Thirty-one European Championships and Cups have been played so far in the 2022 baseball and softball season.

ASD Parma has won the Men’s Baseball European Champions Cup 2022 in Bonn, Germany. They defeated L&D Amsterdam 7-6 in an exciting final game on Saturday evening at the Rheinaue ballpark. It was the 15th title for Parma in the history of the European Cup Baseball and the second in a row. The hosting Bonn Capitals finished in third place after beating ASD San Marino 6-3 in the bronze medal match. Earlier in the day Curacao Neptunus Rotterdam claimed seventh place with a 10-8 win over the VOITH Heidenheim Heidekoepfe in the tenth inning. Arrows Ostrava and Draci Brno finished tied for fifth place.

Dramatic fourth day at the Men’s Baseball European Champions Cup 2022 in Bonn, Germany on Friday. In the end L&D Amsterdam and ASD Parma will play in the final on Saturday at 7pm. Amsterdam defeated ASD San Marino 13-9 in a high-scoring semi-final. In the evening game on Friday Parma edged out a strong host Bonn Capitals by a score of 6-5 after ten innings. Bonn and San Marino will play the game for third place at 3pm. Meanwhile the VOITH Heidenheim Heidekoepfe will take on Curacao Neptunus Rotterdam in the game for seventh place. Arrows Ostrava and Draci Brno will finished tied for fifth after winning the relegation round games on Friday.

The preliminary round at the Men’s Baseball European Champions Cup in Bonn, Germany is almost over. Only the suspended game from Tuesday between ASD San Marino and Curacao Neptunus needs to be completed, as the score is tied 5-5 after eight innings. The outcome will reveal the standings in Group B, which currently has San Marino on top with a 2-0 record following an extra-inning win over host Bonn Capitals. Bonn and Curacao Neptunus had two games each on Thursday, splitting them for 2-1 and 1-1 records in the standings. In Group A the team quality balance was needed to break the tie between L&D Amsterdam, ASD Parma and the VOITH Heidenheim Heidekoepfe. Amsterdam beat Parma 12-4 to win the tiebreaker with Parma coming in second after a 12-0 shutout over Heidenheim. Draci Brno and Arrows Ostrava had to settle for fourth place in both groups.

Similar to day one at the Men’s Baseball European Champions Cup rain also played a huge role on the second day of the competition in the preliminary round. At early afternoon two games were called earlier due to rain with L&D Amsterdam and ASD San Marino reaching the win column with shutouts over Draci Brno respective Arrows Ostrava. Ostrava then took on the hosting Bonn Capitals, which also featured lengthy rain delays, but eventually was finished with Bonn winning by a score of 6-3 on a walk-off grand slam. The game between ASD Parma and the VOITH Heidenheim Heidekoepfe got suspended due to rain in the third inning.

The Men’s Baseball European Champions Cup 2022 in Bonn, Germany got underway on Tuesday with the first games of the preliminary round. In Group A ASD Parma celebrated a commanding win over Draci Brno and the VOITH Heidenheim Heidekoepfe came back in the ninth inning to beat L&D Amsterdam. In Group B the game between Curacao Neptunus and ASD San Marino got suspended with the score at 5-5 after eight innings due to rain. The evening game between the Bonn Capitals and Arrows Ostrava got postponed.

From Tuesday, June 7 to Saturday, June 11, 2022 the European Champions Cup 2022 will be played in Bonn, Germany. Hosted at the facility of the European Championship of 2019 eight teams from the Netherlands (2), Germany (2), Czech Republic (2), Italy (1) and San Marino (1) will compete to become the top club team in European Baseball.

The schedules for the 2022 Champions Cup, Confederation Cup, Federation Cup, and Federation Cup Qualifier have been announced.

WBSC Europe Baseball Technical and Competitions Committee released the WBSC Europe Baseball Competitions Regulations and its appendix for the 2022 season. Alongside, the approved bat lists have been published.