Luke Littler wins the Grand Slam of Darts

Darts results: New world number one Luke Littler beats Luke Humphries to win the Grand Slam of Darts

By Chris Hammer

Darts

Mon November 17, 2025 · 3w ago

Luke Littler celebrated becoming the youngest ever world number one in style by defeating Luke Humphries 16-11 to retain the Grand Slam of Darts.

Having already usurped Cool Hand at the top of the rankings just by reaching the final in Wolverhampton, the 18-year-old swiftly cemented his status with a brilliant triumph over his great rival.

🤯 Luke Littler's record at the Grand Slam of Darts

Played: 14
Won: 14
Titles: 2
100+ Averages: 12
180s: 101
— Chris Hammer (@ChrisHammer180)

In the sixth major final between the world's best players since they first met at the Ally Pally in January 2024, it was Littler who came out on top for the third time to take his career tally of premier titles to eight in less than two years on tour.

That also draws him level with Humphries so between them they've managed to scoop 16 of the last 23 majors since the former world number one picked up his first at the World Grand Prix in October 2023.

New world number one Luke Littler wins the Grand Slam of Darts to make it EIGHT majors in less than two seasons as a pro.

Ridiculous career stats and prize money earned so far 🤯
— Chris Hammer (@ChrisHammer180)

Littler, who earlier defeated Danny Noppert 16-9 to win his 13th successive major semi-final, has now won all 14 matches on the Grand Slam of Darts stage over the past two years and on this relentless run of form he'll be clear favourite to add to his CV at the Players Championship Finals next weekend and then, of course, the World Championship, which is worth a whopping £1million to the winner.

Luke Littler and Luke Humphries have charged up the list of PDC major title winners in the space of two years!
— Chris Hammer (@ChrisHammer180)

Littler said: “It was a tough job getting up this morning and playing in the afternoon. No-one likes it but they’re the games you’ve got to get through. Once I got over the line and knew I was No 1 I focused on the final.

“Luke played absolutely amazing. I said to him it was a weird, weird game but I’m glad to win. Back to back!”

"If everyone is getting bored of me and him then someone needs to stop us because we're just going to keep winning."

Luke Littler and Luke Humphries have won 16 of the last 23 majors!
— Chris Hammer (@ChrisHammer180)

Humphries said: "I'm really proud. That's three finals on the trot I've lost. I'm ready for the Worlds now. I'm going to win the Worlds. I am [declaring war] because I'm obviously disappointed to lose last three finals, but I'm playing good, and the tiredness crept in at the end there.

"But one game a day suits me. We're gonna go to war. World Championships, me and him in a final. We're gonna see who's the number one there.

"I said to him that he deserves everything he gets, he's been a great advocate for darts. I never felt like I got the attention I deserved as world number one but I've done myself proud and held him off for a long time.

"At the world championship I'm going to give it everything."

Littler 16-11 Humphries: Match Stats

Average
Littler: 100.61
Humphries: 99.56
180s
Littler: 15
Humphries: 6
Checkout %
Littler: 16/41
Humphries: 11/29
100+ checkouts (high checkout)
Littler: 2 (167)
Humphries: 2 (112)

Humphries v Littler: Head-to-head record

Overall Head-to-Head: 10-16
2025 Head-to-Head: 4-8
All Televised Meetings: 7-14
2025 Televised Meetings: 4-8
All Finals: 3-4
Major Finals: 3-3
World Championship Final 2024: 7-4
Premier League Final 2024: 7-11
Players Championship Finals 2024: 11-7
Premier League Final 2025: 11-8
World Grand Prix Final 2025: 1-6

Rolls of honours

LUKE LITTLER

World Championship 2025
World Matchplay 2025
UK Open 2025
World Grand Prix 2025
Premier League 2024
Grand Slam of Darts 2024
World Series Finals 2024
World Series Titles: 4
European Tour Titles: 4
Players Championship Titles: 3
Total PDC Titles: 18

LUKE HUMPHRIES

World Championship 2024
World Matchplay 2024
Premier League 2025
World Masters 2025
World Grand Prix 2023
Grand Slam of Darts 2023
Players Championship Finals 2023 & 2024
World Series Titles: 2
European Tour Titles: 8
Players Championship Titles: 4
World Cup: 2023
Total PDC Titles: 23

Grand Slam of Darts: Daily Schedule and results

Saturday November 8
Afternoon Session (1pm)
TV Coverage: Sky Sports
Group Matches (Best of 9 legs)

Danny Noppert 5-4 Lukas Wenig (H)
Damon Heta 5-1 Martin Lukeman (B)
Chris Dobey 5-1 Jurjen van der Velde (B)
Ricky Evans 5-4 Gerwyn Price (D)
Stefan Bellmont 5-4 James Wade (D)
Cam Crabtree 5-1 Jonny Clayton (H)
Wessel Nijman 5-4 Josh Rock (F)
Gian van Veen 5-4 Lisa Ashton (F)

