He 2026 World Baseball Classic It has already defined the venues and 16 of the 20 participating teams. Now he also announced where the qualifier will be played so that those last four places have an owner.
Four teams will compete in the first Qualifier in the Taipei Dome, Taiwanfrom February 21 to 25. Then, four other teams will head to Tucson, Arizonafrom March 2 to 6. In each Qualifier, the top two teams will advance to the 2026 World Baseball Classic.
In the Taiwan Qualification Group, which will be held from February 21 to 25, 2025 at the Taipei Dome, faces will be seen Chinese Taipei, Nicaragua, South Africa and Spain. In the Qualification Group in Tucson, Arizona, where there will be action from March 2 to 6, 2025, the teams from Colombia, Brazil, China and Germany will collide.
The World Baseball Classic, Inc. (WBCI) entity, made up of the commissioner’s office of Major League Baseball (MLB), the MLB Players Association (MLBPA) and the World Baseball and Softball Confederation (WBSC), revealed in May that the loanDepot Park stadiums in Miami and Minute Maid Park in Houston (United States), Hiram Bithorn in San Juan (Puerto Rico) and Tokyo Dome in Tokyo (Japan) as the venues for the next World Classic, to be held from 5 to 17 March 2026.
Due to their performance in the 2023 tournament, 16 countries are seeded for the sixth version of the next World Classic: Japan, United States, Mexico, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Canada, Panama, Great Britain, Italy, Australia, Czech Republic, South Korea, Netherlands, Dominican Republic, Israel and Venezuela.
