Australia Region (Little League Baseball World Series)

LLWS qualification Australia region
formerly Asia-Pacific region (2001–2012)

Current season	LLWS qualification 2018
sport	baseball
League foundation	2013
Teams	20th
Country countries	Australia
Title holder	Gold Coast , Queensland
Record champions	New South Wales (3)
Website	Australian Little League (eng.)
Qualification too	Little League World Series 2018

The Australia region is one of the eight international regions that send participants to the Little League Baseball World Series , the largest youth baseball tournament. Australia has been taking part in this tournament since 2008, back then in the Asia-Pacific region . Due to the growing interest in Little League Baseball, Australia was declared a region of its own in 2013.

Participating teams

20 teams from different states and territories take part in the qualification. Depending on the number of Little League teams, the states and territories receive up to five starting places in the national championships.

State / territory	Number of teams
Australian Capital Territory	1
New South Wales	6th
Northern Territory	1
Queensland	4th
South Australia	2
Tasmania	0
Victoria	3
Western Australia	5
Total	22nd

Australian championships

year	master	city	Second	city	LLWS region	Result to LLWS	WL
2008	Hills North	Hills District	Adelaide South	Adelaide	Asia Pacific	not qualified
2009	Waverley	Melbourne	Adelaide South	Adelaide	Asia Pacific	not qualified
2010	Adelaide South	Adelaide	Ringwood	Melbourne	Asia Pacific	not participated *
2011	Adelaide South	Adelaide	Perth Metro North	Perth	Asia Pacific	not qualified
2012	Perth Metro North	Perth	Yarra Rangers	Yarra	Asia Pacific	not qualified
2013	Perth Metro Central	Perth	Adelaide South	Adelaide	Australia	Round 1	0-3
2014	Perth Metro North	Perth	Manly	Manly	Australia	round 2	1-2
2015	Cronulla	Perth	Swan Hills	Sydney	Australia	round 2	1-2
2016	Hills	Sydney	Central Coast	Gosford	Australia	Round 3	2–2
2017	Hills	Sydney	Swan Hills	Perth	Australia	Round 1	1-2
2018	Gold Coast Cougars	Gold coast	Adelaide Seahawks	Adelaide	Round 1	0-2

* Due to the tense terrorist situation, the Adelaide team did not take part in the Asia-Pacific Championships in Indonesia.

Little League World Series results by state and territory

State / Territory	Number of championships	Number of world championships	WL to the LLWS	%
Western Australia	3	0	1-5	.167
New South Wales	3	0	5-6	.455
South Australia	2	0	0-0	-
Queensland	1	0	0-2	.000
Victoria	1	0	0-0	.000
Australian Capital Territory	0	0	0-0	-
Northern Territory	0	0	0-0	-
Tasmania	0	0	0-0	-
Total	10	0	6-13	.316

Status after the Little League World Series 2018 . Incl. Asia Pacific

Web links

• Results Australia Regional Tournaments

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Regions Realigned for 2013: Australia to play in Little League World Series. (No longer available online.) Www.littleleague.org, archived from the original on March 25, 2014 ; accessed on June 26, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.