Ballymena Darts League

📣 1 week to go 🎯

We’re back, and we’re bigger, as we welcome a new team and venue with The Skerry Inn on board at the launch of the 2026/27 season.

Next week sees the return of the Charity Cup at the New Coach Bar across the first two weeks of the new season.

Full league fixtures now available at https://ballymenadartsleague.leaguerepublic.com/index.html

🎯 2026/27 Season Open For Entries 🎯

All teams wanting to take part this season should leave their £50 entry into The Coach Bar in an envelope with your team name and captain’s contact details written on it.

Fixtures will be confirmed by the middle of August, to commence on the first Friday in September.

🎯 Prize Night
We celebrated the season on Friday night with our annual prize night and dinner.

League Champions - Stayers

Player of the Year - Ben Gilmore
Young Player of the Year - Thomas Elliott
Most Improved Player - Ethan Todd

League Individuals - Justin Cushenan
League Pairs - Ashley Rainey/Ben Gilmore
League 3asides - Fruity Gilmore/Ethan Todd/Ashley Rainey

Most 180’s - Thomas Elliott (with 11)
Best Checkout - Ben Gilmore (155)
Best Leg of Darts - Mark Elliott (12)

Well done to all players and teams, great to see the league growing again year on year, and looking forward to kicking off all over again in September. In the meantime we will soon announce a date for our AGM and applications for new teams for next season.

🏆 League Individuals Champion

After a thrilling final of exceptional quality, Justin Cushenan retains his individual title against Leo Jamieson, who will no doubt be back to challenge for it for many years to come.

Well done to everyone who played, around half of the leagues registered players took part 🧡

Thanks to the New Coachbar Ballymena for hosting 🙌

Don’t forget tomorrow night is the annual Individuals tournament for league players 🙌

🎯 League Individuals 🏆
No darts this weekend, but the league season comes to a close next Friday night with the end of season major 😎

🎯 Hall of Fame 🏆
14 players completed the trifecta of hitting at least one 180, a leg of 21 darts or less and a 100+ checkout 🙌

🎯 Most Valuable Players 🙌
Ben Gilmore tops the list as the player with most wins across all matches this season, losing only twice.
He’s followed closely by Thomas Elliott, who had a 100% winning record in his singles matches this season.

🎯 Lovely Legs Winner 💪
At the top was Mark and Thomas Elliott, both hitting 12 dart legs this season, but the prize will go to Mark Elliott as his next best leg was a 13 darter compared to a 15 by Thomas.

In total we saw 33 players hitting 169 legs of 21 darts or less across the season. Thomas Elliott hit the most, with 19 lovely legs.

🎯 Check This Out 🙌
Highest checkout this season was 155 by Ben Gilmore of the Stayers.

There were 33 100+ checkouts in total this season, with Ben Gilmore, Thomas Elliott and William Bonnes each hitting three.