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.
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]
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2006 | did not enter | No qualifiers held | ||||||||||||||||
2009 | did not enter | No qualifiers held | ||||||||||||||||
2013 | did not qualify | 0 | 2 | 6 | 28 | |||||||||||||
2017 | did not qualify | 1 | 2 | 22 | 12 | |||||||||||||
2023 | Round 1 | 14th | 1 | 3 | 16 | 25 | 3 | 1 | 25 | 27 | ||||||||
Total | Round 1 | 1/5 | 1 | 3 | 16 | 25 | 4 | 5 | 60 | 67 |
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.
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]
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.