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{{Short description|Sports event}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2012}}
{{Infobox sports league
| formerly       = World Junior Baseball Championship (1981 - 2010)<br>18U Baseball World Championship (2012)<br>18U Baseball World Cup (2013)
| current_season = 2023 U-18 Baseball World Cup
| logo           = U-18 Baseball World Cup.svg
| pixels         = 
| caption        = 
| sport          = Baseball
| founded        = 1981
| teams          = 12
| continent      = International
| champion       = {{bbu|18|JPN}} (1st title) (2023)
| most_champs    = {{bbu|18|CUB}} (11 titles)
| website = [https://www.wbsc.org/en/events/2023-u18-baseball-world-cup/home 2023 WBSC U-18 Baseball World Cup]
}}
The '''U-18 Baseball World Cup''' is the 18-and-under baseball world championship sanctioned by the [[International Baseball Federation]] (IBAF) and its successor, the [[World Baseball Softball Confederation]] (WBSC), and was first held in 1981 in the United States. Because it is a world championship, the results of the U-18 Baseball World Cup affect the [[WBSC World Rankings]].<ref name="ibaf world ranking notes">{{cite web|url=http://ibaf.org/fileadmin/user_upload/Files_-_world_rankings/4221-IBAF_World_Rankings_Notes.pdf |title=IBAF World Ranking Notes |access-date=July 23, 2009 |date=January 13, 2009 |publisher=IBAF |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190509034100/http://ibaf.org/fileadmin/user_upload/Files_-_world_rankings/4221-IBAF_World_Rankings_Notes.pdf |archive-date=May 9, 2019 }}</ref>

Several players who have participated in the U-18 Baseball World Cup have gone on to stardom at the professional level, including Japan's [[Yu Darvish]], USA's [[Clayton Kershaw]], [[Francisco Lindor]] and [[Buster Posey]], and Cuba's [[Yasiel Puig]] and [[Aroldis Chapman]], among many others.

Prior to 2010, the IBAF organized the '''World Junior Baseball Championship'''. The WBSC was created in 2013 when the IBAF merged with the International Softball Federation.

