Russia national baseball team

The Russia national baseball team is the national baseball team of Russia. The team competed in the bi-annual European Baseball Championship.

Russia national baseball team
Information
Country	Russia
Confederation	WBSC Europe
WBSC ranking
Current	39 (31 December 2024)[1]

History

The Russian national baseball team has never won a championship. Their head coach is Vladimir Timakov. The team was formed in 1987.^{[citation needed]}

After the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the World Baseball Softball Confederation banned Russian athletes and officials.^[2] In addition, WBSC Europe relocated competitions that had been scheduled to be held in Russia during 2022, and excluded Russian teams from all its competitions for both national and club teams to be held in Europe in 2022.^[3]

Placings

Baseball World Cup

• 1998 : 16th
• 2001 : 13th
• 2003 : 14th

Intercontinental Cup

• 1991 : 9th

European Baseball Championship

• 1991 : 6th
• 1993 : 8th
• 1995 : 8th
• 1997 : 4th
• 1999 : 4th
• 2001 : 2nd
• 2003 : 8th
• 2005 : 11th
• 2007 : 10th
• 2012 : 12th
• 2014 : 8th
• 2016 : 12th
• 2019 : Did not qualify