The Espirito Santo Trophy is presented to the World Women's Amateur Team Champions every two years. Inaugurated in 1964 the first event was held at the St. Germain Golf Club in France and won by the host nation. The trophy is named after the Portuguese banker Ricardo Espirito Santo who donated the trophy. In addition to the trophy, members of the winning team also receive gold medals, while silver medals being awarded to the runners-up, and bronze medals to the third placed team.

The event is currently restricted to 36 teams of three who each play 72 holes stroke play with the lowest aggregate scores of the best two players each day counting towards the final places.

The men's equivalent for World Men's Amateur Team Championship is the Eisenhower Trophy, and is held at the same venue, and at the same time, as the women’s event

All results correct up to and including the 2025 event.

In addition to the countries above, the only other country to have won a gold medal is South Africa in 2006

The first winners in 1964 were France when their trio of Claudine Cros, Catherine Lacoste (1967 US Women’s open winner), and Brigitte Varangot. They beat the United States 588-589.

Between 1966-2004, the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland played as one team under the banner  "Great Britain and Ireland". However, since 2006, England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland (a combined Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland team) have competed as separate teams.

* Four-round total of the lowest two scores from three players per round. Because of bad weather, play was restricted to just three rounds in 1996

In her 13 appearances, Elisabeth Noronha Nickhorn's lowest 18-hole total was 72 achieved on three occasions: In 1976, and twice, in consecutive rounds, in 1994.

The lowest 18 hole total is 63 by Julieta Granada (Paraguay) in 2004, and by Ji-Hee Kim (South Korea), 2010.