The 2013 McCoy's

Premier League Darts Premier League Darts is a darts tournament which launched on 20 January 2005 on Sky Sports. Now played weekly from February to May, the event originally started as a fortnightly fixture in small venues around the United Kingdom. The tournament ori ...

was a darts tournament organised by the Professional Darts Corporation; the ninth edition of the tournament. The event began at the

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on 7 February, and ended at The O₂ Arena, London on 16 May. The tournament was shown live on

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in the UK and Ireland. Phil Taylor was the defending champion and he reached the final again this year, but lost 10–8 against

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who won his first Premier League title on his debut appearance in the competition.

Qualification

The qualification format was different from the last edition of Premier League Darts. The top four players from the PDC Order of Merit after the

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automatically qualified. Alongside them, six (instead of four) additional players were chosen on the basis of their performance in the past year or in earlier editions of the Premier League. After the first nine rounds, the bottom 2 players were relegated. All players played each other once at that point. The remaining eight then competed against each other in the final five rounds for the play-offs places. All games in the league stage were played "best of 12 legs" (instead of "best of 14 legs"), thus games could be drawn by 6–6.

Venues

The venues remained the same as in the last Premier League Darts edition.

Prize money

The prize-money was increased to £520,000 from £450,000 in 2012.

Results

League stage

7 February – Week 1 (Phase 1)

14 February – Week 2 (Phase 1)

AECC,

Aberdeen Aberdeen (; sco, Aiberdeen ; gd, Obar Dheathain ; la, Aberdonia) is a city in North East Scotland, and is the third most populous city in the country. Aberdeen is one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas (as Aberdeen City), and ...

21 February – Week 3 (Phase 1)

Bournemouth International Centre,

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28 February – Week 4 (Phase 1)

Westpoint Arena,

Exeter Exeter () is a city in Devon, South West England. It is situated on the River Exe, approximately northeast of Plymouth and southwest of Bristol. In Roman Britain, Exeter was established as the base of Legio II Augusta under the personal comm ...

7 March – Week 5 (Phase 1)

Capital FM Arena Motorpoint Arena (originally the Nottingham Arena) is a multi-use indoor arena joined with the National Ice Centre in the Lace Market district of Nottingham, England. The National Ice Centre and Nottingham Arena were opened by Olympic gold me ...

Nottingham Nottingham ( , East Midlands English, locally ) is a city status in the United Kingdom, city and Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority area in Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England. It is located north-west of London, south-east ...

14 March – Week 6 (Phase 1)

MEN Arena Manchester Arena, currently referred to as the AO Arena for sponsorship reasons, is an indoor arena in Manchester, England, immediately north of the Manchester city centre, city centre and partly above Manchester Victoria station in air rights s ...

Manchester Manchester () is a city in Greater Manchester, England. It had a population of 552,000 in 2021. It is bordered by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and the neighbouring city of Salford to the west. The t ...

21 March – Week 7 (Phase 1)

Cardiff International Arena Cardiff International Arena (formerly known as Cardiff International Arena & Convention Centre and later, for sponsorship reasons, Motorpoint Arena Cardiff) is an indoor exhibition centre and events arena located in Cardiff, Wales, and was ope ...

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28 March – Week 8 (Phase 1)

SECC,

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4 April – Week 9 (Phase 1)

Brighton Centre Brighton Centre is a conference and exhibition centre located in Brighton, England. It is the largest of its kind in southern England, and is regularly used for conferences of the British political parties and other bodies of national importa ...

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11 April – Week 10 (Phase 2)

Motorpoint Arena,

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18 April – Week 11 (Phase 2)

The O₂,

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25 April – Week 12 (Phase 2)

National Indoor Arena Arena Birmingham (known for sponsorship reasons as Utilita Arena Birmingham, and previously as The Barclaycard Arena and originally as the National Indoor Arena) is an indoor arena and sporting venue in central Birmingham, United Kingdom. It ...

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2 May – Week 13 (Phase 2)

Echo Arena,

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9 May – Week 14 (Phase 2)

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Play-offs – 16 May

The O₂ Arena,

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Table and streaks

Table

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NB: LWAT = Legs Won Against Throw. A = Average C% = Checkout Percentage HC = High Checkout. Players separated by +/- leg difference if tied. If leg difference is equal the table is sorted by the player's LWAT. If it is still tied, ranking is determined by average.

Streaks

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Positions by round

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