Now played weekly from February to May, the event originally started as a fortnightly fixture in small venues around the United Kingdom.

The top four players in the PDC Order of Merit are joined by four wildcard selections to make up the eight-person field.

From 2006, the snooker moved to late autumn – giving the Premier League darts a straight weekly run in the spring.

American sports channel OLN aired the 2006 Premier League Darts season on a slight delay, in August 2006.

In 2020, BBC America started airing Premier League Darts on Sunday mornings.

The PDC announced in December 2017 that the contract with Sky Television for coverage of the Premier League had been extended to 2025.

When Gary Anderson withdrew from the 2019 season just before it began, Chris Dobey, Glen Durrant, Steve Lennon, Luke Humphries, John Henderson, Nathan Aspinall, Max Hopp, Dimitri Van den Bergh and Jeffrey de Zwaan were named as "contenders" to play in Anderson's place each of the first eight weeks.