BFA Nationals 2026 Division Guidelines
BFA Nationals, the largest girls’ baseball tournament in the United States, is an exciting annual opportunity for girls from around the world to compete with and against other girls in baseball. As our organization and the tournament continues to grow, we have created guidelines to help ensure the safety of our players while encouraging exciting, yet fair competition throughout all age divisions.
These qualifications have been created based on feedback received from head coaches who attended BFA Nationals in 2022. All coaches were given an opportunity to fill out a questionnaire regarding recruitment and divisions for BFA Nationals. Based on the majority’s feedback in conjunction with our board’s discretion, we have compiled these guidelines to help you better determine which division each team should be competing in at BFA Nationals.
Our goal is to help foster the growth of local programs, while also promoting exciting, yet fair competition—especially at BFA Nationals. While winning is important, we hope that placing teams in the appropriate division will offer them additional opportunities to develop as players, as they compete against others of similar skill levels.
BFA Nationals Division Identification
The “questionnaire” below will help serve as an identification process as to which division you should be playing in at BFA Nationals. If you are able to say “yes” to THREE (3) or more of the below criteria, you should be playing in the MAJORS division. Otherwise, you have the option to compete in the MINORS division, if available.
All references to “our team” should be considered as the team(s) you are bringing to BFA Nationals.
1. Our team has players from three (3) or more states, countries, or a mix of both.
2. Our team holds cut-based tryouts and does not accept all players who have expressed interest in the team.
3. At least 50% of our team plays together in a local league or as a travel ball team that competes outside of BFA or other girls’ baseball tournaments.
4. Our team competed at BFA Nationals 2025 and won the Minors or Majors division (i.e. took home first place)—and 60% or more of those players will be competing on this year’s team.*
*This rule only applies to teams that will be entering the same age division as last year.
5. Our team has five (5) or more players who play for their school’s baseball team.
7. Our team has more than three (3) players who made the USA Baseball Women’s National Team Top 40 roster in 2024 (or home country’s equivalent).
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