Entries confirmed for Players Championship 28-30: Littler, Humphires, van Gerwen, and Price lead stacked field in Leicester

The entries have been confirmed for Players Championship 28-30, which will be held at the Mattioli Arena, Leicester, which will play host to a stacked playing field featuring the best players in the world.

We are racing towards the business end of the darts calendar now, with only seven Pro Tour events remaining, as the players look to confirm their spots in the Players Championships Finals, and even the World Championships.

With this being the case, it is an important trio of events for Luke Humphries, Nathan Aspinall, and Michael van Gerwen, who currently do not sit inside the top 64 provisional qualifiers for Minehead. They will all feature, with World Champion Luke Littler, who only sits £1000 above the drop zone, participating in events 28-29.

Despite recent setbacks with injury, Gerwyn Price is set to be competing. He was the standout player in the prior two events, coming out on top in PC 26 and narrowly losing out to Joe Cullen in PC 27. He sits at the top of the Players Championship Order of Merit, £14,000 ahead of second-place Gian van Veen.

William Borland, Oskar Lukasiak, Jules van Dongen, Tim Wolters, and Rusty-Jake Rodriguez are the tour card holders who will not make the journey to Leicester next week. With absentees come replacements from the Challenger Tour, as Darius Labanauskas, Stefan Bellmont, Ted Evetts, Jamai van den Herik, and Mervyn King make the step up for the three events, while Jack Tweddell takes the place of Littler in PC 30.

The tournaments will begin 13:00 BST on each day, with £15,000 up for grabs for the winner of each event.