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WSF World Team Squash Championships
Sport Squash
FoundedM : 1967
W : 1976
Countries WSF members
ContinentInternational ( WSF)
Most recent
champion(s)
M :   Egypt (6th title)
W :   Egypt (5th title)
Most titlesM :   Australia (8 titles)
W :   Australia (9 titles)
TV partner(s) WorldSquashTV
Official website World Squash Federation
WSF World Team Squash Championships Trophy

The WSF World Team Squash Championships are an international squash competition organised by the World Squash Federation (WSF) and played between teams representing different nations. Countries enter teams of three or four players to represent them in the championships. In each round of the competition, teams face each other in a best-of-three singles matches contest. The competition is held once every two years, with the venue changing each time. Normally the men's and women's events are held in different years in two locations. [1] [2]

Men's

Past winners

Year Champions Runners-up Third-Place Fourth-Place Venue [3]
1967   Australia United Kingdom Great Britain New Zealand New Zealand South Africa South Africa Australia Melbourne, Australia
1969   Australia United Kingdom Great Britain South Africa South Africa Pakistan Pakistan England Birmingham, England
1971   Australia United Kingdom Great Britain Pakistan Pakistan   Egypt New Zealand Palmerston North, New Zealand
1973   Australia United Kingdom Great Britain South Africa South Africa New Zealand New Zealand South Africa Johannesburg, South Africa
1976 United Kingdom Great Britain Pakistan Pakistan   Australia   Egypt England Birmingham, England
1977 Pakistan Pakistan New Zealand New Zealand   Egypt United Kingdom Great Britain Canada Toronto, Canada
1979 United Kingdom Great Britain Pakistan Pakistan   Australia   Egypt Australia Brisbane, Australia
1981 Pakistan Pakistan   Australia   Egypt   England Sweden Stockholm, Sweden
1983 Pakistan Pakistan   England   Australia   Egypt New Zealand Auckland, New Zealand
1985 Pakistan Pakistan New Zealand New Zealand   Australia   England Egypt Cairo, Egypt
1987 Pakistan Pakistan New Zealand New Zealand   England   Australia England London, England
1989   Australia Pakistan Pakistan   England New Zealand New Zealand Singapore Singapore
1991   Australia   England Finland Finland   Egypt Finland Helsinki, Finland
1993 Pakistan Pakistan   Australia   England Finland Finland Pakistan Karachi, Pakistan
1995   England Pakistan Pakistan   Egypt   Australia Egypt Cairo, Egypt
1997   England Canada Canada   Australia   Egypt Malaysia Petaling Jaya, Malaysia
1999   Egypt Wales Wales   England   Australia Egypt Cairo, Egypt
2001   Australia   Egypt   England Scotland Scotland Australia Melbourne, Australia
2003   Australia   France   England   Egypt Austria Vienna, Austria
2005   England   Egypt   France Canada Canada Pakistan Islamabad, Pakistan
2007   England   Australia   France   Egypt India Chennai, India
2009   Egypt   France   Australia   England Denmark Odense, Denmark
2011   Egypt   England   Australia   France Germany Paderborn, Germany
2013   England   Egypt   France   Australia France Mulhouse, France
2015 Cancelled due to safety concerns [4] Egypt Cairo, Egypt
2017   Egypt   England   Australia /   Hong Kong France Marseille, France
2019 [5]   Egypt   England   France /   Wales United States Washington, United States
2021 cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic [6] Malaysia Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2023   Egypt   England   France /    Switzerland New Zealand Tauranga, New Zealand

Summary of finalists

Source: [7]

Country Winners Runners-up
  Australia 8 3
  Pakistan 6 4
  Egypt 6 3
  England 5 6
  Great Britain 2 4
  New Zealand 0 3
  France 0 2
  Canada 0 1
  Wales 0 1

