INF Netball World Cup

The INF Netball World Cup is a quadrennial international netball world championship co-ordinated by the International Netball Federation (INF), inaugurated in 1963. Since its inception the competition has been dominated primarily by the Australian national netball team (the Diamonds) and the New Zealand national netball team (the Silver Ferns), as of the 2019 event having both medaled in every one of the 15 championships – 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 2019 Netball World Cup in Liverpool, England, which was won by New Zealand.

INF Netball World Cup
Upcoming season or competition:
2023 Netball World Cup
FormerlyWorld Netball Championships (1963-2011)
SportNetball
Founded1963
Inaugural season1963  England
AdministratorInternational Netball Federation
No. of teams16 Teams (2023)
Country South Africa (2023) (Host)
Venue(s)Cape Town ICC (2023)
Most recent
champion(s)		 New Zealand (2019) (5th Title)
Most titles Australia (11 titles)
Tournaments

History
Sign commemorating the 1979 World Netball Championships, held in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.

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 the 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. South Africa finished runners-up in 1995 and England and Jamaica have contested several bronze medal matches and come up short in narrow semi-final defeats. The reigning world champions are New Zealand, who defeated arch-rivals Australia by one goal in the 2019 final. They will defend their title in Cape Town, South Africa in 2023.

Results

Tournament history
Year Host Final 3rd place match Teams
Champions Score Runners-up 3rd place Score 4th place
1963
Details		 Eastbourne
Australia		 Round-robin
New Zealand
England		 Round-robin
Trinidad and Tobago		 11
1967
Details		 Perth
New Zealand		 Round-robin
Australia
South Africa		 Round-robin
England		 8
1971
Details		 Kingston
Australia		 Round-robin
New Zealand
England		 Round-robin
Jamaica

Trinidad and Tobago[note 1]		 9
1975
Details		 Auckland
Australia		 Round-robin
England
New Zealand		 Round-robin
Trinidad and Tobago		 11
1979
Details		 Port of Spain
New Zealand

Australia

Trinidad and Tobago		 Round-robin[note 2] Round-robin
England		 19
1983
Details		 Singapore
Australia		 Round-robin
New Zealand
Trinidad and Tobago		 Round-robin
England		 14
1987
Details		 Glasgow
New Zealand		 Round-robin
Australia

Trinidad and Tobago[note 3]		 Round-robin
England		 17
1991
Details		 Sydney
Australia		 53–52
New Zealand
Jamaica		 63–54
England		 20
1995
Details		 Birmingham
Australia		 68–48
South Africa
New Zealand		 60–31
England		 27
1999
Details		 Christchurch
Australia		 42–41
New Zealand
England		 57–43
Jamaica		 26
2003
Details		 Kingston
New Zealand		 49–47
Australia
Jamaica		 46–40
England		 24
2007
Details		 Auckland[note 4]
Australia		 42–38
New Zealand
Jamaica		 53–52
England		 16
2011
Details		 Singapore
Australia		 58–57
New Zealand
England		 70–49
Jamaica		 16
2015
Details		 Sydney
Australia		 58–55
New Zealand
England		 66–44
Jamaica		 16
2019
Details		 Liverpool
New Zealand		 52–51
Australia
England		 58–42
South Africa		 16
2023
Details		 Cape Town 16

Performance of nations
Pos.Nation1st2nd3rd
1 Australia11 (1963, 1971, 1975, 1979, 1983, 1991, 1995, 1999, 2007, 2011, 2015)4 (1967, 1987, 2003, 2019)–
2 New Zealand5 (1967, 1979, 1987, 2003, 2019)8 (1963, 1971, 1983, 1991, 1999, 2007, 2011, 2015)2 (1975, 1995)
3 Trinidad and Tobago1 (1979)1 (1987)1 (1983)
4 England–1 (1975)6 (1963, 1971, 1999, 2011, 2015, 2019)
5 South Africa–1 (1995)1 (1967)
6 Jamaica––3 (1991, 2003, 2007)

Participating nations
Liz Ellis, the most capped international player in the history of Australian netball, won the competition three times as part of the Australian national team.
Team
1963
1967
1971
1975
1979
1983
1987
1991
1995
1999
2003
2007
2011
2015
2019		 Total
 Antigua and Barbuda----12th9th--12th-17th----4
 Australia1st2nd1st1st=1st1st=2nd1st1st1st2nd1st1st1st2nd15
 Bahamas--9th-18th----------2
 Barbados----8th-=6th-11th10th7th13th11th13th12th9
 Bermuda----19th-=10th-23rd-22nd----4
 Botswana-----------10th13th--2
 Canada----11th12th=10th6th13th13th21st----7
 Cayman Islands-------16th21st23rd24th----4
 Cook Islands------=6th5th7th7th11th7th---6
 England3rd4th3rd2nd4th4th4th4th4th3rd4th4th3rd3rd3rd15
 Fiji---8th--8th11th-6th8th9th10th11th14th9
 Grenada----15th-----20th----2
 Hong Kong-----13th-17th23rd24th23rd----5
 Republic of Ireland----10th-15th10th25th------4
 Jamaica5th6th=4th5th5th5th5th3rd5th4th3rd3rd4th4th5th15
 Malawi--------8th11th-5th6th6th6th6
 Malaysia-----11th17th19th26th19th-16th16th--8
 Malta--------27th------1
 Namibia-------13th16th------2
 New Zealand2nd1st2nd3rd=1st2nd1st2nd3rd2nd1st2nd2nd2nd1st15
 Niue---------25th12th----2
 Northern Ireland11th-8th9th17th7th=10th12th18th16th19th-8th-10th12
 Papua New Guinea---11th--14th14th15th18th-----5
Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla----=6thDoes Not Exist1
 Saint Lucia----=12th-----15th----2
 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines----16th---10th-13th----3
 Samoa-------8th9th9th6th8th12th10th13th8
 Scotland8th7th6th6th9th6th9th9th22nd20th14th14th-12th11th14
 Singapore-8th-10th-10th-18th20th12th-15th15th15th16th10
 South Africa6th3rd------2nd5th5th6th5th5th4th9
 Sri Lanka9th----14th16th15th19th21st18th-14th16th15th9
 Tonga---------22nd-----1
 Trinidad and Tobago4th5th=4th4th=1st3rd=2nd-6th8th10th11th7th9th9th14
 Uganda----=12th--------8th7th3
 United States--------14th15th9th----3
 Vanuatu-------20th-26th-----2
 Wales10th-7th7th=6th8th13th7th17th14th16th12th9th7th-13
 West Indies7th--------------1
 Zambia---------17th---14th-2
 Zimbabwe--------------8th1
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See also

Notes
  1. Fourth place was shared because there were no finals with both teams having won four of their eight matches, losing three times and drawing against each other. The tournament rules of the time did not provide any way of determining an outright winner.
  2. The title was shared because there were no finals, the top 10 teams playing off in a round robin. Each of the top three teams won eight out of nine matches, losing once, to one of the other two. The tournament rules of the time did not provide any way of determining an outright winner.
  3. There were no finals, the top 4 teams played a round robin tournament. Australia and Trinidad & Tobago ended the tournament with one win (against England), one loss (to New Zealand) and one draw (with each other). The tournament rules of the time did not provide any way to break this tie.
  4. Suva, Fiji was scheduled to host the 2007 competition but was stripped of the right as a direct result of the December 2006 coup. Hosting rights were subsequently awarded to Auckland, New Zealand, and the competition date moved from July to November 2007

References

Netball Scoop - Team Lists (World Championships)

Bibliography
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