{"id":44595,"date":"2024-09-30T16:41:47","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T23:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=44595"},"modified":"2024-09-30T18:23:55","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T01:23:55","slug":"wbsc-mens-world-cup-field-for-2025-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=44595","title":{"rendered":"WBSC Men&#8217;s World Cup Field for 2025 Set"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Elite Eight to World Cup 2025 &#8211; July 8-13, 2025<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Six teams emerged from the World Cup Qualifiers, Groups A, B and C, plus host Canada (coincidentally 3rd in Group B), with Wild Card Venezuela the last team added on the strength of their #5 world ranking and third place finish in Group A, and their where they went 5-0 in pool play, only to lose two on the final day of the tournament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Dominican Republic (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbsc.org\/en\/events\/2024-xviii-mens-softball-world-cup-group-a\/home\">Group A,<\/a> 1st Place)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Australia (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbsc.org\/en\/events\/2024-xviii-mens-softball-world-cup-group-a\/home\">Group A<\/a>, 2nd place)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Argentina (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbsc.org\/en\/events\/2024-xviii-mens-softball-world-cup-group-b\/home\">Group B<\/a>, 1st Place)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>New Zealand (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbsc.org\/en\/events\/2024-xviii-mens-softball-world-cup-group-b\/home\">Group B<\/a>, 2nd Place)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>USA (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbsc.org\/en\/events\/2024-xviii-mens-softball-world-cup-group-c\/home\">Group C<\/a>, 1st Place)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Japan (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbsc.org\/en\/events\/2024-xviii-mens-softball-world-cup-group-c\/home\">Group C<\/a>, 2nd Place)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Canada (Host)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Venezuela (Wild Card, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbsc.org\/en\/events\/2024-xviii-mens-softball-world-cup-group-a\/home\">Group A<\/a>, 3rd Place)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Defending World Champions, Australia<\/strong> (Gold, 2022) lost their first game of the Group A qualifier, but battled back, winning the Repechage game against Venezuela to claim the second World Cup berth for Group A<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Dominican Republic is the only team not in the Top 10 (#11) to make the Elite Eight of the World&#8217;s best in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbsc.org\/en\/events\/2025-xviii-mens-softball-world-cup-finals\/home\">next year&#8217;s World Cup at Prince Albert, Canada<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Czech Republic is the highest ranked team (#7) not to make the field, while #9 Mexico,  #10 ranked Cuba and #12 ranked Guatemala also did not qualify.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">8? And now they are eight! <br><br>?? The lineup of teams set to compete for the world title in Prince Albert, Canada, next year is now complete!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SoftballWorldCupM?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SoftballWorldCupM<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/npXipkyu5U\">pic.twitter.com\/npXipkyu5U<\/a><\/p>&mdash; WBSC ?? (@WBSC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WBSC\/status\/1838645484191096987?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 24, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">WBSC World Rankings<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">?? ICYMI: WBSC\/KONAMI Men&#39;s Softball World Ranking: Argentina, Australia solidify positions as No. 1 &amp; 2; Japan return to top-three<br><br>? Check out more details here<br>? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nYmkvKoHag\">https:\/\/t.co\/nYmkvKoHag<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Y7EdfN6c64\">pic.twitter.com\/Y7EdfN6c64<\/a><\/p>&mdash; WBSC ?? 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