European baseball championship 2010

European baseball championship 2010
Tournament details
host	Germany
Period	23 July – 1. August
Attendees	12
Defending champion	Netherlands
Bottom line
winner	Italy (9th title)
Second	Netherlands
Third	Germany
Fourth	Greece
statistics
Games	41 completed a total of 41 so far
MVP	Giuseppe Mazzanti (ITA)
spectator	22,243   (Ø: 543 per game)

The 2010 European Baseball Championship was the 31st European Baseball Championship . The final round took place from July 23 to August 1, 2010 in Stuttgart , Heidenheim an der Brenz and Neuenburg am Rhein . The Netherlands competed in the European Championship as defending champions .

The four best-placed teams in the 2010 European Baseball Championship qualified directly for the 2011 World Baseball Championship .

Venues

With the European baseball championship 2010, a European baseball championship took place in Germany for the fourth time after 1957 , 1969 and 2001 . After the last European Championship held in Germany with the venues Bonn , Cologne and Solingen took place in the western part of Germany, the European Championship 2010 was awarded to southern Germany with the original venues Stuttgart, Heidenheim and Tübingen . Tübingen was later replaced by Neuchâtel.

Venues during the final round were the “Reds Ballpark am Schnarrenberg” of the Stuttgart Reds , the “New Heideköpfe Ballpark” of the German baseball champions 2009 Heidenheim Heideköpfe and the “Atomics Baseball Park” of the Neuchâtel Atomics .

The temporarily increased stadium in Stuttgart was the main venue, where three games a day were played during the preliminary round and two games a day during the main round. In Heidenheim an der Brenz two games were played a day during the preliminary round and one game a day during the main round. In Neuenburg am Rhein there was one game every day during the preliminary round.

Attendees

Twelve teams have qualified for the 30th European Baseball Championship. The seven best teams in the 2007 European Championship were automatically qualified, including the German national baseball team , which came fourth in 2007. In 2008 there were five qualifying tournaments, the winners of which bought tickets for the European Championship: Belgium, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Greece and the Ukraine. Austria came second and Switzerland third in Group 5, behind Belgium.

Preliminary round

Group A

Pl.		S.	N	R +	R-	Pzt.
1.	Netherlands	5	0	42	03	1,000
2.	Germany	4th	1	34	18th	0.800
3.	France	3	2	33	25th	0.600
4th	Czech Republic	2	3	25th	21st	0.400
5.	Belgium	1	4th	16	36	0.200
6th	Ukraine	0	5	05	52	0,000

date	time	encounter			Result	Venue
July 27, 2010	10.30	France	-	Belgium	8: 2	Stuttgart
July 26, 2010	10.30	Czech Republic	-	Netherlands	1: 7	Heidenheim
July 23, 2010	19.00	Ukraine	-	Germany	0:10	Stuttgart
July 24, 2010	13.00	Belgium	-	Ukraine	9-0	Heidenheim
July 24, 2010	16.00	Netherlands	-	France	10-0	Neuchâtel
July 24, 2010	19.00	Germany	-	Czech Republic	6: 2	Stuttgart
July 25, 2010	18.00	Netherlands	-	Ukraine	12: 2	Heidenheim
July 25, 2010	14.30	Germany	-	Belgium	8: 4	Stuttgart
July 25, 2010	15.00	France	-	Czech Republic	6: 1	Neuchâtel
July 26, 2010	14.30	Czech Republic	-	Belgium	10: 1	Heidenheim
July 26, 2010	17.00	France	-	Ukraine	10: 2	Neuchâtel
July 28, 2010	17.30	Netherlands	-	Germany	3-0	Heidenheim
July 27, 2010	13.00	Ukraine	-	Czech Republic	1:11	Heidenheim
July 27, 2010	14.30	Belgium	-	Netherlands	0:10	Stuttgart
July 27, 2010	19.00	Germany	-	France	10: 9	Stuttgart

