Netball World Championships

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Netball World Championships

Sport	Netball
Founded	1963
No. of teams	16 (Finals)
Continent	International (IFNA)
Most recent champion(s)	Australia

The Netball World Championship 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 and the New Zealand national netball team (the Silver Ferns).

1 History
2 Results
3 References
4 External links

[edit] History

In 1960, representatives from England, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and The West Indies meet to discuss standardising the rules of the sport. This led to 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 Netball World Championship was held in 1963 and was hosted by England. Since then there have been eleven more tournaments.

[edit] 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: Australia New Zealand Trinidad and Tobago			Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago	19
1983 Details	Australia	New Zealand	Trinidad and Tobago	Singapore	14
1987 Details	New Zealand	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	-	-	-	Singapore City, Singapore [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 New Zealand, and the competition date moved from July to November 2007

[edit] References

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