Netball World Cup

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International netball competition

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Field	Value
title	Netball World Cup
current_season	2023 Netball World Cup
upcoming_season	2027 Netball World Cup
logo	Netball World Cup logo.jpg
pixels	300px
administrator	World Netball
Formerly	World Netball Championships (1963–2011)
sport	Netball
founded
inaugural	1963
teams	16 teams (2023)
champion	(12th title)
most_champs	(12 titles)
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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

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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.

From 2027 onwards, the tournament will be held in a two-year cycle interval ahead of the inaugural Men’s Netball World Cup.

Results

Tournament history

Source: ::data[format=table] | Ed. | Year | Host | First/Second place | Third/Fourth place | Num. teams | Champion | Score | Runner-up | Third | Score | Fourth | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | 1963 | | **** | Round-robin Eastbourne | | | Round-robin Eastbourne | | 11 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 1967 | | **** | Round-robin Matthews Netball Centre, Perth | | | Round-robin Matthews Netball Centre, Perth | | 8 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 1971 | | **** | Round-robin National Stadium, Kingston | | | Round-robin National Stadium, Kingston | | 9 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 1975 | | **** | Round-robin Windmill Road, Auckland | | | Round-robin Windmill Road, Auckland | | 11 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 1979 | | ****

Performance of nations

::data[format=table] | Team | Champions | Runners-up | Third | Fourth | Apps in top six | | | | | | | | | | | | | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | 12 (1963, 1971, 1975, 1979, 1983, 1991, 1995, 1999, 2007, 2011, 2015, 2023) | 4 (1967, 1987, 2003, 2019) | | | 16 | | | | | | | | | 5 (1967, 1979, 1987, 2003, 2019) | 8 (1963, 1971, 1983, 1991, 1999, 2007, 2011, 2015) | 2 (1975, 1991) | 1 (2023) | 16 | | | | | | | | | 1 (1979) | 1 (1987) | 1 (1983) | 3 (1963, 1971, 1975) | 8 | | | | | | | | | | 2 (1975, 2023) | 6 (1963, 1971, 1999, 2011, 2015, 2019) | 8 (1967, 1979, 1983, 1987, 1991, 1995) | 16 | | | | | | | | | | 1 (1995) | 1 (1967) | 1 (2019) | 10 | | | | | | | | | | | 4 (1991, 2003, 2007, 2023) | 4 (1971, 1999, 2011, 2015) | 16 | | | | | | | | ::

Participating nations

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References

Netball Scoop - Team Lists (World Championships)

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