==Results==
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:90%; text-align: center;"
!colspan=6|World Junior Baseball Championship
|-
!rowspan=2 width=5%|Year 
!rowspan=2 width=10%|Final Host<ref>{{cite web |title=Editions |url=https://www.wbsc.org/en/events/2021-u18-baseball-world-cup/editions |website=WBSC |publisher=World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) |access-date=30 April 2022}}</ref>
|width=1% rowspan=34 style="border-top:none;border-bottom:none;"| 
!colspan=4|Medalists
|-
!width=17%|Gold
!width=17%|Silver
!width=17% colspan=2|Bronze
|-
|1981<br>''[[1981 World Junior Baseball Championship|Details]]''
|{{flagicon|USA}}<br>[[Newark, Ohio|Newark]]
|'''{{bbu-big|18|KOR|1949}}'''
|{{bbu-big|18|USA}}
|colspan=2|{{bbu-big|18|AUS}}
|- style="background: #D0E6FF;"
|1982<br>''[[1982 World Junior Baseball Championship|Details]]''
|{{flagicon|USA}}<br>[[Knoxville, Tennessee|Knoxville]]
|'''{{bbu-big|18|USA}}'''
|{{bbu-big|18|JPN|1947}}
|colspan=2|{{bbu-big|18|AUS}}
|- 
|1983<br>''[[1983 World Junior Baseball Championship|Details]]''
|{{flagicon|USA}}<br>[[Johnstown, Pennsylvania|Johnstown]]
|'''{{bbu-big|18|TPE}}'''
|{{bbu-big|18|USA}}
|colspan=2|{{bbu-big|18|CAN}}
|- style="background: #D0E6FF;"
|1984<br>''[[1984 World Junior Baseball Championship|Details]]''
|{{flagicon|CAN}}<br>[[Saskatoon]]
|'''{{bbu-big|18|CUB}}'''
|{{bbu-big|18|USA}}
|colspan=2|{{bbu-big|18|TPE}}
|-
|1985<br>''[[1985 World Junior Baseball Championship|Details]]''
|{{flagicon|USA}}<br>[[Albany, New York|Albany]]
|'''{{bbu-big|18|CUB}}'''
|{{bbu-big|18|USA}}
|colspan=2|{{bbu-big|18|TPE}}
|- style="background: #D0E6FF;"
|1986<br>''[[1986 World Junior Baseball Championship|Details]]''
|{{flagicon|CAN}}<br>[[Windsor, Ontario|Windsor]]
|'''{{bbu-big|18|CUB}}'''
|{{bbu-big|18|TPE}}
|colspan=2|{{bbu-big|18|USA}}
|-
|1987<br>''[[1987 World Junior Baseball Championship|Details]]''
|{{flagicon|CAN}}<br>[[Windsor, Ontario|Windsor]]
|'''{{bbu-big|18|CUB}}'''
|{{bbu-big|18|USA}}
|colspan=2|{{bbu-big|18|CAN}}
|- style="background: #D0E6FF;"
|1988<br>''[[1988 World Junior Baseball Championship|Details]]''
|{{flagicon|AUS}}<br>[[Sydney]]
|'''{{bbu-big|18|USA}}'''
|{{bbu-big|18|CUB}}
|colspan=2|{{bbu-big|18|TPE}}
|-
|1989<br>''[[1989 World Junior Baseball Championship|Details]]''
|{{flagicon|CAN}}<br>[[Trois-Rivières]]
|'''{{bbu-big|18|USA}}'''
|{{bbu-big|18|CUB}}
|colspan=2|{{bbu-big|18|AUS}}
|- style="background: #D0E6FF;"
|1990<br>''[[1990 World Junior Baseball Championship|Details]]''
|{{flagicon|CUB}}<br>[[Cuba]]
|'''{{bbu-big|18|CUB}}'''
|{{bbu-big|18|TPE}}
|colspan=2|{{bbu-big|18|USA}}
|-
|1991<br>''[[1991 World Junior Baseball Championship|Details]]''
|{{flagicon|CAN}}<br>[[Brandon, Manitoba|Brandon]]
|'''{{bbu-big|18|CAN}}'''
|{{bbu-big|18|TPE}}
|colspan=2|{{bbu-big|18|USA}}
|- style="background: #D0E6FF;"
|1992<br>''[[1992 World Junior Baseball Championship|Details]]''
|{{flagicon|MEX}}<br>[[Monterrey]]
|'''{{bbu-big|18|CUB}}'''
|{{bbu-big|18|USA}}
|colspan=2|{{bbu-big|18|TPE}}
|-
|1993<br>''[[1993 World Junior Baseball Championship|Details]]''
|{{flagicon|CAN}}<br>[[Windsor, Ontario|Windsor]]
|'''{{bbu-big|18|CUB}}'''
|{{bbu-big|18|USA}}
|colspan=2|{{bbu-big|18|TPE}}
|- style="background: #D0E6FF;"
|1994<br>''[[1994 World Junior Baseball Championship|Details]]''
|{{flagicon|CAN}}<br>[[Brandon, Manitoba|Brandon]]
|'''{{bbu-big|18|KOR|1984}}'''
|{{bbu-big|18|USA}}
|colspan=2|{{bbu-big|18|TPE}}
|-
|1995<br>''[[1995 World Junior Baseball Championship|Details]]''
|{{flagicon|USA}}<br>[[Cape Cod]]
|'''{{bbu-big|18|USA}}'''
|{{bbu-big|18|TPE}}
|colspan=2|{{bbu-big|18|AUS}}
|- style="background: #D0E6FF;"
|1996<br>''[[1996 World Junior Baseball Championship|Details]]''
|{{flagicon|CUB}}<br>[[Sancti Spíritus]]
|'''{{bbu-big|18|CUB}}'''
|{{bbu-big|18|TPE}}
|colspan=2|{{bbu-big|18|USA}}
|-
|1997<br>''[[1997 World Junior Baseball Championship|Details]]''
|{{flagicon|CAN}}<br>[[Moncton]]
|'''{{bbu-big|18|CUB}}'''
|{{bbu-big|18|TPE}}
|colspan=2|{{bbu-big|18|CAN}}
|- style="background: #D0E6FF;"
|1999<br>''[[1999 World Junior Baseball Championship|Details]]''
|{{flagicon|TWN}}<br>[[Kaohsiung]]
|'''{{bbu-big|18|USA}}'''
|{{bbu-big|18|TPE}}
|colspan=2|{{bbu-big|18|CUB}}
|-
|2000<br>''[[2000 World Junior Baseball Championship|Details]]''
|{{flagicon|CAN}}<br>[[Edmonton]]
|'''{{bbu-big|18|KOR|1997}}'''
|{{bbu-big|18|USA}}
|colspan=2|{{bbu-big|18|CUB}}
