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14th December 2019 COLIN SAUNDERS RIP Everyone at England Darts were saddened to learn that Colin Saunders had passed away overnight. Colin was one of the original Directors of England when it was formed in 2007 and he was instrumental in finding and agreeing an initial deal with Bunn Leisure, which has built into a long time partnership that we still enjoy today and this is a fitting legacy for Colin. In addition to his position with England, he was County secretary of the Isle of Wight and he also spent time as a BDO Director. Our thoughts are with his family at this sad time.
23rd November 2019 A very sad day for the darting world as Olly Croft OBE passed away earlier today.
From
Olly's son Oliver
12th October 2019 Day 5 (Saturday) of the World Cup starts at 11.00 (Romanian time) today with the remaining finals, we have Beau Greaves in the girls final, Keelan Kay in the boys final, Deta Hedman in the ladies final and the ladies in the team final. It looks like all the teams will claim a medal in their respective overall events. The results for England players can be found on the World Cup page CLICK HERE For full results go to the WDF Page CLICK HERE To see the scores live go to Dart Connect CLICK HERE
11th October 2019 Day 4(Friday) of the World Cup starts at 13.00 (Romanian time) today with the last 16 of Ladies Team, Mens Team and Youth Mixed Pairs. The results for England players can be found on the World Cup page CLICK HERE For full results go to the WDF Page CLICK HERE To see the scores live go to Dart Connect CLICK HERE 10th October 2019
Day 3 (Thursday) of the World Cup starts at 13.00 (Romanian time) today with the Ladies Team, Girls Pairs, Boys Singles and the Mens Pairs. The results for England players can be found on the World Cup page CLICK HERE For full results go to the WDF Page CLICK HERE To see the scores live go to Dart Connect CLICK HERE
9th October 2019
Day 2 of the World Cup starts at 13.00 (Romanian time) today with the Ladies Singles, Girls Singles, Boys Pairs and the Mens Team. The results for England players can be found on the World Cup page CLICK HERE For full results go to the WDF Page CLICK HERE To see the scores live go to Dart Connect CLICK HERE 8th October 2019
The World Cup is starting at 13.00 (Romanian time) today with the Mens Singles, followed by the Youths Mixed Pairs at 14.00 and the Ladies Pairs at 15.00. The results for England players can be found on the World Cup page CLICK HERE For full results go to the WDF Page CLICK HERE To see the scores live go to Dart Connect CLICK HERE The youth mixed pairs was a round robin group competition and we are delighted that both pairs moved through to the last 16 knock out stage. Our first medal of the World Cup was won by Lorraine Winstanley and Fallon Sherrock as they reached the semi finals of the Ladies Pairs. 4th October 2019 The groups for the Grand Prix Finals to be played at the GER Club, March, Cambridgeshire on Sunday October 20th are :
We wish all the players the very best of luck in the finals.
3rd October 2019 England Darts are disappointed to announce that Leighton Bennett has withdrawn from the 2019 WDF World Cup due to personal reasons. We are pleased to announce his replacement will be Brad Phillips, Brad has been a member of the England youth team for the last two seasons and also has the experience of playing in two Europe Cup Youth championships as well as being a regular for Hertfordshire in both youth and senior Inter-County darts. Brad joins Keelan Kay, Beau Greaves and Shannon Reeves in the youth team in Romania.
