The 2025 BetVictor World Cup of Darts begins on Thursday, as Luke Humphries and Luke Littler aim to steer England to a record-extending sixth World Cup crown in Frankfurt.

This year’s World Cup of Darts will see 40 nations going head-to-head at the Eissporthalle from June 12-15, with group and knockout stages featuring Doubles matches throughout the pairs event.

England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland – the top four ranked nations based on lowest cumulative PDC Order of Merit ranking – will enter the tournament in Saturday's second round.

The remaining 36 nations have been split into 12 groups of three for the round-robin phase – including 12 seeded nations – from which each group winner will progress to the last 16.

Coverage starts at 6:00pm UK time on Sky Sports Action. All matches in the group stage are the best of 7 legs (first to 4).

>Tonight's matches (6:00pm UK start)
(11) Sweden v Lithuania [G]
(14) Czech Republic v Taiwan [J]
(15) Croatia v Japan [K]
(8) Ireland v Gibraltar [D]
(10) Canada v Malaysia [F]
(13) USA v Hong Kong [I]
(9) Poland v South Africa [E]
(6) Belgium v Latvia [B]
(5) Netherlands v Italy [A]
(7) Germany v Portugal [C]
(12) Austria v Spain [H]
(16) Finland v New Zealand [L]

>Tournament preview
https://www.pdc.tv/news/2025/06/11/2025-betvictor-world-cup-darts-preview

>Competing Nations & Pairings
(1) England: Luke Humphries & Luke Littler
(2) Wales: Jonny Clayton & Gerwyn Price
(3) Scotland: Gary Anderson & Peter Wright
(4) Northern Ireland: Josh Rock & Daryl Gurney
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(5) Netherlands: Danny Noppert & Gian van Veen
(6) Belgium: Mike De Decker & Dimitri Van den Bergh
(7) Germany: Martin Schindler & Ricardo Pietreczko
(8) Ireland: William O'Connor & Keane Barry
(9) Poland: Krzysztof Ratajski & Radek Szaganski
(10) Canada: Matt Campbell & Jim Long
(11) Sweden: Jeffrey de Graaf & Oskar Lukasiak
(12) Austria: Mensur Suljovic & Rusty-Jake Rodriguez
(13) USA: Danny Lauby & Jules van Dongen
(14) Czech Republic: Karel Sedlacek & Petr Krivka
(15) Croatia: Pero Ljubic & Boris Krcmar
(16) Finland: Teemu Harju & Marko Kantele
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Argentina: Jesus Salate & Victor Guillin
Australia: Damon Heta & Simon Whitlock
Bahrain: Sadeq Mohamed & Hasan Bucheeri
China: Xiaochen Zong & Lihao Wen
Denmark: Benjamin Reus & Andreas Hyllgaardhus
France: Thibault Tricole & Jacques Labre
Gibraltar: Craig Galliano & Justin Hewitt
Hong Kong: Man Lok Leung & Lok Yin Lee
Hungary: Gyorgy Jehirszki & Gergely Lakatos
India: Nitin Kumar & Mohan Goel
Italy: Michele Turetta & Massimo Dalla Rosa
Japan: Ryusei Azemoto & Tomoya Goto
Latvia: Madars Razma & Valters Melderis
Lithuania: Darius Labanauskas & Mindaugas Barauskas
Malaysia: Tengku Shah & Tan Jenn Ming
New Zealand: Haupai Puha & Mark Cleaver
Norway: Cor Dekker & Kent Sivertsen
Philippines: Lourence Ilagan & Paolo Nebrida
Portugal: Jose de Sousa & Bruno Nascimento
Singapore: Paul Lim & Phuay Wei Tan
South Africa: Cameron Carolissen & Devon Petersen
Spain: Daniel Zapata & Ricardo Fernandez
Switzerland: Stefan Bellmont & Alex Fehlmann
Taiwan: Teng-Lieh Pupo & An-Sheng Lu

Fawa shitting itself for anyone else?

Fuck yeah, finally some proper rank..., well, at least entertaining darts.

>>149138814
Hass some serious hiccups here, might have to look for something else if it stays like this.

>>149138038 (OP)
HAHA TIME FOR COMEDY DARTS!
I always enjoy watching the World Cup.

>>149138814
I got VIPbox to work

>>149138979
So hittler doesn't even play today? Wankfest

>>149139029
They play Saturday along with Wales/Scotland/NI as the Top 4 seeds

Darius getting cockblocked by his mate here.

where's snackpot?

