england last reached a semi final world cup in 2002.
when did england last reach a semi final world cup?
2002
michael van gerwen was the defending champion, but lost to rob cross 6–5 in the semi final. cross went on to win the world championship on his debut by defeating phil taylor 7–2 in the final. this was taylor's 29th and final world championship, surpassing the record of 28 appearances he jointly held with john lowe.









































jamie lewis became the first player to reach the semi-finals after entering the championship through a preliminary round event, first introduced at the 2004 championship. lewis eventually fell to taylor in the semi-final, by a score of 6–1.









































section::::background and qualification.
2018 pdc world darts championship
the qualifiers for members of the afc took place in kuala terengganu, malaysia between 4 and 11 march 2017. 14 teams originally entered but two (myanmar and uzbekistan) withdrew before the start of the tournament. having never failed to qualify for a fifa era world cup, japan narrowly progressed to the semi finals of the competition as the best runner-up of the three groups in the group stage. iran and the united arab emirates successfully won their semi finals to qualify for the world cup (for the 7th and 5th time respectively), with iran winning the final (their 2nd afc title). semi final losers japan and lebanon contested the final world cup berth in the third place play off with the japanese coming out on top to qualify.
2017 fifa beach soccer world cup