WBSC Coed Slow Pitch Softball World Cup 2023 awarded to Guadalajara, Mexico; Dates confirmed in December
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<p>The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) today announced the host city and dates of the first-ever <strong><a href="https://www.wbsc.org/en/events/2023-slow-pitch-softball-world-cup/home"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">WBSC Coed Slow Pitch Softball World Cup</span></a></strong>, the newest WBSC World Cup. The historic event will take place in Guadalajara, Mexico, from 5 to 10 December, 2023.</p>
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<p>“The WBSC Coed Slow Pitch Softball World
Cup marks another major milestone with the addition of this softball discipline
bringing our World Cup portfolio to 15 events,” said WBSC President, Riccardo
Fraccari. “This new event brings new opportunities for athletes around the
world to represent their countries at the highest level in a very popular
discipline, with millions of people playing slow-pitch softball, both
competitively or for leisure, around the world.”</p>
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<p>The Coed Slow Pitch Softball World Cup
will be the second WBSC event to be held in Guadalajara. The Jalisco capital
hosted in 2019 the Group A of the II Premier12, WBSC’s premier international
baseball competition. At the same time, this will be the second WBSC Softball
World Cup staged in Mexico in 2023, with the U-18 Men’s Softball World Cup
scheduled from 11 to 19 November in Hermosillo, Mexico.</p>
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<p>The WBSC Coed Slow Pitch Softball World Cup is the fourth WBSC mixed gender World Cup, behind the successfully launched Baseball5 World Cup, which was held in Mexico City last year, the U-12 Mixed Softball World Cup, and the maiden Youth Baseball5 World Cup. Among the particular rules for this event, pitcher/catcher may not be of the same gender; the four infielder positions must be filled by two males and two females.</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.wbsc.org/en/events/2023-slow-pitch-softball-world-cup/home"><img src="https://static.wbsc.org/assets/cms/shares/SPWC_LS_POS_TONAL_RGB.png" alt="WBSC Slow Pitch Softball World Cup" width="100%" height="auto"></a></p>
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<p>The WBSC also unveiled the logo for the new competition which replicates the characteristic parabola of the pitch featured in the discipline. The curves in the logo also symbolise the initials of the slow pitch discipline: SP.</p>
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<p>A total of 12 teams will compete in the
inaugural edition of this event, with six of them already qualified through
continental qualification tournaments:</p>
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<ul><li>Africa: 1</li><li>Americas: 3</li><li>Asia: China, Philippines, Chinese Taipei</li><li>Europe: Germany, Great Britain, Netherlands</li><li>Oceania: 1</li><li>Wild Card / Host: Mexico </li></ul>
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<p>The venue(s), groups and schedule of the tournament will be announced at a later stage.</p>
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