# U-18 Baseball World Cup

The U-18 Baseball World Cup is the 18-and-under baseball world championship sanctioned by the International Baseball Federation (IBAF) and its successor, the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC), and was first held in 1981 in the United States. Because it is a world championship, the results of the U-18 Baseball World Cup affect the WBSC World Rankings.
Several players who have participated in the U-18 Baseball World Cup have gone on to stardom at the professional level, including Japan's Yu Darvish, USA's Clayton Kershaw, Francisco Lindor and Buster Posey, and Cuba's Yasiel Puig and Aroldis Chapman, among many others.
Prior to 2010, the IBAF organized the World Junior Baseball Championship. The WBSC was created in 2013 when the IBAF merged with the International Softball Federation.

## Results

World Junior Baseball Championship :
| Year | Final Host | Medalists | Medalists | Medalists |
| Year | Final Host | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 1981 Details | Newark | South Korea | United States | Australia | Australia |
| 1982 Details | Knoxville | United States | Japan | Australia | Australia |
| 1983 Details | Johnstown | Chinese Taipei | United States | Canada | Canada |
| 1984 Details | Saskatoon | Cuba | United States | Chinese Taipei | Chinese Taipei |
| 1985 Details | Albany | Cuba | United States | Chinese Taipei | Chinese Taipei |
| 1986 Details | Windsor | Cuba | Chinese Taipei | United States | United States |
| 1987 Details | Windsor | Cuba | United States | Canada | Canada |
| 1988 Details | Sydney | United States | Cuba | Chinese Taipei | Chinese Taipei |
| 1989 Details | Trois-Rivières | United States | Cuba | Australia | Australia |
| 1990 Details | Cuba | Cuba | Chinese Taipei | United States | United States |
| 1991 Details | Brandon | Canada | Chinese Taipei | United States | United States |
| 1992 Details | Monterrey | Cuba | United States | Chinese Taipei | Chinese Taipei |
| 1993 Details | Windsor | Cuba | United States | Chinese Taipei | Chinese Taipei |
| 1994 Details | Brandon | South Korea | United States | Chinese Taipei | Chinese Taipei |
| 1995 Details | Cape Cod | United States | Chinese Taipei | Australia | Australia |
| 1996 Details | Sancti Spíritus | Cuba | Chinese Taipei | United States | United States |
| 1997 Details | Moncton | Cuba | Chinese Taipei | Canada | Canada |
| 1999 Details | Kaohsiung | United States | Chinese Taipei | Cuba | Cuba |
| 2000 Details | Edmonton | South Korea | United States | Cuba | Cuba |
| 2002 Details | Sherbrooke | Cuba | Chinese Taipei | United States | United States |
| 2004 Details | Taipei | Cuba | Japan | South Korea | South Korea |
| 2006 Details | Sancti Spíritus | South Korea | United States | Canada | Canada |
| 2008 Details | Edmonton | South Korea | United States | Cuba | Cuba |
| 2010 Details | Thunder Bay | Chinese Taipei | Australia | Cuba | Cuba |
18U Baseball World Championship :
| Year | Final Host | Medalists | Medalists | Medalists | Medalists |
| Year | Final Host | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 2012 Details | Seoul | United States | Canada | Chinese Taipei | Chinese Taipei |
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| 2013 Details | Taichung | United States | Japan | Cuba | Cuba |
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| 2015 Details | Osaka | United States | Japan | South Korea | South Korea |
| 2017 Details | Thunder Bay | United States | South Korea | Japan | Japan |
| 2019 Details | Gijang | Chinese Taipei | United States | South Korea | South Korea |
| 2022 Details | Sarasota & Bradenton, FL | United States | Chinese Taipei | Japan | Japan |
| 2023 Details | Taipei, Taichung | Japan | Chinese Taipei | South Korea | South Korea |
| 2025 Details | Okinawa | | | | |

   ### Notes

* ↑ Originally scheduled to be held in 2021, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, postponed to September 2022.

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Cuba | 11 | 2 | 5 | 18 |
| 2 | United States | 10 | 12 | 5 | 27 |
| 3 | South Korea | 5 | 1 | 4 | 10 |
| 4 | Chinese Taipei | 3 | 10 | 7 | 20 |
| 5 | Japan | 1 | 4 | 2 | 7 |
| 6 | Canada | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 |
| 7 | Australia | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| Totals (7 entries) | Totals (7 entries) | 31 | 31 | 31 | 93 |
$^1$Chinese Taipei is the official WBSC designation for the team representing the state officially referred to as the Republic of China, more commonly known as Taiwan. (See also political status of Taiwan for details.)