AFNA Championships

Sport	Netball
Founded	1954
First season	1954
Organising body	West Indies Netball Board Caribbean Netball Association Americas Federation of Netball Associations
Most recent champion	Trinidad and Tobago (2018)
Most titles	Jamaica  Trinidad and Tobago
Broadcaster	YouTube
Related competitions	Netball World Cup Qualifiers – Americas

The AFNA Championships were a series of netball tournaments organised by the Americas Federation of Netball Associations. It was effectively a successor tournament to the earlier West Indies Netball Championship and Caribbean Netball Championship. Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago are the series most successful teams. Later AFNA tournaments served as qualifiers for both Netball at the Commonwealth Games and the Netball World Cup.

Competitive netball among Caribbean/West Indies countries started in 1954 with a triangular tournament featuring Trinidad and Tobago, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Grenada. In 1954, Lystra Lewis, the pioneering Trinidad and Tobago netball coach and administrator, was instrumental in establishing the West Indies Netball Board in an effort to formalise these early netball tournaments. In 1956, the original three were joined by Barbados. They were subsequently joined by Jamaica, Dominica and Saint Kitts and Nevis.^[1][2][3] Jamaica made their Test debut at the 1959 West Indies tournament hosted by Montserrat.^[4][5]

After 1975, the winners were awarded the Dr. Eric Williams Trophy, named after Eric Williams, the first Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago. The Caribbean Netball Association also became the tournaments main organiser.^{[6][7][8][9][10][11]} By 1977 the tournament had evolved into the Caribbean Netball Championships.^[12][13] Trinidad and Tobago dominated this era, winning eleven titles between 1977 and 1993.^{[14][15][16][17]} Saint Kitts and Nevis were the only team to challenge Trinidad and Tobago. After winning the 1973 tournament, in 1978 Saint Kitts and Nevis won a second championship.^[12][13][18] After 1984 Jamaica began to participate more regularly and, from 1989 onwards, they replaced Trinidad and Tobago as the dominant team, winning nearly every tournament they entered.^[19][20]

In 1994, the Caribbean Netball Association and the Americas Federation of Netball Associations hosted a joint tournament and Canada and the United States were invited to enter for the first time.^[10][21][22] Later AFNA tournaments served as qualifiers for both Netball at the Commonwealth Games and the Netball World Cup.^[23]

West Indies Netball Championship

Tournaments	Host	Winners	Runners up
1954
1958	Dominica
1959[4][5]	Montserrat
1960	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
1961	Barbados
1965[24]	Dominica
1970	Saint Lucia
1971	Antigua and Barbuda	Trinidad and Tobago ??
1972[24]	Saint Kitts	Trinidad and Tobago	Saint Kitts and Nevis
1973[12][13][18]	Grenada	Saint Kitts and Nevis	Trinidad and Tobago
1974[24]	Trinidad and Tobago	Trinidad and Tobago
1975[6]		Trinidad and Tobago

Source:^[25]

Caribbean Netball Championships

Tournaments	Host	Winners	Runners up	3rd
1977[15][26]	The Bahamas	Trinidad and Tobago ??
1978[12][13][18][27]	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Saint Kitts and Nevis
1980[14][24][28]	Saint Kitts	Trinidad and Tobago		Saint Kitts and Nevis
1981[14]		Trinidad and Tobago
1982[6][7][29][28]	Grenada	Trinidad and Tobago	Grenada	Barbados
1983[14][30]	Bermuda	Trinidad and Tobago
1984[8][31][32][33] (Note 1)	Dominica	Trinidad and Tobago	Barbados	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
1985[8][32][14][34]	Nevis	Trinidad and Tobago	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Barbados
1986[35][36][37]	Saint Lucia	Trinidad and Tobago
1988[37][38][39][40]	Cayman Islands	Trinidad and Tobago	Grenada
1989[17][41]	Trinidad and Tobago	Jamaica
1990[17][42][43]	Jamaica	Jamaica
1991[44]	Barbados	Jamaica
1992[10][17][45] (Note 2)	Antigua and Barbuda	Trinidad and Tobago	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Barbados
1993[10][17][30][46] (Note 2)	Montserrat	Trinidad and Tobago	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Barbados

AFNA Championships

Tournaments	Host	Winners	Runners up	3rd
1994[10][17][21][47][48]	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Jamaica	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
1996[19][49]	Saint Kitts	Jamaica
1997[50][51]	Grenada	Jamaica	Barbados	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
1998[22][52][53]	Saint Lucia	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Barbados
2000[19][20]	Nevis	Jamaica
2001[54][55]	Dominica	Jamaica
2004[11][19][56][57]	Trinidad and Tobago	Jamaica	Barbados	Trinidad and Tobago
2005[58][59][60][61] (Note 3)	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Trinidad and Tobago	Canada
2008[62][63] (Note 4)	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Jamaica	Trinidad and Tobago	Barbados
2012[64] (Note 5)	Trinidad and Tobago	Jamaica	Barbados	Trinidad and Tobago
2014[65][66] (Note 6)	Canada	Trinidad and Tobago	Barbados	United States
2018[67][68] (Note 7)	Barbados	Trinidad and Tobago	Barbados	Grenada

Sources:^[19][20][23]

• ^1 In 1984 Barbados and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines finished as joint runners-up. However, Barbados had the better goal difference.^[8][33]
• ^2 In both 1992 and 1993 Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines finished as joint winners. In 1994 goal difference was introduced to decide final positions.^[10]
• ^3 The 2005 AFNA Championships also counted as a 2006 Commonwealth Games qualifier.
• ^4 The 2008 AFNA Championships also counted as a 2010 Commonwealth Games qualifier.
• ^5 The 2012 AFNA Championships also counted as a 2014 Commonwealth Games qualifier.
• ^6 The 2014 AFNA Championships also counted as a 2015 Netball World Cup qualifier.
• ^7 The 2018 AFNA Championships also counted as a 2019 Netball World Cup qualifier.