1st October 2019 **England Members Prize Draw September**
28th September 2019
Youth Pentathlon Competitions As part of England Darts commitment to giving the youth players of England more opportunities to develop their skills and gain more experience, we are pleased to announce that a separate girls and boys Pentathlon competitions will be played on Saturday 7th December 2019. We believe that it will be the first ever girls pentathlon event and the first boys event for several decades and as such will be exciting for the youngsters invited into the respective competitions, to hone their skills in the pentathlon format. The youth pentathlons will be run along the lines of the ladies and men's pentathlons, which are run by England Darts at the respective Selsey Festivals. Whilst the senior pentathlons are open to twenty invited players, these youth pentathlons will be restricted to ten players in both the girls and boys. The points system used will be the same as the seniors, so in addition to each player playing the other nine players in two legs of 501, they will also play the 'special games' of 1001, 2001, Round the Board on Doubles, Shanghi and Halve-It. (Full details can be found by clicking on the Pentathlon Page, including the scoring system). We are very pleased to welcome the New Trinity Club in Hull as the host of both the youth pentathlons, the club is already the host venue for the Humberside Youth teams and we would like to thank Carl South for his support in staging this unique day of darts for the invited youth players. As a reward for their commitment to the England Darts system both the youth pentathlons will be competed by the top eight players in the respective England Youth rankings, plus one player as invited by England Darts and finally one player chosen by Carl and his team at the New Trinity Club. As well as equal numbers of players, playing the same format we are also pleased to announce that a total of £1,480 will be equally split between the girls and boys competitions on the day. If anyone would like to add to the prize fund with some sponsorship, please contact bradley.kirk@englanddarts.co.uk For anyone that wants to come along on 7th December to the New Trinity Club, we are pleased to confirm that entrance is free as we want as many people as possible to be there to support the youths, anyone who is a competent marker can also volunteer to help out on the day, it will be a great place to watch the undoubted skills of the players we hope will go onto being top players for many years to come. As the players are confirmed and announced their photos and profiles can be seen by clicking on the Youth Pentathlon page.
28th September 2019 World Cup 2019 Schedule and Teams. England Darts are pleased to be one of the record number of 55 Countries competing in the WDF World Cup to be played in Cluj Napoca, Romania from 8th-12th October. More details can be found on the World Cup site, CLICK HERE
15th September 2019 World Cup 2019 Announcement England Darts were disappointed yesterday to announce that Trina Gulliver MBE was unable to take her place in the forthcoming WDF World Cup in Romania. Today we are pleased to announce that Deta Hedman will replace Trina in the team, we are extremely lucky that we have been able to replace one world class player with another. 14th September 2019 World Cup 2019 Announcement
Trina has said. " I am gutted that I've had to make this decision but I've done it in the interest of both parties. I feel that at this point in time, due to personal reasons, that I wouldn't give a creditable performance for the England team. My loyalty and passion for England is second to none. Therefore I'm stepping down for this event as I feel that there are better players at this point in time that can do better for the team. I wish my replacement and the WHOLE team the very best of luck. Bring it home England.". X A replacement will be announced as soon as possible. 13th September 2019 Everyone at England Darts would like to congratulate the youth players listed below on gaining places for the next two events being run by England Darts. The past year has seen great support from both the boys and girls (plus parents), the number of girls particularly have increased this year and we hope these events will encourage more youth players to take part in events run by England Darts.
The second England Darts Grand Prix will be played on Sunday 20th October at the GER Sports Club, March, Cambridgeshire. Mitchell McCarthy will be back to try and defend the title he won in 2018, unfortunately Beau Greaves is unavailable to defend the girls title so a new champion will be crowned. The top four girls and eight boys are seeded in the respective events, which will be played in groups of four with the top two in each group going through to the stage finals.
England Darts are also pleased to announce that the New Trinity Club, Hull, Humberside on Saturday 7th December. We believe this will be the first ever girls pentathlon and the first boys since the early days of the pentathlon over forty years ago. 8th September2019
Everyone at England Darts would like to congratulate Jim Williams and his wife Natalie on the arrival of son Max. Understandably Jim is not at Selsey, so his place in the England Matchplay has been taken by Daniel Day.
7th September2019
Mixed fours winners : Justin Thompson, Daniel Day, Fallon Sherrock & Paul Brown.
The England Classic Ladies and Mens Singles started off a busy day of darts off on Saturday, the Youth Matchplay's were also played, then later in the day there was also the Mixed Fours, a youth GP event and a second tournament for the BDDA disabled plays.
The two England Masters finals to be played on Sunday are :
Ladies and Mens Masters singles events will be starting at 5pm today, updates will be available on the links below.
