2026 World Baseball Classic qualification

The qualifying round of the 2026 World Baseball Classic, officially called the World Baseball Classic 2025 Qualifiers, was held from February 21 to March 6, 2025. The top four teams in each pool of the 2023 World Baseball Classic automatically qualified for the 2026 tournament. The qualifiers consisted of two tournaments with four teams each, and was held in Taipei, Taiwan, and Tucson, United States of America. Two teams of each tournament qualified for the 2026 World Baseball Classic.

Pools composition

The format consisted of two rounds. The first round was a round-robin, with the teams playing each other once. After the six games from each group, the first-placed team qualified for the final tournament, while the second and third-placed teams play in a seventh game where the winner also qualified. ==Pool A==

Pool A

Pool A took place at the Taipei Dome in Taipei, Taiwan, from February 21–25, 2025. Opening round Second-place playoff ==Pool B==

Pool B

before the game between Germany and Colombia Pool B took place at the Kino Sports Complex's Veterans Memorial Stadium in Tucson, Arizona, United States, on March 2–6, 2025. Opening round Second-place playoff ==Statistical leaders==

Statistical leaders

• Minimum 2.7 plate appearances per team game • Minimum 0.8 innings pitched per team game Awards While no official awards were given, MLB.com named 10 standout players from the qualifiers. ==Broadcast==

Broadcast

On February 3, alongside the first pool roster reveals, it was announced that the 2025 WBC qualifiers would be shown on the WBC YouTube channel, WBC Facebook page, MLB.tv and WBC website (WorldBaseballClassic.com). MLB Network will also broadcast select games for all its covered areas (including US). Like the 2022 qualifiers, qualifiers and already qualified teams also have broadcast partners locally, as follows: == Notes ==

Source: Wikipedia ↗

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