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Everything will be new at the 2023 Darts Team World Championship

12.6.2023

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Thursday is the day. The World Cup of Darts starts and 40 nations duel it out for the crown. The PDC surprises with a fundamentally changed format. Here you can read everything you need to know about the changes and the participants.

The Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) is making everything new. From 15 to 18 June 2023, the 13th edition of the World Cup of Darts, the World Team Championships, will take place in Frankfurt am Main. So far, so normal. However, the PDC has completely reorganised the tournament this year: the number of participating countries, the rules and the format. A total of 40 teams of two will step up to the oche (the throwing line) to crown the new Team World Champions - more nations than ever before. Australia will be the defending champions with last year's winning duo of Damon Heta and Simon Whitlock.

The most important change: the entire tournament will be played exclusively in team mode. Individual matches are a thing of the past. This will bring a whole new dynamic to the competition. But the structure of the tournament has also changed.

The draw for the group stage took place last Friday.
Source: PDC

The four best nations in the world according to the Order of Merit (the official ranking) - England, the Netherlands, Scotland and Wales - are automatically seeded for the second round. In the first round, there will be a group phase of twelve groups with three teams each in "best of seven legs" mode. The winner of a match must win four legs. The respective group winners will then qualify for the round of 16, in which the remaining 16 nations will decide the winner in a knockout system and in "Best of 15 Legs" mode. Only the final will be raised again and the winning team will have to win ten legs to be crowned world champion.

All forty participating nations with the respective players.
Source: PDC

Martin Schindler and Gabriel Clemens will be competing for the host nation Germany this year. The latter shone at the last individual world championship in London's "Ally Pally" and reached the semi-finals. Stefan Bellmont, who was the first Swiss player to win a match on the PDC European Tour a few weeks ago, will take part in the doubles with Marcel Walpen. The German-speaking countries are completed by Austria with Mensur Suljovic and Rowby-John Rodriguez. Bahrain, Iceland and Ukraine will be making their debut at this year's tournament. The current record winners of the World Team Championships are England and the Netherlands with four titles each.

Winners of the last few years

2022: Australia (Simon Whitlock and Damon Heta)
2021: Scotland (Peter Wright and John Henderson)
2020: Wales (Gerwyn Price and Jonny Clayton)
2019: Scotland (Gary Anderson and Peter Wright)
2018: Netherlands (Michael van Gerwen and Raymond van Barneveld)
2017: Netherlands (Michael van Gerwen and Raymond van Barneveld)
2016: England (Phil Taylor and Adrian Lewis)
2015: England (Phil Taylor and Adrian Lewis)
2014: Netherlands (Michael van Gerwen and Raymond van Barneveld)
2013: England (Phil Taylor and Adrian Lewis)
2012: England (Phil Taylor and Adrian Lewis)
2011: Suspended
2010: Netherlands (Raymond van Barneveld and Co Stompé)

In addition to the number of participants, the PDC has also increased the prize money. It has been raised from 350,000 to 450,000 British pounds, which corresponds to around 507,000 euros. You can watch the tournament live in German-speaking countries on the streaming platform "Dazn".