(IFNA), inaugurated in 1963. Since its inception the competition has been dominated primarily by the Australian national netball team and the
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 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
and was hosted by England. Since then there have been eleven more tournaments.
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| 1963 Details The ' were held in Eastbourne, England, which was the first edition of the Netball World Championships tournament. Australia were the winners....
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| EastbourneEastbourne is a large town and borough of East Sussex, on the south coast of England, with an estimated population of 106,652 as of 2009. The area has seen human activity since the stone age and it remained one of small settlements until the 19th century when its four hamlets gradually merged to...
, EnglandEngland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the North Sea to the east, with the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
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| 1967 Details The ' were held in Australia, which was the second edition of the Netball World Championships tournament. New Zealand were the winners.hi...
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| PerthPerth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. With a population of 1,650,000 , Perth ranks fourth amongst the nation's cities, with a growth rate consistently above the national average....
, AustraliaAustralia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the continental mainland , the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans...
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| 1971 Details The ' were held in Jamaica, which was the third edition of the Netball World Championships tournament. Australia were the winners....
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| Kingston, JamaicaKingston is the capital and largest city of Jamaica and is located on the southeastern coast of the island country. It faces a natural harbour protected by the Palisadoes, a long sand spit which connects Port Royal and the Norman Manley International Airport to the rest of the island...
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| 1975 Details The 1975 Netball World Championships were held in Auckland, New Zealand, and were the fourth staging of the Netball World Championships tournament. Australia were the winners....
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| 1979 Details The ' were held in Trinidad/Tobago, which was the fifth edition of the Netball World Championships tournament. Australia, New Zealand and Trinidad/Tobago were the joint winners....
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Port of Spain Port of Spain is the capital of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago and the country's third-largest municipality, after San Fernando and Chaguanas. The city has a municipal population of 49,031 , a metropolitan population of 128,026 and a transient daily population of 250,000...
, Trinidad and TobagoThe Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is an archipelagic state in the southern Caribbean, lying northeast of the South American country of Venezuela and south of Grenada in the Lesser Antilles. It shares maritime boundaries with other nations including Barbados to the northeast, Guyana to the...
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| 1983 Details The ' were held in Singapore, which was the sixth edition of the Netball World Championships tournament. Australia were the winners....
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| SingaporeSingapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island city-state located at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, lying north of the equator, south of the Malaysian state of Johor and north of Indonesia's Riau Islands. At , Singapore is a microstate and the smallest nation in Southeast...
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| 1987 Details The ' were held in Scotland, which was the seventh edition of the Netball World Championships tournament. New Zealand were the winners.New Zealand were the only team that won every game at the 1987 World Championships in Glasgow. Some players on the team were Wai Taumaunu, Tracey Fear, Julie...
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| 1991 Details The ' were held in Sydney, Australia at the Sydney Entertainment Centre. This was the eighth edition of the Netball World Championships tournament. Host nation Australia were the winners....
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| 1995 Details The ' were held in Birmingham, England, which was the ninth edition of the Netball World Championships tournament. Australia were the winners....
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| BirminghamBirmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands county of England. Birmingham is the second-most populous British city, with a population of 1,006,500 ....
, EnglandEngland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the North Sea to the east, with the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
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| 1999 Details The 1999 Netball World Championships were held at the Westpac Arena in Christchurch, New Zealand, the tenth edition of the Netball World Championships. Australia regained their title by memorably defeating hot favourites New Zealand in the final on a final-second shot by Sharelle McMahon, after...
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| 2003 Details The 2003 Netball World Championships were held in Kingston, Jamaica between 10 July and 20 July. It was the eleventh Netball World Championships. After 100 matches, the New Zealand national team, the Silver Ferns, won the tournament, defeating Australia to win the World Championship for the first...
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| Kingston, JamaicaKingston is the capital and largest city of Jamaica and is located on the southeastern coast of the island country. It faces a natural harbour protected by the Palisadoes, a long sand spit which connects Port Royal and the Norman Manley International Airport to the rest of the island...
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2007 DetailsThe 2007 Netball World Championships was the twelfth Netball World Championship, a quadrennial international netball world championship co-ordinated by the International Federation of Netball Associations , inaugurated in 1963....
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| **AucklandThe Auckland metropolitan area , in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban area in the country with a population approaching 1.4 million residents, percent of the country's population. Demographic trends indicate that it will continue to grow faster than the rest...
, New ZealandNew Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses , and numerous smaller islands, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands. The indigenous Māori named New Zealand Aotearoa, commonly translated as The Land of the Long White Cloud...
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2011 DetailsThe 2011 Netball World Championships will be the 12th edition of the Netball World Championships, and will be held in Singapore. Countries that bid for the tournament were Australia and Singapore.-References:-Teams:...
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Singapore City, SingaporeSingapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island city-state located at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, lying north of the equator, south of the Malaysian state of Johor and north of Indonesia's Riau Islands. At , Singapore is a microstate and the smallest nation in Southeast...
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was scheduled to host the 2007 competition but was stripped of the right as a direct result of the
. Hosting rights were subsequently awarded to