The IFNA World Rankings are published by the International Federation of Netball Associations

International Federation of Netball Associations

International Federation of Netball Associations is the governing body for netball. The organisation has five regional areas: Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceania. Leadership meets every two years. IFNA is responsible for world rankings, maintaining the rules for netball and organising the...

 (IFNA) to make it possible to compare the relative strengths of internationally active national netball

Netball

Netball is a ball sport played between two teams of seven players. Its development, derived from early versions of basketball, began in England in the 1890s. By 1960 international playing rules had been standardised for the game, and the International Federation of Netball and Women's Basketball ...

 teams. Initially, rankings were based on the results from the Netball World Championships

Netball World Championships

The World Netball Championships is a quadrennial international netball world championship co-ordinated by the International Federation of Netball Associations , inaugurated in 1963. Since its inception the competition has been dominated primarily by the Australian national netball team and the New...

, and released after the conclusion of each event, every four years. A new ranking system was implemented on 11 February 2008, wherein teams are ranked based on international tests played, currently since July 2009. Teams appear on the rankings list once they have played eight international test matches, starting from July 2009. The rankings are updated by the IFNA at unspecified time intervals.

Current world rankings

Top 25 Rankings as of 26 July 2011
Rank	Change	Team	Rating
1			179
2			176
3			150
4			145
5	1		132
6	1		128
7	2		120
8			106
9			97
10			94
11	1		87
12	1		86
13	2		83
14			77
15			75
16			69
17			65
18			51
19	2		42
20			35
21	2		32
22	1		26
23	1		20
24			19
25=			0
25=			0