Challenge de France de baseball

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

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

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)