Netball World Youth Cup
{{Short description|U21 netball tournament}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2021}}
{{Infobox sports league
| title = Netball World Youth Cup
| last_season = 2017 Netball World Youth Cup
| upcoming_season = 2025 Netball World Youth Cup
| logo = Netball World Youth Cup logo.png
| pixels = 300px
| caption =
| sport = Netball
| founded = {{start date and age|1988}}
| administrator = International Netball Federation
| teams = 20 Teams (2017)
| continent = International (INF)
| inaugural = {{start date and age|1988}}
{{flag|Australia}}
| champion = {{flagicon|NZL}} New Zealand
(4th title)
| most_champs = {{flagicon|NZL}} New Zealand
{{flagicon|AUS}} Australia
(4 titles each)
}}
Previously known as the World Youth Netball Championships, the Netball World Youth Cup (since 2017) is the world championship of netball for national U21 teams, with all players being aged 21 years or younger. As part of the Australian Bicentenary celebrations in 1988 (Australia was founded in 1788), a new international tournament for youth took place in Canberra, the capital city of Australia. Its success led to this event being held once every four years.[https://web.archive.org/web/20160303235425/http://www.foxsportspulse.com/assoc_page.cgi?c=1-2376-0-0-0&sID=20069]{{harvnb|International Federation of Netball Associations}} The most recent tournament was held in Gaborone in 2017, with New Zealand taking the title.{{cite web |url=http://www.netball.org.sg/netball-events/competitions-international/item/506-wync13 |title=World Youth Netball Championships 2013 Glasgow |website=www.netball.org.sg |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305081842/http://www.netball.org.sg/netball-events/competitions-international/item/506-wync13 |archive-date=2016-03-05}}{{harvnb|World Youth Netball Championships - Cook Island 2009|2009}}
In the lead-up to the 2009 World Youth Championship in the Cook Islands, there was considerable anxiety over the facilities, and whether they would be up to standards. The prime minister reconfirmed that his government would deliver a new venue. Before this, the International Netball Federation also reaffirmed their support for hosting the event in the Cook Islands.{{harvnb|Jonassen|Tikivanotau|2008|p=148}} The Chinese government had offered to step in and loan the country NZ$9.3 million to help pay the costs of constructing the facility.{{harvnb|Jonassen|Tikivanotau|2008|p=147}} The loan was controversial as some organizations felt the country had misplaced priorities. During that period, the government also sought to increase the size of the loan for the facility to NZD 13 million$ . The opposition leader Norman George was very unhappy with how the government handled the whole situation regarding new sporting facilities to be built for the World Youth Netball Championships and the 2009 Pacific Mini Games.{{harvnb|Jonassen|Tikivanotau|2008|p=149}}
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- {{cite web |author=International Federation of Netball Associations |title=About IFNA |url=http://www.netball.org/ifna.aspx |access-date=7 March 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110308132327/http://www.netball.org/IFNA.aspx |archive-date=8 March 2011 }}
- {{cite web |author=International Federation of Netball Associations |title=Current World Rankings |url=http://www.netball.org/IFNA.aspx?id=94 |date=21 January 2011 |access-date=4 March 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110519025332/http://www.netball.org/IFNA.aspx?id=94 |archive-date=19 May 2011 }}
- {{cite journal |last1=Jonassen|first1=M |last2=Tikivanotau |first2=Jon |title=Cook Islands |journal=Polynesia in Review: Issues and Events, 1 July 2007 to 30 June 2008 |volume=21 |issue=1| year=2008 | url=http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/contemporary_pacific/v021/21.1.jonassen_sub04.pdf |access-date=6 March 2011 }}
- {{cite web |author=International Federation of Netball Associations |title=History of Netball |url=http://www.netball.org/Netball.aspx?id=18 |date=15 June 2008 |access-date=2 March 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110306141537/http://www.netball.org/netball.aspx?id=18 |archive-date=6 March 2011 }}
- {{cite web |author=World Youth Netball Championships - Cook Island 2009 |title=NZ loses WYNC final to a fired-up Australian team |url=http://www.sportingpulse.com/assoc_page.cgi?client=1-2376-0-0-0&sID=133764&&news_task=DETAIL&articleID=9813188§ionID=133764 |date=22 August 2009 |access-date=1 March 2011 }}
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{{International netball competitions}}