The Czech Republic national baseball team () is the national baseball team of the Czech Republic. The team competes in the biennial European Baseball Championship, and debuted in the 2023 World Baseball Classic.
The team competed in the 2026 World Baseball Classic in March 2026.
History Czech clubs began playing against teams of United States Army servicemen in the immediate aftermath of World War II, but the development of the sport was halted after the rise of the Iron Curtain and would not resume until Bill Arce's baseball clinics in Prague, starting in 1969. It would not be until the 1980s that an official national team (for what was then Czechoslovakia) was formed; the team took three out of four games from the Soviet national team in Tbilisi, modern-day Georgia in October 1987.
The country became a full member of the Confederation of European Baseball in 1989, around the time of the Velvet Revolution. At the point of the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1993, the national team was almost entirely composed of Czech players. The Czech national team first qualified for the European Baseball Championship in 1997, with a record of 4–4. The team narrowly missed out on qualifying for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, falling short of Italy and the Netherlands.
In 2009, Europe hosted the IBAF World Cup, the first time in history the Baseball World Cup was not hosted by a specific country. Prague hosted Group A of the pool round, and the Czech Republic team finished 20th, going 0–3 with losses to Australia, Mexico, and Chinese Taipei.
Because the Czech Republic finished in the top five in the 2019 European Baseball Championship, it moved on to the 2020 Olympics qualifiers in Italy in September 2019. There, it came in third, behind Israel and the Netherlands.
Roster
Results and fixtures The following is a list of professional baseball match results currently active in the latest version of the WBSC World Rankings, as well as any future matches that have been scheduled.
Legend
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
International tournament results World Baseball Classic Qualification recordYearRoundPosition 2006 did not enter No qualifiers held 2009 2013 did not qualify 0 2 6 28 2017 1 2 22 12 2023 Round 1 15th 1 3 16 30 3 1 25 27 2026 Round 119th04539 Automatically QualifiedTotalRound 12/6172169456067 OpponentTournaments metW-L recordLargest victoryLargest defeatCurrent streakScoreTournamentScoreTournament20-2–8–3Japan 2023L211-08–5Japan 2023–W110-1–14–0 (F/7)Japan 2026L120-2–9–0Japan 2026L220-2–11–4Japan 2026L2Overall21–7Against Against L78–5Japan 202314–0 (F/7)Japan 2026 OpponentTournaments metW-L recordLargest victoryLargest defeatCurrent streakScoreTournamentScoreTournament11-07–1Germany 2023–W132-115–3 (F/8)Mexico 201716–1 (F/6)Germany 2013W210-1–12–5Germany 2013L110-1–2–1Mexico 2017L110-1–7–6 (F/11)Mexico 2017L111-13–1Germany 202321–7 (F/7)Germany 2023W1Overall34–5Against Against W315–3 (F/8)Mexico 201716–1 (F/6)Germany 2013
European Baseball Championship Team Czech Republic competed at the 2019 European Baseball Championship, and came in fifth, behind Team Israel. Among the players who competed for it were Martin Červenka and Marek Minařík.
1997 : 7th 1999 : 8th 2001 : 5th 2003 : 6th 2005 : 5th 2007 : 12th 2010 : 7th 2012 : 5th 2014 : 4th 2016 : 5th 2019 : 5th 2021 : 5th 2023 : 5th 2025 : 3rd
Baseball World Cup
See also Sport in the Czech RepublicHistory of baseball outside the United StatesWorld Baseball Classic
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