Evening Session (7pm)
TV Coverage: Sky Sports
Group Matches (Best of 9 legs)

Connor Scutt 5-4 Daryl Gurney (E)
Luke Woodhouse 5-2 Martin Schindler (C)
Michael Smith 5-3 Nathan Aspinall (A)
Niko Springer 5-3 Gary Anderson (G)
Luke Humphries 5-0 Alex Spellman (A)
Luke Littler 5-1 Karel Sedlacek (E)
Michael van Gerwen 5-4 Beau Greaves (G)
Alexis Toylo 5-4 Stephen Bunting (C)

Sunday November 9
Afternoon Session (1pm)
TV Coverage: Sky Sports
Group Matches (Best of 9 legs)

Jurjen van der Velde 5-4 Martin Lukeman (B)
Lukas Wenig 5-3 Jonny Clayton (H)
Josh Rock 5-0 Lisa Ashton (F)
Gerwyn Price 5-0 James Wade (D)
Ricky Evans 5-4 Stefan Bellmont (D)
Danny Noppert 5-4 Cam Crabtree (H)
Gian van Veen 5-3 Wessel Nijman (F)
Chris Dobey 5-1 Damon Heta (B)

Evening Session (7pm)
TV Coverage: Sky Sports
Group Matches (Best of 9 legs)

Nathan Aspinall 5-2 Alex Spellman (A)
Karel Sedlacek 5-3 Daryl Gurney (E)
Martin Schindler 5-4 Stephen Bunting (C)
Gary Anderson 5-4 Beau Greaves (G)
Luke Littler 5-3 Connor Scutt (E)
Luke Humphries 5-3 Michael Smith (A) - Luke Humphries hits nine-dart finish
Niko Springer 5-4 Michael van Gerwen (G)
Luke Woodhouse 5-2 Alexis Toylo (C)

Monday November 12 (7pm)
TV Coverage: Sky Sports
Group Matches (Best of 9 legs)

James Wade 5-2 Ricky Evans (D)
Chris Dobey 5-1 Martin Lukeman (B)
Luke Woodhouse 5-4 Stephen Bunting (C)
Martin Schindler 5-2 Alexis Toylo (C)
Jurjen van der Velde 5-3 Damon Heta (B)
Gerwyn Price 5-1 Stefan Bellmont (D)
Michael Smith 5-2 Alex Spellman (A)
Luke Humphries 5-3 Nathan Aspinall (A)

Tuesday November 13 (7pm)
TV Coverage: Sky Sports
Group Matches (Best of 9 legs)

Jonny Clayton 5-4 Danny Noppert (H)
Beau Greaves 5-3 Niko Springer (G)
Luke Littler 5-1 Daryl Gurney (E)
Lukas Wenig 5-1 Cam Crabtree (H)
Connor Scutt 5-3 Karel Sedlacek (E)
Michael van Gerwen 5-2 Gary Anderson (G)
Wessel Nijman 5-0 Lisa Ashton (F)
Josh Rock 5-2 Gian van Veen (F)

Wednesday November 14 (7pm)
TV Coverage: Sky Sports
Second Round (Best of 19 legs)

Luke Woodhouse 9-10 Ricky Evans
Gerwyn Price 10-6 Martin Schindler
Luke Humphries 10-3 Jurjen van der Velde
Chris Dobey 9-10 Michael Smith

Thursday November 15 (7pm)
TV Coverage: Sky Sports
Second Round (Best of 19 legs)

Lukas Wenig 10-8 Niko Springer
Josh Rock 10-9 Connor Scutt
Luke Littler 10-4 Wessel Nijman
Michael van Gerwen 6-10 Danny Noppert

Friday November 16
Evening Session (1pm)
TV Coverage: Sky Sports
Quarter-finals (Best of 31 legs)

Gerwyn Price 16-9 Ricky Evans
Luke Humphries 16-8 Michael Smith

Saturday November 17
Evening Session (7pm)
TV Coverage: Sky Sports
Quarter-finals (Best of 31 legs)

Danny Noppert 16-8 Lukas Wenig
Luke Littler 16-12 Josh Rock

Sunday November 18
Afternoon Session (1pm)
TV Coverage: Sky Sports
Semi-finals (Best of 31 legs)

Luke Humphries 16-12 Gerwyn Price
Luke Littler 16-9 Danny Noppert

Evening Session (7pm)
TV Coverage: Sky Sports
Final (Best of 31 legs)

Luke Littler 16-11 Luke Humphries

What TV channel is the Grand Slam of Darts on?

Every session of the Grand Slam of Darts will be televised live on Sky Sports.

