Sport Baseball No. of teams 12 Most recent
champion(s) Chinese Taipei | Founded 2014 Continent International Most titles Chinese Taipei | |
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The 23U Baseball World Cup (officially the U-23 Baseball World Cup) is a biennial professional-level National Team baseball world championship of the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC). The inaugural tournament was held in November 2014 in Taichung, Taiwan, as the 21U Baseball World Cup. Starting with the 2016 edition in Monterrey, Mexico, the tournament has been expanded to permit nations to select players up to 23 years old for their rosters. Players must also possess valid passports of the nations they are representing, in line with Olympic standards. The U-23 Baseball World Cup is the third most important international baseball tournament in terms of distribution of world ranking points, following the Premier12 and the World Baseball Classic. At the U-21 Baseball World Cup 2014, the rosters of National Teams included professional players from clubs affiliated to the Australian Baseball League, Chinese Professional Baseball League, Korean Baseball Organization, Major League Baseball, Mexican Baseball League, Nicaraguan Professional Baseball League and Nippon Professional Baseball.