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automatically qualified for the 2026 tournament. The qualifiers consisted of two tournaments with four teams each, and is held in

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, Taiwan, and

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, United States of America. Two teams of each tournament qualified for the 2026 World Baseball Classic.

Qualified teams

Players

Venues

Pools composition

The format consisted of two rounds. The first round is a round-robin, with the teams playing each other once. After the six games from each group, the first-placed team qualified for the final tournament, while the second and third-placed teams play in a seventh game where the winner also qualified.

Pool A

Pool A took place at the Taipei Dome in

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, Taiwan, from February 21–25, 2025.

Opening round

Second-place playoff

Pool B

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, United States, on March 2–6, 2025.

Opening round

Second-place playoff

Statistical leaders

* Minimum 2.7 plate appearances per team game * Minimum 0.8 innings pitched per team game

Broadcast

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channel, WBC

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and WBC website (WorldBaseballClassic.com).

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will also broadcast select games for all its covered areas. Like the 2022 qualifiers, qualifiers and already qualified teams also have broadcast partners locally, as follows:

Notes

References

External links

Official website
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