2022 Men's Softball World Championship
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.
Officials
15 umpires were selected by the WBSC for the tournament.| Confederation | Umpires |
| WBSC Africa | Abel Mataboge |
| WBSC Americas | William Burwell |
| WBSC Americas | Geneviève Gaudreau |
| WBSC Americas | Scott McLaren |
| WBSC Asia | Mitsunori Kusamoto |
| WBSC Asia | Naoya Matsuda |
| WBSC Europe | Mariana Atanasova |
| WBSC Europe | Jens Jakobsen |
| WBSC Europe | Michal Zidek |
| WBSC Oceania | Jason Carter |
| WBSC Oceania | Leigh Evans |
| WBSC Oceania | David Fortin |
| WBSC Oceania | Mark Porteous |
| WBSC Oceania | Lance Brown |
| WBSC Oceania | Tony Kaiaruna |
| Confederation | Scorers |
| WBSC Asia | Yu-Wei Horng |
| WBSC Asia | Fuka Nakamura |
| WBSC Europe | Feiko Drost |
| WBSC Oceania | Kirsty Andrews |
| WBSC Oceania | Marie Byrne |
| WBSC Oceania | Carolyn McQueen |
| WBSC Oceania | More Natana |
| WBSC Oceania | Tracee Topia |
| WBSC Oceania | Sharon Williams |
| Confederation | Technical Commission |
| WBSC Americas | Ray Gutierrez |
| WBSC Asia | Shuro Tsukioka |
| WBSC Europe | Anna Battigeli |
| WBSC Europe | Gabriele Hardinger |
| WBSC Oceania | Rata Joanne |
| WBSC Oceania | Leathart Jane |
| WBSC Oceania | Clarke Raewyn |
Venue
Rosedale Park in Rosedale, Auckland hosted all the games across two fields.| Auckland | |
| Rosedale Park | |
| Capacity: 3,500 | |
Opening Round
Group A
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Group B
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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.----
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Super Round
The top three teams from each group progress to the super 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.----
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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
- James Todhunter
- Colin Walsh
- Vojtěch Buchner
- Vojtěch Forman
- George Harris
- Tei Hamamoto
- Hikaru Matsuda
- Reilly Makea
- Jonathan Lynch
- 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
| Stat | Player | Total |
| AVG | Quinten Bruce | .550 |
| HR | 6 players | 3 |
| RBI | Bryan Abrey | 11 |
| R | Scott Patterson | 10 |
| H | Blaine Milheim Jonathan Lynch | 14 |
| SB | Alan Peker Yusef Davis Jr. | 3 |
| Stat | Player | Total |
| W | Huemul Mata Jack Besgrove Alain Román | 4 |
| L | Kim Hansen | 6 |
| ERA | Roman Godoy | 1.04 |
| SO | Jack Besgrove | 71 |
| IP | Alain Román | 40.2 |
| SV | Roman Godoy Guber Plutin Bradley Kilpatrick | 2 |