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The WBSC World Rankings is a ranking system for national teams in baseball, softball, and baseball5.The teams of the member nations of the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC), baseball's world governing body, are ranked based on their tournament results with the most successful teams being ranked highest.
The 12 highest-ranked national teams qualified to participate in the 2024 WBSC Premier 12, based on the WBSC World Rankings, as of 18 December 2023.On 20 December, the 12 teams were confirmed, with the only difference from 2019 was Canada being replaced by debutants Panama.
World ranking Method of qualification Classic appearance Previous best position Australia: 15th 2023 World Baseball Classic pool stage top four 6th Quarterfinals (2023) Canada: 22nd 6th Pool stage Cuba: 9th 6th Runners-up (2006) Czech Republic: 14th 2nd Pool stage Dominican Republic: 12th 6th Champions (2013) Great Britain: 18th 2nd Pool stage
The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) is the international governing body for the sports of baseball, softball, Baseball5 and Blind baseball. [1] It was established in 2013 by the merger of the International Baseball Federation (IBAF) and International Softball Federation (ISF).
Former logo of the BFA, now known as WBSC Asia. The birth of Baseball Federation of Asia goes back to 1954 when the 2nd Asian Games was held in Manila, Philippines.. The four countries of Korea, Japan, Taiwan and the Philippines organized a committee aiming at establishing the Baseball Federation of Asia and 7 May of the same year witnessed the commencement of BFA.
The 12 highest-ranked national teams qualified to participate in the Group Stage, based on the WBSC World Rankings, as of 31 December 2025. [7] The teams ranked 13-18 and two Wild Cards will play the Premier12 Qualifiers to define the other four participants in the Group Stage.
The WBSC Premier12 is the international baseball tournament organized by the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC), featuring the 12 highest-ranked national baseball teams in the world. The first tournament was held by Taiwan and Japan in November 2015.
This template is meant to help quickly update the WBSC World Rankings for all women's national softball teams of WBSC, displayed in the infobox on each national team article. When given a country code, the template outputs the WBSC World Ranking of a country, along with a movement indicator (increase, decrease, or steady), and by how many spots ...