WBSC Youth Baseball5 World Cup 2025 qualification process begins in Africa

WBSC Africa has started the qualification process for the WBSC Youth Baseball5 World Cup 2025 with three regional qualifying tournaments involving 11 programmes seeing the top two finishers of each region advance to the next stage.

The Africa Nazarene University (ANU) in Nairobi, Kenya, hosted the East Zone Qualifiers on August 10 and 11. World No. 27 Uganda and No. 15 Kenya prevailed over No. 22 Tanzania.

No. 6 South Africa and No. 40 Zimbabwe qualified out of the Southern Zone Qualifier. Lesotho and Botswana placed third and fourth in the tournament hosted by South Africa in Seshego, Polokwane, Limpopo, from August 9 to 11.

No. 3 Tunisia and No. 11 Ghana qualified out of the Western Zone tournament, which was hosted by Lagos, Nigeria, from August 14 to 18. The hosts and No. 38 Nigeria finished third, and No. 42 Benin placed fourth.

WBSC Africa will schedule the Super6 Africa Youth Baseball5 Championship from December 2024 to January 2025. They opened the bid to host the event among the six participating Nations. The Super6 Africa Youth Baseball5 Championship will qualify two teams to the WBSC Youth Baseball5 World Cup 2025.