Cuba to attend 1st Copa America Baseball

Cuba will once again compete with the elite of continental baseball during the 1st Copa America Baseball, Juan Reinaldo Perez Pardo, president of the Cuban Baseball Federation, confirmed today to the Cuban News Agency.

The event, scheduled to be held from November 13 to 22 in Panama and Mexico, will gather the twelve best teams of the continent according to the ranking of the World Baseball and Softball Confederation (WBSC), in a competition that aspires to become a reference in the international calendar.

Cuba, ranked sixth in the area, will be part of Group B in Mexico along with the United States, Puerto Rico, Nicaragua, Canada and the host country, where they will battle for one of the three spots offered by the tournament to the Super Round.

In key A, to be played in Panama, the locals will face Venezuela, Dominican Republic, Colombia, Brazil and Curacao.

The tournament will grant tickets to the four best teams to the Central American and Caribbean Games in Santo Domingo 2026 and is also being considered to distribute places to the Pan American Games in Lima 2027, which increases the strategic importance of each clash.

For the Cuban Baseball Federation, this Cup represents a key opportunity in its goal of inserting the country's players -both residents and contracted abroad- in tournaments of the highest competitive level. The aspiration is not only to reach the podium, but to reaffirm Cuba as a historic power in the sport in the Americas.

The WBSC Americas is hopeful that this first edition will mark a before and after in the organization of professional tournaments in a continent that, like few others, breathes and lives baseball to the fullest.