Entries Players Championship 5-6: Clayton, Price, Van Gerwen and Rock lead as Littler again continues ProTour exile

The Entries have been confirmed for Players Championship 5-6 which is due to take place between February 24-25 at the Mattioli Arena in Leicester. Both tournaments will see a field of 128 players aiming to win the £15,000 top prize.

Jonny Clayton who currently tops the Premier League is one of a few Premier League stars who will be involved in Leicester including Josh Rock, Gerwyn Price and Michael van Gerwen. Wessel Nijman currently tops the Players Championship Order of Merit after the first few tournaments and has been superb.

Play commences each day at 13:00 GMT. Nathan Aspinall, Stephen Bunting, Luke Humphries, Luke Littler, Alexander Merkx, Gian van Veen are absent from this latest ProTour double header. This means Luke Littler has still not played at all on the ProTour this year.

Littler said that he would likely play most of the ProTours in Wigan as it is near his house but he hasn't done so as of yet albeit he is due to play this weekend in Krakow so he will be involved in some ranking action and darts outside of the Premier League.

Most of the others such as Bunting, Humphries and Van Veen play the Premier League anyway so it is likely why they have decided against it. Also despite being entered Michael van Gerwen has to be a potential doubt after being sick and missing both the Premier League in Glasgow and the Polish Darts Open.

Joe Hunt, Martijn Dragt, Jack Tweddell, Steve Lennon, Tommy Morris, Tommy Lishman replace them as a result in the line-up off the Challenge Tour.