Schedule Sunday afternoon at World Cup of Darts 2025: Who can make the final session?

Eight countries are still in the race for the title at the 2025 World Cup of Darts. Sunday afternoon, the four quarter-finals will be played before the denouement takes place in the evening with the semifinals and final, respectively.

All remaining countries will smell their chances from now on, after top favorite England was surprisingly eliminated by Germany in the second round on Saturday. With the Netherlands, Wales and Australia, there are still a number of former winners in the tournament. The format for the quarter-finals has remained the same as the matches from the second round. Still eight legs are needed to reach the next round.
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We begin the afternoon session with a friendly between Northern Ireland and Ireland. It is a rarity for Ireland to make it to the last eight of this nations tournament, as it previously only succeeded in 2019. Back then, the country did manage to advance to the final. William O'Connor and Keane Barry narrowly escaped elimination in the group stage, but made short work of Switzerland (8-3) in the last sixteen. Northern Ireland had a solid start to their tournament on Saturday. Josh Rock and Daryl Gurney skipped the group stage and started their tournament against South Africa. Despite Devon Petersen and Cameron Carolissen throwing a higher average (91.83 to 88.66), the win went comfortably 8-2 to the Northern Irish.

Host nation Germany will take on Australia. Few would have given the Germans a chance against top English duo Luke Humphries and Luke Littler, but Germany won convincingly against the English 8-4. Earlier in the group stage, the German duo had already won without any problems against Portugal (4-2) and Singapore (4-0). In the quarterfinals, they face another former tournament winner, as Australia is the next obstacle. The country of Damon Heta and Simon Whitlock played a strong pool phase with victories over Spain (4-0) and Austria (4-1). The level was considerably lower in the eighth finals, but despite a moyenne of 85.05 per turn, they won 8-1 over Argentina.

After England's elimination, Wales is the new top favorite with the bookmakers. Gerwyn Price and Jonny Clayton got off to a successful start Saturday night by leaving the Philippines 8-2 defenseless. The numbers of the two darters from Wales were fine an average of 96.43 and a finishing percentage of 38.1 percent. They will now take on Hong Kong, which was responsible for Sweden's elimination with strong play. The two Asians Man Lok Leung and Lok Yin Lee threw an average of 94.16 against Sweden and qualified for the last eight with an 8-4 win.

In the semi-final match it is the turn of the Netherlands, which remarkably has not yet lost a leg this tournament. In the group stage there were resounding 4-0 victories over Italy and Hungary, while in the last sixteen top country Scotland was humiliated 8-0. It was the best match of the tournament so far, as Danny Noppert and Gian van Veen were the first country to average over one hundred (100.20) during this edition of the World Cup of Darts. The Dutch duo will now meet the Czech Republic, which easily handled Malaysia (8-3).