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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.
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The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) is the world 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). Under the WBSC's organizational structure, the IBAF and ISF ...
The field of the tournament consists of the 12 best national teams in the world according to the most recent WBSC World Rankings. [6] Across three stagings of the tournament a total of 14 teams have qualified for at least one edition, with 10 of those teams having qualified for all three events.
WBSC World Rankings [10] Americas Canada: Automatically qualified 4 Pool stage (2006, 2009, 2013, 2017) 14 Colombia: Automatically qualified 1 Pool stage (2017) 11 Cuba: Automatically qualified 4 Runners-up (2006) 8 Dominican Republic: Automatically qualified 4 Champions (2013) 9 Mexico: Automatically qualified 4 Quarterfinals (2006, 2009) 5
The tournament, originally known as the ISF Women's World Championship, was sanctioned by the International Softball Federation (ISF) until that body's 2013 merger with the International Baseball Federation to create the WBSC. The number of teams in the tournament began at five in its inaugural event in 1965, went to a high of 28 for the 1994 ...
The highest ranked teams in the WBSC World Rankings (the Czech Republic and Germany in Pool A, and Panama and Nicaragua in Pool B) received the byes. Four of the teams had previously participated in the main WBC tournament: Panama and South Africa in 2006 and 2009 (which were by invitation), and Brazil and Spain in 2013.