U-18 Baseball World Cup
| Current season, competition or edition: Current sports event 2025 U-18 Baseball World Cup | |
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| Formerly | World Junior Baseball Championship (1981 - 2010) 18U Baseball World Championship (2012) 18U Baseball World Cup (2013) |
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| Sport | Baseball |
| Founded | 1981 |
| No. of teams | 12 |
| Continent | International |
| Most recent champion | File:Flag of the United States.svg United States (11th title) (2025) |
| Most titles | File:Flag of the United States.svg United States File:Flag of Cuba.svg Cuba (11 titles each) |
| Official website | 2025 WBSC 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.[1]
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
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- Notes
- ^ Originally scheduled to be held in 2021, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, postponed to September 2022.
Medal table
[edit | edit source]| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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| 1 | File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States | 11 | 12 | 5 | 28 |
| 2 | File:Flag of Cuba.svg Cuba | 11 | 2 | 5 | 18 |
| 3 | File:Flag of South Korea.svg South Korea | 5 | 1 | 4 | 10 |
| 4 | File:Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg Chinese Taipei | 3 | 10 | 8 | 21 |
| 5 | File:Flag of Japan.svg Japan | 1 | 5 | 2 | 8 |
| 6 | File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 |
| 7 | File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| Totals (7 entries) | 32 | 32 | 32 | 96 | |
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1Chinese 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.)
