| Curaçao national baseball team | |
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| Information | |
| Country |  Curaçao |
| Federation | FEBEKO |
| Confederation | WBSC Americas |
| Manager | Hainley Statia |
| WBSC ranking | |
| Current | 26 2 (11 November 2025)[1] |
TheCuraçao national baseball team represents the nation ofCuraçao in international competition. It is distinct from theNetherlands national baseball team, though Curaçaoan players are eligible to represent the Netherlands in competitions like theWorld Baseball Classic. Curaçao has participated independently in minor tournaments such as theCaribbean Baseball Cup andHaarlem Baseball Week (where it competed against the Netherlands in2022)
Curaçao was previously represented as part of theNetherlands Antilles, a constituent country of theKingdom of the Netherlands, in senior-level men's international competition, until it was dissolved in 2011.
In 2024, the baseball federations of Curaçao and Aruba announced a partnership to field their own national team, in what some commentators viewed as a split with the Netherlands.[2]
| Netherlands Antilles national baseball team | |
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| Information | |
| Federation | Netherlands Antillean Baseball Federation |
| Confederation | Pan American Baseball Confederation |
| World Cup | |
| Appearances | 12 (first in1952) |
| Best result | 7th (1973) |
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The Netherlands Antilles team was controlled by the Netherlands Antillean Baseball Federation. Like the Curaçao national team, it was distinct from theNetherlands national baseball team, though for certain tournaments (namely theWorld Baseball Classic), Dutch Antillean players were eligible to represent the Netherlands.[3] In other tournaments, such as the1988 Baseball World Cup, both the Netherlands and the Netherlands Antilles competed.
The Dutch Antillean national team was largely composed of players fromCuraçao andAruba, until the latter split off in 1986 to form its own constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. TheAruba national baseball team would compete against the Netherlands Antilles at the1991 Pan American Games.
The Netherlands Antilles were represented in twelveBaseball World Cups, making their first appearance at the1952 Amateur World Series. The team's highest finish was 7th place, at the1973 Amateur World Series in Cuba.[4]
The Netherlands Antilles wasdissolved as a unified political entity on 10 October 2010.[5] Since then, players from the former Dutch Antilles have continued to play on the Netherlands national team for the World Baseball Classic. For minor international competitions, Curaçao has fielded its own national team, as haveBonaire andSint Maarten.
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| 1952 | Single-table tournament | 9th | 6 | 2 | 4 | .333 | |||
| 1953 | Single-table tournament | 9th | 10 | 2 | 8 | .200 | |||
 1961 | Single-table tournament | 8th | 4 | 1 | 3 | .250 | |||
| 1965 | Single-table tournament | 8th | 8 | 2 | 6 | .250 | |||
 1969 | Single-table tournament | 10th | 9 | 1 | 8 | .111 | |||
| 1970 | Single-table tournament | 8th | 11 | 3 | 8 | .273 | |||
| 1971 | Single-table tournament | 10th | 9 | 0 | 9 | .000 | |||
| 1972 | Did not enter | ||||||||
| 1973 | Single-table tournament | 7th | 14 | 3 | 11 | .214 | |||
| 1973 | Did not enter | FEMBA | |||||||
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 1982 | IBAF | ||||||||
| 1984 | Single-table tournament | 10th | 10 | 4 | 6 | .400 | |||
 1986 | Single-table tournament | 11th | 11 | 2 | 9 | .182 | |||
| 1988 | Group stage | 11th | 11 | 1 | 10 | .091 | 44 | 115 | |
 1990 | Did not qualify | ||||||||
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| 2009 | Second round | 16th | 10 | 2 | 8 | .200 | 46 | 115 | |
 2011 | Did not qualify | ||||||||
| Total | 0 Titles | 12/38 | 113 | 23 | 90 | .200 | — | — | |
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