2015 World Netball Championships
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| Host country |
 Australia
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| Dates | 7 August – 16 August |
| No. of nations | 16 |
| Final positions | |
 Champions |
Australia (11th title)
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 Runners-up |
 New Zealand
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 Third place |
 England
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| Top scorer(s) |
 Malawi
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The Netball World Cup Sydney 2015 (NWC2015) was the fourteenth staging of the tournament previously (until 2011) known as the World Netball Championships, the premier competition in international netball, contested every four years. The 2015 tournament, ran from 7–16 August, held in Sydney, Australia, which secured hosting rights after defeating a rival bid from Manchester, England. Matches were played at Allphones Arena and Netball Central. Sixteen nations competed at the championships, including the top six teams from the 2011 World Netball Championships in Singapore. After two rounds in which teams competed in pools of four, Australia, New Zealand, England and Jamaica contested the semi-finals. Australia and New Zealand met in the final, with Australia gaining a narrow 58–55 victory to take the title. The final at Allphones Arena was attended by 16,752 people, a world record for any netball game. Malawian shooter Mwayi Kumwenda was the player of the tournament.
Bids to host the 2015 Netball World Cup were submitted to the International Netball Federation (INF) in 2010. The two candidate cities chosen were Manchester, England and Sydney, Australia. In March 2011, INF delegates convened in Singapore, host nation of the 2011 World Netball Championships, to consider both bids. At the end of the conference, Sydney was announced as the host city for the 2015 tournament.
This is the second time that the World Championships have been held in Sydney, and the third time in Australia. Sydney last hosted the event in 1991, where Australia won a closely contested final against New Zealand.
The 64 NWC2015 matches were played at Allphones Arena (formerly known as the "Sydney SuperDome" and "Acer Arena"), and Netball Central in Sydney Olympic Park. The venue was opened in 1999 for the 2000 Summer Olympics, and is the largest indoor sports venue in the country. In 2004, a world-record crowd of 14,339 attended an international netball test match between Australia and New Zealand at Allphones Arena (then known as "Sydney SuperDome"). Netball Central, which is the home of Netball Central in NSW, was officially opened in 2015, and served as the training venue for all teams, as well as host 16 NWC2015 matches.
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