Women's Baseball World Cup

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 Baseball World Series, which usually involved only three or four nations, usually Australia, Canada, Japan and occasionally the USA.

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 the bronze medal game, with the winner earning third place and the loser receiving fourth place. The semifinal winners played 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 of the mercy rule, which applied to a ten run lead after 5 innings or a twelve run lead after 4 innings.

Year	Final Host		Final				Semi finalists			Number of teams
			Champions	Score	Runners-Up		3rd Place	4th Place
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	11 – 3 (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		Japan	10 – 0	Canada		Venezuela	Chinese Taipei [R 2]		12
2018 Details	Viera, Florida		Japan	6 – 0	Chinese Taipei		Canada	United States		12
2020 Details	Tijuana									12

Notes

The next World Cup is expected in the second half of 2020, at a venue TBA.

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