NOTE: This tournament was played August 23-25, 2024. Because of the timing of the tournament, it determined France's representative in the 2025 Europe-Africa Region tournament. The winning team can elect to participate in the Little League Baseball or Intermediate division tournament, with the runner-up eligible for the tournament not chosen by France's champion.
NOTE: With a densely-packed schedule of games and a limited number of available fields, France's tournament employs a strict 90-minute time limit in which games needed to be completed. As a result, many games conclude prior to a regulation six innings of play.
Tournament Results:
Format: This was a three-stage tournament. In the first stage, participating teams were organized into four pools for round robin competition. First place teams from these four pools advance to Pool 'E' for the second phase, second place teams advance to Pool 'F', and third and fourth place teams advance to Pool 'G'.
In the second phase, teams in Pools 'E', 'F', and 'G' play round robin schedules against all other pool opponents. In Pool 'G', the teams that had finished in third and fourth place as part of the four-team Pool 'D' do not meet a second time, as this avoided any teams playing a tripleheader. Pools 'F' and 'G' are consolation pools. Pool 'E' is a championship track pool.
The top two finishers in Pool 'E' advance to the tournament's third stage, which is a single game that determines the France national champion.
(Pool 'A' Participants: Auvergne Rhone-Alpes, Centre-Val de Loire, and Sud)
(Pool 'B' Participants: Hauts-de-France, Ile-de-France, and Normandie)
(Pool 'C' Participants: Corse, Grand Est, and Nouvelle-Aquitaine)
(Pool 'D' Participants: Bourgogne Franche-Conté, Bretagne, Occitanie, and Pays de la Loire)
Phase 1 Tournament
Day 1 (Friday, August 23):
Sud 12, Centre Val de Loire 4 (4 innings)
Ile-de-France 3, Normandie 2 (4 innings)
Nouvelle-Aquitaine 10, Corse 1 (4 innings)
Bretagne 14, Bourgogne Franche-Conté 3 (4 innings)
Occitanie 14, Pays de la Loire 0 (4 innings)
Normandie 6, Hauts-de-France 1 (4 innings)
Grand Est 6, Corse 3 (4 innings)
Auvergne Rhone-Alpes 8, Centre Val de Loire 1 (4 innings)
Occitanie 17, Bourgogne Franche-Conté 2 (4 innings)
Bretagne 13, Pays de la Loire 1 (3 innings)
Nouvelle-Aquitaine 6, Grand Est 4 (5 innings)
Sud 9, Auvergne Rhone-Alpes 5 (3 innings)
Ile-de-France 6, Hauts-de-France 1 (4 innings)
Day 2 (Saturday, August 24):
Occitanie 6, Bretagne 2 (5 innings)
Bourgogne Franche-Conté 9, Pays de la Loire 4 (4 innings)
Pool 'A' Standings |
W |
L |
Runs Allowed |
| Sud |
2 |
0 |
9 |
| Auvergne Rhone-Alpes |
1 |
1 |
10 |
| Centre-Val de Loire |
0 |
2 |
20 |
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Pool 'B' Standings |
W |
L |
Runs Allowed |
| Ile-de-France |
2 |
0 |
3 |
| Normandie |
1 |
1 |
4 |
| Hauts-de-France |
0 |
2 |
12 |
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Pool 'C' Standings |
W |
L |
Runs Allowed |
| Nouvelle-Aquitaine |
2 |
0 |
5 |
| Grand Est |
1 |
1 |
9 |
| Corse |
0 |
2 |
16 |
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Pool 'D' Standings |
W |
L |
Runs Allowed |
| Occitaine |
3 |
0 |
5 |
| Bretagne |
2 |
1 |
10 |
| Bourgogne Franche-Conté |
1 |
2 |
35 |
| Pays de la Loire |
0 |
3 |
36 |
First place teams advance to Pool 'E', which is a championship track pool. Second place teams advance to Pool 'F', and third/fourth place teams advance to Pool 'G'. Pools 'F' and 'G' are consolation pools.
Ties are broken based on records in head-to-head competition among tied teams. If a clear winner cannot be determined from head-to-head results, the tie is broken by calculating the runs allowed ratio for all teams involved in the tie. Runs allowed ratio is calculated by dividing the total number of runs allowed in all games by six. (The runs allowed are divided by six irrespective of the actual number of defensive innings a team played.)
