The new WBSC World Rankings website features robust functions such as tracking, trends, top climbers, charts, country-by-country comparisons, ranking by continent, points earned by each National Team/Federation per competition, methodology, and a world rankings news section in six languages.

A record 67 countries and territories are now ranked in Women’s Softball. Puerto Rico and Mexico hit historic highs, move into the top five of the world rankings for thefirst time. Japan earned the most world rankings points in 2018.

The sport of baseball continues its globalization. Baseball is growing in countries like Indonesia, US Virgin Islands, Sri Lanka, Curacao, Aruba, Chile, Ukraine, Ireland and Georgia, according to the official world rankings and WBSC data.

With the announcement of a new facility and programmes, the city of Alexandria is set to become the baseball/softball capitol of Romania.

Midji Verdol, the President of the Ligue des Antilles et Guyane Françaises de Baseball, Softball and Cricket, hosted the clinic in Guadalupe. She considers Baseball5 instrumental to the building of a baseball softball community in the French speaking islands of the Caribbean

A brand new baseball softball stadium will be built in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, marking a huge step forward for the sport in Spain. It will be the first exclusive baseball softball facility in Gran Canaria island

It’s been a productive year for WBSC Development Programmes and the month of December will be particularly intense, with seminars happening in Kenya, Tanzania and Turkey. The series of event will start over early in 2019

IOC leadership is convinced that Tokyo Olympics have all of the ingredients for success. Yokohama DeNA Bay Stars pitcher Yasuaki Yamasaki spoke of the interest that the return of baseball and softball generate to world sport leaders, including WBSC President Fraccari

The latest rankings reflect the results of over 100 matches from the Women’s Baseball World Cup across an evaluation period of 2014-2018.

For the first time in history, men’s baseball and women’s softball events at the Olympic Games will be staged in the same venues, representing a new cost-effective model that will make baseball and softball more attractive to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and host cities around the world.