The Women's Baseball World Cup is an international tournament in which national women's baseball teams from around the world compete. Through its 2012 edition, it was sanctioned by the International Baseball Federation; following the 2013 merger of the IBAF with the International Softball Federation, subsequent tournaments are sanctioned by the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC). In the nine times it has been held, the tournament has been won twice by the United States and seven consecutive times by Japan in 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018 and 2024.

History The inaugural Women's Baseball World Cup was held in Edmonton, Canada from July 30 to August 8, after having been chartered by the International Baseball Federation in . Before this tournament the only other international women's baseball tournament was the Women's Baseball World Series, which usually involved only three or four nations, usually Australia, Canada, Japan and occasionally the USA.

Competition format

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 the bronze 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 seven innings in length with the exception of the mercy rule, which applied to a 10-run lead after 5 innings or a 12-run lead after 4 innings.

Results

Years Final hosts Finalists Semi-finalists Teams Champions Score Runners-up 3rd place Score 4th place 1 Details Edmonton 2 – 0 8 – 3 5 2 Details Taipei round-robin round-robin 7 3 Details Matsuyama 11 – 3 2 – 1 8 4 Details Maracay 13 – 3 (F/5) 15 – 5 (F/6) 11 5 Details Edmonton 3 – 0 17 – 13 8 6 Details Miyazaki 3 – 0 3 – 2 8 7 Details Busan 10 – 0 4 – 3 12 8 Details Viera, Florida 6 – 0 8 – 5 12 Details TijuanaOriginally scheduled to be held in 2020, but cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 12 9 Details Thunder Bay 11 – 6 4 – 2 12 10 Details Rockford 12

Medal table

Participating nations

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See also Baseball awards#World

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