The 2019 Netball World Cup (also known as the 2019 Vitality Netball World Cup for sponsorship reasons^[1]) was the 15th edition of the INF Netball World Cup. It was held from 12–21 July 2019 at the Liverpool Arena in Liverpool, England with matches being held on two courts. Host nation England finished their campaign with a bronze medal. New Zealand became 5th time champions after beating Australia in the final and gold medal match.

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2019 Netball World Cup

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Tournament details
Host country	England
Venue(s)	Liverpool Arena
Dates	12–21 July 2019 (2019-07-12 – 2019-07-21)
Teams	16
Final positions
Champions	New Zealand (5th title)
Runner-up	Australia
Third place	England
Tournament statistics
Matches played	60
Top scorer(s)	Tharjini Sivalingam (348 goals)
All statistics correct as of 17 July 2019.
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Sixteen nations contested for the title, which included the top six of the previous tournament which was held in Sydney, Australia. After two group stage rounds, Australia, England, New Zealand and South Africa all made it to the semi-finals. In a rematch of the 2015 final, New Zealand would take home their fifth title after defeating Australia by one goal. England finished in third place, after defeating South Africa.

Trinidad and Tobago's Rhonda John-Davis appeared in her sixth World Cup, a World Cup record.^[2][3]

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Liverpool Arena
Host venue
Location	Liverpool, England
Constructed	2008
Capacity	11,000

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The 2019 Netball World Cup was launched in January 2018 at St George's Hall in Liverpool, the host city.^[4] Liverpool was selected as the host city for the event in February 2015 by the International Netball Federation.^[5]

This is a list of the broadcasters for the tournament in competing countries and regions.

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Country	Broadcaster
Australia	Nine Network	[7]
Barbados	Flow Sport	[8]
Fiji	Digicel	[8]
New Zealand	Sky Sport	[9]
Samoa	Digicel	[8]
South Africa	SuperSport	[10]
Trinidad and Tobago	Flow Sport	[8]
United Kingdom	Sky Sports & BBC	[11]

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Seventeen umpires from seven countries officiated matches at the tournament.^[12]

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Nation	Umpire
AUS	Marc Henning
AUS	Josh Bowring
AUS	Helen George
AUS	Michelle Phippard
ENG	Louise Travis
ENG	Gary Burgess
ENG	Kate Stephenson
ENG	Jackie Mizon
RSA	Anso Kemp
RSA	Janet Edeling
RSA	Elizna Van den Berg
TRI	Lilia Mathurin-Cameron
JAM	Terrence Peart
NZL	Angela Armstrong-Lush
NZL	Lisa Douglas
NZL	Gareth Fowler
SIN	Joan Yuliani

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A new format was introduced for the edition. Teams competed in three stages; the Preliminaries Stage One (12–14 July), Preliminaries Stage Two (15–18 July) and the Play-offs and Placings matches (19–21 July).^[13]

Preliminaries Stage One
There were four groups (A, B, C and D) of four teams in the first stage, with the top eight teams pre-assigned to their groups and one team from the 9th–12th seeds and one from the 13th–16th seeds drawn randomly into each group. However no more than two teams from the one region can be drawn into the same group. The top three teams from each group progressed to the second preliminaries stage.^[13]

Preliminaries Stage Two
The top three teams from Groups A and B formed Group F, and the top three teams from Groups C and D formed Group G. The bottom four finishers from Groups A-D competed against one another in Group E. Where teams in Groups F and G have already played each other in the Preliminaries Stage One (i.e. A1 has already played A2 and A3), these results will carry through to the Preliminaries Stage Two.^[13]

Play-offs and Placings
The teams finishing first and second in Groups F and G went through to the semi-finals, with the top placed team in each group facing the second placed team in the other group. The winners of each semi-final competed for gold in the final, with the losers playing for bronze.

The teams finishing third and fourth in Groups F and G competed for final positions fifth to eighth – third in one group plays fourth in the other – with the winners playing off for fifth place and the losers for seventh. The teams that finished fifth in Groups F and G played off for ninth and 10th places. The teams that finished last in Groups F and G played off for 11th and 12th places. The teams that finished first and second in Group E played off for 13th and 14th place and the teams that finish third and fourth in Group E played off for the 15th and 16th places.^[13]