World Cup of Darts 2010

The 2010 Cash Converters World Cup of Darts was a major tournament of the Professional Darts Corporation and was played from December 3rd to 5th, 2010 at the Rainton Meadows Arena . At the World Cup of Darts there is a team of two players per nation. The two best placed players of a nation always play and during the competition there are also double matches, which is not the case at any other PDC tournament.

Since it was the first edition, there were no defending champions. The first winner of the tournament was the Dutch team (consisting of Raymond van Barneveld and Co Stompé ), who were able to prevail in the final against Mark Webster and Barrie Bates from Wales .

Prize money

A total of £ 150,000 in prize money was awarded.

winner	£ 40,000
Finalists	£ 20,000
Semifinals	£ 12,000
3. the group stage	£ 8,000
4. the group stage	£ 5,000
Round of 16	£ 3,000
First round	£ 2,000

Participating Nations

Setting position	nation	Player 1	Player 2
1	England	Phil Taylor	James Wade
2	Netherlands	Raymond van Barneveld	Co Stompé
3	Australia	Simon Whitlock	Paul Nicholson
4th	Scotland	Gary Anderson	Robert Thornton
5	Wales	Mark Webster	Barrie Bates
6th	Northern Ireland	Brendan Dolan	John MaGowan
7th	Canada	John Part	Ken MacNeil
8th	United States	In it Young	Bill Davies
9	Ireland	Mick McGowan	William O'Connor
10	Germany	Jyhan Artut	Andree Welge
11	Spain	Carlos Rodríguez	Antonio Alcinas
12	Finland	Jarkko Komula	Marko Kantele
13	New Zealand	Phillip Hazel	Warren Parry
14th	Austria	Scale length Suljović	Maik Langendorf
15th	Sweden	Magnus Caris	Par riihonen
16	Russia	Anastassija Dobromyslova	Roman Konchikow
17th	Gibraltar	Dylan Duo	Dyson Parody
18th	Slovenia	Osmann Kijamet	Sebastijan Pecjak
19th	Denmark	Per Laursen	Vladimir Andersen
20th	Poland	Krzysztof Kciuk	Krzysztof Ratajski
21st	Belgium	Patrick Bulen	Rocco Maes
22nd	Japan	Haruki Muramatsu	Taro Yachi
23	Czech Republic	Martin Kapucian	Pavel Drtil
24	Slovakia	Peter Martin	Oto Zmelik

Seeding list

The eight best teams on the seeding list were automatically seeded for the round of 16.

No. player Round reached 01.  England Round of 16 02.  Netherlands victory 03.  Australia Semifinals 04th  Scotland Quarter finals

No. player Round reached 05.  Wales final 06th  Northern Ireland Round of 16 07th  Canada Quarter finals 08th.  United States Quarter finals

Tournament overview

Preliminary round and round of 16

	1st round (December 3rd) best of 11 legs				Round of 16 (December 3rd) best of 11 legs
		Finland (82.83)	2			Canada (86.66)	6th
		Belgium (83.93)	6th			Belgium (82.85)	5
		Sweden (86.58)	6th			United States (83.64)	6th
		Slovenia (70.49)	2			Sweden (81.07)	4th
		Austria (86.63)	6th			Northern Ireland (79.97)	3
		Denmark (82.85)	4th			Austria (85.33)	6th
		New Zealand (83.73)	6th			Wales (85.04)	6th
		Poland (74.37)	2			New Zealand (85.13)	4th
		Russia (74.46)	6th			Scotland (87.18)	6th
		Gibraltar (71.61)	4th			Russia (75.27)	2
		Germany	Where			Netherlands (91.62)	6th
		Czech Republic	1			Germany (81.79)	2
		Spain (87.87)	6th			England (99.33)	5
		Japan (81.80)	3			Spain (92.31)	6th
		Ireland (74.04)	6th			Australia (82.96)	6th
		Slovakia (74.90)	3			Ireland (80.36)	5

¹ Due to bad weather, the Czech team could not come.

Quarter-finals (group stage)

The two first placed moved into the final round. The number in brackets indicates the team's seeding position.

Group A

rank	team	Victories	Unent.	Dutch	Legs	Points
1	Netherlands (2)	3	0	0	22:18	9
2	Australia (3)	2	0	1	22:17	8th
3	Canada (7)	1	0	2	18:19	5
4th	Austria (14)	0	0	3	16:24	2

Netherlands	3 : 1	Canada
Australia	4 : 0	Austria

Netherlands	3 : 1	Austria
Australia	3 : 1	Canada

Netherlands	3 : 1	Australia
Canada	3 : 1	Austria

Group B

rank	team	Victories	Unent.	Dutch	Legs	Points
1	Wales (5)	2	0	1	21:16	7th
2	Spain (11)	2	0	1	17:19	7th
3	Scotland (4)	1	0	2	20:18	6th
4th	United States (8)	1	0	2	17:22	4th

United States	1: 3	Spain
Scotland	1: 3	Wales

Wales	3 : 1	Spain
Scotland	4 : 0	United States

Scotland	1: 3	Spain
Wales	1: 3	United States

Final round

	Semifinals					final
	2	Netherlands	4th
	11	Spain	0
						2	Netherlands	4th
						5	Wales	2
	5	Wales	3 1
	3	Australia	3

^{Wales won in the Sudden Death Leg.}

Web links

• Report on darts1.de
• Results on dartsdatabase.co.uk