Nathan Aspinall outlines darts retirement plans with current schedule ‘absolutely obscene’

NATHAN ASPINALL has sensationally revealed that he plans to retire from darts by the age of 45 — if not sooner.

The 33-year-old said the current “obscene” scheduling has been a major factor behind his decision.

Nathan Aspinall has vowed to call time on his darts career in the next 12 years

Aspinall is ready to call time on his career within the next 12 years.

The Stockport ace told SportsBoom: “45 and I’m off. I’ve said to my partner if that’s me, it is 45.

“If it’s earlier than that, and we start making golfers’ money and I’ve got £30 million in the bank I’ll be off sooner.

“But I don’t think it’s going to happen that quick. But 45 is when I’d like to bugger off.”

One of Aspinall’s biggest frustrations is the relentless PDC schedule.

He’s been vocal about the lack of downtime and the pressure on players trying to manage both form and wellbeing.

He added: “Compared to even ten years ago. The calendar is absolutely obscene.

“For us to take a weekend off, I have to pull out events so I’m losing ranking money because I just need a few days off.

“And I’ve done that over the last couple of weeks because I was in a tight position in the Premier League, I really wanted to make the playoffs.”

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Aspinall made the playoffs after beating Michael van Gerwen in the quarter-finals of Night 16 in Premier League Darts.

He narrowly lost to Luke Humphries in the semi-finals at the O2, before the world No1 beat Luke Littler in the final.

But Aspinall then beat Damon Heta 8-6 in final to claim his second European Tour title of 2025 on Sunday.

He scooped the £30,000 prize in Leverkusen after becoming the first double winner of this year’s Euro Tour.

The Asp recently revealed that there’s an army of Littlers waiting to breakthrough.

He was a guest at Tottenham star James Maddison’s golf day at The Centurion Club with darts pal Joe Cullen last month.