Group A of the 2024 Women's Softball World Cup will take place from 11 to 15 July 2023 in Balbriggan, Republic of Ireland.[1] The group consists of host nation Ireland, Chinese Taipei, United States, Great Britain, Australia and Botswana. The United States and Australia advanced to the Finals to be held in 2024, with the United States going undefeated winning all four of their games.
Hannah Flippen of the United States was named the most valuable player of Group A.[2] [3]
| Draw position | Team | Confederation | Method of qualification | Date of qualification | data-sort-type="number" | Finals appearance | Last appearance | Previous best performance | WBSC Rankings[4] | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A1 | style=white-space:nowrap | data-sort-value="*" | Hosts | 9 June 2022 | 2nd | data-sort-value="2.0" | Group stage (2016) | 17 | |||
| A2 | style=white-space:nowrap | Asia Cup third place | 6 April 2023 | 17th | data-sort-value="7.0" | Runners-up (1982) | 3 | ||||
| A3 | style=white-space:nowrap | Pan American Championship winners | 19 November 2022 | 18th | data-sort-value="8.0" | Winners (1974, 1978, 1986, 1990, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2016, 2018, 2022) | 1 | ||||
| A4 | style=white-space:nowrap | European Championship runners-up | 29 July 2022 | 8th | data-sort-value="7.0" | Runners-up (1982) | 16 | ||||
| A5 | style=white-space:nowrap | Oceania | Automatic (Oceania) | 18th | data-sort-value="8.0" | Winners (1965) | 9 | ||||
| A6 | style=white-space:nowrap | African qualifier runners-up | 15 February 2023 | 6th | data-sort-value="2.0" | Group stage (1994, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018) | 43 | ||||
Note: The final three group games were rained off with the final pairings already being decided.[5]
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The two teams had faced each other three times in a Women's Softball World Cup, most recently in 2018, an 11–0 win for Australia.[7]
Game was cancelled due to weather conditions.[5]
Game was cancelled due to weather conditions.[5]
Game was cancelled due to weather conditions.[5]
The winner of the final and the repechage qualify for the 2024 finals.[8]
| Round | Date | Local time | Road team | Score | Home team | Inn. | Venue | Game duration | Attendance | Boxscore |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5th place match | 15 July 2023 | 15:30 | Cancelled | — | O'Dwyers GAA | — | — | — | ||
| 3rd place match | 15 July 2023 | 17:15 | 3–4 | 7 | O'Dwyers GAA | 1:53 | 139 | Boxscore | ||
| Final | 15 July 2023 | 8:00 | 0–7 | 5 | O'Dwyers GAA | 1:32 | 55 | Boxscore | ||
| Repechage | 15 July 2023 | 19:35 | 4–1 | 7 | O'Dwyers GAA | 2:17 | 56 | Boxscore | ||
Game was cancelled due to weather conditions.[3]
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| 1 | align=left style="background-color:#BBF3BB" | (Q) | 4 | 0 | |||
| 2 | align=left style="background-color:#BBF3BB" | (Q) | 5 | 2 | |||
| 3 | 3 | 2 | |||||
| 4 | 2 | 4 | |||||
| 5 | 1 | 3 | |||||
| 6 | 0 | 4 | |||||