Netball World Cup

The most recent tournament was the 2023 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.

Formal rules were established at this inaugural meeting and a decision to hold World Championship tournaments every four years was also made.

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 the round-robin system, which occasionally led to more than one nation being crowned world champions.

Jamaica have contested several bronze medal matches and come up short in narrow semi-final defeats.

Sign commemorating the 1979 World Netball Championships , held in Port of Spain , Trinidad and Tobago.
Appeared at every World Cup
10 or more appearances
5 or more appearances
One or more appearances
Participated in qualifying tournaments, but did not qualify
Appearances by countries/teams which no longer exist are not shown.
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 .