Men's Softball World Cup
Current season, competition or edition: 2019 Men's Softball World Championship | |
Sport | Softball |
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Founded | 1966 |
No. of teams | 16 (Finals) |
Continent | International |
Most recent champion(s) | Argentina (1st title) |
Most titles | New Zealand (7 titles) |
The Men's Softball World Cup, known through 2015 as the ISF Men's World Championship, is a softball tournament for the best national men's teams in the world. From 1966 to 2013 it was held every four years, first by the International Softball Federation (ISF) and from 2015 an onward it is held every two years by the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC), the 16 best teams in the world compete.[1][2]
Results[]
Year | Final Host | Medalists | ||||
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Champions | Final score | Runners-up | 3rd place | |||
1966 Details |
Mexico City |
United States |
6 – 0 | Mexico |
New Zealand | |
1968 |
Oklahoma City |
United States |
4 – 0 | Canada |
Philippines | |
1972 Details |
Marikina |
Canada |
1 – 0 | United States |
New Zealand | |
1976 |
Lower Hutt |
United States |
– | |||
1980 |
Tacoma |
United States |
3 – 0 | Canada |
Bahamas | |
1984 |
Midland |
New Zealand |
3 – 1 | Canada |
United States | |
1988 |
Saskatoon |
United States |
4 – 0 | New Zealand |
Canada | |
1992 Details |
Manila/Pasig |
Canada |
5 – 3 | New Zealand |
United States | |
1996 Details |
Midland |
New Zealand |
4 – 0 | Canada |
Japan | |
2000 |
East London |
New Zealand |
2 – 1 | Japan |
United States | |
2004 Details |
Christchurch |
New Zealand |
9 – 5 | Canada |
Australia | |
2009 Details |
Saskatoon |
Australia |
5 – 0 | New Zealand |
Canada | |
2013 Details |
Auckland |
New Zealand |
4 – 1 | Venezuela |
Australia | |
2015 Details |
Saskatoon |
Canada |
10 – 5 | New Zealand |
Venezuela | |
2017 Details |
Whitehorse |
New Zealand |
6 – 4 | Australia |
Canada | |
2019 Details |
Prague/Havlíčkův Brod |
Argentina |
3 – 2 | Japan |
Canada | |
2022 |
Auckland |
In 1976 the final day was rained out. New Zealand, USA and Canada were all awarded the gold medal.
Medal table[]
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | New Zealand | 7 | 4 | 2 | 13 |
2 | United States | 5 | 1 | 3 | 9 |
3 | Canada | 4 | 5 | 4 | 13 |
4 | Australia | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
5 | Argentina | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
6 | Japan | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
7 | Mexico | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Venezuela | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
9 | Bahamas | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Totals (9 nations) | 18 | 15 | 15 | 48 |
Participating nations[]
- 1st — Champion
- 2nd — Runner-up
- 3rd — Third place
- GS — Group Stage
Teams | 1966 | 1972 | 1992 | 1996 | 2004 | 2009 | 2013 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 | Years | ||||||
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Argentina | 12th | 9th | 6th | 9th | 8th | 7th | 4th | 7th | 4th | 1st | 10 | ||||||
Australia | 7th | 5th | 7th | 12th | 3rd | 1st | 3rd | 4th | 2nd | 7th | 10 | ||||||
Bahamas | 6th | 7th | 3rd | 8th | 6th | 10th | 6 | ||||||||||
Bermuda | 15th | 13th | 2 | ||||||||||||||
British Virgin Islands | 12th | 1 | |||||||||||||||
Botswana | 14th | 10th | 18th | 9th | 13th | 13th | 8th | 14th | 8 | ||||||||
Canada | 9th | 2nd | 1st | 1st | 2nd | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 4th | 2nd | 3rd | 5th | 1st | 3rd | 3rd | 16 |
Chinese Taipei | 8th | 5th | 6th | 4th | 11th | 9th | 14th | 15th | 8 | ||||||||
10th | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
Cuba | 4th | 10th | 2 | ||||||||||||||
Czech Republic | 12th | 12th | 6th | 7th | 9th | 10th | 8th | 9th | 8th | 9 | |||||||
Denmark | 14th | 15th | 13th | 11th | 14th | 12th | 9th | 7 | |||||||||
Dominican Republic | 8th | 11th | 5th | 7th | 5th | 11th | 5 | ||||||||||
10th | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
Great Britain | 9th | 8th | 9th | 11th | 13th | 5 | |||||||||||
Guam | 7th | 6th | 8th | 10th | 16th | 5 | |||||||||||
12th | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
Hong Kong | 10th | 16th | 14th | 15th | 14th | 5 | |||||||||||
India | 16th | 1 | |||||||||||||||
Indonesia | 11th | 16th | 16th | 3 | |||||||||||||
Israel | 20 | 1 | |||||||||||||||
Japan | 7th | 10th | 6th | 4th | 7th | 6th | 5th | 4th | 3rd | 2nd | 6th | 6th | 6th | 6th | 6th | 2nd | 16 |
South Korea | 17th | 1 | |||||||||||||||
Lesotho | 16th | 1 | |||||||||||||||
Mexico | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 12th | 9th | 8th | 5th | 11th | 14th | 13th | 10th | 11th | 13 | |||
Netherlands | 9th | 13th | 14th | 14th | 14th | 15th | 13th | 6* | |||||||||
11th | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
New Zealand | 3rd | 5th | 3rd | 1st | 4th | 1st | 2nd | 2nd | 1st | 1st | 1st | 2nd | 1st | 2nd | 1st | 4th | 16 |
11th | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
Northern Mariana Islands | 13th | 16th | 2 | ||||||||||||||
Puerto Rico | 4th | 6th | 11th | 12th | 4 | ||||||||||||
Pakistan | 22nd | 1 | |||||||||||||||
9th | 7th | 2 | |||||||||||||||
Papua New Guinea | 14th | 17th | 19th | 3 | |||||||||||||
Philippines | 4th | 5th | 8th | 7th | 10th | 10th | 10th | 15th | 13th | 16th | 10 | ||||||
Russia | 21st | 1 | |||||||||||||||
Samoa | 6th | 7th | 2 | ||||||||||||||
Singapore | 9th | 15th | 15th | 3 | |||||||||||||
South Africa | 9th | 7th | 13th | 8th | 8th | 12th | 15th | 12th | 10th | 12th | 10 | ||||||
16th | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
United States | 1st | 1st | 2nd | 1st | 1st | 3rd | 1st | 3rd | 4th | 3rd | 4th | 4th | 8th | 9th | 7th | 5th | 16 |
8th | 10th | 2 | |||||||||||||||
Venezuela | 5th | 6th | 5th | 11th | 5th | 2nd | 3rd | 7th | 6th | 9 | |||||||
Zimbabwe | 13th | 10th | 2 | ||||||||||||||
No. of Teams |
11 | 10 | 10 | 6 | 14 | 16 | 14 | 17 | 22 | 16 | 15 | 16 | 16 | 15 | 16 | 16 |
- Czech Republic has participated as Czechoslovakia in 1992.
See also[]
References[]
- ^ Past results since 1990 in softball Archived February 22, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Tradestaff ISF Men's World Softball Championships". NHSA. Archived from the original on August 1, 2013. Retrieved March 10, 2013.
Categories:
- Men's Softball World Championship
- World championships in softball
- Recurring sporting events established in 1966