World Port Tournament

World Port Tournament
Sport	Baseball
Founded	1984
No. of teams	5 (Finals)
Continent	International
Most recent champion(s)	Taiwan (2nd time)
Most titles	Cuba (7)

The World Port Tournament is an international baseball tournament held at the Neptunus Familiestadion in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The tournament has been held every other year (2005 excluded) in odd-numbered years since 1985, alternating with the Haarlem Baseball Week.

The tournament was created by Bram Peper, who was asked by Cuban Dr. Oscar Ferdinand Mell to organize an international baseball tournament, between national baseball teams all over the world, in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The 2017 World Port Tournament, the sixteenth edition of the event, was won by Taiwan, winning the tournament the second time in history.

Results

Year	Champions	Runners-up	3rd place	4th place
Year	Final		3rd/4th place
1985	Habana	Kobe	Dallas	Netherlands
1987	Habana	Chinese Taipei	Netherlands	Osaka
1989	Netherlands	Baltimore	Habana	Chinese Taipei
1991	Baltimore	Canada	Habana	Curaçao
1993	MLB All Stars	Red Machine	Netherlands	Canada
1995	Habana	Netherlands	Red Machine	Hyundai Phoenix
1997	Cuba	Netherlands	Chinese Taipei	Baltimore Corrigans
1999	Netherlands	Cuba	Sullivans	Chinese Taipei
2001	Cuba	Netherlands	Italy	Chinese Taipei
2003	Cuba	Netherlands	Chinese Taipei	Eastern Connecticut
2007 Details	Cuba	Chinese Taipei	United States	Netherlands
2009 Details	Cuba	Netherlands	Chinese Taipei	Japan
2011 Details	Chinese Taipei	Cuba	Netherlands	Curaçao
2013 Details	Cuba	Netherlands	Chinese Taipei	Curaçao
2015 Details	Cuba	Netherlands	Curaçao	Japan
2017 Details	Taiwan	Japan	Curaçao	Netherlands

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Cuba	9	2	2	13
2	Netherlands	2	6	3	12
3	United States	2	1	3	6
4	Chinese Taipei¹	2	2	3	7
5	Aruba	0	1	1	2
6	Canada	0	1	0	1
6	Japan	0	2	0	2
8	Curaçao	0	0	2	2
8	Italy	0	0	1	1

^1 Chinese Taipei is the official IBAF designation for the team representing the state officially referred to as the Republic of China, more commonly known as Taiwan. (See also political status of Taiwan for details.)

External links

World Port Tournament official website (Dutch)

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