Jonny Clayton and Gerwyn Price will try to turn Thursday night at The O2 in London into a rare Welsh celebration when the Premier League reaches its finals night, with the £350,000 top prize on the line. Both men are due to feature on the same finals night for the second time, and both go in as underdogs against heavier favourites in the semi-finals.
Clayton faces Luke Humphries, while Price is set to meet Luke Littler, in a night that could yet produce another Luke v Luke finale. Humphries and Littler have met in the past two Premier League finals, with Humphries winning in 2025 after Littler beat him a year earlier. That history hangs over the event, but Clayton said he would love to upset it and set up an all-Welsh showpiece. “It would be great to have an all-Welsh final. We're Welsh and proud,” he said. “We've got two very hard Englishmen to beat if we're going to have that final.”
Price was just as direct when asked about the possibility of a Welsh finish. “Maybe an all-Welsh final, it could be an all-English final, who knows,” he said. The line sums up the balance of the night: the Welsh pair want to break up a familiar final, but they will have to do it the hard way against the sport’s two most talked-about young stars.
Clayton’s place in finals night carries a sharper edge this year because of where he started. Before the 2026 Premier League, bookmakers had him as the firm outsider to win the competition, and he said he was “gutted” to hear in early February that he was the least-fancied player to taste glory. “Being world number five, having not won any big majors to get me up there, so I'm pretty consistent, and then they reckon I'd finish bottom,” he said. “Obviously they weren't drinking the same tea as I was drinking.”
He has answered that in the only way that matters on the oche. Clayton finished second in the league phase and kept his 100% record of reaching finals night in the showpiece event. He won the tournament on debut in 2021, and this year’s run means he has backed up that fast start with another shot at the title. “But to be fair, I've put a lot of people quiet,” he said. “I think being out of the Premier League last year, that really hurt when I should have been in. But I've proved my point, I'm back in the top four. Look out. Hopefully I can win tomorrow.”
That confidence matters because finals night is not a place for reputation alone. Humphries and Littler have owned the recent history of the event, and both Clayton and Price have been cast as the outsiders in their semi-finals. But Clayton’s route back has made him one of the more interesting figures on the card: a player who entered 2026 as the bookmakers’ outsider, then finished second in the league phase and returned to the stage where he has never failed to arrive. If he and Price can both win once more, the night in London will end with a final that no one outside Wales can ignore.
