The PDC World Cup Of Darts is heading to Frankfurt from June 11-14, with Sky Sports set to show the tournament live across the four-day event. England, the Netherlands, Northern Ireland and Scotland are the top four seeded teams, giving the event a familiar heavyweight spine before the unseeded nations even begin to unfold.
The names that draw the eye are familiar for good reason. England can call on Luke Littler and Luke Humphries, the Netherlands on Gian van Veen and Michael van Gerwen, Northern Ireland on Josh Rock and Daryl Gurney, and Scotland on Gary Anderson and Cameron Menzies. That depth is part of why the tournament matters now: it is the one team event where individual form has to survive national pressure, and the line-up gives it edge before a dart is thrown.
For viewers in the UK, the live Sky Sports coverage is the simple answer to when and where to watch. The timing also matters because the field carries the kind of players who can still turn a stage on its head, including Paul Lim, who returned to Alexandra Palace in 2025 after a two-year absence, became the oldest player ever to appear at the World Darts Championship at 71, beat Jeffrey de Graaf in the first round and then ran into Luke Humphries in the second.
Lim remains one of the sport’s enduring figures because of what he did long before Frankfurt was on the calendar. He hit the first nine-darter in World Championship history in 1990, and in 2025 he was again the sort of player the crowd wanted to see keep going. Rod Studd caught that feeling neatly when he described him as “the oldest slinger in town” winning again on the Ally Pally stage.
Not every crowd favourite is headed to the same path in Frankfurt, though. Singapore will be there with Lim and Phuay Wei Tan, and they are drawn in Group D alongside Ireland and Uganda, while Motomu Sakai has already shown how quickly an unseeded player can become part of the event’s story after dancing his way into the crowd’s favour at Alexandra Palace and whitewashing Thibault Tricole 3-0 in the first round.
That mix of seeded power, veteran name value and unpredictable pairings is what gives this tournament its pull. The open question now is not whether the big names will be watched, but which of the lesser-known combinations will force their way into the conversation once Frankfurt begins on June 11.
