Joe Comito, Brody Klinge and James Bailey became the latest players to confirm their qualification for the inaugural Dabble Darts ANZ Premier League last weekend.
Comito finished top of the final DartPlayers Australia rankings, as the 2025 DPA ProTour season drew to a close in Albury, New South Wales on Sunday.
The Perth star secured top spot by winning five titles across the campaign, while also finishing runner-up in a further six events to confirm his Paddy Power World Darts Championship return.
The 44-year-old will now be joined in the newly-introduced ANZ Premier League by rising star Klinge, who won back-to-back DPA ProTour titles last weekend to cap off an impressive domestic season.
Klinge defeated Tim Pusey and Bailey before dispatching Comito 6-2 to claim the Event 17 title, while he completed the weekend double with a straight-sets victory over Dave Hanel in the Event 18 showpiece.
Bailey also sealed his qualification via the DPA rankings, and he boasts no shortage of big stage experience, having twice competed at the World Darts Championship, while also featuring in four World Series of Darts events.
Australia’s former World Cup of Darts champion Simon Whitlock will headline the ANZ Premier League, which will see eight Oceanic stars competing across eight nights of action in Australia and New Zealand over the coming months.
Whitlock reached the 2010 World Championship final, lifted the European Championship title in 2012 and won the 2022 World Cup of Darts alongside Damon Heta during two decades at the sport’s highest level.
The top two players from the Australian Darts Association rankings - following their final weekend in Melton from September 5-7 - will also qualify to compete in the ANZ Premier League, alongside the DPNZ ProTour champion and the DPNZ Top 16 Play-Off winner.
The first seven nights of the ANZ Premier League will mirror the format of the BetMGM Premier League, which sees quarter-finals, semi-finals and a final take place in one action-packed session – as the eight stars face each other once in quarter-final ties.
The top four players will then progress to Finals Night in Brisbane on November 22, featuring a round-robin group stage before the top two players go head-to-head for the title and a place at the 2025/26 World Darts Championship.