As November continues and we are just two months away from flipping the calendar to 2025, the World Baseball Classic has revealed the dates and locations for the 2025 World Baseball Classic Qualifiers. The two locations will be Tucson, Arizona, and Taipei, Taiwan.
The 2025 #worldbaseballclassic qualifier dates and locations have been announced!!!
Feb. 21-25, 2025: Taipei, Taiwan
March 2-6, 2025: Tucson, Arizona pic.twitter.com/zSV35l3mk6— World Baseball Network (@WorldBaseball_) November 12, 2024
The teams grouped and playing in Taiwan will be Chinese Taipei, South Africa, Nicaragua, and Spain. The competition will begin on February 21, 2025, until February 25. The first-place team and the winner of Game 7 will advance to the 2026 World Baseball Classic.
As for the Qualifiers in Tucson, Arizona, China, Germany, Brazil, and Colombia will be grouped together. Their games will begin on March 2, 2025, and run through March 6. The same style will apply, where the first-place team and the winner between the second and third-place teams will advance to the 2026 World Baseball Classic.
Four teams in the 2025 Qualifiers will have a shot at punching their ticket into the World Baseball Classic for March 2026. It will be intriguing to see which players will get to represent their home country, as the games are only three months away.