Current season, competition or edition: 2023 Netball World Cup | |
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| Formerly | World Netball Championships (1963–2011) |
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| Sport | Netball |
| Founded | 1963; 62 years ago (1963) |
| First season | 1963 |
| Administrator | World Netball |
| No. of teams | 16 teams (2023) |
| Most recent champion |  Australia (12th title) |
| Most titles | Australia (12 titles) |
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TheNetball World Cup is a quadrennial internationalnetball world championship organised byWorld Netball, inaugurated in1963. Since its inception the competition has been dominated primarily by theAustralia national netball team and theNew Zealand national netball team,Trinidad and Tobago is the only other team to have won a title (a three-way tie in the1979 championship). The most recent tournament was the2023 Netball World Cup in Cape Town, South Africa, which was won by Australia.
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 theInternational 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 in1963 and was hosted by England. The tournament was renamed to theWorld 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 theround-robin system, which occasionally led to more than one nation being crowned world champions.[1][2]
Australia orNew Zealand have won all of the titles, though emerging netball nationsEngland,South Africa andJamaica have come close to dislodging the top-tier nations on several occasions. In1979 Australia, New Zealand andTrinidad and Tobago were all joint champions. South Africa finished runners-up in1995, England too in2023. Jamaica have contested several bronze medal matches and come up short in narrow semi-final defeats. The reigning world champions areAustralia, who defeated England in the2023 final. They will defend their title inSydney,Australia in 2027.[2][3]
From 2027 onwards, the tournament will be held in a two-year cycle interval ahead of the inaugural Men’s Netball World Cup.
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| Team | Champions | Runners-up | Third | Fourth | Apps in top six |
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| Australia | 12 (1963,1971,1975,1979,1983,1991,1995,1999,2007,2011,2015,2023) | 4 (1967,1987,2003,2019) | — | — | 16 |
 New Zealand | 5 (1967,1979,1987,2003,2019) | 8 (1963,1971,1983,1991,1999,2007,2011,2015) | 2 (1975,1991) | 1 (2023) | 16 |
 Trinidad and Tobago | 1 (1979) | 1 (1987) | 1 (1983) | 3 (1963,1971,1975) | 8 |
 England | — | 2 (1975,2023) | 6 (1963,1971,1999,2011,2015,2019) | 8 (1967,1979,1983,1987,1991,1995) | 16 |
 South Africa | — | 1 (1995) | 1 (1967) | 1 (2019) | 10 |
 Jamaica | — | — | 4 (1991,2003,2007,2023) | 4 (1971,1999,2011,2015) | 16 |
| 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 | - | - | - | - | 6th | - | =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 |
 Republic of 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 | - | - | - | - | - | 16th | - | - | - | - | - | 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 | 15th | 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 | 14th | 12th | 9th | 7th | - | 9th | 14 |
 West Indies | 7th | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
 Zambia | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 17th | - | - | - | 14th | - | - | 2 |
 Zimbabwe | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 8th | 13th | 2 |
Netball Scoop - Team Lists (World Championships)
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