The U-23 Baseball World Cup is a biennial, professional-level, National Team, baseball world championship of the
World Baseball Softball Confederation
The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) is the international Sports governing body, governing body for the sports of baseball, softball, Baseball5 and Blind baseball. It was established in 2013 by the merger of the International Baseba ...
(WBSC), replacing
Baseball World Cup
The Baseball World Cup (BWC) was an international baseball tournament for national teams around the world, sanctioned by the International Baseball Federation (IBAF). First held in 1938 as the Amateur World Series (AWS), it was, for most of its ...
.
The inaugural tournament was held in November 2014, in
Taichung
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,
Taiwan
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, as the 21U Baseball World Cup, with each team made of 21-year-old and younger players but allowed for six players to be 23-year-old and younger. Starting with the 2016 edition—in
Monterrey
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, Mexico—the tournament has been expanded to permit nations to select players up to 23 years old for their entire rosters.
Players must also possess valid passports of the nations they are representing, in line with Olympic standards. The U-23 Baseball World Cup is the third-most-important international baseball tournament in terms of distribution of
world ranking points, following the
Premier12 and the
World Baseball Classic
The World Baseball Classic (WBC), also referred to as the Classic, is an international baseball tournament sanctioned by the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC), the sport's global governing body, and organized in World Baseball Clas ...
.
The rosters of national teams that participated in the tournament included professional players from clubs affiliated to the Australian Baseball League, Chinese Professional Baseball League, Korea Baseball Organization, Major League Baseball, Mexican Baseball League, Nicaraguan Professional Baseball League, and Nippon Professional Baseball.
Results
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Medal table
Participating nations
See also
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Baseball at the Summer World University Games
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World University Baseball Championship
The World University Baseball Championship is an under-23 international college baseball competition sponsored by the International University Sports Federation (FISU) and was first held in 2002 in Italy. Until 2013, it was sanctioned by the then- ...
References
External links
U-23 Baseball World Cup Official WebsiteIBAF introduces new Format of International Tournaments IBAF official website
Hosting rights of 2016 Baseball World Cups awarded to Japan, Mexico, South Korea IBAF official website
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Youth baseball competitions
Biennial sporting events
Recurring sporting events established in 2014
Baseball
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World youth sports competitions
World Baseball Softball Confederation competitions