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Littler and Humphries To Represent England as PDC Confirm Pairings For 2025 World Cup of Darts
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Luke Littler and Luke Humphries will represent England at the 2025 World Cup of Darts as top seeds following confirmation from the PDC of each nation’s pairings for next month’s event.
The official pairings for the 2025 World Cup of Darts have been finalised and confirmed by the PDC, with reigning champions England set to be represented by PDC World Champion Luke Littler and world No. 1 Luke Humphries.
Humphries won the event alongside Michael Smith in Frankfurt last year, but Littler has been draughted in in place of the latter to make his World Cup debut at this year’s edition of the competition, with the English being top seeds.
Wales come in as second seeds, with 2020 and 2023 winners Jonny Clayton and Gerwyn Price reuniting once again.
Gary Anderson and Peter Wright form third seeds Scotland, looking to seal a third World Cup success for their nation, while Josh Rock and Daryl Gurney will represent Northern Ireland as fourth seeds.
Other notable pairings include Belgium’s Mike De Decker and Dimitri Van den Bergh, Australia’s Damon Heta and Simon Whitlock, ’s Martin Schindler and Ricardo Pietreczko and the Netherlands’ Danny Noppert and Gian van Veen.
The tournament will be played from June 12 to 15 at the Eissporthalle in Frankfurt, where 40 teams will battle it out for a share of the £450,000 prize fund, and you can find the full list of each nation’s confirmed pairings below.
Confirmed 2025 World Cup of Darts Pairings
- (1) England – Luke Littler and Luke Humphries
- (2) Wales – Jonny Clayton and Gerwyn Price
- (3) Scotland – Gary Anderson and Peter Wright
- (4) Northern Ireland – Josh Rock and Daryl Gurney
- Argentina – Jesus Salata and Victor Guillin
- Australia – Damon Heta and Simon Whitlock
- Austria – Mensur Suljovic and Rusty-Jake Rodriguez
- Bahrain – Sadiq Dasmal and Hassan Bucheeri
- Belgium – Mike De Decker and Dimitri Van den Bergh
- Canada – Matt Campbell and Jim Long
- China – Xiaochen Zong and Lihao Wen
- Chinese Taipei – Pupo Teng-Lieh and An-Sheng Lu
- Croatia – Pero Ljubic and Boris Krcmar
- Czech Republic – Karel Sedlacek and Petr Krkiva
- Denmark – Benjamin Reus and Andreas Hyllgaardshus
- Finland – Teemu Harju and Marko Kantele
- – Thibault Tricole and Jacques Labre
- – Martin Schindler and Ricardo Pietreczko
- Gibraltar – Craig Galliano and Justin Hewitt
- Hong Kong – Man Lok Leung and Lok Yin Lee
- Hungary – TBC
- India – Nitin Kumar and Mohan Goel
- Italy – Michele Turetta and TBC
- Japan – Ryusei Azemoto and Tomoya Goto
- Latvia – Madars Razma and Valters Melderis
- Lithuania – Darius Labanauskas and Mindaugas Barauskas
- Malaysia – Tengku Shah and Jenn Ming Tan
- Netherlands – Danny Noppert and Gian van Veen
- New Zealand – Haupai Puha and Mark Cleaver
- Norway – Cor Dekker and Kent Joran Sivertsen
- Philippines – Lourence Ilagan and Paolo Nebrida
- Poland – Krzysztof Ratajski and Radek Szaganski
- Portugal – Jose de Sousa and Bruno Nascimento
- Republic of Ireland – William O’Connor and Keane Barry
- Singapore – Paul Lim and Phuay Wei Tan
- South Africa – Cameron Carolissen and Devon Petersen
- Spain – Daniel Zapata Castillo and Ricardo Fernandez Carballo
- Sweden – Jeffrey de Graaf and Oskar Lukasiak
- Switzerland – Stefan Bellmont and Alex Fehlmann
- USA – Danny Lauby and Jules van Dongen