There will be live streaming from the England Classic weekend on both Saturday and Sunday. Saturday will see both the England Girls and Boys England Matchplay's on the Bunn Leisure stage, play is scheduled to start at 10.30am then on Sunday at approximately 10.00am the Ladies and Mens England Matchplay's will be shown. This will be followed by the finals of the other events being played at the England Classic. To see the finals just click on the links below.
5th September2019 The British Pentathlon was held at Selsey earlier today, pictured below are the top four players after a long day of quality darts. The title was still in the balnce going into the final round of matches as Kyle McKinstry, who was trying to defend the title, lead Martin Adams by just three points, however a superb last game from Martin saw him move ahead of Kyle to win the 2019 title, which was his 13th Pentathlon title.
2nd September2019 The draws for the England Masters to be played at Bunn Leisure, Selsey on Friday 6th September and the England Classic on Saturday 7th September are now available below :
1st September2019 The draws for all the England Matchplay's were made today, the youths will be played on Saturday 7th September and the seniors on Sunday 8th September and streamed live from Bunn Leisure, Selsey.
England Directors England Darts held their AGM
today and are pleased to announce that Jean Haywood has returned as a
Director. The other directors re-elected are Tommy Thompson, Bernie Crouch, Peter
Melton, John Peoples and Vic Sexton.
England Selectors England Darts would like to congratulate both Richard Perry and Paul James who were both elected as England Selectors at today's AGM, they join Peter Senior, Neil Pritchard and Peter Melton.
31st August 2019
Entry to the Ladies and Mens Pairs, the Mixed Fours and the Girls and Boys Singles will still be taken at the venue. The seeds for each event are listed below, could all players check that their listing is correct in the next 24 hours, if there is any queries please contact a England official, we can then do the draws.
30th August 2019 ENGLAND DARTS MATCHPLAY PLAYERS
The 2019 England Matchplay events will be held during the England Classic at Bunn Leisure, Selsey. Full details of the times and matches, which will be streamed on the England YouTube Channel will be posted after the draws are made at the England Darts AGM this coming Sunday. The players who have won titles in England events are automatically invited to take part in the respective Matchplay events, the other players are then invited based on their position in the England Rankings. With the success of the England Youth Grand Prix series, it has been decided to increase the number of players competing in both the girls and boys Matchplay Championship.
23rd August 2019 ENGLAND DARTS PRESS RELEASE
27th August 2019 The 2019 Mens British Pentathlon will be played on Thursday 5th September at Bunn Leisure, Selsey (start time is 11am). These are the twenty players who will fight for the title that was won last year by Northern Ireland's Kyle McKinstry.
14th August 2019
Following the latest two Grand Prix events at the weekend, the tables have now been updated. To see the full list of tables go to the GRAND PRIX TABLES PAGE and follow the links.
13th August 2019
Have you ever thought I would like to go to Selsey for one of the England Darts events, well you can still be part of the 2019 England Classic Weekend from the 5th to 8th September. And this years Classic will have the most events ever seen at the venue as in addition to all the traditional competitions : England Classic Open (Mens & Ladies Singles and
Pairs)
Another first for England Darts will see a Soft Tip Darts Presentation being available in the venue. So there will be plenty to play in and watch, so come along and enjoy a great darting occasion with England Darts at Bunn Leisure, Selsey.
10th August 2019 Tomorrow will see the final two regional heats of the England Darts Grand Prix in Berkshire and Lancashire, before the youth event at Selsey will determine the players that will gain places in the Grand Finals. In addition to the overall tables, points are also awarded to the respective Southern and Northern regional tables, which will see the top two boys and top girl in each table being invited to the Grand Finals. Good luck to all players and the organisers tomorrow.
31st July 2019
Following the latest Grand Prix event at the weekend, the tables have now been updated. The players listed below are currently holding a place in a qualifying position for the Grand Finals. To see the full list of tables go to the GRAND PRIX TABLES PAGE and follow the links.
22nd July 2019 ENGLAND RANKING POINTS AT STAKE
This coming weekend will see England Ranking points at stake in the every popular Cheshire Open, to be played at the Coppenhall Club in Crewe. It is a busy weekend of darts with plenty of competitions to play in, see the entry form for full details. The main event of the weekend, is the Cheshire Open which will be played on Sunday and is open to ANY player and as well as an impressive £1,000 for the winner, they will also hold the prestigious Pauline Stafford Memorial Shield for a year. Pauline was a stalwart of Cheshire Darts and in addition England Darts also had the pleasure of working with her in the position of England Selector. Entry details are also on the form.
