European Cup

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The European Cup, is an annual international baseball competition between the league champions of the European baseball leagues. The tournament was first held in 1963 and is overseen by the Confederation of European Baseball (CEB).

As with the European Championship, the competition has been dominated in recent times by Hoofdklasse in the Netherlands and Serie A1 in Italy, as the two nations have won all but six of the cups. Spain won four of the first six cups and San Marino (which plays in the Italian league placed second in 2001 and won the cup in 2006. Spain won again in 2008.

Starting in 2008, there were two European Cups played each year, with runner-ups from some of the premier leagues also getting a shot.

[edit] European Cups

Year	Host City	Teams	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1963	Unknown	n/a	Picadero Jockey Club Barcelona  Spain	Unknown	Unknown
1964	Unknown	n/a	Pirates Madrid  Spain	Unknown	Unknown
1965	Unknown	n/a	Simmenthal Nettuno  Italy	Unknown	Unknown
1966	Unknown	n/a	Haarlem Nicols  Netherlands	Unknown	Unknown
1967	Unknown	n/a	Pirates Madrid  Spain	Unknown	Unknown
1968	Unknown	n/a	Picadero Damm  Spain	Unknown	Unknown
1969	Unknown	n/a	Europhon Milano  Italy	Unknown	Unknown
1970	Unknown	n/a	Europhon Milano  Italy	Unknown	Unknown
1971	Unknown	n/a	Milano B.C.  Italy	Unknown	Unknown
1972	Unknown	n/a	Glen Grant Nettuno  Italy	Unknown	Unknown
1973	Unknown	n/a	Amaro Montenegro Bologna  Italy	Unknown	Unknown
1974	Unknown	n/a	Haarlem Nicols  Netherlands	Unknown	Unknown
1975	Unknown	n/a	Haarlem Nicols  Netherlands	Unknown	Unknown
1976	Unknown	5	Derbigum Rimini  Italy	Luchtbal  Belgium	Condepols Madrid  Spain
1977	Italy	8	Germal Parma  Italy	Derbigum Rimini  Italy	Tetramin Nicols  Netherlands
1978	Italy	6	Germal Parma  Italy	Derbigum Rimini  Italy	Catalunya  Spain
1979	Italy/Spain	5	Derbigum Rimini  Italy	Germal Parma  Italy	Biemme Fortitudo Bologna  Italy
1980	Netherlands/Spain	5	Parmalat Parma  Italy	Amstel Tigers  Netherlands	Derbigum Rimini  Italy
1981	Belgium/Italy	6	Parmalat Parma  Italy	Haarlem Nicols  Netherlands	Papà Barzetti Rimini  Italy
1982	No tournament held
1983	Netherlands	5	Parmalat Parma  Italy	Haarlem Nicols  Netherlands	KOK Neptunus Rotterdam  Netherlands
1984	Italy	4	World Vision Parma  Italy	Riccadonna Rimini  Italy	Haarlem Nicols  Netherlands
1985	Italy	4	Be.Ca. Carni Bologna  Italy	World Vision Parma  Italy	Royal Antwerp Eagles  Belgium
1986	Belgium	6	World Vision Parma  Italy	Biemme Giocattoli Bologna  Italy	Opel Nicols  Netherlands
1987	France	6	World Vision Parma  Italy	Mamoli Robinetterie Grosseto  Italy	Multifax Amsterdam Tijgers  Netherlands
1988	Italy	6	World Vision Parma  Italy	Ronson Lenoir Rimini  Italy	Detach Pirates Amsterdam  Netherlands
1989	Spain	6	Ronson Lenoir Rimini  Italy	Opel Nicols  Netherlands	World Vision Parma  Italy
1990	Belgium	6	Haarlem Nicols  Netherlands	Ronson Lenoir Rimini  Italy	Mamoli Robinetterie Grosseto  Italy
1991	France	6	S.C.A.C. Nettuno  Italy	Haarlem Nicols  Netherlands	Amsterdam Pirates  Netherlands
1992	Netherlands	6	Cariparma Angels  Italy	Levi's Neptunus  Netherlands	SCAC Nettuno  Italy
1993	Italy	8	Install Data ADO  Netherlands	Cariparma Angels  Italy	Paris Universite Club  France
1994	Netherlands	8	Levi's Neptunus Rotterdam  Netherlands	Data Circuits ADO  Netherlands	Barracudas Montpellier  France
1995	Netherlands	8	Cariparma Angels  Italy	Tropicana Neptunus  Netherlands	Home Pizza Kinheim  Netherlands
1996	San Marino, San Marino	8	Tropicano Neptunus Rotterdam  Netherlands	Cariparma Angels  Italy	Caffè Danesi Nettuno  Italy
1997	Brasschaat, Belgium	8	Caffè Danesi Nettuno  Italy	Tropicana Neptunus  Netherlands	Mr. Cocker HCAW  Netherlands
1998	Viladecans, Spain	8	C.U.S. Cariparma  Italy	Minolta Pioniers  Netherlands	Mizlu Draci Brno  Czech Republic
1999	Anzio & Nettuno, Italy	8	C.U.S. Cariparma  Italy	Caffè Danesi Nettuno  Italy	Mr. Cocker HCAW  Netherlands
2000	San Marino, San Marino	8	DOOR Neptunus Rotterdam  Netherlands	Semenzato Rimini  Italy	Cantine Ceci Parma  Italy
2001	Rotterdam, Netherlands	8	DOOR Neptunus Rotterdam  Netherlands	T&A San Marino San Marino	Semenzato Rimini  Italy
2002	Viladecans, Spain	8	DOOR Neptunus Rotterdam  Netherlands	Mr. Cocker HCAW  Netherlands	Caffè Danesi Nettuno  Italy
2003	Rimini, Italy	8	DOOR Neptunus Rotterdam  Netherlands	Telemarket Rimini  Italy	T&A San Marino San Marino
2004	San Marino, San Marino	8	DOOR Neptunus Rotterdam  Netherlands	Fortitudo Bologna  Italy	Draci Brno  Czech Republic
2005	Rotterdam, Netherlands	8	Grosseto Orioles  Italy	Mr. Cocker HCAW  Netherlands	DOOR Neptunus  Netherlands
2006	Grosseto, Italy	8	T&A San Marino San Marino	Le Colonie di Maremma Grosseto  Italy	Italeri Bologna  Italy
2007	San Marino		Kinheim  Netherlands	Rouen Huskies  France	ASD Rimini  Italy
2008	Grosseto, Italy		Kinheim  Netherlands	Montepaschi Grosseto  Italy	T & A San Marino San Marino
2008	Regensburg, Germany and Grosseto, Italy		FC Barcelona  Spain	Danesi Nettuno  Italy	DOOR Neptunus  Netherlands
2009	Barcelona, Spain, Nettuno, Italy and Matino, Italy		Danesi Nettuno  Italy	Fortitudo Bologna  Italy	Kinheim  Netherlands
2010	Brno, Czech Republic, Rotterdam, Netherlands and Barcelona, Spain
2011	Czech Republic or France
2012	Czech Republic or France
2013	Italy