World Netball Championships

World Netball Championships

Most recent season or competition: 2011 World Netball Championships
Sign for the 1979 World Netball Championships in Trinidad and Tobago
Sport	Netball
Inaugural season	1963
Most recent champion(s)	Australia (2011)
Most titles	Australia (10 titles)

The World Netball Championships 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 meet to discuss standardising the rules of the sport. This led to establish 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 it was decided to hold World Championship tournaments every four years. The first World Netball Championship was held in 1963 and was hosted by England. Since then there have been 12 more tournaments.

Results

Year	1st	2nd	3rd	Venue	Number of teams
1963 Details	Australia	New Zealand	England	Eastbourne, England	11
1967 Details	New Zealand	Australia	South Africa	Perth, Australia	8
1971 Details	Australia	New Zealand	England	Kingston, Jamaica	9
1975 Details	Australia	England	New Zealand	Auckland, New Zealand	11
1979 Details	1st equal: New Zealand Australia Trinidad and Tobago			Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago	19
1983 Details	Australia	New Zealand	Trinidad and Tobago	Singapore City, Singapore	14
1987 Details	New Zealand	2nd equal: Trinidad and Tobago Australia		Glasgow, Scotland	17
1991 Details	Australia	New Zealand	Jamaica	Sydney, Australia	20
1995 Details	Australia	South Africa	New Zealand	Birmingham, England	27
1999 Details	Australia	New Zealand	England	Christchurch, New Zealand	26
2003 Details	New Zealand	Australia	Jamaica	Kingston, Jamaica	24
2007 Details	Australia	New Zealand	Jamaica	Auckland, New Zealand	16
2011 Details	Australia	New Zealand	England	Singapore City, Singapore	16
2015 Details	-	-	-	Sydney, Australia

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	-	-	-	-	12	9	-	-	12	-	17	-	-
Australia	1	2	1	1	T1	1	T2	1	1	1	2	1	1
Bahamas	-	-	9	-	18	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Barbados	-	-	-	-	8	-	T6	-	11	10	7	13	11
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
Fiji	-	-	-	8	-	-	8	11	-	6	8	9	10
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
Malawi	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8	11	-	5	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
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
Scotland	8	7	6	6	9	6	9	9	22	20	14	14	-
Singapore	-	8	-	10	-	10	-	18	20	12	-	15	15
South Africa	6	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	5	5	6	5
Sri Lanka	9	-	-	-	-	14	16	15	19	21	18	-	14
Tonga	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	22	-	-	-
Trinidad and Tobago	4	5	T4	4	T1	3	T2	-	6	8	10	11	7
Uganda	-	-	-	-	T12	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
United States	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	14	15	9	-	-
Vanuatu	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	20	-	26	-	-	-
Wales	10	-	7	7	T6	8	13	7	17	14	16	12	9
West Indies	7	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Zambia	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	17	-	-	-

See also

• International Federation of Netball Associations (IFNA)
• IFNA World Rankings
• World Netball Series

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. 

External links

• Official IFNA website
• World Netball Championships 2011 Singapore official website