Baseball United Announces Dates For First Full Season

In addition to the season, Baseball United will host a professional tournament called the Baseball United Cup, as well as a national team tournament – featuring the official national baseball teams from countries across the Middle East and South Asia – called the Baseball United Arab Classic.

All events will be held in Dubai, UAE. Season One will begin next fall, running from October 23 to November 23, 2025.

The inaugural season will include five Baseball United franchises – the Mumbai Cobras, Karachi Monarchs, Arabia Wolves, Mid East Falcons, and a new Riyadh-based franchise slated to be announced early next year.

Each team will play 12 regular season games, culminating with a United Series best-of-three championship featuring the top two teams.

Overall, the league will host 33 games in 32 days, bringing an unprecedented sprint of professional baseball games to Dubai, the organisation said in a media release.

Baseball United Cup

The Baseball United Cup is scheduled to take place from February 22 to March 1, 2025, and will feature BU’s first four franchises – the Cobras, Monarchs, Wolves, and Falcons – in an eight-day tournament.

Teams will compete in a round robin format, followed by the semifinals and finals.

The league, which the organisers said will represent the first-ever professional franchise baseball games in the history of the Middle East and South Asia, will be coming roughly 15 months after BU’s All-Star Showcase event which was held in Dubai last November.

“After nearly three years of around-the-clock work, and a lifetime of dreaming, we are grateful and proud to announce the dates for the BU Cup and BU Season One,” said Chairman, CEO, and co-founder Kash Shaikh.

“We are poised to continue making history,” he said.

Baseball United’s franchises are made up of top professional players from around the world. The league’s inaugural draft was held in October 2023, with 70 percent of players originally drafted by Major League Baseball teams, including former MLB All-Stars and Gold Glove winners like Robinson Cano, Jair Jurrjens, and Andrelton Simmons.