The U-15 Baseball World Cup is the 15-and-under baseball world championship that features national teams as authorized ("sanctioned") by the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC). It began in 1989 as the World Youth Baseball Championship. In 2012 it became the 15U Baseball World Cup and is contested every two years. Because it is a world championship event, the results of the 15U Baseball World Cup affect the WBSC World Rankings.

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

WBSC Africa: 1 spots WBSC Americas: 5 spots WBSC Asia: 2 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 place World Youth Baseball Championship (U-16) 1DetailsTokyo 5 – 48 2DetailsMazatlán 6 – 1? 3DetailsMelbourne 9 – 75 4DetailsLondrina 3 – 210 5DetailsMazatlán 9 – 3? 6DetailsLondrina 5 – 310 7DetailsChiba10 8DetailsHsinchu 5 – 410 9DetailsFairview Heights 11 – 1012 10DetailsMonterrey 6 – 211 11DetailsKaohsiung9 12DetailsMazatlán 5 – 0? VenezuelaIBAF withdrew its sanction of the tournament. 13DetailsTaichung7 – 6 11 – 10 12 14DetailsLagos de Moreno 9 – 08 – 711 15U Baseball World Championship 1The first edition at U-15 levelDetailsChihuahua 10 – 2 6 – 11515U Baseball World Cup 2DetailsMazatlán 6 – 3 13 – 318U-15 Baseball World Cup 3DetailsIwaki 9 – 4 8 – 312 4DetailsDavid / Chitré 7 – 1 6 – 312 TijuanaOriginally scheduled to be held in 2020, but cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 5DetailsHermosillo 4 – 3 7 – 013 6DetailsBarranquilla / Cartagena 7 – 6 7 – 612 7DetailsMérida / Cancún5 – 48 – 612 Source:

Medal table

Chinese Taipei is the official WBSC designation for the team representing the state officially referred to as the Republic of China, more commonly known as Taiwan. (See also political status of Taiwan for details.)

See also Baseball awards#World International Baseball Federation World Baseball Softball Confederation

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