Netball World Cup Facts for Kids

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Netball World Cup
Formerly	World Netball Championships (1963–2011)
Sport	Netball
Founded	1963; 61 years ago (1963)
Inaugural season	1963 World Netball Championships
Administrator	World Netball
No. of teams	16 teams (2027)
Most recent champion(s)	Australia (12th title)
Most titles	Australia (12 titles)

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
Results
See also

History

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

Appeared at every World Cup 10 or more appearances 5 or more appearances One or more appearances Participated in qualifying tournaments, but did not qualifyAppearances by countries/teams which no longer exist are not shown.

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.

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

Year	Host	Final			3rd place match			Teams
Year	Host	Champions	Score	Runners-up	3rd place	Score	4th place	Teams
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	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			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		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	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	Australia	61–45	England	Jamaica	52–45	New Zealand	16

Performance of nations

Pos.	Nation	Titles	Runners-up	Third place
1	Australia	12 (1963, 1971, 1975, 1979, 1983, 1991, 1995, 1999, 2007, 2011, 2015, 2023)	4 (1967, 1987, 2003, 2019)	–
2	New Zealand	5 (1967, 1979, 1987, 2003, 2019)	8 (1963, 1971, 1983, 1991, 1999, 2007, 2011, 2015)	2 (1975, 1995)
3	Trinidad and Tobago	1 (1979)	1 (1987)	1 (1983)
4	England	–	2 (1975, 2023)	6 (1963, 1971, 1999, 2011, 2015, 2019)
5	South Africa	–	1 (1995)	1 (1967)
6	Jamaica	–	–	4 (1991, 2003, 2007, 2023)

Participating nations

Team	1963	1967	1971	1975	1979	1983	1987	1991	1995	1999	2003	2007	2011	2015	2019	2023	Total
Antigua and Barbuda	-	-	-	-	12th	9th	-	-	12th	-	17th	-	-	-	-	-	4
Australia	1st	2nd	1st	1st	=1st	1st	=2nd	1st	1st	1st	2nd	1st	1st	1st	2nd	1st	16
Bahamas	-	-	9th	-	18th	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2
Barbados	-	-	-	-	8th	-	=6th	-	11th	10th	7th	13th	11th	13th	12th	14th	10
Bermuda	-	-	-	-	19th	-	=10th	-	23rd	-	22nd	-	-	-	-	-	4
Botswana	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	10th	13th	-	-	-	2
Canada	-	-	-	-	11th	12th	=10th	6th	13th	13th	21st	-	-	-	-	-	7
Cayman Islands	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	16th	21st	23rd	24th	-	-	-	-	-	4
Cook Islands	-	-	-	-	-	-	=6th	5th	7th	7th	11th	7th	-	-	-	-	6
England	3rd	4th	3rd	2nd	4th	4th	4th	4th	4th	3rd	4th	4th	3rd	3rd	3rd	2nd	16
Fiji	-	-	-	8th	-	-	8th	11th	-	6th	8th	9th	10th	11th	14th	11th	10
Grenada	-	-	-	-	15th	-	-	-	-	-	20th	-	-	-	-	-	2
Hong Kong	-	-	-	-	-	13th	-	17th	23rd	24th	23rd	-	-	-	-	-	5
Ireland	-	-	-	-	10th	-	15th	10th	25th	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4
Jamaica	5th	6th	=4th	5th	5th	5th	5th	3rd	5th	4th	3rd	3rd	4th	4th	5th	3rd	16
Malawi	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8th	11th	-	5th	6th	6th	6th	7th	7
Malaysia	-	-	-	-	-	12th	17th	19th	26th	19th	-	16th	16th	-	-	-	7
Malta	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	27th	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
Namibia	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	13th	16th	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2
New Zealand	2nd	1st	2nd	3rd	=1st	2nd	1st	2nd	3rd	2nd	1st	2nd	2nd	2nd	1st	4th	16
Niue	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	25th	12th	-	-	-	-	-	2
Northern Ireland	11th	-	8th	9th	17th	7th	=10th	12th	18th	16th	19th	-	8th	-	10th	-	12
Papua New Guinea	-	-	-	11th	-	-	14th	14th	15th	18th	-	-	-	-	-	-	5
Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla	-	-	-	-	=6th	Does Not Exist											1
Saint Lucia	-	-	-	-	=12th	-	-	-	-	-	15th	-	-	-	-	-	2
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	-	-	-	-	16th	-	-	-	10th	-	13th	-	-	-	-	-	3
Samoa	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8th	9th	9th	6th	8th	12th	10th	13th	-	8
Scotland	8th	7th	6th	6th	9th	6th	9th	9th	22nd	20th	14th	14th	-	12th	11th	10th	15
Singapore	-	8th	-	10th	-	10th	-	18th	20th	12th	-	15th	15th	15th	16th	15th	11
South Africa	6th	3rd	-	-	-	-	-	-	2nd	5th	5th	6th	5th	5th	4th	6th	10
Sri Lanka	9th	-	-	-	-	14th	16th	15th	19th	21st	18th	-	14th	16th	15th	16th	11
Tonga	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	22nd	-	-	-	-	-	8th	2
Trinidad and Tobago	4th	5th	=4th	4th	=1st	3rd	=2nd	-	6th	8th	10th	11th	7th	9th	9th	12th	15
Uganda	-	-	-	-	=12th	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8th	7th	5th	4
United States	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	14th	15th	9th	-	-	-	-	-	3
Vanuatu	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	20th	-	26th	-	-	-	-	-	-	2
Wales	10th	-	7th	7th	=6th	8th	13th	7th	17th	14th	16th	12th	9th	7th	-	9th	14
West Indies	7th	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
Zambia	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	17th	-	-	-	14th	-	-	2
Zimbabwe	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8th	13th	2

Netball World Cup facts for kids

Contents

History

Results

Tournament history

Performance of nations

Participating nations

See also