The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) and host Czech Softball Association (CSA) today announced the launch of global ticket sales — with GoOut the exclusive ticket agent — for the WBSC Men’s Softball World Championship 2019

The top two nations from the African Softball Championships have qualified for this year’s World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) Men’s World Softball Championship in Prague and Havlickuv Brod, and Junior Women’s Softball World Cup in Irvine, California

The Mbolekwa Sports Complex, in Atteridgeville, South Africa, will host the Senior Men and Junior Women’s African Championships from 10-13 January. The final games on Saturday 13 will be live streamed by 360 Sport.

USA Softball announced that Gregg Leather will serve as Head Coach for the 2019 USA Softball Men’s National Team. Selected by members of the USA Softball Men’s National Team Selection Committee, Leather will lead the Red, White and Blue at select events on the 2019 schedule.

WBSC Men’s Softball World Rankings expands to record 48 nations. South Africa takes over as the top-ranked African nation. All five Olympic continents featured within the Top 12.

In another showcase of men’s softball continuous development in the Old Continent, the newly established Team Europe beat world champion New Zealand by a score of 6-5, in a 10-innings exhibition game played in Havlickuv Brod, Czech Republic.

Six of the top 12 nations in the world will kick off tomorrow the first edition of the Men’s Softball Intercontinental Cup, to be held at the newly reconstructed Svoboda Ballpark in Prague, Czech Republic, host of the WBSC Men’s Softball World Championship 2019.

Viewers from 183 countries and territories watched the flagship global youth softball tournament online. Economic impact of WBSC’s World Championship in Prince Albert expected to top CAD$ 10 million for local community.

World No. 7 Czech Republic crowned yesterday Men’s Softball European Champions for the fourth time in a row, defeating No. 19 Netherlands, 10-3, in the finale. Both nations, along with No. 11 Denmark, qualified to the WBSC Men’s Softball World Championship 2019

Czech Republic, Denmark, Great Britain and Netherlands remain alive in the XIV Men’s Softball European Championship, and are still in the hunt to fill one of the three available spots in the WBSC Men’s Softball World Championship 2019.