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. The most recent tournament was the 2023 Netball World Cup in Cape Town, South Africa, which was won by Australia.
Netball World Cup
Sign commemorating the 1979 World Netball Championships, held in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.
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.
Netball is a ball sport played on a rectangular court by two teams of seven players. The primary objective is to shoot a ball through the defender's goal ring while preventing the opposing team from shooting through their own goal ring. It is one of a few sports created exclusively for women and girls and remains primarily played by them, on indoor and outdoor courts, especially in schools and most popularly in the Commonwealth of Nations.
Malawi (red) playing Fiji (blue) at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
Women in England playing netball on a grass court, 1910
A goal is scored at a women's netball game in New Zealand, circa 1920s.
Men and women play together during a mixed netball game in Australia.
