World Lacrosse Box Championships Explained

The World Lacrosse Box Championships (WLBC),^[1] formerly known as the World Indoor Lacrosse Championship (WILC), is an international box lacrosse tournament sponsored by World Lacrosse that is held every four years. Since the first tournament in 2003, Canada has won all five gold medals and is undefeated in all games.^[2] Canada hosted the first two tournaments in 2003 and 2007, the Czech Republic hosted in 2011, the Onondaga Nation, south of Syracuse, New York, hosted in 2015.^[3] The 2019 WILC was held in Langley, British Columbia, Canada.

The winner of the WLBC wins the Cockerton Cup, named for All-American lacrosse player Stan Cockerton.

In August 2023, World Lacrosse announced 2024 World Lacrosse Box Championships for men’s and women’s box lacrosse will held at September 20-29, 2024, in Utica, New York, United States. This is the sixth championship for men and first for women in the discipline of box lacrosse, a historic first for men’s and women’s world titles to be decided at the same event.^[4]

Men

Champions

Year	Host sites	Host country	Champions	Final score	Runner-up	Third place
2003	Ontario	Canada	data-sort-value="Canada 1"		21–4
2007	Halifax	Canada	data-sort-value="Canada 2"		15–14 (OT)
2011	Prague	Czech Republic	data-sort-value="Canada 3"		13–6
2015	Onondaga Reservation, Syracuse	Iroquois Confederacy	data-sort-value="Canada 4"		12–8
2019	Langley	Canada		19–12
2024	Utica	United States		13–7		Haudenosaunee

Source:^[5]

Performance by team

Team	2003 (6)	2007 (8)	2011 (8)	2015 (13)	2019 (20)	2024 (28)
	5th	6th	6th	8th	9th	11th
					14th	19th
						27th
	bgcolor=gold	1st	bgcolor=gold	1st	bgcolor=gold	1st	bgcolor=gold	1st	bgcolor=gold	1st	bgcolor=gold	1st
						15th
					20th
	6th	7th	4th	7th	7th	6th
		4th	5th	5th	4th	4th
				9th	6th	9th
				11th	10th	10th
						23th
					18th	21th
Hungary						28th
		8th	7th	6th	11th	7th
	2nd	2nd	2nd	2nd	2nd	3rd
				4th	5th	5th
						13th
						22th
						8th
					19th	26th
					8th	12th
						17th
						25th
	4th	5th			16th	18th
				12th	12th
			8th		13th	16th
					15th
				13th	17th	24th
						20th
				10th
	3rd	3rd	3rd	3rd	3rd	2nd
						14th

Women

Performance by team

Team	2024 (10)
	4th
	2nd
	5th
	10th
	6th
	3rd
	9th
	8th
	7th
	bgcolor=gold	1st

Performance by tournament

2003 Indoor Championship

See main article: 2003 World Indoor Lacrosse Championship.

A	GP	width=20	W !	width=20	L !	GF	GA	PTS
	5	5	0	109	29	10
	5	4	1	100	52	8
	5	3	2	63	69	6
	5	2	3	75	65	4
	5	1	4	39	102	2
	5	0	5	29	98	0

Final: Canada 21, Iroquois 4
3rd place: United States 15, Scotland 9
5th place: Australia 21, Czech Republic 10

2007 Indoor Championship

See main article: 2007 World Indoor Lacrosse Championship.

A	GP	width=20	W !	width=20	L !	GF	GA	PTS
	3	3	0	67	10	6
	3	2	1	44	27	4
	3	1	2	27	51	2
	3	0	3	9	59	0
B	GP	W	L	GF	GA	PTS
	3	3	0	70	16	6
	3	2	1	32	41	4
	3	1	2	22	43	2
	3	0	3	20	44	0

Final: Canada 15, Iroquois 14, OT
3rd place: United States 17, England 10
5th place: Scotland 14, Australia 8
7th place: Czech Republic 22, Ireland 5

2011 Indoor Championship

See main article: 2011 World Indoor Lacrosse Championship.

A	GP	width=20	W !	width=20	L !	GF	GA	PTS
	3	3	0	81	8	3
	3	2	1	49	43	2
	3	1	2	22	53	1
	3	0	3	15	63	0
B	GP	W	L	GF	GA	PTS
	3	3	0	59	18	3
	3	2	1	46	17	2
	3	1	2	28	44	1
	3	0	3	9	63	0

Final: Canada 13, Iroquois 6
3rd place: United States 16, Czech Republic 7
5th place: England 23, Australia 8
7th place: Ireland 17, Slovakia 15 (2 game aggregate)

Source:^[6]

2015 Indoor Championship

See main article: 2015 World Indoor Lacrosse Championship.

Blue	GP	width=20	W !	width=20	L !	GF	GA	PTS
	4	4	0	67	20	4
	4	3	1	59	30	3
	4	2	2	43	47	2
	4	1	3	22	57	1
	4	0	4	24	61	0
Red	GP	W	L	GF	GA	PTS
	3	3	0	49	29	3
Finland	3	2	1	37	22	2
Turkey	3	1	2	39	40	1
Switzerland	3	0	3	17	51	0
Green	GP	W	L	GF	GA	PTS
Israel	3	2	1	36	24	2
	3	2	1	27	29	2
Serbia	3	1	2	29	36	1
Germany	3	1	2	27	30	1

Final: Canada 12, Iroquois 8
3rd place: United States 15, Israel 4
5th place: England 14, Ireland 12
7th place: Czech Republic 20, Australia 11
9th place: Finland 24, Turkey 6
11th place: Germany 13, Serbia 12

Source:^[7]

See also

• Box lacrosse
• Federation of International Lacrosse
• Women's Lacrosse World Cup
• World Lacrosse Men's U20 Championship
• World Lacrosse Women's U20 Championship
• World Junior Lacrosse Championship (men)
• European Box Lacrosse Championships (men)

External links

• Federation of International Lacrosse

See main article: world championships.

Notes and References

1. Web site: About World Lacrosse .
2. News: Ditota . Donna . Canada dashes Iroquois' dream, continues domination in World Indoor Lacrosse Championship . 13 November 2017 . Syracuse.com . September 27, 2015.
3. News: Moses. Sarah. Onondaga Nation builds $6.5M arena in record time for lacrosse championship. 13 November 2017. Syracuse.com. September 11, 2015.
4. Web site: 2024 World Lacrosse Box Championships now set for September 20-29 . World Lacrosse . August 30, 2023.
5. Web site: Indoor History and Results. Federation of International Lacrosse. 13 November 2017.
6. Web site: 2011 WILC Final Results. Federation of International Lacrosse. 13 November 2017.
7. Web site: Final Standings WILC 2015. Federation of International Lacrosse. 13 November 2017.