Men's Softball World Cup
The Men's Softball World Cup, known through 2015 as the ISF Men's World Championship, is a softball tournament for the best national men's teams in the world. From 1966 to 2013 it was held every four years, first by the International Softball Federation and from 2019 an onward it is held every two years by the World Baseball Softball Confederation, the 16 best teams in the world compete.
Results
In 1976 the final day was rained out. New Zealand, USA and Canada were all awarded the gold medal.Participating nations
| Teams | 1966 | 1968 | 1972 | 1976 | 1980 | 1984 | 1988 | 1992 | 1996 | 2000 | 2004 | 2009 | 2013 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 | 2022 | 2025 | |
| 12th | 9th | 6th | 9th | 8th | 7th | 4th | 7th | 4th | 1st | 4th | 5th | 12 | |||||||
| 7th | 5th | 7th | 12th | 3rd | 1st | 3rd | 4th | 2nd | 7th | 1st | 6th | 12 | |||||||
| 6th | 7th | 3rd | 8th | 6th | 10th | 6 | |||||||||||||
| 15th | 13th | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| 12th | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 14th | 10th | 18th | 9th | 13th | 13th | 8th | 14th | 8 | |||||||||||
| 9th | 2nd | 1st | 1st | 2nd | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 4th | 2nd | 3rd | 5th | 1st | 3rd | 3rd | 2nd | 7th | 18 | |
| 8th | 5th | 6th | 4th | 11th | 9th | 14th | 15th | 8 | |||||||||||
| 10th | 10th | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| 4th | 10th | 5th | 3 | ||||||||||||||||
| 12th | 12th | 6th | 7th | 9th | 11th | 8th | 9th | 8th | 9th | 17th | 11 | ||||||||
| 14th | 15th | 13th | 11th | 14th | 12th | 9th | 12th | 8 | |||||||||||
| 8th | 11th | 5th | 7th | 5th | 11th | 8th | 7 | ||||||||||||
| 10th | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 9th | 8th | 9th | 11th | 13th | 5 | ||||||||||||||
| 7th | 6th | 8th | 10th | 16th | 5 | ||||||||||||||
| 12th | 9th | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| 10th | 16th | 14th | 15th | 14th | 14th | 6 | |||||||||||||
| 15th | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 11th | 16th | 16th | 3 | ||||||||||||||||
| 20th | 15th | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| 7th | 10th | 6th | 4th | 7th | 6th | 5th | 4th | 3rd | 2nd | 6th | 6th | 6th | 6th | 5th | 2nd | 7th | 4th | 18 | |
| 17th | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 16th | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 12th | 9th | 8th | 5th | 11th | 14th | 13th | 10th | 11th | 16th | 14 | |||||
| 9th | 13th | 14th | 14th | 14th | 15th | 13th | 11th | 8 | |||||||||||
| 11th | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 3rd | 5th | 3rd | 1st | 4th | 1st | 2nd | 2nd | 1st | 1st | 1st | 2nd | 1st | 2nd | 1st | 4th | 8th | 2nd | 18 | |
| 11th | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 13th | 16th | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| 4th | 6th | 11th | 12th | 4 | |||||||||||||||
| 22nd | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 9th | 7th | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| 14th | 17th | 19th | 3 | ||||||||||||||||
| 4th | 5th | 8th | 7th | 10th | 10th | 10th | 15th | 13th | 16th | 10th | 18th | 12 | |||||||
| 21st | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 6th | 7th | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| 9th | 15th | 15th | 13th | 4 | |||||||||||||||
| 9th | 7th | 13th | 8th | 8th | 12th | 15th | 12th | 10th | 12th | 11th | 12th | 12 | |||||||
| 16th | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1st | 1st | 2nd | 1st | 1st | 3rd | 1st | 3rd | 4th | 3rd | 4th | 4th | 8th | 9th | 6th | 5th | 3rd | 3rd | 18 | |
| 8th | 10th | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| 5th | 6th | 5th | 11th | 5th | 2nd | 3rd | 7th | 6th | 6th | 1st | 11 | ||||||||
| 13th | 10th | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| No. of Teams | 11 | 10 | 10 | 7 | 14 | 16 | 14 | 17 | 22 | 16 | 15 | 16 | 16 | 15 | 16 | 16 | 12 | 18 |
- Czech Republic has participated as in 1992.
Records and statistics
''All statistics are up to date to the end of the 2022 Men's Softball World Championship.''Individual
; Highest batting average: 0.647, Clark Bosh; Most Stolen Bases: 6, Brian Rothrock ; Marty Kernaghan
; Most Doubles: 7, Bob McKinnon
; Most Triples: 4, Redelio Cruz ; Mark Sorenson and Taifau Matai
; Most Home Runs: 8, Brian Rothrock ; Marty Kernaghan
; Most Runs Scored: 19, Marty Kernaghan
; Most Hits: 21, Crestwell Pratt ; Bob McKinnon
; Most RBI's: 23, Brian Rothrock
; Most Innings pitched: 59, Ty Stofflet
; Most strikeouts: 98, Ty Stofflet
; Most strikeouts in a single game: 32, Ty Stofflet
; Most consecutive scoreless innings: 59, Ty Stofflet
Team
; Highest batting average: 0.404, Canada; Most Runs: 142, Canada
; Most RBI's: 125, Canada
; Most Home-Runs: 37, Canada
; Most Hits: 142, United States
; Lowest ERA: 0.19, United States