WDF Europe Cup Men Teams 2016

From 20 to 24 September, the twentieth edition of the WDF Europe Cup was held in the Dutch seaside town of Egmond aan Zee. In the men’s event 32 different countries toe the oche, which is a new record for the WDF Europe Cup. Six countries leave their ladies at home, but this still means a very strong field of 26 countries in the ladies. In hotel Zuiderduin, for years the setting for the Zuiderduin/Finder Masters the NDB and WDF put together a fantastic tournament, which runs very smoothly.

From the 2015 WDF World Cup Nick Rolls joined the WDF team as one of the officials on stage alongside “Little” Richard Ashdown and Jacques Nieuwlaat, so 2016 is his first WDF Europe Cup. The Dutch Darts Association NDB is hosting this tournament for the third time, they also organized the WDF Europe Cup in The Hague in 1984 and Veldhoven in 2000. Welshman Martin Phillips participates for the thirteenth and last time in this event and is the record holder. Malta is returning to the WDF Europe Cup family for their first Cup since 2000. There are no debutants this year.

In the team tournament it is Poland that gives the tournament colour. The foursome Krzysztof Chmielewski, Grzegorz Dzialkowski, Krzysztof Gontarewicz & Pawel Wolynka reach the quarterfinals. That is the end station because Scotland is too strong with 9-7. The Netherlands beats Sweden 9-4, Northern Ireland knocks out Denmark 9-6 and England cruises past Finland in the quarterfinals 9-2.

Wesley Harms, Gino Vos, Richard Veenstra & Jeffrey Sparidaans play the entire tournament with conviction in front of their own audience. In the semi-finals they also cannot be stopped by the Scottish team of Ross Montgomery, Steven Ritchie, Alan Soutar & Craig Quinn. It finishes 9-6 for the Netherlands. Although the WDF Europe Cup is not very successful for the English men's team, there is still success in the end. Glen Durrant, Scott Mitchell, Jamie Hughes & James Hurrell beat Neil Duff, Kyle McKinstry, Chris Gilliland & Peter Shaw from Northern Ireland 9-1 in the semi-finals.

Because the men's team final is traditionally been the closing of the tournament in recent years and the Dutch foursome is already certain of the overall victory, everyone can play freely. Only for Richard Veenstra there is something "extra" at stake, he can take all four gold medals at one Cup and thus would get on an illustrious list. Unfortunately for Veenstra, the English don't want to help with his party. Wesley Harms, Gino Vos, Richard Veenstra & Jeffrey Sparidaans come up short in the end and lose to the English foursome Glen Durrant, Scott Mitchell, Jamie Hughes & James Hurrell 9-6. It is the twelfth time that England wins this team event, but the previous title was twelve years ago in 2004.

WDF Europe Cup Men Teams

About WDF Europe Cup Men Teams 2016

Competitors Of WDF Europe Cup Men Teams 2016

Tony Alanentalo

Josep Arimany

Carlos Arola

Norbert Attard

Aco Babic

Mindaugas Barauskas

Tom Becker

Yoann Belchun

Cyril Blot

Justin Broton

Tom Burquel

Vincent Busuttil

Luca Catallo

Ulf Ceder

Krzysztof Chmielewski

Mogens Christensen

Cor Dekker

Neil Duff

Glen Durrant

Grzegorz Dzialkowski

Nikolas Economou

Halgrímur Egilsson

Vegar Elvevoll

Steve Eusebini

George Federico

Oliver Ferenc

Ian Fields

John Flood

Jorge Fonseca

David Francis

Adrian Frim

Chris Gilliland

Nauris Gleglu

Krzysztof Gontarewicz

Thorgeir Gudmundsson

Vitor Charrua

Wayne Halliwell

Wesley Harms

Wayne Harrison

Andreas Harrysson

Lars Helsinghof

Marcel Hirzel

Jamie Hughes

James Hurrell

Throsdur Ingimarsson

Raul Invernon

Ugnius Jankúnas

Roger Janssen

Alex-B Jensen

Pavel Jirkal

Laszlo Kadar

Marko Kantele

Paul Kelly

Nick Kenny

Dejan Kovacevic

Patrik Kovacs

Gerasimos Krontiris

Osvaldas Ksanys

Darius Labanauskas

Jacques Labre

Daniel Larsson

Sebastien Lemmer

Steve Lennon

Oskar Lukasiak

Kyle McKinstry

Michael Meaney

Zsolt Meszaros

Ulrich Meyn

Steven Miles

Jakub Milo

Scott Mitchell

Ross Montgomery

Razyan Negot

Robert Nelson

Asko Niskala

David O'Connor

Michal Ondo