Group A of the 2024 Women's Softball World Cup will take place from 11 to 15 July 2023 in Balbriggan, Republic of Ireland. The group consists of host nation Ireland, Chinese Taipei, United States, Great Britain, Australia and Botswana. The United States and Australia advanced to the Finals to be held in 2024, with the United States going undefeated winning all four of their games.
Hannah Flippen of the United States was named the most valuable player of Group A.
Teams Draw positionTeamConfederationMethod ofqualificationDate ofqualification FinalsappearanceLastappearancePrevious bestperformanceWBSC Rankings A1 WBSC Europe Hosts 9 June 2022 2nd 2016 Group stage (2016) 17 A2 WBSC Asia Asia Cup third place 6 April 2023 17th 2022 Runners-up (1982) 3 A3 WBSC Americas Pan American Championship winners 19 November 2022 18th 2022 Winners (1974, 1978, 1986, 1990, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2016, 2018, 2022) 1 A4 WBSC Europe European Championship runners-up 29 July 2022 8th 2022 Runners-up (1982) 16 A5 WBSC Oceania Oceania Automatic (Oceania) 18th 2022 Winners (1965) 9 A6 WBSC Africa African qualifier runners-up 15 February 2023 6th 2018 Group stage (1994, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018) 43
Standings
Note: The final three group games were rained off with the final pairings already being decided.
Summary
All times listed are local, IST (UTC+1).
Matches Great Britain vs Australia The two teams had faced each other three times in a Women's Softball World Cup, most recently in 2018, an 11–0 win for Australia.
United States vs Chinese Taipei
Botswana vs Ireland
Great Britain vs Chinese Taipei
Ireland vs Australia
United States vs Botswana
Chinese Taipei vs Ireland
Australia vs Botswana
Botswana vs Chinese Taipei
Australia vs United States
Ireland vs Great Britain
Chinese Taipei vs Australia
Botswana vs Great Britain Game was cancelled due to weather conditions.
Great Britain vs United States Game was cancelled due to weather conditions.
Ireland vs United States Game was cancelled due to weather conditions.
Play-offs The winner of the final and the repechage qualify for the 2024 finals. Bracket
Summary
Round Date Localtime Road team Score Home team Inn. Venue Gameduration Attendance Boxscore5th place match15 July 202315:30Cancelled—O'Dwyers GAA———3rd place match15 July 202317:153–4 7 O'Dwyers GAA1:53139 BoxscoreFinal15 July 20238:000–7 5 O'Dwyers GAA1:3255 BoxscoreRepechage15 July 202319:354–1 7 O'Dwyers GAA2:1756 Boxscore
Fifth place play-off Game was cancelled due to weather conditions.
Third place play-off
Final
Repechage
Final standings RkTeam1 (Q) 4 02 (Q) 5 23 3 24 2 45 1 36 0 4
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