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Markham’s Gerwyn Price will once again team up with Jonny Clayton as the pair look to win their third World Cup of Darts title for Wales.
Price and Carmarthenshire’s Clayton, who won the competition last year having first won it in 2020, are the number two seeds going into this year’s edition.
In total, 40 nations will be involved in the world cup, which is being held in Frankfurt, Germany, between June 27 and June 30.
Going in as top seeds will be England, who will be represented by 2024 world champion Luke Humphries and 2023 world champion Michael Smith.
Elsewhere, Michael van Gerwen and Danny Noppert team up for the third seeds Netherlands, while Peter Wright and Gary Anderson unite for Scotland, who are seeded fourth.
The top four seeds will enter the competition in the second round.
The remaining 36 teams will be split into 12 groups of three for the round-robin first round – including 12 seeded nations – from which each group winner will progress.
The second round, featuring the last 16 nations, will be split across two sessions on Saturday June 29 before the quarter-finals take place on Sunday afternoon, with the tournament culminating in the semi-finals and final on Sunday evening.
The eventual champions will earn a combined £80,000 in prize money.
The group stage draw will be made on Wednesday June 19.
Who is competing?
Seeded
- (1) England – Luke Humphries and Michael Smith
- (2) Wales – Gerwyn Price and Jonny Clayton
- (3) Netherlands – Michael van Gerwen and Danny Noppert
- (4) Scotland – Peter Wright and Gary Anderson
Seeds 5 to 16 – Seeded for Group Stage
- (5) Belgium – Dimitri Van den Bergh and Kim Huybrechts
- (6) Northern Ireland – Josh Rock and Brendan Dolan
- (7) Germany – Martin Schindler and Gabriel Clemens
- (8) Australia – Damon Heta and Simon Whitlock
- (9) Republic of Ireland – William O’Connor and Keane Barry
- (10) Austria – Rowby-John Rodriguez, and Mensur Suljovic
- (11) Poland – Krzysztof Ratajski and Radek Szaganski
- (12) Czechia – Adam Gawlas and Karel Sedlacek
- (13) Croatia – Boris Krcmar and Romeo Grvabac
- (14) France – Jacques Labre and Thibault Tricole
- (15) Sweden – Jeffrey de Graaf and Oskar Lukasiak
- (16) USA – Danny Lauby and Jules van Dongen
Non-seeded nations
- Bahrain – Basem Mahmood and Duda Durra
- Canada – Matt Campbell and David Cameron
- China – Xiaochen Zong and Chengan Liu
- Chinese Taipei – Teng-Lieh Pupo and An-Sheng Lu
- Denmark – Benjamin Reus and Claus Bendix Nielsen
- Finland – Marko Kantele and Teemu Harju
- Gibraltar – Justin Hewitt and Craig Galliano
- Guyana – Norman Madhoo and Sudesh Fitzgerald
- Hong Kong – Lok Yin Lee and Man Lok Leung
- Hungary – Gabor Jagica and Nandor Major
- Iceland – Arngrimur Olafsson and Petur Gudmundsson
- Italy – Michele Turetta and Massimo Dalla Rosa
- Japan – Tomoya Goto and Ryusei Azemoto
- Latvia – Madars Razma and Valters Melderis
- Lithuania – Darius Labanauskas and Mindaugas Barauskas
- Malaysia – Siik Hwang Wong and Mohamad Nasir
- New Zealand – Haupai Puha and Ben Robb
- Norway – Cor Dekker and Hakon Bjorge Helling
- Philippines – Christian Perez and Alexis Toylo
- Portugal – Jose de Sousa and David Gomes
- Singapore – Paul Lim and Harith Lim
- South Africa – Johan Geldenhuys and Cameron Carolissen
- Spain – Jose Justicia and Jesus Noguera
- Switzerland – Stefan Bellmont and Bruno Stockli
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