Bonn Capitals

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Bonn Capitals
Team logo Cap insignia
Information
League	Baseball-Bundesliga (Bundesliga Nord)
Location	Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia
Ballpark	Baseballstadion Rheinaue [de]
Founded	1989
League championships	3 (2018, 2022, 2024)
Division championships	10 (1997, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)
Colours	Green, gold and white
Manager	Wilson Lee
President	Udo Schmitz
Website	www.capitals.de
Uniforms
Home Away

1. Baseball- und Softballclub Bonn Capitals e.V., commonly referred to as Bonn Capitals, is a German baseball and softball club from Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, founded on November 8, 1989. Its first men's team has been competing in the Baseball Bundesliga since 1994 and currently plays in its northern division, the Bundesliga Nord, after initially playing in the southern division until 1996. The women's softball team was promoted to the northern division of the Softball Bundesliga in 2018.^[1][2][3]

The Capitals have won the northern division championship ten times, most recently in 2024,^[4] and advanced to the finals of the Bundesliga play-offs eight times, winning thrice (in 2018, 2022, and 2024).^{[2][5][6][7][8]} They were runners-up in the European Cup in 2021, the third German team ever to do so and the first in over a decade.^[9][10] In the 2022 European Cup, the team advanced to the semi-finals before being narrowly defeated by Parma Baseball Club^[11] and subsequently secured the third place after defeating San Marino.^[12][13] In 2023, they again lost to Parma in the semi-finals and finished fourth after co-host Amsterdam Pirates won the bronze medal game.^[14][15]