INF Netball World Cup

INF Netball World Cup
Upcoming season or competition:
Current sports event 2015 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 (2011)
Most titles  Australia (10 titles)
TV partner(s) Network Ten (Australia) [1999, 2011, 2015]
Fox Sports (Australia) [2015]

The INF Netball World Cup is a quadrennial international netball world championship co-ordinated by the International Federation of Netball Associations (IFNA), inaugurated in 1963. Since its inception the competition has been dominated primarily by the Australian national netball team (Australian Diamonds) and the New Zealand national netball team (New Zealand Silver Ferns). The most recent tournament was the 2011 World Netball Championships in Singapore, 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 12 more tournaments.

Results

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.
Year 1st 2nd 3rd Venue Number of teams
1963 Details[1][2]  Australia

[3]

  New Zealand  England Eastbourne, England[3][4] 11
1967 Details[2]  New Zealand  Australia  South Africa Perth, Australia 8
1971 Details[2]  Australia  New Zealand  England Kingston, Jamaica[5] 9
1975 Details[2]  Australia  England  New Zealand Auckland, New Zealand[4][5] 11
1979 Details[2] 1st equal:
 New Zealand
 Australia
 Trinidad and Tobago		 Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago 19
1983 Details[2]  Australia  New Zealand  Trinidad and Tobago Singapore City, Singapore[5][6] 14
1987 Details[2]  New Zealand 2nd equal:
 Trinidad and Tobago
 Australia		 Glasgow, Scotland 17
1991 Details[2]  Australia  New Zealand  Jamaica Sydney, Australia 20
1995 Details[2]  Australia  South Africa  New Zealand Birmingham, England 27
1999 Details[2]  Australia[7]  New Zealand[7]  England Christchurch, New Zealand[4][5] 26
2003 Details[2]  New Zealand[5]  Australia  Jamaica Kingston, Jamaica[8] 24
2007 Details[2]  Australia  New Zealand  Jamaica Auckland, New Zealand[4] 16[note 1]
2011 Details[2]  Australia  New Zealand  England Singapore City, Singapore 16
2015 Details - - - Sydney, Australia 16
2019 Details - - - Liverpool, England 16

Performance of nations

Pos. Nation 1st 2nd 3rd
1  Australia 10 (1963, 1971, 1975, 1979, 1983, 1991, 1995, 1999, 2007, 2011) 3 (1967, 1987, 2003) –
2  New Zealand 4 (1967, 1979, 1987, 2003) 7 (1963, 1971, 1983, 1991, 1999, 2007, 2011) 2 (1975, 1995)
3  Trinidad and Tobago 1 (1979) 1 (1987) 1 (1983)
4  England – 1 (1975) 4 (1963, 1971, 1999, 2011)
5  South Africa – 1 (1995) 1 (1967)
6  Jamaica – – 3 (1991, 2003, 2007)

Participating nations

Nation '63 '67 '71 '75 '79 '83 '87 '91 '95 '99 '03 '07 '11
 Antigua and Barbuda ----129--12-17--
 Australia 1211T11T2111211
 Bahamas--9-18--------
 Barbados----8-T6-111071311
 Bermuda----19-T10-23-22--
 Botswana-----------1013
 Canada----1112T106131321--
 Cayman Islands -------16212324--
 Cook Islands ------T6577117-
 England3432444443443
 Fiji---8--811-68910
 Grenada----15-----20--
 Hong Kong -----13-17232423--
 Ireland----10-151025----
 Jamaica56T45555354334
 Malawi--------811-56
 Malaysia-----1117192619-1616
 Malta--------27----
 Namibia------13-16----
 New Zealand 2123T121232122
 Niue---------2512--
 Northern Ireland 11-89177T1012181619-8
 Papua New Guinea ---11--14141518---
Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla ----T6--------
 Saint Lucia ----T12-----15--
 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines ----16---10-13--
 Samoa-------8996812
 Scotland8766969922201414-
 Singapore-8-10-10-182012-1515
 South Africa63------25565
 Sri Lanka 9----141615192118-14
 Tonga---------22---
 Trinidad and Tobago 45T44T13T2-6810117
 Uganda----T12--------
 United States --------14159--
 Vanuatu-------20-26---
 Wales10-77T68137171416129
 West Indies7------------
 Zambia---------17---

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ 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

Bibliography

  • Australian Women's Weekly (5 September 1979). "SPOT THE BALL and win a trip to Disneyland.". The Australian Women's Weekly (1932-1982) (1932-1982: 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.

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