The qualifying round of the

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will be held in September 2022. Teams which participated at the

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automatically qualified for the 2023 tournament. The qualifying round is to consist of two tournaments to be participated by six teams each. The qualifiers were planned to be hosted in Tucson,

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in the United States but after the delay, the qualifier hosts were changed to the cities of

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and Panamá City,

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. Winners and runners-up of each of the two tournaments were to qualify for the 2023 World Baseball Classic. The first qualifying tournament was originally scheduled to be held from March 13–18, 2020 and the second from March 20–25, 2020, before the qualifiers' postponement was announced on March 12, 2020 by

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due to the

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. After the

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, the CBA indicated that the

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will come back in 2023, and qualifiers begin in September 2022.

Players

Venue

A single venue, the

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in Tucson,

will be used in the qualifying round:

Pools composition

Note: Numbers in parentheses indicate positions in the WBSC World Rankings . The format is double-elimination. Each pool contains six teams, two of which are given a bye to the second round. The teams with a bye are Great Britain, Nicaragua, Panama, and South Africa. These are the four teams that placed 2nd in their qualifying group in 2017. Four of the teams have previously participated in the main WBC tournament: Panama and South Africa in 2006 and 2009 (which were by invitation), and Brazil and Spain in 2013. All four have since participated in all qualifying tournaments. All 12 teams have previously participated in WBC qualifying tournaments. Two have previously won their qualifying group and qualified for the main tournament (Brazil, Spain), six have previously finished as high as 2nd in their qualifying group (Germany, Great Britain, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Panama, South Africa), three have previously finished as high as 3rd in their qualifying group (Czech Republic, France, Philippines), and one has previously finished last in its qualifying group (Pakistan).

Qualifying round

Qualifier 1

*Home team designation determined by coin toss.

Qualifier 2

*Home team designation determined by coin toss.

References

External links

Official website
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