2024 Women's Softball World Cup
The 2024 Women's Softball World Cup will be the 18th Women's Softball World Cup, an international softball tournament taking place in Balbriggan, Ireland; Buttrio and Castions di Strada, Italy and Valencia, Spain. The group stage will take place from 11–26 July 2023, held as three separate groups across three nations. The finals will take place in Buttrio and Castions di Strada, Italy from 15–21 July 2024. This is the first WBSC event to be held in two stages. It will be the first time Ireland, Italy and Spain have hosted a major softball tournament. It also the first time more than one nation has hosted the tournament. The United States are the defending champions. Qualified teams

Notes

Squads

Venues

Group stage

Group A

Group A will be contested in Balbriggan during 11–15 July 2023. Group B

Group B will be contested in Valencia during 18–22 July 2023. Group C

Group C will be contested in Castions di Strada and Buttrio during 22–26 July 2023. Finals rankings
The ranking of the wildcard spots for the finals stage are as follows. 1) Hosts
2)Top third-place team(s) in the Group Stage, based on final standings from the previous edition of the World Cup
3)Top third-place team(s) in the Group Stage based on the highest position in the WBSC Rankings at the end of the previous calendar year. Italy qualified for the finals as host of that stage, while China qualified as the third placed team with the next best finish at the previous World Cup. Finals

Third place play-off

Final

Statistics

The statistics below include all group stage and finals games. Homeruns
There have been 34 homeruns scored in 52 matches, for an average of  homeruns per match (as of 26 July 2023). 2 homeruns
 Emma Entzminger
 Nodoka Harada
 Hotaru Tsukamoto
 Alison Aguilar

1 homerun

 Philippa Adkins
 Jade Wall
 Kelsey Harshman
 Kianna Jones
 Janet Leung
 Min Ren
 Jiaxin Xie
 Chia-Yun Chang
 Szu-Shih Li
 Chia-Wen Shen
 Georgina Corrick
 Kendyl Scott
 Mckenzie Barbara
 Giulia Koutsoyanopulos
 Erika Piancastelli
 Kyoko Ishikawa
 Kanna Kudo
 Minori Naito
 Dinet Oosting
 Maxime van Dalen
 Nicole Hammoude
 Meritxell Blesa
 Uxua Modrego
 Kiara Robinson-Milloy
 Yuruby Alicart
 Yakary Molina

Player of the day

Awards

Most Valuable Players

Group stage
 Group A –  Hannah Flippen
 Group B –  Aleshia Ocasio

Symbols

Match balls
The match balls that will be used for the 2024 tournament are the Mizuno M170 balls. Notes

References

 
Softball World Championship
Softball World Cup
Softball World Cup