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Latin America Little League Championship

Most recent season or competition: 2024 Little League World Series qualification
Sport	Baseball
Founded	1958; 66 years ago (1958)
Most recent champion(s)	Cardenales Little League, Barquisimeto, Venezuela
Most titles	Coquivacoa Little League, Maracaibo, Venezuela (10)

The Latin America Region has competed in the Little League World Series since its creation in 1958. Until 2001, the Latin America Region included Mexico and the Caribbean. In 2001 – when the Little League World Series expanded to sixteen teams – Mexico and the Caribbean were given their own regions. The region is open to all countries on the Latin American mainland, but is typically contested by the teams from Panama and Venezuela. Since the 2001 split, the region has been represented by either Venezuela (11 appearances) or Panama (seven appearances) at the Little League World Series, as of 2019.

Following the 2021 LLWS, Panama and the Caribbean Region countries of Cuba and Puerto Rico will take up two berths in the LLWS. Two of the three will send champions to the LLWS each year, while the third will compete in its normal region; the automatic berths will rotate annually. This scheme is part of a planned expansion of the LLWS from 16 to 20 teams that was originally scheduled to occur for 2021, but was delayed to 2022 due to COVID-19.

Teams from Latin America have won the LLWS title five times, but only four were as the Latin America Region champion. The Industrial Little League of Monterrey, Mexico, won back-to-back titles in 1957 and 1958, but the first title was as the champion of the South Region. The other three LLWS championships were won by Guadalupe, Nuevo León, Mexico, in 1997, and Maracaibo, Venezuela, in 1994 and 2000.

Latin America Region countries

•  Argentina
•  Bolivia
•  Brazil
•  Chile
•  Colombia
•  Costa Rica
•  Ecuador
•  El Salvador
•  Guatemala
•  Guyana
•  Honduras
•  Nicaragua
•  Panama
•  Paraguay
•  Peru
•  Trinidad and Tobago
•  Uruguay
•  Venezuela

Region champions

Year	Host	Champion	City	Result
1957		Industrial	Monterrey	Champions
1958		Industrial	Monterrey	Champions
1959		San Juan	San Juan	Quarterfinals
1960		Industrial	Monterrey	4th Place
1961		Industrial	Monterrey	3rd Place
1962		Del Norte	Monterrey	4th Place
1963		Obispado	Monterrey	5th Place
1964		Obispado	Monterrey	Runners-up
1965		Zulia	Maracaibo	7th Place
1966		Cuauhtémoc	Monterrey	6th Place
1967		Linares	Linares	4th Place
1968		Chinandega	Chinandega	7th Place
1969		Jorge Rosas	Mayagüez	6th Place
1970		Chinandega	Chinandega	3rd Place
1971		Caguas Gillette	Caguas	5th Place
1972		Admiral Gallery	San Juan	4th Place
1973		Mitras	Monterrey	6th Place
1974		Coquivacoa	Maracaibo	4th Place
1975	International teams were banned by Little League
1976		Puerto Nuevo	San Juan	3rd Place
1977		Coquivacoa	Maracaibo	4th Place
1978		La Javilla	Santo Domingo	4th Place
1979		Luis Llorens Torres	Santurce	5th Place
1980		Pabao	Willemstad	5th Place
1981		Unidad Modelo	Monterrey	7th Place
1982		Coquivacoa	Maracaibo	5th Place
1983		Liquito Hernández	Barahona	Runners-up
1984		Willys R. Cook	Bethania	5th Place
1985		Coquivacoa	Maracaibo	5th Place
1986		Coquivacoa	Maracaibo	4th Place
1987		Rolando Paulino	Moca	3rd Place
1988		Curundú	Curundú	7th Place
1989		Coquivacoa	Maracaibo	3rd Place
1990		Matamoros	Matamoros	5th Place
1991		Luis Montas	San Cristobal	3rd Place
1992		Epy Guerrero	Santo Domingo	T-3rd Place
1993		David Doleguita	David	Runner Up
1994		Coquivacoa	Maracaibo	Champions
1995		Eduardo Sosa	Santo Domingo	T-3rd Place
1996		Matías Ramón Mella	San Isidro Air Base	T-3rd Place
1997		Linda Vista	Guadalupe	Champions
1998	Bayamón	Linda Vista	Guadalupe	Group Stage
1999	Monterrey	Juan A. Bibiloni	Yabucoa	T-3rd Place
2000		Sierra Maestra	Maracaibo	Champions
2001	Panama City	Santiago de Veraguas	Santiago de Veraguas	Group Stage
2002	Managua	Los Leones	Valencia	Quarterfinals
2003	Mayagüez	Altagracia	Los Puertos	Quarterfinals
2004	Panama City	Curundú	Panama City	Quarterfinals
2005	Maracaibo	Los Leones	Valencia	Group Stage
2006	Guatemala City	Cardenales	Barquisimeto	Quarterfinals
2007	Panama City	La Victoria	Maracaibo	Quarterfinals
2008	Maracaibo	Coquivacoa	Maracaibo	Quarterfinals
2009	Barranquilla	Coquivacoa	Maracaibo	Group Stage
2010	Guatemala City	Chitré	Chitré	Group Stage
2011	San José	Gran Maracay	Maracay	Int'l Semifinal
2012	Aguadulce	Aguadulce	Aguadulce	4th Place
2013	Guayaquil	Aguadulce	Aguadulce	Int'l Semifinal
2014	Managua	Coquivacoa	Maracaibo	Round 3
2015	Barranquilla	Cardenales	Barquisimeto	Int'l Semifinal
2016	Panama City	Aguadulce	Aguadulce	3rd place
2017	Barranquilla	Luz Maracaibo	Maracaibo	Round 3
2018	Panama City	Vacamonte	Arraiján	Round 2
2019	Aguadulce	Cacique Mara	Maracaibo	Round 2
2022	Managua	14 de Septiembre	Managua	Round 4
2023	Maracaibo	San Francisco	Maracaibo	Round 3
2024	Panama City	Cardenales	Barquisimeto	3rd place

Summary

As of the 2024 Little League World Series

Country	Championships	Best Result in LLWS
Venezuela	22	Champions (1994, 2000)
Mexico	14	Champions (1957, 1958, 1997)
Panama	10	Runners-up
Puerto Rico	7	3rd Place
Dominican Republic	7	Runner up
Nicaragua	3	3rd Place
Curaçao	1	5th Place

Italics indicates team no longer competes in Latin America Region. Mexico now has its own region, while Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, and Curaçao compete in the Caribbean region.

See also

• Baseball awards § Americas

References

1. ^ In 1957, the Industrial Little League of Monterrey, Mexico, was the first team from outside the U.S. and Canada to compete in the LLWS. It competed in an area tournament in McAllen, Texas, won the South Region tournament, and defeated the West Region in the championship game. (The only other two regions in the LLWS were the East and North regions.) As a result, the next year (1958), three new regions were created: Latin America, Canada, and Pacific. Two years later, in 1960, a fourth international region was created: Europe. Two years after that, in 1962, the Pacific Region was replaced by the newly created Far East Region.
2. "Little League Baseball and Little League Softball World Series to Expand in 2021". Little League Baseball. Little League International. 24 August 2019. Retrieved 24 August 2019.

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