100.32) 11–6 Adrian Lewis (89.17)
2016 Michael van Gerwen (108.34) 11–3 Dave Chisnall (99.24)
2017 Michael van Gerwen (105.50) 11–2 Jonny Clayton
(94.64)
2018 Daryl Gurney (95.61) 11–9 Michael van Gerwen (100.20)
2019 Michael van Gerwen (97.92) 11–9 Gerwyn Price (96.48)
2020 Michael van Gerwen (104.98) 11–10 Mervyn King (99.78)
2021 Peter Wright (95.49) 11–10 Ryan Searle (92.10)
2022 Michael van Gerwen (99.92) 11–6 Rob Cross (100.33)
2023 Luke Humphries (100.75) 11–9 Michael van Gerwen (103.19)
2024 Luke Humphries (103.69) 11–7 Luke Littler (100.08)
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