The Vitality Netball World Cup 2019 has won ‘Event of the Year’ at the Sport Industry Awards 2020.
The winners of the Sport Industry Award 2020, the largest commercial sport awards in the world, were revealed online for the first time ever following the original postponement of the event due to COVID-19.
The Sports Industry Awards went live on Thursday 3rd September 2020 at 10:00 am via a brand-new digital hub. Phil Neville announced England Netball – Vitality Netball World Cup 2019 the winners of the Event of the Year award which can be viewed here.
The Netball World Cup 2019 is the International Netball Federation’s (INF) flagship event. The 15th edition of the event hosted in 2019 in England, Liverpool was the culmination of four years of major event planning by England Netball, the Organising Committee of the Vitality Netball World Cup 2019 (VNWC2019) and the International Netball Federation (INF). The scale, stature and success of the event exceeded all expectations with over 112,000 ticket sales, 44,000 fan visits at the innovative Fan Zone and over 5.1million social and TV engagements.
Congratulations to England Netball on this achievement.
Vitality, the title sponsor of the Netball World Cup 2019 also won ‘Event or Competition Sponsorship Award’ at the awards. Congratulations Vitality.
An incredible achievement for netball.
To find out more about the Sport Industry Awards click here.
To find out more about the Netball World Cup click here.
