2011 Baseball World Cup

2011 Baseball World Cup

Tournament details
Country	Panama
Dates	1–15 October
Teams	16
Final positions
Champions	Netherlands (1st title)
Runner-up	Cuba
Third place	Canada
Fourth place	United States
Tournament statistics
Games played	67
Attendance	156,471 (2,335 per game)
MVP	Curt Smith
← 2009

The 2011 Baseball World Cup (BWC) was the 39th international Men's amateur baseball tournament. The tournament was sanctioned by the International Baseball Federation, which titled it the Amateur World Series from the 1938 tournament through the 1986 AWS. Panama were first-time hosts (beating out bids from Chinese Taipei and Venezuela),^[1][2][3] with games held in four cities, from October 1 to 15.

The Netherlands defeated Cuba in the final, winning its first title, and only the second ever for a European team, after Great Britain's win of the inaugural 1938 AWS.

There were 16 participating countries, split into two groups for Round 1, with the first four of each group qualifying for an amalgamated Round 2, which determined the single-game matchups for the finals. Games were played in the Panamanian cities of Aguadulce, Chitré, Panama City and Santiago de Veraguas. The final two medals games were held in Panama City.

This was the final BWC tournament, which was replaced in 2015 by the quadrennial WBSC Premier12.