21st July 2019 ENGLAND CLASSIC ENTRY REDUCTION FOR MEMBERS
Members who want to take advantage of the early entry discount have until midnight tonight to get the £5 discount off their entry fee in both the England Classic and England Masters singles events. All players and fans can join the England Darts Members Club (you don't have to be English, we are happy for all nationalities to join), just click on the logo above for the application form, the membership fee is just £20 for a year (from the day you join), so if you also go to the 2020 England Open you can also get a discount on the singles. So it costs £20 to join and if you enter all four singles events at Selsey you can get £20 discount, some people think there is a catch - there really isn't and there are more benefits. You are automatically entered into a free monthly draw, with the winner receiving a One80 Gladiator dartboard, a set of One80 darts, a set of L-Style stems, flights and case, plus a personalised shirt from Designs by Sazz. This prize is worth over £100. And the benefits don't end there as your unique England Darts Membership number also gets you a 10% discount off products from Darts Corner. Join today to enjoy this great deal with England Darts. 19th July 2019 ENGLAND ANNOUNCE WORLD CUP TEAMS England Darts are pleased to announce that the following players have been chosen for the WDF World Cup to be played in Romania on 7-12 October : Girls : Beau Greaves & Shannon Reeves Boys : Leighton Bennett & Keelan Kay Ladies : Trina Gulliver, Maria O'Brien, Fallon Sherrock & Lorraine Winstanley Mens : Martin Atkins, Daniel Day, Nigel Heydon & Scott Mitchell 18th July 2019 ENGLAND DARTS YOUTH INITIATIVES We at England Darts are excited to announce new initiatives to cultivate the future stars in our sport, the amazing youth have made some massive achievements in recent times, from 9 darters and BDO Tournament wins and other amazing achievements shows the youth have the future of our sport in safe hands! We believe that the announcement of the following three announcements show our organisations commitment to the youth players in our system. The first initiative involved one our invitational events, The England Matchplay held annually at the England Classic weekend in September at Selsey. For the past few years it has invited 8 Boys and 4 Girls into the event through the England Youth Rankings. We have now agreed to increase the number of invitations to 12 boys and 8 girls, with some changes in the qualifying for the event. The winners from all of our events including the winners from our second initiative will all receive invites as well as the top players from the England Rankings and our Overall Grand Prix Tables giving players more chances to receive an invite and players who choose not to play County Youth a viable chance to qualify for this event. We are happy with this increase over the whole weekend 24 different youth players have the opportunity to play on our stream with the England Classic Youth finals but are guaranteed to have at least 20 faces get some exposure through. Our second announcement is a brand new competition for the Youth players, for the past few years England Darts have been hosting the British Pentathlon since the retirement of the events Founder Sam Hawkins and we are pleased to announce we will now be bringing the event to Boys and Girls in a world’s first for the pentathlon format. The £1,480 prize fund event will take place in Hull in December with the Boys and Girls events taking place side by side with each other with 10 of the top boys and 10 top girls in the England Darts System taking part. As a further reward to players loyal to our events the top 8 in the overall Grand Prix tables at the end of the season will receive an invite to this event along with the two final spots being announced in due course. We are delighted to have Carl South on board with him proving the venue at The New Trinity Club in Hull after he hosted one of our recent Grand Prix Events. Our final announcement comes in the form of a new annual award in memory of two people with massive involvements with England Darts sadly no longer with us. At England Darts we value all players but those who try to improve their game and play the game in a sporting manner we believe deserves to be rewarded. The Julie Vickers Memorial Award and the Gerry Haywood Memorial Award will reward one boy & one girl each year, we would like to thank all those that have donated to England Darts for the Youth in the past couple of weeks, they have helped get these plans off the ground In a short time, personally my thanks goes to our recently retired officials Don Vickers & Dawn Speed who have made generous donations as their parting gifts and to the England