2006 Intercontinental Cup (baseball)


The 2006 IBAF Intercontinental Cup was held in Taichung, Taiwan from November 9 through the 19th. Eight countries contested the tournament, which was played at Taichung Baseball Field and the newly built Taichung Intercontinental Baseball Stadium. The participating countries were Cuba, Australia, Italy, the Netherlands, Japan, South Korea, the Philippines in addition to the hosts from Chinese Taipei. The tournament was sanctioned by the International Baseball Federation.

Ticket Sales

Tickets went on sale at noon on Friday, November 3 for the games of the first four days over the Internet. Over following days, tickets for the next day not yet offered will then become available. Internet sales of tickets will end at noon two days prior to the date the game is played. The Sunday, November 11 game between Taiwan and South Korea was the first game to sell out, having sold out within three hours of tickets being made available.

Round robin

The eight teams will play a round robin format in which they will each play the other teams once. This means that each team will play seven games in this first phase of the tournament over the course of eight days.
1 Game called due to bad weather condition.
2 Dutch manager ejected in the top of the eleventh for obscenities in argument with an umpire.
The teams that finish in fifth through eighth place in the round robin will face off in the consolation round. All consolation round matches will be played at Taichung Baseball Field.

Medal Round

The top four teams from the round robin will enter the medal round of the competition. All medal round games will be played at the Intercontinental Baseball Stadium.
Final line score

Final standings

RankCountry
1 Cuba
2 The Netherlands
3 Chinese Taipei
4 Japan
5 Australia
6 Italy
7 South Korea
8 Philippines

Trivia