Northern Ireland national netball team


The Northern Ireland national netball team represent Northern Ireland in international netball tournaments such as the Netball World Cup, the Commonwealth Games, the European Netball Championship and the Nations Cup. The team was founded in 1955. Northern Ireland won the Nations Cup in both 2009 and 2015 and were silver medallists at the 2012 and 2017 European Netball Championships. As of 21 July 2019, Northern Ireland are listed 11th on the INF World Rankings. Since 2019 the team has been sponsored by PricewaterhouseCoopers and is sometimes referred to as the PwC Warriors.

Tournament history

Netball World Cup

Northern Ireland played in the inaugural 1963 World Netball Championships and finished in 11th place. Their best performance in the tournament came in 1983 when they finished seventh. In 2019 Northern Ireland played in their twelfth Netball World Cup.
TournamentsPlace
1963 World Netball Championships11th
1971 World Netball Championships8th
1975 World Netball Championships9th
1979 World Netball Championships17th
1983 World Netball Championships7th
1987 World Netball Championships10th
1991 World Netball Championships12th
1995 World Netball Championships18th
1999 World Netball Championships16th
2003 World Netball Championships19th
2011 World Netball Championships8th
2019 Netball World Cup10th

Commonwealth Games

Northern Ireland made their debut at the Commonwealth Games in 2014. As part of their preparations for the 2014 Commonwealth Games, Northern Ireland formed a partnership with Team Northumbria. This saw seven Northern Ireland internationals – Oonagh McCullough, Fionnuala Toner, Caroline O'Hanlon, Gemma Gibney, Michelle Drayne, Noleen Lennon and Niamh Cooper – play for Team Northumbria during the 2014 Netball Superleague season. With Kate Carpenter taking charge of both teams, Northern Ireland and Team Northumbria also shared a coach. In the tournament itself, they eventually finished seventh after defeating Wales by 58–36 in a classification match. Northern Ireland made their second appearance at the Commonwealth Games in 2018. Team captain, Caroline O'Hanlon, carried the flag of Northern Ireland during the 2018 Commonwealth Games opening ceremony. Northern Ireland eventually finished eighth after losing to Malawi by 60–52 in a classification match.
TournamentsPlace
2014 Commonwealth Games7th
2018 Commonwealth Games8th

European Netball Championship

Northern Ireland have played regularly in the European Netball Championship. Their best performances came in 2012 and 2017 when they finished second and won silver medals on both occasions.
TournamentsPlace
2005 European Netball Championship4th
2006 European Netball Championship4th
2007 European Netball Championship4th
2010 European Netball Championship4th
2011 European Netball Championship
2012 European Netball Championship
2013 European Netball Championship
2014 European Netball Championship
2015 European Netball Championship4th
2016 European Netball Championship4th
2017 European Netball Championship
2019 European Netball Championship

Nations Cup

Northern Ireland won the Nations Cup in both 2009 and 2015
TournamentsPlace
2007 Nations Cup
2009 Nations Cup
2015 Nations Cup

World University Netball Championship

Northern Ireland represented the Colleges and Universities Sports Association of Ireland at the 2012 World University Netball Championship. It was initially planned that Ireland would send an All-Ireland team, featuring players from both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. However no players from the Republic were selected for the final squad. As a result, it was a Northern Ireland team, in effect, that competed in the tournament.
TournamentsPlace
2012 World University Netball Championship4th

Players

2019 Netball World Cup squad

2018 Commonwealth Games squad

Head coaches

Honours