Internationals past & present that have also donated back into the system they have represented so well at International Level including Fallon Sherrock, James Hurrell, Daniel Day and Glen Durrant along with others who have wished to remain anonymous, we appreciate their support in helping provide opportunities for youth players across the country. Our final thanks goes to our amazing Youth Ambassador, Deta Hedman who also made a generous donation with the stipulation we introduce the Julie Vickers & Gerry Haywood Memorial Awards, and her support for the youth game has been phenomenal. If you wish to make a donation or would like to be a board sponsor, event sponsor or season sponsor, don’t hesitate to contact Deta or any one of the England Officials, we are also looking for venue s that would want to host a Youth Grand Prix Event in 2020 and should contact one of our officials or Bradley Kirk via email at bkirkenglanddarts@gmail.com 17th July 2019 ISLE OF MAN FESTIVAL England has to clarify that the Isle of Man 2020 will be held at the Villa Marina, between Thursday 12th March to Sunday 15th March inclusive. This is a change from the published date on the BDO and England Diaries. The confusion has resulted by a combination of conflicting correspondence, which we didn't check before the dates were published, as a result if anyone has already their flights for the previous week, please contact us with a copy of a valid booking form, and we will deal with it. Once again England unreservedly apologises for this error, and any distress this may have caused. Tommy Thompson - Chairman England Darts email : tommythompson@gmx.co.uk 13th July 2019 EUROPE CUP YOUTH - GIRLS TAKE OVERALL TITLE & BOYS ARE RUNNERS UP
Day three was the final day of the 2019 Europe Cup Youth Championship and they went into the day with a chance of winning the girls and gaining a medal in the boys and that is exactly what happened as the girls retained the title and the boys took a silver medal behind the Netherlands. The first player in action was Leighton Bennett in the singles semi final and he took his place in the final with a 2-0 sets win over Netherlands Luke van der Kwast. The next player in action was Beau Greaves in the girls semi final, but a 0-3 defeat against Hungarian Tamara Kovacs, who turned out to be the eventual champion, meant the overall title was still in the balance. Things were still going against England as the boys team let a 4-3 lead slip against the Republic of Ireland and they lost the semi final 9-4, once again losing to the eventual champions. However things improved in the next two games as first Leighton Bennett took the singles title and gold medal with a 3-1 sets win over Jurjen van der Velde, that also sealed the silver medal in the overall table. The girls pairs was the next game on and a very close match against Scotland's McKinlay & O'Brien and Shannon and Beau eventually hit the winning double to gain a 4-3 win to gain the pairs gold medal and after a nervous wait they were also confirmed as the overall title winners as well.
12th July 2019 EUROPE CUP YOUTH Day two of the Youth Europe Cup saw the girls play their singles event, with all players being in a round robin groups. Beau Greaves won all four of her games to win her group, but unfortunately Shannon Reeves only won one of her games and didn't qualify for the last eight games. Beau won her last eight match 3-1 against Sophie McKinlay (Scotland) to move into Saturday's semi final where she will play Tamara Kovacs (Hungary). Later on the girls were back in action as they played the semi final of the pairs and we are delighted that they beat the Dutch pairing of Rietbergen & Van der Velde 3-1 to gain a place in Saturday's final against the Scottish pair of McKinlay & O'Brien. The boys were in action in the tem event and they won their group after beating both Hungary and Turkey 9-3, this got them into the last eight where another 9-3 victory over Wales put them into Saturday's semi final where they will play the Republic of Ireland. The final match saw Keelan and Brad narrowly lose 2-3 to against Van der Velde/Van der Kwast of the Netherlands and so had to settle for a bronze medal. But on a positive note all six England players are guaranteed to come home with at least one medal each. The points tables at the end of day two are :
