WBSC Premier12

WBSC Premier12
Current season, competition or edition:
Current sports event 2024 WBSC Premier12
SportBaseball
FoundedNovember 2015
FounderWorld Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC)
No. of teams12
ContinentInternational
Most recent
champion(s)
 Japan (1st title)
Most titles South Korea (1 title)
 Japan (1 title)

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. The second tournament, 2019 WBSC Premier12, was held in November 2019, and served as a qualifier for two teams for baseball at the 2020 Summer Olympics.

Overview

From 1938 to 2011, the International Baseball Federation (IBAF), then the governing body of baseball, considered the Baseball World Cup to be the sport's major world championship. Following the 2011 version of the event, the IBAF chose to discontinue the tournament in favor of the World Baseball Classic.

In 2005 the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced that baseball and softball would be removed from the Summer Olympics beginning in 2012. Thereafter, the IOC also officially reclassified baseball and softball as two different disciplines of the same sport. In 2013, the IBAF merged with the International Softball Federation to create the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC).

On 27 November 2014, the WBSC announced the creation of the Premier12 tournament, calling it "the new flagship pro baseball nations championship," which would be held every four years. It was viewed as an event to fill in the calendar in place of the Baseball World Cup, since the World Baseball Classic took its place and an attempt to boost baseball's bid for inclusion in the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. The WBSC proposed that, if baseball did return to the Olympics for 2020, the 2019 WBSC Premier12 be used as a qualifying tournament.

On 11 September 2023, the WBSC officially announced the third staging of the tournament for 2024, to be hosted in Japan, Taiwan and a venue in the Americas to be confirmed.

Participants

The field of the tournament consists of the 12 best national teams in the world according to the most recent WBSC World Rankings.

Results

Year Hosts Final Third place game
Champions Score Runners-up Third place Score Fourth place
2015
Details
 Japan
 Taiwan

South Korea
8–0
Tokyo Dome, Tokyo

United States

Japan
11–1
(F/7)
Tokyo Dome, Tokyo

Mexico
2019
Details
 Japan
 Mexico
 South Korea
 Taiwan

Japan
5–3
Tokyo Dome, Tokyo

South Korea

Mexico
3–2
(F/10)
Tokyo Dome, Tokyo

United States
2024
Details
 Japan
 Taiwan
Future event
Tokyo Dome, Tokyo
Future event
Tokyo Dome, Tokyo

Medal table

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 South Korea1102
2 Japan1012
3 United States0101
4 Mexico0011
Totals (4 entries)2226

Theme music

See also


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