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South Korea's women's national baseball team is challenging to qualify for the main tournament of the 2026 Women's Baseball World Cup organized by the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC).
The South Korean Yeo Ja-ya-gu (CEO)team will play its first match against the United States in the qualifiers held in Rockford, U.S., starting on July 22.
The South Korean team, grouped with the United States, Mexico, Hong Kong, Australia, and Canada in the Rockford group, will compete in a round-robin tournament from the 22nd to the 26th in Rockford.
South Korea qualified for the Women's Baseball World Cup group qualifiers by finishing fourth at the 2025 Asian Baseball Federation (BFA) Women's Asian Cup. While Japan and Taiwan, who advanced to the Asian Cup final, will hold their B-group qualifiers in Tainan, Taiwan, South Korea was assigned to Group A alongside third-place Hong Kong from the Asian Cup and traveled all the way to the United States.
The Taiwan group, which includes Japan, Venezuela, Taiwan, Cuba, the United Kingdom, and the Philippines, will conduct its qualifiers from August 23 to August 27. The top two teams from each group plus two wild-card teams, totaling six teams, will advance to the final round in Rockford, U.S., next year to determine the champion.
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