|- style="background: #D0E6FF;"
|2002<br>''[[2002 World Junior Baseball Championship|Details]]''
|{{flagicon|CAN}}<br>[[Sherbrooke]]
|'''{{bbu-big|18|CUB}}'''
|{{bbu-big|18|TPE}}
|colspan=2|{{bbu-big|18|USA}}
|-
|2004<br>''[[2004 World Junior Baseball Championship|Details]]''
|{{flagicon|TWN}}<br>[[Taipei]]
|'''{{bbu-big|18|CUB}}'''
|{{bbu-big|18|JPN}}
|colspan=2|{{bbu-big|18|KOR|1997}}
|- style="background: #D0E6FF;"
|2006<br>''[[2006 World Junior Baseball Championship|Details]]''
|{{flagicon|CUB}}<br>[[Sancti Spíritus]]
|'''{{bbu-big|18|KOR|1997}}'''
|{{bbu-big|18|USA}}
|colspan=2|{{bbu-big|18|CAN}}
|-
|2008<br>''[[2008 World Junior Baseball Championship|Details]]''
|{{flagicon|CAN}}<br>[[Edmonton]]
|'''{{bbu-big|18|KOR|1997}}'''
|{{bbu-big|18|USA}}
|colspan=2|{{bbu-big|18|CUB}}
|- style="background: #D0E6FF;"
|2010<br>''[[2010 World Junior Baseball Championship|Details]]''
|{{flagicon|CAN}}<br>[[Thunder Bay]]
|'''{{bbu-big|18|TPE}}'''
|{{bbu-big|18|AUS}}
|colspan=2|{{bbu-big|18|CUB}}
|}
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:90%; text-align: center;"
!colspan=6|18U Baseball World Championship
|-
!rowspan=2 width=5%|Year 
!rowspan=2 width=10%|Final Host
!colspan=4|Medalists
|-
!width=17%|Gold
!width=17%|Silver
!width=17% colspan=2|Bronze
|-
|2012<br>''[[2012 18U Baseball World Championship|Details]]''
|{{flagicon|KOR}}<br>[[Seoul]]
|'''{{bbu-big|18|USA}}'''
|{{bbu-big|18|CAN}}
|colspan=2|{{bbu-big|18|TPE}}
|- style="background: #D0E6FF;"
|-
!colspan=7|18U Baseball World Cup
|-
|2013<br>''[[2013 18U Baseball World Cup|Details]]''
|{{flagicon|TWN}}<br>[[Taichung]]
|'''{{bbu-big|18|USA}}'''
|{{bbu-big|18|JPN}}
|colspan=2|{{bbu-big|18|CUB}}
|-
!colspan=7|U-18 Baseball World Cup
|-
|2015<br>''[[2015 U-18 Baseball World Cup|Details]]''
|{{flagicon|JPN}}<br>[[Osaka]]
|'''{{bbu-big|18|USA}}'''
|{{bbu-big|18|JPN}}
|colspan=2|{{bbu-big|18|KOR}}
|-style="background: #D0E6FF;"
|2017<br>''[[2017 U-18 Baseball World Cup|Details]]''
|{{flagicon|CAN}}<br>[[Thunder Bay]]
|'''{{bbu-big|18|USA}}'''
|{{bbu-big|18|KOR}}
|colspan=2|{{bbu-big|18|JPN}}
|-
|2019<br>''[[2019 U-18 Baseball World Cup|Details]]''
|{{flagicon|KOR}}<br>[[Gijang]]
|'''{{bbu-big|18|TPE}}'''
|{{bbu-big|18|USA}}
|colspan=2|{{bbu-big|18|KOR}}
|-style="background: #D0E6FF;"
|2022<br>''[[2022 U-18 Baseball World Cup|Details]]''<ref group=R>Originally scheduled to be held in 2021, but due to the [[COVID-19 pandemic]], postponed to September 2022.</ref>
|{{flagicon|USA}}<br>[[Sarasota, Florida|Sarasota]] & [[Bradenton, Florida|Bradenton, FL]]
|'''{{bbu-big|18|USA}}'''
|{{bbu-big|18|TPE}}
|colspan=2|{{bbu-big|18|JPN}}
|-
|2023<br>''[[2023 U-18 Baseball World Cup|Details]]''
|{{flagicon|TWN}}<br>[[Taipei]], [[Taichung]]
|'''{{bbu-big|18|JPN}}'''
|{{bbu-big|18|TPE}}
|colspan=2|{{bbu-big|18|KOR}}
|--style="background: #D0E6FF;"
|2025<br>''[[2025 U-18 Baseball World Cup|Details]]''
|{{flagicon|JPN}}<br>[[Naha]]
|
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|-
|2027<br>''[[2027 U-18 Baseball World Cup|Details]]''
|{{flagicon|CHN}}<br>[[Pingtan County|Pingtan]]
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|}
:;Notes
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==Medal table==
{{Medals table
 | caption        = 
 | host           = 
 | show_limit     = 
 | remaining_link = 
 | flag_template  = flagcountry
 | event          = 
 | team           =
 | gold_CUB = 11 | silver_CUB = 2 | bronze_CUB = 5
 | gold_USA = 10 | silver_USA = 12 | bronze_USA = 5
 | gold_KOR = 5 | silver_KOR = 1 | bronze_KOR = 4
 | gold_TPE = 3 | silver_TPE = 10 | bronze_TPE = 7
 | gold_JPN = 1 | silver_JPN = 4 | bronze_JPN = 2
 | gold_CAN = 1 | silver_CAN = 1 | bronze_CAN = 4
 | gold_AUS = 0 | silver_AUS = 1 | bronze_AUS = 4
}}

<sup>1</sup><small>[[Chinese Taipei]] is the official [[World Baseball Softball Confederation|WBSC]] designation for the team representing the state officially referred to as the [[Republic of China]], more commonly known as [[Taiwan]]. (See also [[political status of Taiwan]] for details.)</small>

==See also==
*[[Baseball awards#World]]
*[[International Baseball Federation]]
*[[World Baseball Softball Confederation]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{U-18 Baseball World Cup winners}}
{{18U Baseball World Cup}}
{{WBSC navbox}}
{{International Baseball}}

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