With Littler and Humphries such heavy favourites, the outright value is all in the Group Stage winners. We’ve got four big value belters which could net you a £145.11 payout for just a tenner.
By blending a few firm favourites with some cheeky outsiders, we reckon there’s cracking value to be had on the World Cup of Darts group outrights.
| To Win Their World Cup of Darts Group Stage | Odds |
|---|---|
| France (Group G) | 15/8 |
| Belgium (Group B) | 1/4 |
| Netherlands (Group A) | 1/12 |
| Portugal (Group C) | 5/1 |
Odds correct as of 2:00pm on 12/06/2025
In our view, the bookies have completely misjudged the true chances of these teams. Here’s why they’re a bit off target.
Bet 1: France to win Group G
France is bringing in some serious heavy hitters into this tournament and we think they’ve got Group G in the baguette.
Thibault Tricole is widely considered the greatest player in French darts history — the only Frenchman to play at the PDC World Darts Championship and to win a PDC European Tour event. He’s backed by another trailblazer, Jacques Labre, the first French player to turn professional and a former Spanish Open Champion.
Plus, Labre brings bags of experience, having represented France at the WDF Europe Cup, the WDF World Cup, and previously at the World Cup of Darts.
In Group G, they face Lithuania and Sweden. The key threat from Lithuania is Darius Labanauskas, who’s made it to two World Championship quarter-finals. However, his form has dipped in recent years, and the same goes for his partner Mindaugas Barauskas.
Sweden are favourites in this group with Oskar Lukasiak and Jeffrey De Graaf, but the pair have very little experience in this sort of event and could fall apart like a cheap Ikea flat-pack. That makes the 15/8 odds (34.8% implied probability) for France to win Group G look like an absolute bargain to us.
Bet 2: Belgium to Win Group B
Their opponents may as well be waffles because we reckon the Belgians are going to absolutely devour Group B.
You’ve got current world number five and UK Open Champion Dimitri Van den Bergh, a man who’s taken down titans like Luke Humphries and Michael van Gerwen and a threat to go deep in every tournament he enters. He’s backed by “The Real Deal” Mike De Decker, fresh off his breakout World Grand Prix win in 2024 and looking every bit like a player hitting his prime.
Put simply, if these two click they’re not just group winners, they’re serious title contenders.
Latvia and the Philippines aren’t total pushovers. Madars Razma is a multi-time Latvian National Champ and the Philippines' Paulo Nebrida turned heads with a last-32 finish at the 2025 PDC World Championship. His teammate Lourence Ilagan also once made the semifinals of the World Masters.
But let’s be honest. Belgium is bringing two world-beaters into a group where none of the opposition have a PDC title to their name. Even as 1/4 favourites with an 80% implied chance we still think they’re undervalued. We’d peg their true odds closer to 95% making them a cracking low-risk leg to anchor this acca.
Bet 3: Netherlands to win Group A
When you combine “The Freeze” Danny Noppert, world number sixteen and former UK Open Champion, with 23-year-old sensation Gian “The Giant” Van Veen, one of the most successful PDC youth players ever, you get a Dutch duo ready to scare the sauce off the Italians’ spaghetti and leave Hungary hungry for points.
Italy are bringing Michele Turetta and Massimo Dalla Rosa to the oche, but their success has mostly stayed within their borders. Hungary’s György Jehirszki and Gergely Lakatos are in a similar boat, with little to show on a global stage.
So, you’ve got two sides lacking serious international pedigree facing a Netherlands team stacked with talent and led by a four-time World Cup veteran in Noppert. The Dutch topping this group looks about as certain as finding a bike in the canals of Amsterdam. 1/12 odds? That’s a high 92.3% probability but we’d go as high as 98%, we cannot see them losing here barring both players forgetting their arrows.
Bet 4: Portugal to win Group C
To us, this is the best value bet of the lot. Portugal are bringing in “The Special One” José Augusto Oliveira de Sousa, the former world number six, Grand Slam of Darts Champion, Premier League Darts runner up and most important of all he’s represented both Spain and Portugal in World Cup events.
He’s a thrilling player to watch, an absolute maverick lighting up the board like a Matador hitting bullseyes instead of bulls. His debuting partner Bruno Nascimento is more of a wildcard, but that unknown factor helps makes this team even more dangerous and difficult to prepare for.
The German team they’re up against are very good, Schindler has four ranking titles and Ricardo Pietreczko won his maiden PDC title in 2023. But neither has the consistency we would expect for 2/15 odds on favourites (88.2%).
As for Singapore? Despite Paul Lims’ legendary nine-darter, they’ve just not got the credentials to make us believe an upset is on the board. 18/1 (5.3% implied probability) sounds about right.
For us it’s a 95% toss-up between Portugal and Germany which gives Portugal just over 40% true value. Almost three times the 16.7% implied by their 5/1 odds.
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