Baseball To Have European Championship
February 15th 1984 - Whilst EBL franchises are busy building towards the new season, the league offices have announced that they will bring together the national teams of Europe for a tournament to decide which nation is the champion of the continent.
The tournament is scheduled to take place every 4 years. This year's tournament will put the 22 nations into 2 groups of 11 with each team playing the others in their group 4 times, with the top 2 moving on to the knockout stages.
The draw for the 1984 tournament has taken place and the groups are as follows -
Code:
Group A Group B
Germany Denmark
Poland Scotland
Sweden Greece
England Belgium
Czech Republic Ireland
Portugal Italy
Finland Norway
Spain Hungary
Bulgaria Switzerland
France Netherlands
Austria Russia