The 22nd edition of the WDF World Cup was held in Cluj-Napoca in Romania. The Grand Hotel Italia is the venue from 7 to 12 October. All participant numbers records are broken. No less than 52 teams in the men’s competition, 46 ladies’ teams and 19 countries also sent their youth to Romania.
It will be a WDF World Cup without any incident which runs like clockwork and that is an incredible compliment to the organizing country that is itself relatively very small as a darts nation. No fewer than six new countries make their debut in Romania. Croatia, Egypt, Estonia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine are included for the first time.
In 2019 it is not the team with the highest peaks that wins the WDF World Cup, but the team that is the most constant. The Dutch team does not reach a final in any event but it is very constant in terms of performance with semi-finals, quarter-finals and players in the last 16. Overall that is good enough for the win. With 90 points Jeffrey Sparidaans, Martijn Kleermaker, Chris Landman & Luc Peters are three points ahead of Wales.
The bronze is for England with 73 points. Canada is fourth with 65 points and Australia fifth with 58 points.
Overall ranking
1 - 90 points Netherlands
2 - 87 points Wales
3 - 73 points England
4 - 65 points Canada
5 - 58 points Australia
6 - 54 points Sweden
7 - 49 points New Zealand/ Hong Kong
9 - 38 points Scotland
10 - 34 points United States
11 - 22 points Northern Ireland
12 - 19 points Slovakia
13 - 14 points Austria/ Finland/ Norway/ Serbia/ Czech Republic
18 - 13 points Hungary/ Switzerland/ Spain
21 - 12 points Mongolia
22 - 11 points Ukraine
23 - 10 points Lithuania/ France/ Romania
26 - 9 points South Korea/ Latvia/ Germany/ Greece/ Croatia
31 - 8 points Bulgaria/ Isle of Man
33 - 7 points South Africa/ Jersey/ Gibraltar
36 - 6 points Slovenia/ Estonia/ Russia/ Italy
40 - 3 points Republic Ireland/ Turks and Caicos
42 - 2 points Trinidad & Tobago/ Denmark
44 - 1 point Japan/ Catalonia/ Iceland/ Luxembourg
48 - 0 points Pakistan/ Turkey/ Cyprus/ Egypt/ Brazil