World Cup of Darts 2023

Eissporthalle, Frankfurt, Germany

15-18 Jun

Defending Champion: Australia

(Damon Heta, Simon Whitlock)

Live on Sky Sports

Format (new format)

40 teams of two players split into four seeds & 12 groups of 3 nations
Round 1 is a group round-robin, group winners advance to Round 2

Seeded nations join in at Round 2

Round 1 - Best of 7 legs

Round 2 to S-Final - Best of 15 legs

Final - Best of 19 legs

All legs are doubles 501

List of broadcasters (check locally)

Sky Sports - UK & Ireland

DAZN - Austria, Brazil, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland, USA

Fox Sports - Australia

Nova - Czech Republic & Slovakia

Setanta - Philippines

Pragosport - Hungary

Sky - New Zealand

Super Sport - South Africa

Viaplay - Baltics, Holland, Iceland, Poland, Scandinavia

VTM - Belgium

Sessions
Thursday 15 Jun

7pm local time (UTC +2)
Round 1 - Phase 1

Friday 16 Jun
12pm - Round 1 - Phase 2

7pm - Round 1 - Phase 3

Saturday 17 Jun
1pm - 4x Round 2

7pm - 4x Round 2

Sunday 18 Jun
1pm - Q-Final

7pm - S-Final & Final

Prize Fund (per team)

Winner
R-Up
S-Final
Q-Final
Round 2
Group 2nd
Group 3rd
Total £

80,000
50,000
30,000
20,000
9,000
5,000
4,000
450,000

(Increased from £350,000)

The Teams

England

Wales

Netherlands

Scotland

Michael Smith, Rob Cross

Gerwyn Price, Jonny Clayton

Danny Noppert, Dirk van Duijvenbode

Peter Wright, Gary Anderson

Australia

Austria

Bahrain

Belgium

Canada

China

Croatia

Czech Republic

Denmark

Finland

France

Germany

Gibraltar

Guyana
Hong Kong
Hungary

Iceland

India

Damon Heta, Simon Whitlock

Mensur Suljovic, Rowby-John Rodriguez

Basem Mahmood, Abdulnasser Yusuf

Dimitri van den Bergh, Kim Huybrechts

Matt Campbell, Jeff Smith

Zong Xiaochen, Wen Lihao

Boris Krcmar, Romeo Grbavac

Adam Gawlas, Karel Sedlacek

Vladimir Andersen, Benjamin Reus

Marko Kantele, Paavo Myller

Thibault Tricole, Jacques Labre

Gabriel Clemens, Martin Schindler

Craig Galliano, Justin Hewitt

Norman Madhoo, Sudesh Fitzgerald

Leung Man Lok, Lee Lok Yin
Patrik Kovács, Levente Sárai

Hallgrimur Egilsson, Vitor Charrua

Prakash Jiwa, Amit Gilitwala

Italy

Japan
Latvia

Lithuania

New Zealand
Northern Ireland

Philippines

Poland

Portugal
Republic of Ireland

Singapore
South Africa
Spain

Sweden

Switzerland

Thailand
Ukraine

USA

Michele Turetta, Massimo Dante

Jun Matsuda, Tomoya Goto
Madars Razma, Dmitriy Zhukov

Darius Labanauskas, Mindaugas Barauskas

Ben Robb, Warren Parry
Brendan Dolan, Daryl Gurney

Christian Perez, Lourence Ilagan
Krzysztof Ratajski, Krzysztof Kciuk

Jose de Sousa, Luis Ameixa

William O'Connor, Keane Barry
Paul Lim, Harith Lim
Devon Petersen, Vernon Bouwers

Jose Justicia, Tony Martinez

Dennis Nilsson, Oskar Lukasiak

Stefan Bellmont, Marcel Walpen
Attapol Eupakaree, Yong Gaweenuntavong
Vladyslav Omelchenko, Illia Pekaruk

Jules van Dongen, Leonard Gates

Dirk van Duijvenbode replaces MvG, medical reason, resulting in

Netherlands swapping seed position with Wales

WCoD Roll of Honour

Round 1

Group Round Robin (T1 vs T2, Loser vs T3, Winner vs T3)

Group 1

Belgium

Finland

China

T1

X

0-4

3-4

T2

4-0

X

0-4

T3

4-3

4-0

X

Group 2

Germany

Hong Kong

Japan

T1

X

0-4

T2

4-0

X

4-3

T3

4-0

3-4

X

Group 3

Australia

Guyana

Gibraltar

T1

X

0-4

T2

4-0

X

4-1

T3

4-0

1-4

X

Group 4

Northern Ireland

France

Ukraine

T1

X

4-1

0-4

T2

1-4

X

0-4

T3

4-0

X

Group 5

Republic of Ireland

Thailand

Croatia

T1

X

1-4

4-1

T2

4-1

X

4-3

T3

1-4

3-4

X

Group 6

Austria

Denmark

USA

T1

X

4-2

2-4

T2

2-4

X

4-3

T3

4-2

3-4

X

Group 7

Poland

Portugal

Lithuania

T1

X

3-4

1-4

T2

4-3

X

4-1

T3

4-1

1-4

X

Group 8

Canada

India

Hungary

T1

X

2-4

1-4

T2

4-2

X

4-0

T3

4-1

0-4

X

Group 9

Czech Republic

Singapore

Philippines

T1

X

2-4

4-1

T2

4-2

X

4-1

T3

1-4

X

Group 10

Spain

South Africa

Iceland

T1

X

4-2

2-4

T2

2-4

X

2-4

T3

4-2

X

Group 11

Latvia

New Zealand

Bahrain

T1

X

2-4

T2

4-2

X

1-4

T3

4-2

4-1

X

Group 12

Switzerland

Italy

Sweden

T1

X

4-3

4-1

T2

3-4

X

4-3

T3

1-4

3-4

X

Round 2 Sat 17 Jun 1pm 1-4 7pm 5-8 (UTC +2) Best of 15 legs

6

8

4

1

England (1)

Poland

Scotland (4)

France

8-4

6-8

8-5

8-4

Latvia

Germany

Philippines

South Africa

Wales (2)

Sweden

Netherlands (3)

Australia

8-2

8-5

7-8

8-6

Denmark

Canada

Belgium

Croatia

5

2

7

3

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Q-Final Sun 18 Jun 1pm (UTC +2) Best of 15 legs

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4

3

England (1)

Scotland (4)

3-8

8-0

Germany

France

Wales (2)

Belgium

8-5

8-7

Sweden

Australia

1

2

S-Final Best of 15 legs <--- Sun 18 Jun 7pm (UTC +2) ---> Final Best of 19 legs

2

1

Germany

Wales (2)

5-8

8-7

Scotland (4)

Belgium

Scotland

2-10

Wales

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