World Lacrosse Box Championships

Box Lacrosse was invented in Canada in 1931, and it took a while for the indoor variant to take off outside of its home country. In the 1970s, it had begun to gain popularity in both Australia, due to a myth about its origin down under, and the United States, due to the short-lived NLA, and the idea of an international box tournament began to be spoken about. Tom Davies, the president of the British Columbia Lacrosse Association, was the first to raise the idea in 1974. In 1976, the Commonwealth Games accepted the bid for box lacrosse as a demonstration sport, and it featured in the 1978 Edmonton Games.

In 1980, the BCLA announced, with the backing of the International Lacrosse Federation, that a Nations Cup would be held in July 1980 in Vancouver. This tournament would include 5 teams, national teams from Australia and the US, a First Nations representative team, and two Canadian teams. The Canadian teams would be Canada West, represented by the WLA's Coquitlam Adanacs, and Canada East, represented by Ontario's Brooklin Redmen. Canada West were the round robin champions, having won all 4 games, and advanced to the final. Canada East and the Natives faced each other in the semi-final, and the Natives pulled off the upset, beating Brooklin 13-9. In front of 8,000 fans in the Pacific Coliseum, the Adanacs beat the Natives 16-11 in the final, and were crowned world champion.^[6][7]

The tournament was deemed a success, but the struggles of the American and Australian teams convinced many that non-Canadian teams were not quite ready to compete at the top level. The Nations Cup was never repeated, and another attempt at a Box world championship would not be made until 2003.

• 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)