>>149139182
Almost certainly nowhere near a practice board.

>>149139150
As happens every year. Is there genuinely no other player better than Barauskas in Lithuania?

>Czechs with no Gawlas
Hallelujah

Which team would win if the World Cup of darts was a big fight?

>>149139011
link?

>>149139467
Croatia.

>>149139515
https://www.vipbox lc/darts/world-cup-of-darts-day-1-streams

Good doubles match that

>>149139527
IT'S TIME

Anime

>>149139667
Based Big Boris enjoyer.

>>149139753
miss this fucker like you couldn't believe

>Croatia
Utter bottlers

>Goto

Proper comedy ending there. Gwan Japan

>Ireland next
Ha ha, time for watered Wilhelm.

>>149140069
>Willie & 3 zoomers
grim

>Paddy doubling

>Malaysia are back

>Gibraltar

>Abi on comms

>busting 68 like that

How fucking slow is this Malaysian fella

>>149140346
my wife

>getting pumped 4-1 by Malaysia
A new low for leaf darts

>>149140556
Alri Dan

>>149140581
How in the world were those bums seeded higher than Austria? Mensur and Rimmy-Job need to get their shit together.

>>149140640
Rhonda Jane fucked off tour and Rusty Jake is shit.

depressing

Find it ridiculous that Van Dongen is playing when he's not been on the Pro Tour nearly all year because his right arm is shot.

Hong Kong didn't even average 78. Bahrain might beat the Yanks at this rate.

>that time van Dongen had a full live performance for his walk on

>Dimwit Van den Berk & De Dickhead
please win, Latvia

>>149141348
We need kino kimbo back

>>149141425
>that year him and Dimitri fell out with each other

>>149141440
Isn’t that just every year with Kim

>>149141468
kek

was 2 years back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJTzkxo-AIw

>put the shit player up first
>he makes a mess of 90 to lead 2-0
>lose match 4-1
Great logic, Madars

Good evening, gents.

Finally some proper arrers on the TV and not the "Premier" League

CHUD TIME

Chud spotted in the wild with a woman

Alright lads. Fuck me I'm setting off for the airport to go to Lithuania at 2am, have I missed out good?

>>149141855
Didn't watch a single night of PL. I think I tuned in on one, but then quickly got distracted. World Cup however is always worth a watch.

>>149142017
Have fun. Aside from an abysmal USA showing, you didn't miss much yet.

>>149142017
Croatia choked from 3-1 up and lost to Japan
Canada & USA were dogshit and lost to Malaysia & Hong Kong respectively
Other than that very straightforward

:(

>>149142050
>Didn't watch a single night of PL. I think I tuned in on one, but then quickly got distracted. World Cup however is always worth a watch.
Me neither, watched some European Tour but my interest even in that has drastically been lowered by the changes made to the qualification rules by the PDC

>>149142123
Yeah, Euro Tour has been ruined. You're getting the same matchups constantly.

>Uter & Pikachu against Portugal

I see Portugal brought Willem Dafoe.

>>149142280
The scoreboard is blocking us from knowing for sure

>>149142302

unconvincing from the euro tour boys

Clownman at it again:

>Luke Humphries and Luke Littler "won't click" despite being overwhelming favourites to defend the World Cup for England, according to Scotland's Peter Wright.

>World number one Humphries and 2025 world champion Littler, making his debut at the event, are a long way clear of the rest in the PDC rankings.

>But Wright, who is joined by fellow two-time world champion Gary Anderson for the third seeded Scots, has rejected any suggestion it is a fait accompli that the high-profile duo will prevail in Frankfurt.

>"Look at the amount of really good England teams that have been paired up and they haven't clicked, like James Wade and Phil Taylor," Wright told BBC Sport Scotland.

>"Littler is a fantastic player, a worthy world champion and all the other titles he has won, fantastic, but he is going up there playing pairs.

>"I know he played as a youth for England, but whether he can do it in the seniors, I don't know. They might go out and bash everybody up, but I am thinking they won't click."

>Finland v New Zealand on last
wew

Very good from Mens and Rimmy-Job. Should be a good game vs Australia

I've yet to see Marko Kantele ever play well on the big stage

One for the purists this one judging by the pace of play

>and Finland loses again

>>149143058
Oh for the glory days of Jarkko Komula, Jani Haavisto and even Kim Viljanen.