INF Netball World Cup

INF Netball World Cup

Upcoming season or competition: 2019 Netball World Cup
Sign for the 1979 World Netball Championships in Trinidad and Tobago
Formerly	World Netball Championships (1963-2011)
Sport	Netball
Inaugural season	1963
No. of teams	16 (2015)
Most recent champion(s)	Australia (2015)
Most titles	Australia (11 titles)

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) – Trinidad and Tobago is the only other team to have won a title. The most recent tournament was the 2015 Netball World Cup in Sydney Australia, 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. Since then there have been 13 more tournaments.

Results

Tournament history

Year	Host Nation	Host City	Number of Teams	Winner	Runner-up	Third Place
1963 Details	England	Eastbourne	11	Australia	New Zealand	England
1967 Details	Australia	Perth	8	New Zealand	Australia	South Africa
1971 Details	Jamaica	Kingston	9	Australia	New Zealand	England
1975 Details	New Zealand	Auckland	11	Australia	England	New Zealand
1979 Details	Trinidad and Tobago	Port of Spain	19	New Zealand  Australia  Trinidad and Tobago[note 1]
1983 Details	Singapore	Singapore	14	Australia	New Zealand	Trinidad and Tobago
1987 Details	Scotland	Glasgow	17	New Zealand	Australia  Trinidad and Tobago[note 2]
1991 Details	Australia	Sydney	20	Australia	New Zealand	Jamaica
1995 Details	England	Birmingham	27	Australia	South Africa	New Zealand
1999 Details	New Zealand	Christchurch	26	Australia	New Zealand	England
2003 Details	Jamaica	Kingston	24	New Zealand	Australia	Jamaica
2007 Details	New Zealand	Auckland[note 3]	16	Australia	New Zealand	Jamaica
2011 Details	Singapore	Singapore	16	Australia	New Zealand	England
2015 Details	Australia	Sydney	16	Australia	New Zealand	England
2019 Details	England	Liverpool	16

Performance of nations

Pos.	Nation	1st	2nd	3rd
1	Australia	11 (1963, 1971, 1975, 1979, 1983, 1991, 1995, 1999, 2007, 2011, 2015)	3 (1967, 1987, 2003)	–
2	New Zealand	4 (1967, 1979, 1987, 2003)	8 (1963, 1971, 1983, 1991, 1999, 2007, 2011, 2015)	2 (1975, 1995)
3	Trinidad and Tobago	1 (1979)	1 (1987)	1 (1983)
4	England	–	1 (1975)	5 (1963, 1971, 1999, 2011, 2015)
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.

Nation	'63	'67	'71	'75	'79	'83	'87	'91	'95	'99	'03	'07	'11	'15
Antigua and Barbuda	-	-	-	-	12	9	-	-	12	-	17	-	-	-
Australia	1	2	1	1	T1	1	T2	1	1	1	2	1	1	1
Bahamas	-	-	9	-	18	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Barbados	-	-	-	-	8	-	T6	-	11	10	7	13	11	13
Bermuda	-	-	-	-	19	-	T10	-	23	-	22	-	-	-
Botswana	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	10	13	-
Canada	-	-	-	-	11	12	T10	6	13	13	21	-	-	-
Cayman Islands	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	16	21	23	24	-	-	-
Cook Islands	-	-	-	-	-	-	T6	5	7	7	11	7	-	-
England	3	4	3	2	4	4	4	4	4	3	4	4	3	3
Fiji	-	-	-	8	-	-	8	11	-	6	8	9	10	11
Grenada	-	-	-	-	15	-	-	-	-	-	20	-	-	-
Hong Kong	-	-	-	-	-	13	-	17	23	24	23	-	-	-
Ireland	-	-	-	-	10	-	15	10	25	-	-	-	-	-
Jamaica	5	6	T4	5	5	5	5	3	5	4	3	3	4	4
Malawi	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8	11	-	5	6	6
Malaysia	-	-	-	-	-	11	17	19	26	19	-	16	16	-
Malta	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	27	-	-	-	-	-
Namibia	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	13	16	-	-	-	-	-
New Zealand	2	1	2	3	T1	2	1	2	3	2	1	2	2	2
Niue	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	25	12	-	-	-
Northern Ireland	11	-	8	9	17	7	T10	12	18	16	19	-	8	-
Papua New Guinea	-	-	-	11	-	-	14	14	15	18	-	-	-	-
Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla	-	-	-	-	T6	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Saint Lucia	-	-	-	-	T12	-	-	-	-	-	15	-	-	-
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	-	-	-	-	16	-	-	-	10	-	13	-	-	-
Samoa	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8	9	9	6	8	12	10
Scotland	8	7	6	6	9	6	9	9	22	20	14	14	-	12
Singapore	-	8	-	10	-	10	-	18	20	12	-	15	15	15
South Africa	6	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	5	5	6	5	5
Sri Lanka	9	-	-	-	-	14	16	15	19	21	18	-	14	16
Tonga	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	22	-	-	-	-
Trinidad and Tobago	4	5	T4	4	T1	3	T2	-	6	8	10	11	7	9
Uganda	-	-	-	-	T12	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8
United States	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	14	15	9	-	-	-
Vanuatu	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	20	-	26	-	-	-	-
Wales	10	-	7	7	T6	8	13	7	17	14	16	12	9	7
West Indies	7	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Zambia	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	17	-	-	-	14

See also

• International Netball Federation (INF)
• INF World Rankings
• World Netball Series

Notes

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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

• Australian Women's Weekly (5 September 1979). "SPOT THE BALL and win a trip to Disneyland.". The Australian Women's Weekly. National Library of Australia. p. 78. Retrieved 1 March 2011.
• International Federation of Netball Associations (15 June 2008). "History of Netball". Retrieved 2 March 2011.
• Netball Singapore (2011). "About Us". Retrieved 1 March 2011.
• Netball Singapore (2011b). "Milestones". Retrieved 1 March 2011.
• Sri Lanka Netball (30 September 2010). "THE HISTORY OF NETBALL IN SRI LANKA". Retrieved 3 March 2011.
• Thompson, Shona M. (December 2002). "Women and sport in New Zealand". In Pfister, Gertrud; Hartmann-Tews, Ilse. Sport and Women: Social Issues in International Perspective. International Society for Comparative Physical Education & Sport. Routledge. ISBN 0-415-24628-8.
• World Netball Championships 2011 Singapore (2011). "History". Retrieved 3 March 2011.

External links

• Official INF website
• Netball World Cup 2015 Sydney official website