Women's

Past winners

Year Champions Runners-up Third-Place Venue [8]
1979 United Kingdom Great Britain Australia Australia Republic of Ireland Ireland England Birmingham, England
1981 Australia Australia England England New Zealand New Zealand Canada Toronto, Canada
1983 Australia Australia England England New Zealand New Zealand Australia Perth, Australia
1985 England England New Zealand New Zealand Australia Australia Republic of Ireland Dublin, Ireland
1987 England England Australia Australia New Zealand New Zealand New Zealand Auckland, New Zealand
1989 England England Australia Australia New Zealand New Zealand Netherlands Warmond, Netherlands
1990 England England Australia Australia New Zealand New Zealand Australia Sydney, Australia
1992 Australia Australia New Zealand New Zealand England England Canada Vancouver, Canada
1994 Australia Australia England England South Africa South Africa Guernsey Saint Peter Port, Guernsey
1996 Australia Australia England England South Africa South Africa Malaysia Petaling Jaya, Malaysia
1998 Australia Australia England England New Zealand New Zealand Germany Stuttgart, Germany
2000 England England Australia Australia New Zealand New Zealand England Sheffield, England
2002 Australia Australia England England New Zealand New Zealand Denmark Odense, Denmark
2004 Australia Australia England England New Zealand New Zealand Netherlands Amsterdam, Netherlands
2006 England England Egypt Egypt Malaysia Malaysia Canada Edmonton, Canada
2008 Egypt Egypt England England Malaysia Malaysia Egypt Cairo, Egypt
2010 Australia Australia England England Malaysia Malaysia New Zealand Palmerston North, New Zealand
2012 Egypt Egypt England England Malaysia Malaysia France Nîmes, France
2014 England England Malaysia Malaysia Egypt Egypt Canada Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada
2016 Egypt Egypt England England Hong Kong Hong Kong / France France France Paris, France
2018 [9] Egypt Egypt England England Hong Kong Hong Kong / France France China Dalian, China
2020 cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic [10] Malaysia Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2022 Egypt Egypt United States United States Malaysia Malaysia / England England Egypt Madinaty, Egypt

Summary of finalists

Source: [11]

Country Winners Runners-up
Australia Australia 9 5
England England 7 12
Egypt Egypt 5 1
United Kingdom Great Britain 1 0
New Zealand New Zealand 0 2
Malaysia Malaysia 0 1
United States United States 0 1

See also

References

  1. ^ "World Men's Team Championship" (PDF). worldsquash.org. Archived (PDF) from the original on 16 October 2018. Retrieved 15 October 2018.
  2. ^ "World Women's Team Championship" (PDF). worldsquash.org. p. 42. Archived (PDF) from the original on 16 October 2018. Retrieved 16 October 2018.
  3. ^ "World Men's Team Championship" (PDF). worldsquash.org. p. 63. Archived (PDF) from the original on 16 October 2018. Retrieved 15 October 2018.
  4. ^ "SquashSite NEWS - Men's World Teams - Cancelled". Archived from the original on 2016-02-04. Retrieved 2016-01-27.
  5. ^ "Day SEVEN : Finals Day and it's a 5th title for Egypt". World Squash Federation. 21 December 2019. Retrieved 28 December 2020.
  6. ^ "WSF Men's World Team Squash Championships Cancelled". World Squash Federation. Retrieved 12 May 2022.
  7. ^ "World Men's Team Championship" (PDF). worldsquash.org. pp. 58–59. Archived (PDF) from the original on 16 October 2018. Retrieved 15 October 2018.
  8. ^ "World Women's Team Championship" (PDF). worldsquash.org. p. 46. Archived (PDF) from the original on 16 October 2018. Retrieved 16 October 2018.
  9. ^ "2018 Women : It's Egypt again in Dalian". World Squash Federation. 15 September 2018. Retrieved 28 December 2020.
  10. ^ "2020 WSF WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP EVENTS CANCELLED". PSA World Tour. Retrieved 8 May 2021.
  11. ^ "World Women's Team Championship" (PDF). worldsquash.org. p. 41. Archived (PDF) from the original on 16 October 2018. Retrieved 15 October 2018.