2024 Women's Baseball World Cup

The 2024 Women's Baseball World Cup will be the 9th Women's Baseball World Cup, an international baseball tournament taking place in Thunder Bay, Canada, and one other to be determined location. The group stage will take place from 8-13 August 2023 as two separate tournaments in two separate locations. The finals will take place in Thunder Bay, Canada in 2024. This is the first Women's Baseball World Cup event to be held in two stages. It will be the third time Canada have hosted the tournament. It is also the first time more than one nation has hosted the tournament.[1] Japan are the defending champions.

2024 Women's Baseball World Cup
Tournament details
Host countriesCanada
Japan
Venue(s)2 (in 2 host cities)
Dates8 August 2023 – 2024
Teams12 (from 5 confederations)

Qualified teams
Team World ranking[upper-alpha 1] Method of qualification
 Canada 3rd Hosts
 Japan 1st
 France 16th 2022 Women's European Baseball Championship winners
 Venezuela 5th Women's Baseball Americas World Cup Qualifier 2022 winners
 Puerto Rico 9th Women's Baseball Americas World Cup Qualifier 2022 runners-up
 Mexico 12th Women's Baseball Americas World Cup Qualifier 2022 third place
 Cuba 7th Women's Baseball Americas World Cup Qualifier 2022 fourth place
 Australia 8th Top ranked WBSC Oceania team
 United States 2nd Wild Card
Women's Baseball Asian Cup 2023 winners
Women's Baseball Asian Cup 2023 runners-up
Women's Baseball Asian Cup 2023 third place

Group stage

Group A

Pos Team Pld W L RF RA RD PCT GB Qualification
1  Canada (H) 0 0 0 0 0 0 — — Advance to finals
2  United States 0 0 0 0 0 0 — —
3  Australia 0 0 0 0 0 0 — —
4 Asia 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 — —
5 Asia 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 — —
6  Mexico 0 0 0 0 0 0 — —
First match(es) will be played on 8 August 2023. Source: WBSC
Rules for classification: 1) Wins/losses; 2) Head to head; 3) Head to head runs against; 4) Runs against; 5) Head to head[2][3]
(H) Host

Group B

Pos Team Pld W L RF RA RD PCT GB Qualification
1  Japan (H) 0 0 0 0 0 0 — — Advance to finals
2 Asia 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 — —
3  Venezuela 0 0 0 0 0 0 — —
4  Cuba 0 0 0 0 0 0 — —
5  Puerto Rico 0 0 0 0 0 0 — —
6  France 0 0 0 0 0 0 — —
First match(es) will be played on 13 September 2023. Source: WBSC
Rules for classification: 1) Wins/losses; 2) Head to head; 3) Head to head runs against; 4) Runs against; 5) Head to head[2][4]
(H) Host

Finals

Pos Team Pld W L RF RA RD PCT GB Qualification
1 Group A winners 0 0 0 0 0 0 — — Advance to Final
2 Group A runners-up 0 0 0 0 0 0 — —
3 Group B winners 0 0 0 0 0 0 — — Advance to third place play-off
4 Group B runners-up 0 0 0 0 0 0 — —
5 Wildcard 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 — —
6 Wildcard 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 — —
First match(es) will be played in 2024. Source: WBSC
Rules for classification: 1) Wins/losses; 2) Head to head; 3) Head to head runs against; 4) Runs against; 5) Head to head[2][5]

Third place play-off

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Final

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Symbols

Match balls

The match balls to be used for the 2024 tournament are to be provided by SSK Corporation, which were also used in the Tokyo 2022 Olympics.[6]

Notes
  1. As of 31 December 2021.

References
  1. "Canada to host IX Women's Baseball World Cup Finals and Group A in Thunder Bay". WBSC. Retrieved 6 January 2023.
  2. "Tournament Regulations: Article C11". WBSC. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
  3. "Info". WBSC. Retrieved 6 January 2023.
  4. "Info". WBSC. Retrieved 6 January 2023.
  5. "Info". WBSC. Retrieved 6 January 2023.
  6. "WBSC renews partnership with SSK as supplier of Official Ball, Umpire Kit of Baseball World Cups, Premier12". WBSC. 22 June 2022. Retrieved 6 January 2023.
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