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Natural fibres are being encouraged to replace the synthetic fibres in laminated composites due to their lower environmental impact. The aim of this paper is to investigate and to compare the impact damage resistance of flax, glass, and carbon fibre based multi-layer laminated composites. This study presents a numerical study that looked at damage mechanism and damage evolution of the laminated composites under low velocity impact. Ply-level based modelling strategies are applied by using shell elements representing the plies while the interfaces between the plies are modelled using cohesive zone elements. The results show that laminated composites based on flax fibre have significantly lower impact resistance than laminated composites based on glass or carbon fibre. Furthermore, the numerical model accurately predicts the damage mechanism, specifically the delamination behaviour of laminated composites.