Netball World Cup

The Netball World Cup is a quadrennial international netball world championship organised by World Netball, inaugurated in 1963. Since its inception the competition has been dominated primarily by the Australia national netball team and the New Zealand national netball team, Trinidad and Tobago is the only other team to have won a title (a three-way tie in the 1979 championship). The most recent tournament was the 2023 Netball World Cup in Cape Town, South Africa, which was won by Australia.

History

In 1960, representatives from Australia, England, New Zealand, South Africa and the West Indies met to discuss standardising the rules of the sport. This led to the establishment of the International Federation of Women's Basketball and Netball (which later became the International Federation of Netball Associations). Formal rules were established at this inaugural meeting and a decision to hold World Championship tournaments every four years was also made. The first World Netball Championship was held in 1963 and was hosted by England. The tournament was renamed to the World Cup as opposed to "Championships" in 2015. Since 1991 the tournament has maintained a format allowing semi-finals and finals matches to be played, where previously the tournament held no finals and instead utilised the round-robin system, which occasionally led to more than one nation being crowned world champions.

Australia or New Zealand have won all of the titles, though emerging netball nations England, South Africa and Jamaica have come close to dislodging the top-tier nations on several occasions. In 1979 Australia, New Zealand and Trinidad and Tobago were all joint champions. South Africa finished runners-up in 1995, England too in 2023. Jamaica have contested several bronze medal matches and come up short in narrow semi-final defeats. The reigning world champions are Australia, who defeated England in the 2023 final. They will defend their title in Sydney, Australia in 2027.

Results

Tournament history

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Performance of nations

Participating nations

See also

• World Netball (WN)
• World Netball Rankings
• World Netball Series
• Netball World Youth Cup

References

Netball Scoop - Team Lists (World Championships)

Bibliography

References

Notes

External links

• Official INF website
• Netball World Cup 2019 Liverpool official website

1. 2023 Netball World Cup
2. World Netball
3. 2019 Netball World Cup
4. 2015 Netball World Cup
5. 2027 Netball World Cup
6. Australia national netball team
7. New Zealand national netball team
8. England national netball team
9. History of netball
10. World Netball Rankings
11. 2023 Netball World Cup squads
12. List of world cups
13. Netball
14. Uneeq Palavi
15. Tharjini Sivalingam
16. Liz Watson (netball)
17. Netball World Youth Cup
18. 1967 World Netball Championships
19. South Africa national netball team
20. List of England international netball players