11th July 2019 EUROPE CUP YOUTH Day one of the Youth Europe Cup saw both the girls and boys start their pairs event and it turned out to be a good day for the England pairings, the girls pair of Shannon Reeves and Beau Greaves lost their first game but then won the next three to finish second in the group and gain a place in the quarter finals, where they beat the German pair to gain a place in Friday's semi finals where they will play the Dutch pairing of Rietbergen & Van der Velde. The boys pairs of Keelan Kay & Brad Phillips and Leighton Bennett & Mitchell McCarthy both won all their group games to win their respective groups that put them in the last sixteen. Leighton & Mitchell won 3-1 against a Scottish pair before losing 1-3 in the quarter finals to a Gibraltar pair. Keelan & Brad won their last sixteen match 3-0 against a German pair and then had a narrow 3-2 win against a Hungarian pair to move into Friday's semi final against Van der Velde/Van der Kwast of the Netherlands. The boys then moved onto their singles event, where Keelan and Leighton won their groups, Brad finished second and so all three of them qualified for the last thirty two, unfortunately Mitchell missed out as he finished third in his group. Brad lost at this stage, but Keelan and Leighton both won their last thirty two and last sixteen matches to take a place in the quarter finals which were played over best of three sets. Keelan lost 1-2 to Marcel Bus (Netherlands) whilst Leighton beat Connor Hopkins (Wales) 2-0 to gain a place in Saturday's semi finals where he will be joined by three Dutch players. The points tables at the end of day one are :
10th July 2019 EUROPE CUP YOUTH
The 2019 WDF Europe Youth Cup starts on Thursday 11th July in Ankara, Turkey. The England teams above (left to right) are : Shannon Reeves, Mitchell McCarthy, Keelan Kay, Leighton Bennett, Brad Phillips & Beau Greaves. The schedule (on Turkish time) is :
9th July 2019
England Darts are proud to announce a collaboration with the British Disability Darts Association to promote the New BDDA, England Open and England Classic to be held during the England Classic Open Festival of Darts 5 - 8th September, 2019 at the new Bunn Leisure White Horse complex, in Selsey, West Sussex. The directors of England and Sarah Smale are pleased that the ongoing negotiations to include Disabled darts into the mainstream of Senior England events, has come to fruition, and we are all looking forward to a bright future together.
3rd July 2019 ENGLAND MEMBERSHIP
People have asked why players in the England Classic list of entries are coloured in yellow (see left), these players are England Members and as such they get £5 discount off their entry fee in both the England Classic and England Masters singles events, providing they enter by 21st July. All players and fans can join the England Darts Members Club (you don't have to be English, we are happy for all nationalities to join), just click on the logo above for the application form, the membership fee is just £20 for a year (from the day you join), so if you also go to the 2020 England Open you can also get a discount on the singles. So it costs £20 to join and if you enter all four singles events at Selsey you can get £20 discount, some people think there is a catch - there really isn't and there are more benefits. You are automatically entered into a free monthly draw, with the winner receiving a One80 Gladiator dartboard, a set of One80 darts, a set of L-Style stems, flights and case, plus a personalised shirt from Designs by Sazz. This prize is worth over £100. And the benefits don't end there as your unique England Darts Membership number also gets you a 10% discount off products from Darts Corner. Join today to enjoy this great deal with England Darts. 1st July 2019 Anyone wishing to enter the England Classic weekend (6th - 8th September) events can now do so online, CLICK HERE Once you enter online you will receive a confirmation email and your name will appear on the list of entrants, see below.
26th June 2019
After the very successful recent England Open Festival in the new eighteen million pound new White Horse complex at Bunn Leisure in Selsey, we are pleased to be able to post the brochure for the next event at the same venue. This being the England Classic weekend which will be played from the 5th to 8th September 2019. The first event will be the Men's British Pentathlon on the Thursday 5th, this is an event that is played by twenty invited players, entry to watch this unique event is free to all spectators. Friday 6th will see the start of the Ladies and Men's England Masters. Saturday 7th will see the Ladies and Mens England Classic, a mixed fours and the youth GP event. Sunday 8th will see the Ladies and Men's pairs, the England Matchplay and the stage finals all played. To see the complete England Classic brochure click on the England Classic picture. To book a caravan, call
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England Darts are
also delighted to welcome the British Disability Darts Association (BDDA) to
Selsey for the first time at one of our events.
caravans
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