The 2022 WBSC Men's Softball World Championship was the 17th Men's Softball World Championship, an international softball tournament taking place in Auckland, New Zealand from 26 November to 4 December 2022. Originally scheduled for February 2021, the tournament was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. New Zealand last hosted the tournament in 2013. It will be the 17th edition of the tournament.
Argentina were the defending champions, and lost the third place playoff to the United States. Australia defeated Canada 5–2 in the final to claim their second World Cup.
Qualified teams
Squads
Officials
15 umpires were selected by the WBSC for the tournament.
Venue
Rosedale Park in Rosedale, Auckland hosted all the games across two fields.
Opening Round
Group A
Group B
Placement Round
The bottom three teams from each group progress to the placement round. Head to head results against the other bottom three team from the Opening Round will carry over to help determine final placings. In games between equal seeds, a coin toss determines the home team.
Super Round
The top three teams from each group progress to the placement round. Head to head results against the other top three team from the Opening Round will carry over to help determine final placings and the four nations that qualify for the Final Round. In games between equal seeds, a coin toss determines the home team.
Final Round
Third place play-off
Final
Statistics
The statistics below include all opening, super and placement round games.
Homeruns
3 homeruns
Alan Peker
Nick Shailes
Bryan Abrey
Derek Mayson
Kazuya Toriyama
Blaine Milheim
2 homeruns
James Todhunter
Colin Walsh
Vojtěch Buchner
Vojtěch Forman
George Harris
Tei Hamamoto
Hikaru Matsuda
Reilly Makea
Jonathan Lynch
1 homerun
Santiago Carril
Manuel Godoy
Julian Jemmott
Marshall Kronk
Hayden Mathews
Joshua McGovern
Scott Patterson
Shane Boland
Quinten Bruce
Bradley Ezekiel
Mathieu Roy
Ty Sebastian
Reynaldo Lamote
Osvaldo Pérez
Yesander Rodriguez
Miguel Savigne
Tomáš Klein
Marek Malý
Tobias Holmelund
Benjamin Enoka
Thomas Enoka
Cole Evans
Joel Evans
Jerome Raemaki
Pita Rona
Denmark Bathan
Melvin de Castro
Justine Rosales
Melvin de Castro
Tyler Croft
Yusef Davis Jr. Erick Ochoa Matt Palazzo Cameron Schiller Rafael Flores Edinson Marrero
Leading players
Player of the day
Final standings
Awards
Broadcasting
Whakaata Māori broadcast all 50 games on the MĀORI+ app with all New Zealand games also on television. International viewers were able to stream the tournament on WBSC's OTT Channel GameTime.
Symbols
Match balls
The match balls used for the 2022 tournament were the Mizuno M150 balls, which were also used in the Tokyo 2022 Olympics. Mizuno supplied 1,152 balls for the tournament.