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For results and details on Southern Region tournaments held since 2001, visit the Southeast Region tournament page. Five Southern Region states were reassigned to the new Southwest Region beginning in 2002. Southern Region tournament results from 1957 through 2000 can be found by clicking on the links on the left side of this page. |
Our coverage of the Southern Region tournament launched on April 26, 1998. Click to contact the webmaster with any comments or questions about this page.
The longstanding tradition changed in 2001. Little League Baseball expanded the Little League World Series to a sixteen team field, and the number of U.S. entrants at the Little League World Series doubled from four to eight. Little League also formed the new Southwestern Region, which encompasses several states that previously competed in the Southern Region.
The remaining Southern Region now compete in the Southeastern Region tournament. The Southeastern and Southwestern Region fields include the following states:
| Southeastern Region | Southwestern Region |
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Alabama Florida Georgia North Carolina South Carolina Tennessee Virginia West Virginia |
Arkansas Colorado Louisiana Mississippi New Mexico Oklahoma Texas East Texas West |
Visit our Southeastern Region and Southwestern Region pages for results from region tournaments since 2001.
The Southern Region tournament was held in only three cities over the course of its history. After a two-year stay in the Louisville suburb of St. Matthews, Kentucky, the four-team, single-elimination tournament moved to Norfolk, Virginia, in 1959, and later to its current home in St. Petersburg. The tournament became a 13-team event that encompassed all Southern Region state champions in 1971. It eventually used a double-elimination and later an Olympic-style, pool-play format.
Click to view a timeline showing the evolution of the Southern Region Little League tournament structure.
 Central Region |
Southern Region |
Western Region |
| Eastern Region |
| Region 1 |
Region 4 |
Region 7 |
| Region 2 |
Region 5 |
Region 8 |
| Region 3 |
Region 6 |
Links to tournament coverage