The 2025 LX Cup Korea Ladies’s Baseball Championship, the nation’s solely corporate-sponsored ladies’s baseball event, will happen at LG Champion’s Park and Dream Stadium in Icheon, Gyeonggi Province, beginning Saturday.
Now in its fourth yr, the LX Cup is co-hosted and arranged by LX Group and the Ladies’s Baseball Affiliation Korea (WBAK). Launched in 2022, the event goals to increase the bottom of ladies’s baseball in Korea and supply gamers with better alternatives to develop their expertise.
This yr’s version, which runs to Nov. 16, would be the largest within the event’s historical past, that includes 47 groups and over 1,000 gamers. Twenty groups within the Champ League, the higher league, and 27 groups within the Future League, the decrease league, will compete in a event format for the highest spot in every division.
Admission is free for all video games. The opening match of the Champ League on Saturday and the ultimate on Nov. 16 will probably be streamed reside on YouTube.
“We hope this event will supply gamers a significant alternative for progress via truthful and spirited competitors,” stated Baek Kyung-suk, head of the group’s public relations workforce.
“We’ll make each effort to offer the very best surroundings for athletes to give attention to their video games and carry out at their highest degree.”
The annual event displays the sturdy dedication of LX Group Chairman Koo Bon-joon to selling ladies’s baseball in Korea. A passionate baseball fanatic, Koo has been a steadfast supporter of the game’s growth, actively sponsoring applications to find and nurture younger expertise.
Specifically, he has lengthy supported coaching camps and alternate applications in Japan, enabling promising Korean feminine gamers to reinforce their expertise beneath a extra systematic coaching surroundings.
