Liverpool just like the rest of the UK has been hit with Darts Fever. The last two World Championships have revitalised the whole country’s interest in the sport. The 3,680,000 audience for the 2024 World Darts Championship Final between Luke Humphries and teenage sensation Luke Littler saw the Sky Sports’ non football viewership record broken and started the wave of darts obsession that has continued in to this year.
This year the 3,100,000 strong audience for the 2025 edition of the World Darts Championships showed that the infatuation is not going anywhere.
Riley’s Sports Bar is one of 14 Locations in the country and one of three specialist Darts bars in Liverpool seeing flocks of the next generation of darts fans and players passing through their doors. We asked how the darts fever brought on by the last two competitions has boosted their business and why they think the public have been so gripped by the action at the oche.
