# U-23 Baseball World Cup

The U-23 Baseball World Cup is a biennial, professional-level, National Team, baseball world championship of the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC), replacing Baseball World Cup.
The inaugural tournament was held in November 2014, in Taichung, Taiwan, as the 21U Baseball World Cup, with each team made of 21-year-old and younger players but allowed for six players to be 23-year-old and younger. 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 entire 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.
The rosters of national teams that participated in the tournament included professional players from clubs affiliated to the Australian Baseball League, Chinese Professional Baseball League, Korea Baseball Organization, Major League Baseball, Mexican Baseball League, Nicaraguan Professional Baseball League, and Nippon Professional Baseball.

## Results

21U Baseball World Cup :
| Year | Period | Final Host | Medalists | Medalists | Medalists |
| Year | Period | Final Host | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| 2014 Details | November 7 – 16 | Taichung | Chinese Taipei | Japan | South Korea |
| U-23 Baseball World Cup |||||||
| 2016 Details | October 28 – November 6 | Monterrey | Japan | Australia | South Korea |
| 2018 Details | October 19 – 28 | Barranquilla | Mexico | Japan | Venezuela |
| 2020 Details | September 23 – October 2, 2021 | Ciudad Obregon Hermosillo | Venezuela | Mexico | Colombia |
| 2022 Details | October 14 – October 23 | Taipei, Taichung, Yunlin | Japan | South Korea | Chinese Taipei |
| 2024 Details | September 6 – 15 | Shaoxing | Japan | Puerto Rico | Nicaragua |

   ### Notes

* ↑ Originally scheduled to be held in 2020, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, postponed to September 2021.

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Japan | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 2 | Mexico | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 3 | Chinese Taipei | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 3 | Venezuela | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 5 | South Korea | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 6 | Australia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | Puerto Rico | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | Colombia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 8 | Nicaragua | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (9 entries) | Totals (9 entries) | 6 | 6 | 6 | 18 |

## Participating nations

0Host country0
| Nation | 2014 | 2016 | 2018 | 2021 | 2022 | 2024 | Years |
| Argentina | | 10 | | | | | 1 |
| Australia | 6 | | 9 | | 6 | 9 | 5 |
| Austria | | 12 | | | | | 1 |
| China | | | | | | 4 | 1 |
| Chinese Taipei | | 7 | 5 | 6 | | 8 | 6 |
| Colombia | | | 7 | | 5 | 10 | 4 |
| Cuba | | | | 4 | 10 | | 2 |
| Czech Republic | 5 | 10 | 12 | 12 | | | 4 |
| Dominican Republic | | | 6 | 9 | | | 2 |
| Great Britain | | | | | | 11 | 1 |
| Germany | | | | 11 | 11 | | 2 |
| Italy | 7 | | | | | | 1 |
| Japan | | | | | | | 5 |
| Mexico | 11 | 5 | | | 4 | | 5 |
| Netherlands | 9 | | 10 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 5 |
| New Zealand | 10 | | | | | | 1 |
| Nicaragua | 4 | 6 | | 7 | | | 4 |
| Panama | | 4 | | 5 | | | 2 |
| Puerto Rico | | | 8 | | 9 | | 3 |
| South Africa | | 11 | 11 | | 12 | 12 | 4 |
| South Korea | | | 4 | 8 | | 6 | 6 |
| Venezuela | 8 | 8 | | | 7 | 5 | 6 |
| Nations | 11 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | |