Challenge de France de baseball

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The Challenge de France de baseball was created in 2002. It brings together the 8 best teams in the country, and the winner qualifies for the European Cup.

Senart hoists the winner's trophy in 2008

Format[edit]

The eight teams from the Division Elite play in the Challenge. The event takes place over 4 days with two pools of four teams, then moves to the semi-finals and the final game, 15 games in total spread out over the four days.

Past Winners[edit]

Since the Challenge was created in 2002, the Rouen Huskies have won ten times, the Templiers de Sénart have won four times and the Lions de Savigny-sur-Orge and have won twice. The Challenge was not played in 2004, 2010 or 2020.

Year-by-Year Challenge de France Results
Year Winner Runner Up
2002 Rouen Baseball 76 Paris Université Club
2003 Lions de Savigny-sur-Orge Rouen Baseball 76
2004 Was not played in 2004
2005 Lions de Savigny-sur-Orge Rouen Baseball 76
2006 Barracudas de Montpellier Lions de Savigny-sur-Orge
2007 Rouen Huskies Tigers de Toulouse
2008 Templiers de Sénart Lions de Savigny-sur-Orge
2009 Rouen Huskies Lions de Savigny-sur-Orge
2010 Was not played in 2010
2011 Rouen Huskies Lions de Savigny-sur-Orge
2012 Rouen Huskies Lions de Savigny-sur-Orge
2013 Rouen Huskies Templiers de Sénart
2014 Templiers de Sénart Montpellier Barracudas
2015 Rouen Huskies Templiers de Sénart
2016 Rouen Huskies Templiers de Sénart
2017 Templiers de Sénart Barracudas de Montpellier
2018 Rouen Huskies Templiers de Sénart
2019 Templiers de Sénart Rouen Huskies
2020 Was not played in 2020
2021 Montpellier Barracudas Rouen Huskies
2022 Rouen Huskies Lions de Savigny-sur-Orge

Sources: Some or all content from this article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenge_de_France_de_baseball".

External Sites: Challenge de France website (currently empty)