Current season, competition or edition: 2024 Women's Baseball World Cup | |
| Sport | Baseball |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2004; 21 years ago (2004) |
| No. of teams | 12 (finals) |
| Continent | International |
| Most recent champion |  Japan (2024) |
| Most titles | Japan (7 titles) |
TheWomen's Baseball World Cup is an international tournament in which nationalwomen's baseball teams from around the world compete. Through its 2012 edition, it was sanctioned by theInternational Baseball Federation; following the 2013 merger of the IBAF with theInternational Softball Federation, subsequent tournaments are sanctioned by theWorld Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC). In the nine times it has been held, the tournament has been won twice by theUnited States and seven consecutive times byJapan in2008,2010,2012,2014,2016,2018 and2024.
The inaugural Women's Baseball World Cup was held inEdmonton, Canada from July 30 to August 8,2004 after having been chartered by theInternational Baseball Federation in2002. Before this tournament the only other international women's baseball tournament was theWomen's Baseball World Series, which usually involved only three or four nations, usuallyAustralia,Canada,Japan and occasionally theUSA.
All competing nations played one game versus each opponent. The top four teams advanced to the semifinals. Ties in standings were broken by head-to-head record. The first place team played versus the fourth place team and the second place team played the third place team. The semifinal losers then played thebronze medal game, with the winner earning third place and the loser receiving fourth place. The semifinal winners played in the finals, with the winner earning first place and the loser receiving second place. All regulation games are seveninnings in length with the exception of themercy rule, which applied to a ten run lead after 5 innings or a twelve run lead after 4 innings.
| Years | Final hosts | Finalists | Semi-finalists | Teams | |||||||
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| Champions | Score | Runners-up | 3rd place | Score | 4th place | ||||||
| 2004 Details |  Edmonton |  United States | 2 – 0 | Japan | Canada | 8 – 3 |  Australia | 5 | |||
| 2006 Details |  Taipei | United States | round-robin | Japan | Canada | round-robin | Australia | 7 | |||
| 2008 Details | Matsuyama | Japan | 11 – 3 | Canada | United States | 2 – 1 | Australia | 8 | |||
| 2010 Details |  Maracay[note 1] | Japan | 13 – 3 (F/5) | Australia | United States | 15 – 5 (F/6) | Venezuela | 11 | |||
| 2012 Details | Edmonton | Japan | 3 – 0 | United States | Canada | 17 – 13 | Australia | 8 | |||
| 2014 Details | Miyazaki | Japan | 3 – 0 | United States | Australia | 3 – 2 | Canada | 8 | |||
| 2016 Details |  Busan | Japan | 10 – 0 | Canada | Venezuela | 4 – 3 |  Chinese Taipei[note 2] | 12 | |||
| 2018 Details | Viera, Florida | Japan | 6 – 0 | Chinese Taipei[note 2] | Canada | 8 – 5 | United States | 12 | |||
| 2021 Details |  Tijuana | Originally scheduled to be held in 2020, but cancelled due to theCOVID-19 pandemic.[1] | 12 | ||||||||
| 2024 Details | Thunder Bay | Japan | 11 – 6 | United States | Canada | 4 – 2 | Mexico | 12 | |||
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Japan | 7 | 2 | 0 | 9 |
| 2 |  United States | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 |
| 3 | Canada | 0 | 2 | 5 | 7 |
| 4 | Australia | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 5 | Chinese Taipei | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | Venezuela | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (6 entries) | 9 | 9 | 9 | 27 | |
| Nation | 2004 | 2006 | 2008 | 2010 | 2012 | 2014 | 2016 | 2018 | 2024 | Years | |
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| Australia | 4 | 4 | 4 |  | 4 |  | 5 | 7 | 8 | 9 | |
| Canada | | | | 5 | | 4 | | | | 9 | |
 China | 0 | ||||||||||
| Chinese Taipei[note 2] | 5 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | | 6 | 9 | |
 Cuba | 6 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 6 | ||||
 Dominican Republic | 6 | 1 | |||||||||
 France | 12 | 1 | |||||||||
 Hong Kong | 6 | 8 | 11 | 7 | 10 | 11 | 10 | 7 | |||
 India | 7 | 11 | 2 | ||||||||
| Japan | | |  | | | | | | | 9 | |
| Mexico | 4 | 1 | |||||||||
 Netherlands | 10 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 12 | 5 | |||||
 Pakistan | 12 | 1 | |||||||||
 Philippines | 0 | ||||||||||
 Puerto Rico | 8 | 9 | 7 | 3 | |||||||
| South Korea | 6 | 9 | 6 | 10 | 11 | 5 | |||||
| United States | | | | | | | 7 | 4 | | 9 | |
| Venezuela | 4 | 5 | 6 | | 5 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| Nations | 5 | 7 | 8 | 11 | 8 | 8 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 |
Republic of China (Taiwan) is recognised asChinese Taipei byWBSC and the majority of international organisations it participates in due to political considerations andCross-Strait relations with thePeople's Republic of China.Women's Baseball World Cup winners | |
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