Tainan (TPE) to host second WBSC Women's Baseball World Cup Group

The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) awarded hosting rights for the second group of the WBSC Women's Baseball World Cup Group Stage 2026 to the Chinese Taipei Baseball Association (CTBA), which will host the tournament in Tainan from August 23 to 27.

CTBA will host the event at the Asia-Pacific International Baseball Stadiums and Training Centres (ASPAC) in Annan. The complex, which CTBA designated as the home of the Chinese Taipei National Teams, consists of two standard stadiums, two youth stadiums, two infield training fields, six outdoor pitching/batting training lanes and an indoor training facility.

The two youth stadiums have been the home of the WBSC U-12 Baseball World Cup since the ASPAC opened in 2019. The main venue can sit 8,000 fans, while the second venue has a capacity of 1,000.

The main stadium has a 25,000-seat capacity and is the new home of the Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions of the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL). The second venue has 3,000 seats.

The X WBSC Women's Baseball World Cup is a two-stage event with 12 participating teams split into two groups of six teams in the first stage.

The WBSC Women's Baseball World Cup 2026 Group Tainan will be staged following the WBSC Women's Baseball World Cup 2026 Group Rockford, which is scheduled from July 22 to 27.
The top three finishers from each group will advance to the Finals, which Rockford will host from July 19 to 25, 2027.

World No. 1 Japan are the seven-time defending champions.

Tainan is a special municipality in southern Taiwan, situated on its western coast facing the Taiwan Strait and home to over 1.8m people.

Tainan City is the oldest city on the island, incorporated in 1624 by the Dutch under Fort Zeelandia, a fortress built over the decade from 1624 to 1634 by the Dutch East India Company in the town of Anping.

Zheng Chenggong, better known as Koxinga, a Ming loyalist and chief commander of the Ming troops, attacked the Dutch colonists in Taiwan in 1661. After a nine-month siege, the Dutch Governor of Taiwan, Frederik Coyett, surrendered Fort Zeelandia to Koxinga on 1 February 1662. As a consequence of the Chinese losing the First Sino-Japanese War in 1895, a Japanese army arrived at Tainan in October 1895 and took the city without facing resistance.

The Japanese rule brought baseball to the island. Japan’s government began to promote the game of baseball systematically in the 1920s, and Tainan Second Senior High School was among the earliest schools to form baseball teams.

The Tainan Municipal Stadium is one of the earliest baseball stadiums in Taiwan. Then-Tainan Mayor Hikojuro Hishimura led the project, and the city completed it in under three months, from November 20, 1930, to January 31, 1931.

Qualification Process

No. 28 Great Britain became the first team to qualify for the X Women's Baseball World Cup Group Stage after winning the European Championship in August 2025.

WBSC Americas announced that World No. 4 Venezuela, No. 6 Mexico and No. 9 Cuba earned three of the continental four spots through the Women's Baseball Pan American Championship, while No. 3 Canada and No.9 Puerto Rico will face off for the fourth and final Americas spot in a best-of-five series later this year.

No. 1 Japan. No. 5 Chinese Taipei, No. 8 Hong Kong, China, and No. 12 Korea secured their spots in the VI BFA Women's Baseball Asia Cup.

No. 10 Australia will represent Oceania.

World No. 2 USA and No. 19 China qualified as the two group hosts.

The WBSC will award a Wild Card to determine the 12th participating team.