The qualifying round of the 2026 World Baseball Classic, officially called the World Baseball Classic 2025 Qualifiers, will be held from February 21 to March 6, 2025.
The top four teams in each pool of the 2023 World Baseball Classic automatically qualified for the 2026 tournament.
The qualifiers will consist of two tournaments with four teams each, and will be held in Taipei, Taiwan, and Tucson.
[2] Note: Numbers in parentheses indicate positions in the latest WBSC World Rankings (September 18, 2024) at the time of the announcement of the qualifiers.
In preparation for the pool, some teams had played friendlies and tournaments, the Chinese Taipei team played friendlies against the KBO´s Lotte Giants at February 12 and 13 in the Taipei Dome[3][4].and Some Nicaragua team players played the Serie de las Américas, Pool B will take place at the Kino Sports Complex´s Veterans Memorial Stadium in Tucson, Arizona, United States, on March 2–6, 2025.