U-23 Baseball World Cup

The U-23 Baseball World Cup is a biennial, professional-level, National Team, baseball world championship of the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC), replacing Baseball World Cup.

The inaugural tournament was held in November 2014, in Taichung, Taiwan, as the 21U Baseball World Cup, with each team made of 21-year-old and younger players but allowed for six players to be 23-year-old and younger. Starting with the 2016 edition—in Monterrey, Mexico—the tournament has been expanded to permit nations to select players up to 23 years old for their entire rosters. Players must also possess valid passports of the nations they are representing, in line with Olympic standards. The U-23 Baseball World Cup is the third-most-important international baseball tournament in terms of distribution of world ranking points, following the Premier12 and the World Baseball Classic.

The rosters of national teams that participated in the tournament included professional players from clubs affiliated to the Australian Baseball League, Chinese Professional Baseball League, Korea Baseball Organization, Major League Baseball, Mexican Baseball League, Nicaraguan Professional Baseball League, and Nippon Professional Baseball.

Classification With the approved format of 12 national teams, the WBSC has distributed the continental quotas as follows:

WBSC Africa: 1 spots WBSC Americas: 4 spots WBSC Asia: 3 spots WBSC Europe: 2 spots WBSC Oceania: 1 spots Wild cards: 1 spots (including hosts if necessary)

The participants will be determined through the continental championships.

Results Years Hosts Finalists Semi-finalists Teams Champions Score Runners-up 3rd place Score 4th place21U Baseball World Cup 12014DetailsTaichung9–010–4 11U-23 Baseball World Cup 120162016 U-23 Baseball World Cup >DetailsMonterrey 10–35–312 22018DetailsBarranquilla2–15–412 32020DetailsOriginally scheduled to be held in 2020, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, postponed to September 2021.Ciudad ObregonHermosillo4–05–312 42022DetailsTaipei, Taichung, Yunlin3–03–112 52024DetailsShaoxing5–03–112 62026DetailsLeón, Managua, Masaya12

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Medal table

Participating nations

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