Canada Cup International Softball Championship

The Canada Cup is an annual international women's softball tournament held at the Softball City Complex in South Surrey, British Columbia.

Format

Following an announcement on June 13, 1991, by the International Softball Federation that women's fastpitch was being made a full-medal sport at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, the Canada Cup was created to provide the Canadian national softball team with a world calibre team competition in order to help prepare for Olympic qualifying.

Over the years, the Canada Cup has evolved into one of the most prestigious international softball tournaments. Today, the competition is split among four separate tournaments:

• Canada Cup: Showcase event, featuring the top women's teams globally
• Canada Cup Futures: featuring about 30 of the top U19 teams globally
• Canada Cup Showcase: featuring top U16 teams
• Canada Cup Special O: a mixed Special Olympics Division

Although a number of US and Japanese club teams have competed in the Canada Cup, the showcase event has evolved primarily into a national team competition between the following countries:

• Australia
• China
• Canada
• Chinese Taipei
• Japan
• Netherlands
• Puerto Rico
• Venezuela

This tournament enjoys strong local support with hundreds of community volunteers. Each team is assigned a bat girl from one of the local teams plus a family support liaison from the community. Another unusual part of this tournament is the concurrent co-ed Slow-Pitch Friendship Division tournament for developmentally disabled adults which is run at the same site as the premier International Women's Fastpitch tournament. Viewers can watch both at the same time.

Tournament History

Year	Champions	Runners-up	Attendance
1993	Redding Rebels		43,968
1994	Redding Rebels		56,829
1995	California Commotion		70,108
1996	File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada		79,136
1998	File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia		95,869
1999	File:Flag of the United States.svg United States (Gold)	File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia	100,419
2000	File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia	File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg China	109,814
2001	File:Flag of Japan.svg Japan (Red)	File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia	110,346
2002	File:Flag of the United States.svg United States (World)	File:Flag of the United States.svg United States (Elite)	122,504
2003	File:Flag of the United States.svg United States (Elite)	File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia	113,916
2004	File:Flag of Japan.svg Japan	File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia	91,201
2005	File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia	File:Flag of the United States.svg United States (Elite)	105,856
2006	File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia	File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada	112,676
2007	File:Flag of the United States.svg United States	File:Flag of Japan.svg Japan	119,301
2008	File:Flag of Japan.svg Japan	File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia	102,647
2009	File:Flag of the United States.svg United States	File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada	N/A
2010	Cancelled
2011	File:Flag of the United States.svg United States	File:Flag of Japan.svg Japan	N/A
2012	File:Flag of Japan.svg Japan	File:Flag of the United States.svg United States	N/A
2013	File:Flag of Japan.svg Japan	File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia	N/A
2014	File:Flag of Japan.svg Japan	File:Flag of the United States.svg United States	N/A
2022	File:Flag of the United States.svg United States	T.C. Colorado	N/A

External links

• Official site