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{{Infobox sports league
| current_season = 1963 Federation Cup
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| sport          = Tennis
| founded        = {{start date and age|1963}}
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| teams          =
| countries      = ITF member nations
| champion       = {{fed|AUS}} (1st title)
| most_champs    = {{fed|AUS}} (1 title)
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The '''Federation Cup''' is a team tennis tournament that is only played by women. Its currently run by the International Tennis Federation.

==History==
In 1919, Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman had an idea for a women's team tennis competition. This was not adopted but she persisted, presenting a trophy at the 1923 annual contest between the United States and Great Britain, named the Wightman Cup.

Nell Hopman, wife of the legendary [[Australia Davis Cup team|Australian Davis Cup]] Captain Harry Hopman, later took up Mrs Wightman's original idea. In 1962, a British resident of the United States, Mary Hardwick Hare, presented a dossier proving that support for such an event was overwhelming, persuading the ITF that it was a 'good idea' to have a team championship played over one week in a different venue each year. 40 years after Wightman's idea of a women's [[Davis Cup]], it became a reality. In 1963, the ITF launched the Federation Cup to celebrate its 50th anniversary. Open to all nations the competition became a resounding success.

==Champions==
{| class="sortable wikitable" width="100%"
|- bgcolor=efefef
! Year !! Winner !! Score !! Runner-up !! Finals Venue (surface)<ref>(G) - Grass, (C) - Clay, (H) - Hard, (Cp) - Carpet, (Ix) - Indoor</ref> !! City
|-
|1963||{{fed|AUS}} <small>(1)</small>||align="center" |2–1||{{fed|USA}} <small>(1)</small>||Queen's Club (G)||London, United Kingdom
|}

==External links==
[[Category:Federation Cup| ]]
[[Category:World cups]]
[[Category:Women's tennis tournaments]]
[[Category:Recurring sporting events established in 1963]]
[[Category:World championships in racquet sports]]
[[Category:Annual sporting events]]
[[Category:International tennis competitions]]