Where are the Proteas ranked

The Proteas are the hardest working ladies in Netball as confirmed by the World Netball rankings.

South Africa’s finest have played the most matches in the current rankings period which started on 1 July 2019.

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South Africa ranked fifth ahead of Netball World Cup

After the most recent update, South Africa’s Proteas find themselves fifth on the rankings despite having the most total points.

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Owing to World Netball’s average rankings system, the Proteas are fifth on the latest standings heading into a home World Cup.

At the last World Cup South Africa finished fourth but they ran Australia close in the semi-final before again coming up short in the third-place playoff.

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However, Southern Africa continues to threaten to become a powerhouse in Netball with Malawi (6th), Zimbabwe (13th) and Zambia (16th) all ranked inside the top 20.

Also in the top ten is eighth-place Uganda which gives Africa three nations among that elite stratum tied with Europe (entirely represented by nations within the UK) and the Pacific region for the most representatives.

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Rankings

RANKING	FLAG	TEAM	PLAYED	WEIGHTED	POINTS	RATING
1		Australia	38	28	5,774	206
2		New Zealand	46	33	6,514	197
3		England	48	34	6,108	180
4		Jamaica	40	31	5,485	177
5		South Africa	65	43	6,770	157
6		Malawi	56	40	5,079	127
7		Tonga	21	20	2,510	126
8		Uganda	49	33	3,941	119
9		Wales	30	23	2,699	117
10		Scotland	23	19	2,088	110
11		Trinidad & Tobago	27	21	2,031	97
12		Northern Ireland	27	19	1,668	88
13		Zimbabwe	41	28	2,398	86
14		Barbados	29	22	1,762	80
15		Sri Lanka	14	11	817	74
16		Zambia	31	22	1,619	74
17		Samoa	28	23	1,652	72
18		St Vincent & Grenadines	13	11	760	69
19		Fiji	30	27	1,852	69
20		Cook Islands	13	9	593	66
21		Grenada	10	9	514	57
22		Philippines	6	6	337	56
23		Namibia	36	24	1,308	55
24		Botswana	24	17	925	54
25		UAE	14	12	620	52
26		Ireland	33	27	1,057	39
27		Isle of Man	27	21	763	36
28		Singapore	37	29	1,036	36
29		Eswatini	6	6	210	35
30		Malaysia	14	13	440	34
31		St Lucia	13	11	366	33
32		USA	11	10	327	33
33		Gibraltar	24	20	630	32
34		Kenya	30	21	601	29
35		Brunei	6	6	150	25
36		Cayman Islands	19	16	344	22
37		Antigua & Barbuda	24	16	322	20
38		Malta	14	12	122	10
39		Papua New Guinea	26	22	122	6
40		Israel	10	10	55	6
41		Tanzania	15	11	55	5
42		Hong Kong	6	6	22	4
43		St Kitts & Nevis	11	6	19	3
44		Lesotho	6	3	0	0
44		St Maarten	11	6	0	0
44		Switzerland	14	12	0	0