The ''Serie de las Américas'' (English: "Series of the Americas") is an international

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tournament contested by winter league

teams in Latin America. Envisioned as an alternative to the

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, the first edition took place from January 24 to 30, 2025, in

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Background

The

is the longest-running international club baseball tournament in the Americas, but its participants have generally been limited to members of the

Caribbean Professional Baseball Confederation The Caribbean Professional Baseball Confederation (), or CPBC, is the body responsible for organizing the Caribbean Series, an annual club baseball tournament contested by the winter league baseball champions of the Caribbean and Latin American re ...

(CPBC), an organization which includes the domestic winter leagues of

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, and the

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. Various alternative competitions have also existed, often incorporating nations that lack or lacked full CPBC membership: namely, the Interamerican Series (1961–64), the

Latin American Series The Latin American Series (''Spanish: Serie Latinoamericana'') was an annual baseball competition contested by the champions of the professional baseball winter leagues in Latin America and the Caribbean. The tournament was organized by the Lat ...

(2013–19), and the proposed Intercontinental Series (2024). The CPBC responded by provisionally expanding the

by inviting the league champions from Colombia, Panama, Nicaragua and Curaçao. However, in 2024, the CPBC announced that the

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would drop the new participants, and return to the four full members only (plus a Japanese representative). On September 20, 2024, representatives of the baseball federations of Argentina, Colombia, Cuba, Curaçao, Panama and Nicaragua announced the formation of the Baseball Association of the Americas (, or ABAM). The first Serie de las Américas was held at three locations in Nicaragua, at the Estadio Nacional Soberanía in

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, the

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, and the Estadio Rigoberto López Perez in León. Panama and Colombia are slated to host the tournament in 2026 and 2027, respectively.

Participants

Additionally, it was reported in 2024 that the baseball federations of

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and

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have shown interest in participating in the tournament.

Winners

References

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Background

Participants

Winners

See also

References