The team with the lowest runs allowed ratio advances. If the tied teams are competing for multiple spots in the tournament's next phase, all ties are broken based on runs allowed ratio.
Phase 2 Tournament
(Pool 'E' Participants: Ile-de-France, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Occitanie, and Sud)
(Pool 'F' Participants: Auvergne Rhone-Alpes, Bretagne, Grand Est, and Normandie)
(Pool 'G' Participants: Bourgogne Franche-Conté, Centre Val de Loire, Corse, Hauts-de-France, and Pays de le Loire)
NOTE: Bourgogne Franche-Conté and Pays de la Loire met in the first phase of the tournament as part of the Pool 'D' schedule, and did not meet a second time as part of the Pool 'G' schedule. Not scheduling the rematch enabled the full tournament to be completed in three days with no teams playing a tripleheader.
Day 2 (Saturday, August 24):
Centre Val de Loire 8, Hauts-de-France 3 (3 innings)
Auvergne Rhone-Alpes 7, Normandie 5 (4 innings)
Ile-de-France 7, Sud 2 (3 innings)
Occitanie 6, Nouvelle-Aquitaine 2 (4 innings)
Corse 8, Bourgogne Franche-Conté 6 (4 innings)
Grand Est 12, Bretagne 5 (4 innings)
Ile-de-France 9, Nouvelle-Aquitaine 2 (4 innings)
Centre Val de Loire 10, Corse 6 (3 innings)
Hauts-de-France 13, Pays de la Loire 4 (3 innings)
Normandie 8, Grand Est 4 (3 innings)
Sud 11, Occitanie 1 (4 innings)
Bretagne 8, Auvergne Rhone-Alpes 7 (4 innings)
Day 3 (Sunday, August 25):
Pays de la Loire 6, Centre Val de Loire 0 (forfeit)
Hauts-de-France 9, Bourgogne Franche-Conté 8 (3 innings)
Sud 5, Nouvelle-Aquitaine 0 (4 innings)
Normandie 7, Bretagne 2 (4 innings)
Hauts-de-France 8, Corse 7 (5 innings)
Ile-de-France 7, Occitanie 3 (4 innings)
Centre Val de Loire 11, Bourgogne Franche-Conté 1 (3 innings)
Corse 13, Pays de la Loire 2
Grand Est 6, Auvergne Rhone-Alpes 3 (5 innings)
Pool 'E' Standings |
W |
L |
Runs Allowed |
| Ile-de-France |
3 |
0 |
7 |
| Sud |
2 |
1 |
3 |
| Occitanie |
1 |
2 |
20 |
| Nouvelle-Aquitaine |
0 |
3 |
20 |
|
Pool 'F' Standings |
W |
L |
Runs Allowed |
| Normandie |
2 |
1 |
13 |
| Grand Est |
2 |
1 |
16 |
| Bretagne |
1 |
2 |
26 |
| Auvergne Rhone-Alpes |
1 |
2 |
20 |
|
Pool 'G' Standings |
W |
L |
Runs Allowed |
| Centre-Val de Loire |
3 |
1 |
17 |
| Hauts-de-France |
3 |
1 |
27 |
| Corse |
2 |
2 |
26 |
| Pays de la Loire |
1 |
2 |
26 |
| Bourgogne Franche-Conté |
0 |
3 |
28 |
The top two teams in Pool 'E' advance to the championship game.
Ties are broken based on records in head-to-head competition among tied teams. If a clear winner cannot be determined from head-to-head results, the tie is broken by calculating the runs allowed ratio for all teams involved in the tie. Runs allowed ratio is calculated by dividing the total number of runs allowed in all games by six. (The runs allowed are divided by six irrespective of the actual number of defensive innings a team played.)
The team with the lowest runs allowed ratio advances. If the tied teams are competing for multiple spots in the tournament's next phase, all ties are broken based on runs allowed ratio.
Championship Game
Championship Game (Sunday, August 25):
Ile-de-France 2, Sud 0 (4 innings; TITLE)
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Ile-de-France Little League from Paris wins the 2024 France national tournament.
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