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The city of Rome is to build a baseball stadium that can host international events, its mayor has said.

Gianni Alemanno has announced plans to donate a parcel of land for a new venue in Tor Vergata, an area south of the city where there is a campus for the University of Rome.

"Rome doesn't have a baseball stadium that can host international events and as a mayor, I felt I had to fill this deficiency," Alemanno said in a statement issued following an executive meeting of the International Baseball Federation (IBAF).

The meeting was the first under the direction of IBAF president Riccardo Fraccari, who hopes to expand the game around the world after it was removed from the Summer Olympics.

"I think there can be an important co-operation between the city of Rome, IBAF and MLB [Major League Baseball]," he added. "I expect the synergy effect to be really strong."

The executive committee also announced that Roberto Fabbricini, the former director of Olympic teams for the Italian Olympic Committee, will take over as executive director of IBAF.