Women's Baseball World Cup

Women's Baseball World Cup
Most recent season or competition: 2014 Women's Baseball World Cup
Sport	Baseball
Founded	2004
No. of teams	8 (in 2014)
Continent	International
Most recent champion(s)	Japan
Most titles	Japan (4 times)

The Women's Baseball World Cup is an international tournament in which national women's baseball teams from around the world compete. Through its 2012 edition, it was sanctioned by the International Baseball Federation; following the 2013 merger of the IBAF with the International Softball Federation, future tournaments will be sanctioned by the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC). In the six times it has been held, the tournament has been won twice by United States and most recently four times by Japan in 2008, 2010, 2012 and 2014.

History

The inaugural Women's Baseball World Cup was held in Edmonton, Canada from July 30 to August 8, 2004 after having been chartered by the International Baseball Federation in 2002. Before this tournament the only other international women's baseball tournament was the Women's World Series, which usually involved only three or four nations, usually Australia, Canada, Japan and occasionally the USA.

Competition format

All competing nations played one game versus each opponent. The top four teams advanced to the semifinals. Ties in standings were broken by head-to-head record. The first place team played versus the fourth place team and the second place team played the third place team. The semifinal losers then played bronze medal game, with the winner earning third place and the loser receiving fourth place. The semifinal winners play in the finals, with the winner earning first place and the loser receiving second place. All regulation games are seven innings in length with the exception to the mercy rule applied to a ten run lead after 5 innings or 4 innings with a twelve run lead.

Results

Year	Final Host	Champions	Score	Runners-Up	3rd Place	4th Place	Number of teams
Year	Final Host	Final			Semi finalists		Number of teams
2004 Details	Edmonton	United States	2 – 0	Japan	Canada	Australia	5
2006 Details	Taipei	United States	13 – 11	Japan	Canada	Australia	7
2008 Details	Matsuyama	Japan	12 – 2 (F/5)	Canada	United States	Australia	8
2010 Details	Maracay^{[R 1]}	Japan	13 – 3 (F/5)	Australia	United States	Venezuela	11
2012 Details	Edmonton	Japan	3 – 0	United States	Canada	Australia	8
2014 Details	Miyazaki	Japan	3 – 0	United States	Australia	Canada	8
2016 Details	Busan

Notes

↑ Originally, the final round was supposed to be held at Estadio José Antonio Casanova in Caracas, but due to the 2010 Women's Baseball World Cup shooting incident, the International Baseball Federation and the organizers of the tournament decided to reschedule the games at Estadio José Perez Colmenares in Maracay.

Medal table

Rank	Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan	4	2	0	6
2	United States	2	2	2	6
3	Canada	0	1	3	4
4	Australia	0	1	1	2

Participating nations

International baseball

WBSC (former governing body: IBAF) World Rankings Teams

Major World Events	Summer Olympics (not often) World Baseball Classic WBSC Premier12 Women's Baseball World Cup

Minor World Events	Summer Universiade (not often) University (not often) 23U Baseball World Cup 18U Baseball World Cup 15U Baseball World Cup 12U Baseball World Cup

Defunct World Events	World Games Baseball World Cup Intercontinental Cup Women's Baseball World Series

Africa	African Baseball & Softball Association – All-Africa Games

Americas	Pan American Baseball Confederation – Pan American Games America Cup Caribbean Series Central American and Caribbean Games South American Games

Asia	Baseball Federation of Asia – Asian Championship Asian Games Junior (under 18) Southeast Asian Games SAARC Baseball Championship Asia Series

Europe	Confederation of European Baseball – European Championship European Cup "Final Four" Under-21 Junior (under 18) Youth (under 16) Juveniles (under 12)

Oceania	Baseball Confederation of Oceania – Oceania Championship Pacific Games

World cups between national teams and representatives

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