Cuban Elite League
The Cuban Elite League (Liga Élite del Beisbol Cubano, LEB) is Cuba’s top baseball league. It started in 2022 and is run by INDERE. The league has six teams. The current season is 2023–24, and the most recent champions are Ciego de Ávila, winning their first title. Broadcasters include Tele Rebelde and Cubavisión International.
The LEB plays in the winter and brings together the best teams from Cuba’s summer Cuban National Series (SNB). Beginning with the 2023–24 season, the six best teams from the SNB joined the Elite League. In 2025, the league planned to switch to a summer schedule, with the SNB moving back to winter.
The league was created to raise the quality of Cuban baseball and keep more players from leaving for foreign leagues. Cuba stopped professional baseball in 1961, and the LEB’s goal is to unite the top players from the National Series. Earlier forms of this idea existed as the Selective Series (1975–1995) and the Copa Revolución (1996–97).
In 2023, Agricultores won the previous season and represented Cuba at the Caribbean Series in Venezuela. The 2023–24 champion, Ciego de Ávila, was not invited to the 2024 Caribbean Series in Miami due to political factors surrounding Cuban baseball. The league also explored other events, like an Intercontinental Series and a so‑called Copa Antillana, but neither materialized for various reasons.
For its second season, the Elite League moved from a six regional team format (used in 2022–23) to featuring six teams that finished in the top six of the SNB. In its third season, the six teams again came from the SNB’s top finishers in 2024.
This page was last edited on 2 February 2026, at 22:21 (CET).