Women's Baseball World Cup
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Most recent season or competition: 2016 Women's Baseball World Cup |
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| Sport | Baseball |
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| Founded | 2004 |
| No. of teams | 12 (in 2016) |
| Continent | International |
| Most recent champion(s) |
 Japan
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| Most titles |
Japan (5 times) |
The Women's Baseball World Cup is an international tournament in which national women's baseball teams from around the world compete. Through its 2012 edition, it was sanctioned by the International Baseball Federation; following the 2013 merger of the IBAF with the International Softball Federation, future tournaments will be sanctioned by the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC). In the seven times it has been held, the tournament has been won twice by United States and five consecutive times by Japan in 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, and 2016.
The inaugural Women's Baseball World Cup was held in Edmonton, Canada from July 30 to August 8, 2004 after having been chartered by the International Baseball Federation in 2002. Before this tournament the only other international women's baseball tournament was the Women's Baseball World Series, which usually involved only three or four nations, usually Australia, Canada, Japan and occasionally the USA.
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