U-18 Baseball World Cup
Current season, competition or edition: 2025 U-18 Baseball World Cup | |
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| Formerly | World Junior Baseball Championship (1981 - 2010) 18U Baseball World Championship (2012) 18U Baseball World Cup (2013) |
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| Sport | Baseball |
| Founded | 1981 |
| No. of teams | 12 |
| Continent | International |
Most recent champion |  United States (11th title) (2025) |
| Most titles | United States Cuba(11 titles each) |
| Website | 2025 WBSC U-18 Baseball World Cup |
The U-18 Baseball World Cup is the 18-and-under baseball world championship sanctioned by the International Baseball Federation (IBAF) and its successor, the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC), and was first held in 1981 in the United States. Because it is a world championship, the results of the U-18 Baseball World Cup affect the WBSC World Rankings.
Several players who have participated in the U-18 Baseball World Cup have gone on to stardom at the professional level, including Japan's Yu Darvish, USA's Clayton Kershaw, Francisco Lindor and Buster Posey, and Cuba's Yasiel Puig and Aroldis Chapman, among many others.
Prior to 2010, the IBAF organized the World Junior Baseball Championship. The WBSC was created in 2013 when the IBAF merged with the International Softball Federation.
Classification
With the approved format of 12 national teams, the WBSC has distributed the continental quotas as follows:
- WBSC Africa: 1 spots
- WBSC Americas: 4 spots
- WBSC Asia: 3 spots
- WBSC Europe: 2 spots
- WBSC Oceania: 1 spots
- Wild cards: 1 spots (including hosts if necessary)
The participants will be determined through the continental championships.
Results
Source:
- Notes
- ↑ Originally scheduled to be held in 2021, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, postponed to September 2022.
Medal table
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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| 1 | United States | 11 | 12 | 5 | 28 |
| 2 | Cuba | 11 | 2 | 5 | 18 |
| 3 |  South Korea | 5 | 1 | 4 | 10 |
| 4 |  Chinese Taipei | 3 | 10 | 8 | 21 |
| 5 |  Japan | 1 | 5 | 2 | 8 |
| 6 |  Canada | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 |
| 7 |  Australia | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| Totals (7 entries) | 32 | 32 | 32 | 96 | |
- Chinese Taipei is the official WBSC designation for the team representing the state officially referred to as the Republic of China, more commonly known as Taiwan. (See also political status of Taiwan for details.)
See also
References
- ↑ "IBAF World Ranking Notes" (PDF). IBAF. January 13, 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 9, 2019. Retrieved July 23, 2009.
- ↑ "Editions". WBSC. World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC). Retrieved April 30, 2022.
- ↑ "Baseball - U-18 World Cups" (PDF). Sport-Record.DE.
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