Canada Cup International Softball Championship

The Canada Cup is an annual international women's softball tournament held at the Softball City Complex in South Surrey, British Columbia.

Format

Following an announcement on June 13, 1991, by the International Softball Federation that women's fastpitch was being made a full-medal sport at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, the Canada Cup was created to provide the Canadian national softball team with a world calibre team competition in order to help prepare for Olympic qualifying.

Over the years, the Canada Cup has evolved into one of the most prestigious international softball tournaments. Today, the competition is split among four separate tournaments:

• Canada Cup: Showcase event, featuring the top women's teams globally
• Canada Cup Futures: featuring about 30 of the top U19 teams globally
• Canada Cup Showcase: featuring top U16 teams
• Canada Cup Special O: a mixed Special Olympics Division

Although a number of US and Japanese club teams have competed in the Canada Cup, the showcase event has evolved primarily into a national team competition between the following countries:

• Australia
• China
• Canada
• Chinese Taipei
• Japan
• Netherlands
• Puerto Rico
• Venezuela

This tournament enjoys strong local support with hundreds of community volunteers. Each team is assigned a bat girl from one of the local teams plus a family support liaison from the community. Another unusual part of this tournament is the concurrent co-ed Slow-Pitch Friendship Division tournament for developmentally disabled adults which is run at the same site as the premier International Women's Fastpitch tournament. Viewers can watch both at the same time.

Tournament History

Year	Champions	Runners-up	Attendance
1993	Redding Rebels		43,968
1994	Redding Rebels		56,829
1995	California Commotion		70,108
1996	Canada		79,136
1998	Australia		95,869
1999	United States (Gold)	Australia	100,419
2000	Australia	China	109,814
2001	Japan (Red)	Australia	110,346
2002	United States (World)	United States (Elite)	122,504
2003	United States (Elite)	Australia	113,916
2004	Japan	Australia	91,201
2005	Australia	United States (Elite)	105,856
2006	Australia	Canada	112,676
2007	United States	Japan	119,301
2008	Japan	Australia	102,647
2009	United States	Canada	N/A
2010	Cancelled
2011	United States	Japan	N/A
2012	Japan	United States	N/A
2013	Japan	Australia	N/A
2014	Japan	United States	N/A
2022	United States	T.C. Colorado	N/A

External links

• Official site