Japan Women's Baseball League

The Japan Women's Baseball League (日本女子プロ野球リーグ), formerly Girls Professional Baseball League until 2012, was the highest level of women's baseball in Japan.

2019
On 26 August, it was announced that the league would suffer from severe contraction if new investors were not found and crowd number would not increase. On 9 November, it was announced that over half of the league's players had been released ahead of the 2020 season. In December 2021, the league announced it would shut down indefinitely.