Group B

Pl.		S.	N	R +	R-	Pzt.
1.	Italy	4th	1	49	08th	0.800
2.	Sweden	3	2	34	33	0.600
3.	Greece	3	2	31	47	0.600
4th	Great Britain	2	3	21st	22nd	0.400
5.	Spain	2	3	34	39	0.400
6th	Croatia	1	4th	23	43	0.200

date	time	encounter			Result	Venue
July 23, 2010	10.30	Croatia	-	Great Britain	1:10	Stuttgart
July 23, 2010	13.00	Sweden	-	Greece	9:12	Heidenheim
July 23, 2010	14.30	Italy	-	Spain	9: 1	Stuttgart
July 24, 2010	10.30	Spain	-	Croatia	7: 6	Stuttgart
July 24, 2010	14.30	Great Britain	-	Sweden	1: 4	Stuttgart
July 24, 2010	18.00	Greece	-	Italy	1:13	Heidenheim
July 25, 2010	10.30	Great Britain	-	Italy	2:12	Stuttgart
July 25, 2010	13.00	Sweden	-	Croatia	12: 2	Heidenheim
July 25, 2010	19.00	Spain	-	Greece	9:13	Stuttgart
July 26, 2010	10.30	Great Britain	-	Spain	5: 1	Heidenheim
July 28, 2010	10:30	Croatia	-	Greece	13: 1	Stuttgart
July 28, 2010	14:30	Sweden	-	Italy	3: 2	Stuttgart
July 27, 2010	10.30	Spain	-	Sweden	16: 6	Stuttgart
July 27, 2010	17.00	Greece	-	Great Britain	4: 3	Neuchâtel
July 27, 2010	18.00	Italy	-	Croatia	13: 1	Heidenheim

round 2

Game for 11th place

date	time	encounter			Result
July 28, 2010	19.00	Ukraine	-	Croatia	canceled, 2 × 11th place

Play for 9th place

date	time	encounter			Result
July 30, 2010	10.30	Belgium	-	Spain	canceled, 2 × place 9

Game for 7th place

date	time	encounter			Result
July 30, 2010	10.30	Czech Republic	-	Great Britain	8: 4

This means that the Czech Republic is directly qualified for the next European Championship, Great Britain must qualify.   

Main round

Pl.		S.	N	R +	R-	Pzt.
1.	Italy	4th	1			0.800
2.	Netherlands	4th	1			0.800
3.	Germany	3	2			0.600
4th	Greece	2	3			0.400
5.	Sweden	2	3			0.400
6th	France	0	5			0,000

date	time	encounter			Result
July 29, 2010	19.00	Germany	-	Greece	17: 8
July 30, 2010	10.30	Sweden	-	France	3: 2
July 30, 2010	14.30	Italy	-	France	9: 2
July 30, 2010	14.30	Greece	-	Netherlands	0:10
July 30, 2010	18.00	Netherlands	-	Sweden	15: 0
July 30, 2010	19.00	Italy	-	Germany	8: 6
July 31, 2010	17.00	Germany	-	Sweden	8-0
July 31, 2010	17.00	France	-	Greece	5:14
July 31, 2010	12.00	Netherlands	-	Italy	3:11

final

date	time	encounter			Result
August 1, 2010	14:00 clock	Italy	-	Netherlands	8: 4

Final placement

placement	team
gold	Italy
silver	Netherlands
bronze	Germany
4th Place	Greece
5th place	Sweden
6th place	France
7th place	Czech Republic
8th place	Great Britain
9th place	Belgium and Spain
11th place	Ukraine and Croatia

Web links

Commons : European Baseball Championship 2010  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• www.baseball-em.de - Official organizer website

Remarks

1. ^ Stuttgart, Heidenheim, Tuebingen host the 2010 European Championship
2. ↑ Due to rain, the game was postponed from July 23, 2010, 5 p.m. to July 27, 2010, 10:30 a.m., the venue is Stuttgart instead of Neuchâtel
3. ↑ Due to rain, the game was postponed from July 23, 2010, 6:00 p.m. to July 26, 2010, 10:30 a.m.
4. ↑ The game was postponed due to rain on July 26, 2010, 6.30 p.m.
5. ↑ The game was postponed due to rain on July 26, 2010, 2.30 p.m.
6. ↑ The game was postponed due to rain on July 26, 2010, 7:00 p.m.