TheNetball World Cup2019 will be the 15th staging of the premier competition in internationalnetball, contested every four years. The tournament will be held from 1221 July 2019 at theM&S Bank ArenainLiverpool,England.
The 2019 Netball World Cup was officially launched in January 2018 at St George's Hall in Liverpool, the host city Liverpool was selected as the host city for the event in February 2015 by the International Netball Federation.
The INF Netball World Cup is a quadrennial international netball world championship co-ordinated by the International Netball Federation(INF), inaugurated in 1963. Since its inception, the competition has been dominated primarily by the Australian national netball team (the Diamonds) and the New Zealand national netball team (the Silver Ferns) Trinidad and Tobago is the only other team to have won a title. The most recent tournament was the 2015 Netball World Cup in Sydney Australia, which was won by Australia.
In 1960, representatives from Australia, England, New Zealand, South Africa, and the West Indies met to discuss standardizing 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 in1963and was hosted by England. Since then there have been 13 more tournaments.
The Vitality Netball World Cup 2019 will take place over 20 thrilling sessions of netball from 12-21 July 2019.
Two sessions of netball will take place each day, with at least two matches being played per session. For the first four days of the competition (12-15 July), there will be two courts in the arena, with matches taking place simultaneously. From 16 July onwards matches will take place on one court.
The Netball World Cup, previously known as the Netball World Championships, has been held every four years since 1963. It is coordinated by the International Federation of Netball Associations. The tournament has been dominated by the Australian and New Zealand teams.
Here is a list of some of the countries that have participated at the Netball World Cup / World Netball Championships since 1963. Follow the links for more information about each country's participation at the tournament.
- Australia
- Barbados
- England
- Fiji
- Jamaica
- Malawi
- New Zealand
- Samoa
- Scotland
- Singapore
- South Africa
- Sri Lanka
- Trinidad and tobago
- Uganda
- Wales
- Zambia
In 1979 there were three winners. Three teams finished on the same points: Australia, New Zealand and 'Trinidad and Tobago'. The rules at the time did not provide any other way of determining an outright winner, so the three teams shared the title. The rules were changed so that this would not occur again.
In 2007, Fiji was scheduled to host the tournament but was stripped of the right as a result of the December 2006 coup. Hosting rights were subsequently awarded to New Zealand.
The next tournament will be held in England in 2019.
New Zealand and Australia have hosted the tournament the most - three times. England will host the event for the third time in 2019.
- the first World Championships for netball was held in 1963.
- In 1979 there were three winners. Three teams finished on the same points: Australia, New Zealand and 'Trinidad and Tobago'. The rules at the time did not provide any other way of determining an outright winner, so the three teams shared the title.
- South Africa is the only nation other than Australia and New Zealand to have played in a World Cup final (Finals were introduced in 1991 in Sydney, Australia)
- In 2007, Fiji was scheduled to host the tournament but was stripped of the right as a result of the December 2006 coup. Hosting rights were subsequently awarded to New Zealand.
- Out of the 14 events held so far (including to 2015), Australia has been victorious 11 times.
- Four nations have played at every World Cup since 1963 - Australia, New Zealand, England, and Jamaica.
- When England host the 2019 tournament in Liverpool, they will join Australian and New Zealand as three-time hosts.
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