Czech Republic national baseball team explained

Czech Republic national baseball team
Country: Czech Republic
Confederation:Confederation of European Baseball
Wbsc Max:14
Wbsc Max Date:2 times; latest in December 2021
Wbsc Min:25
Wbsc Min Date:December 2012
Wbc Apps:1
Wbc First:2023
Wbc Best:14th (2023)
Wc Apps:1
Wc First:2009
Wc Best:20th (2009)
Ec Apps:11
Ec First:1997
Ec Best:4th (2014)

The Czech Republic national baseball team is the national baseball team of the Czech Republic. The team competes in the biennial European Baseball Championshipand debuted in the 2023 World Baseball Classic.

Results and fixtures

The following is a list of professional baseball match results currently active in the latest version of the WBSC World Rankings, as well as any future matches that have been scheduled.[1]

Legend

2023

International tournament results

World Baseball Classic

Qualification record
YearRoundPositionwidth=25width=25width=25width=25width=25width=25width=25width=25
2006did not enterNo qualifiers held
2009did not enterNo qualifiers held
2013did not qualify02628
2017did not qualify122212
2023Round 114th131625312527
TotalRound 11/5131625456067

2009 IBAF World Cup

In 2009, Europe hosted the IBAF World Cup, the first time in history the Baseball World Cup was not hosted by a specific country. Prague hosted Group A of the pool round, and the Czech Republic team finished 20th, going 0–3 with losses to Australia, Mexico, and Chinese Taipei.

European Baseball Championship

Team Czech Republic competed at the 2019 European Baseball Championship, and came in fifth, behind Team Israel. Among the players who competed for it were Martin Červenka and Marek Minařík.[2]

Olympic qualifying tournament

Because Team Czech Republic finished in the top five in the 2019 European Baseball Championship, it moved on to the 2020 Olympics qualifiers in Italy in September 2019.[3] [4] There, it came in third, behind Israel and the Netherlands. Finished 3rd behind the Netherlands and Italy in 2003 for the Athens 2004 games.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Czech Republic in the WBSC Ranking (Men's baseball) . . 12 August 2021.
  2. Web site: Statistiken der Baseball-EM 2019 . 14 September 2019 . 12 April 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200412022158/https://www.baseball-em.de/statistiken-c89861 . dead .
  3. http://www.jewishbaseballnews.com/retired-shmired/ Retired, shmired | Jewish Baseball News
  4. http://www.jewishbaseballnews.com/mlb-monday-august-26-september-1-2019/ MLB Monday (August 26-September 1, 2019) | Jewish Baseball News