The 2024 Women's Softball World Cup will be the 18th
Women's Softball World Cup
The Women's Softball World Cup is a fastpitch softball tournament for women's national teams held historically every four years, now every two years, by the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC). The tournament, originally known as the ''I ...
, an international
softball tournament taking place in
Balbriggan
Balbriggan (; , IPA: bˠalʲəˈbʲɾʲɪɟiːnʲ is a coastal town in Fingal, in the northern part of County Dublin, Ireland, approximately 34 km from Dublin City. The 2016 census population was 21,722 for Balbriggan and its environs.
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,
Ireland;
Buttrio
Buttrio ( fur, Buri) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Italian region Friuli-Venezia Giulia, with a population of 4,050 people, located about northwest of Trieste and about southeast of Udine.
Buttrio borders the following municipalities: ...
and
Castions di Strada,
Italy and
Valencia,
Spain. The group stage will take place from 11–26 July 2023, held as three separate groups across three nations. The finals will take place in Buttrio and Castions di Strada, Italy from 15–21 July 2024. This is the first
WBSC event to be held in two stages. It will be the first time Ireland, Italy and Spain have hosted a major softball tournament. It also the first time more than one nation has hosted the tournament.
The
United States are the defending champions.
Qualified teams
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Squads
Venues
Group stage
Group A
Group A will be contested in Balbriggan during 11–15 July 2023.
Group B
Group B will be contested in Valencia during 18–22 July 2023.
Group C
Group C will be contested in Castions di Strada and Buttrio during 22–26 July 2023.
Finals rankings
The ranking of the wildcard spots for the finals stage are as follows.
*1) Hosts
*2)Top third-place team(s) in the Group Stage, based on final standings from the previous edition of the World Cup
*3)Top third-place team(s) in the Group Stage based on the highest position in the WBSC Rankings at the end of the previous calendar year.
Italy qualified for the finals as host of that stage, while China qualified as the third placed team with the next best finish at the
previous World Cup.
Finals
Group A
Group B
Placement Round
Super Round
Final Round
Third place play-off
Final
Statistics
''The statistics below include all group stage and finals games.''
Homeruns
There have been 34 homeruns scored in 52 matches, for an average of homeruns per match (as of 26 July 2023).
2 homeruns
* Emma Entzminger
Emma Alyce Entzminger (born January 11, 1996) is a Canadian softball infielder with the Canada women's national softball team. Entzminger played college softball at San Jose State University in the U.S. First named to the Canada national team in 2 ...
* Nodoka Harada
Nodoka Harada (原田 のどか, ''Harada Nodoka'', born 9 August 1991) is a Japanese softball player. She competed in the 2020 Summer Olympics
The , officially the and also known as , was an international multi-sport event held from 23 ...
* Hotaru Tsukamoto
* Alison Aguilar
1 homerun
* Philippa Adkins
* Jade Wall
* Kelsey Harshman
* Kianna Jones
* Janet Leung
* Min Ren
* Jiaxin Xie
* Chia-Yun Chang
* Szu-Shih Li
* Chia-Wen Shen
* Georgina Corrick
* Kendyl Scott
* Mckenzie Barbara
* Giulia Koutsoyanopulos
* Erika Piancastelli
Erika Piancastelli (born June 20, 1996) is an Italian-American professional softball catcher. She plays international softball for Italy and competed in the 2020 Summer Olympics. Born in Italy, Piancastelli eventually went to play college softba ...
* Kyoko Ishikawa
* Kanna Kudo
* Minori Naito
* Dinet Oosting
* Maxime van Dalen
* Nicole Hammoude
* Meritxell Blesa
* Uxua Modrego
* Kiara Robinson-Milloy
* Yuruby Alicart
* Yakary Molina
Player of the day
Awards
Most Valuable Players
Group stage
* Group A – Hannah Flippen
Symbols
Match balls
The match balls that will be used for the 2024 tournament are the Mizuno
() is a Japanese sports equipment and sportswear company, founded in Osaka in 1906 by Rihachi Mizuno. Today, Mizuno is a global corporation which makes a wide variety of sports equipment and sportswear for badminton, baseball, boxing, cycling ...
M170 balls.
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References
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