Grand Slam of Darts: Tournament format

Group Stage (Potentially complicated!!)

The 32 players are drawn into eight groups of four players during the round-robin stage, and they will play each other once. The opening games are decided by a draw, with the second set of matches seeing the two winners from the first games meeting each other, and the two losers also playing each other. The third set of matches will consist of the pairings which have not previously met.

Two points are awarded for a win and no points will be awarded for a loss. Each game is the best of nine legs.

The top two players in each group will progress to the knockout phase. Should there be a two-way points tie for first place in any group, then the player with the best leg difference will be deemed to have won the group. If both players have the same leg difference, then the player who won the group match between the two players will be deemed to have won the group.

Should Points, Leg Difference, Tournament Average and Legs Won Against Throw not be able to separate three players, then if one player has defeated both of the other two players then this player will be deemed to have finished higher, and the winner of the group match between the remaining two players will be the ‘second’ of the three. Should the three players have secured one win apiece against each other, then a Nine-Dart Shoot-Out will be played between the relevant players to determine final standings, with the highest aggregate score over nine darts being used to separate players.

In the event a “Nine-Dart Shoot-Out” finishes level between two or more players, those players who have tied on the most points will continue to throw three darts each in the same order until one player scores more points than the other player(s) with his three darts.

From the second round onwards, the tournament will be in a knockout format.

Knockout stage (far more simple!)

From the second round onwards, the tournament will be in a knockout format. There will be no tie-break rule employed in any match.

Grand Slam of Darts: Prize money

Winner £150,000
Runner-Up £70,000
Semi-Finalists £50,000
Quarter-Finalists £25,000
Second Round Losers £12,250
Third in Group £8,000
Fourth in Group £5,000
Group Winner Bonus £3,500
Total: £650,000

Grand Slam of Darts: The History

The Grand Slam of Darts used to bring together the best players from the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) and the British Darts Organisation (BDO) but since the latter's demise in 2020, it's now purely a PDC event.

Phil Taylor won the first three finals against Andy Hamilton, Terry Jenkins and Scott Waites - averaging over 100 in each one - but he failed at the quarter-final stages to Steve Beaton in 2010.

That year, Waites bounced back from his 16-2 hammering at the hands of 12 months to become the first ever BDO player to win the event by coming from 8-0 down to defeat James Wade. No other BDO player has ever reached the final.

Taylor averaged over 109 in a 16-4 thrashing of Gary Anderson to reclaim the title in 2011 before Raymond van Barneveld edged a thrilling all-Dutch battle to beat Michael van Gerwen in 2012.

Two more titles for The Power followed in 2013 and 2014 to take his overall tally to six when he defeated Robert Thornton and Dave Chisnall but he would lose his first final in 2015 when Michael van Gerwen triumphed 16-13 in a high-quality showdown.

The Dutchman twice successfully defended his crown in 2016 and 2017 with victories over James Wade and Peter Wright respectively but the next year Gerwyn Price would bag his first televised title with a controversial victory over Gary Anderson.

The Welshman would go on to defend his crown 12 months later with a brutal 16-6 demolition job over Snakebite before Jose de Sousa triumphed over James Wade in 2020.

Price would then bring up a hat-trick of titles in this competition when defeating Wright in the 2021 final while Michael Smith broke his major duck in 2022 before Luke Humphries and Luke Littler lifted the trophy in 2023 and 2024 respectively.

Grand Slam of Darts Finals

2007 - Phil Taylor 18-11 Andy Hamilton
2008 - Phil Taylor 18-9 Terry Jenkins
2009 - Phil Taylor 16-2 Scott Waites
2010 - Scott Waites 16-12 James Wade
2011 - Phil Taylor 16-4 Gary Anderson
2012 - Raymond van Barneveld 16-14 Michael van Gerwen
2013 - Phil Taylor 16-6 Robert Thornton
2014 - Phil Taylor 16-13 Dave Chisnall
2015 -
2016 -
2017 - Michael van Gerwen 16-12 Peter Wright
2018 - Gerwyn Price 16-13 Gary Anderson
2019 - Gerwyn Price 16-6 Peter Wright
2020 - Jose de Sousa 16-12 James Wade
2021 - Gerwyn Price 16-8 Peter Wright
2022 - Michael Smith 16-5 Nathan Aspinall
2023 - Luke Humphries 16-8 Rob Cross
2024 - Luke Humphries 16-8 Rob Cross
2023 - Luke Littler 16-3 Martin Lukeman

Grand Slam of Darts Most Titles

Phil Taylor - 6
Michael van Gerwen - 3
Gerwyn Price - 3
Luke Littler - 1
Luke Humphries - 1
Michael Smith - 1
Jose de Sousa - 1
Scott Waites - 1
Raymond van Barneveld - 1

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