2019 Suncorp Super Netball season

2019 Suncorp Super Netball season
League Suncorp Super Netball
Sport Netball
Duration TBC
Number of teams 8
TV partner(s) Nine Network
Regular season
Finals

The 2019 Suncorp Super Netball season will be the third season of the premier netball league in Australia. The duration of the season is yet to be determined, though it is likely the season will be interrupted by the 2019 Netball World Cup, scheduled for July.[1]

Sunshine Coast Lightning are the defending premiers.[2]

Overview

Teams

Team Captain Coach Home Courts Ref.
Adelaide Thunderbirds Tania Obst Priceline Stadium
Adelaide Entertainment Centre
Collingwood Magpies Rob Wright Melbourne Arena
Margaret Court Arena
Silverdome
Giants Netball Julie Fitzgerald State Sports Centre
Qudos Bank Arena
AIS Arena
Melbourne Vixens Simone McKinnis Melbourne Arena
Margaret Court Arena
New South Wales Swifts Briony Akle State Sports Centre
Qudos Bank Arena
Queensland Firebirds Roselee Jenke Brisbane Entertainment Centre
Coomera Sport and Leisure Centre
Sunshine Coast Lightning Noeline Taurua University of Sunshine Coast Stadium
West Coast Fever Stacey Marinkovich Perth Arena
HBF Stadium

Format

The season is played over fourteen rounds, allowing every team to play each other twice, once at home and once away. The top four teams on the ladder at the conclusion of the regular season qualify for the finals series. In the first week of the finals series, the 1st ranked team hosts the 2nd ranked team in the major semi-final (with the winner of that match to qualify for the Grand Final) and the 3rd ranked team hosts the 4th ranked team in the minor semi-final (with the loser of that match eliminated). The loser of the major semi-final then hosts the winner of the minor semi-final in the preliminary final. The winner of the major semi-final then hosts the winner of the preliminary final in the Grand Final.

Player transfers

At the start of Super Netball in 2017, all players were contracted for a maximum of two years in line with the initial collective bargaining agreement negotiated by the players' association.[3] Clubs were free to re-sign existing players in the last few weeks of the 2018 season, before the transfer window opened for unimpeded acquisitions at the end of the season.[3] Clubs were given until 25 September 2018 to finalise their rosters for the 2019 season.[4]

Arrivals

The following table is a list of players who moved clubs/leagues into Super Netball, or were elevated into a permanent position in the senior team, during the off-season. It does not include players who were re-signed by their original Super Netball clubs.

Name Moving from Moving to Ref
Jamaica Shamera Sterling England Loughborough Lightning Adelaide Thunderbirds [5]
Australia Tippah Dwan Australia Queensland Firebirds (training partner) Queensland Firebirds [5]
Australia Teigan O’Shannassy Australia Giants Netball (training partner) Giants Netball [6]
Jamaica Shimona Nelson Australia Adelaide Thunderbirds Collingwood Magpies [7]
New Zealand Laura Langman Unattached Sunshine Coast Lightning [8]
England Natalie Haythornthwaite England Wasps Netball New South Wales Swifts [9]
Australia Caitlin Bassett Australia Sunshine Coast Lightning Giants Netball [10]
Australia Alice Teague-Neeld Australia Collingwood Magpies West Coast Fever [11]
Australia Olivia Lewis Australia West Coast Fever (training partner) West Coast Fever [11]
Australia Caitlin Thwaites Australia Collingwood Magpies Melbourne Vixens [12]
Australia Kelsey Browne Australia Sunshine Coast Lightning Collingwood Magpies [13]
Australia Lauren Moore Australia New South Wales Swifts (training partner) New South Wales Swifts [14]
Uganda Peace Proscovia England Loughborough Lightning Sunshine Coast Lightning [15]
England Geva Mentor Australia Sunshine Coast Lightning Collingwood Magpies [16]
South Africa Ine-Marí Venter South Africa Gauteng Jaguars Melbourne Vixens [17]
Australia Tayla Honey Australia Melbourne Vixens (training partner) Melbourne Vixens [17]
Australia Cody Lange Australia Collingwood Magpies (training partner) Adelaide Thunderbirds [18]
Australia Kelly Altmann Unattatched Adelaide Thunderbirds [18]
Australia Amy Parmenter Australia Giants Netball (training partner) Giants Netball [19]
Australia Annika Lee-Jones Australia West Coast Fever Sunshine Coast Lightning [20]
Australia Gabby Sinclair Unattatched Collingwood Magpies [21]
England Beth Cobden England Loughborough Lightning Adelaide Thunderbirds [22]
Australia Nat Medhurst Australia West Coast Fever Collingwood Magpies [23]
England Layla Guscoth Australia Team Bath Adelaide Thunderbirds [24]
New Zealand Maria Folau New Zealand Northern Mystics Adelaide Thunderbirds [25]
Australia Matilda McDonell Unattached Giants Netball [26]
South Africa Phumza Maweni England Severn Stars Sunshine Coast Lightning [27]

Departures

The following table is a list of players who left Super Netball clubs at the end of the previous season and joined a foreign club. It does not include players who retired from Super Netball at the end of the previous season.

Name Super Netball team (2018) New team (2019) Ref
England Serena Guthrie Giants Netball England Team Bath [28]
New Zealand Leana de Bruin Adelaide Thunderbirds New Zealand Northern Stars [5]
Australia Charlee Hodges Adelaide Thunderbirds New Zealand Northern Stars [5]
Australia Kristina Brice Giants Netball New Zealand Northern Mystics [5]
New Zealand Erena Mikaere Sunshine Coast Lightning New Zealand Northern Mystics [5]
New Zealand Abigail Latu-Meafou Adelaide Thunderbirds New Zealand Waikato Bay of Plenty Magic [29]
New Zealand Cat Tuivaiti Adelaide Thunderbirds England UWS Sirens [30]
Australia Gia Abernethy Adelaide Thunderbirds England UWS Sirens [31]
South Africa Bongiwe Msomi Adelaide Thunderbirds England Wasps Netball [32]

References

  1. ↑ "New Super Netball draw here to stay as league locks in winter window". Fairfax Media. 25 April 2018.
  2. ↑ "Lightning strikes twice as Sunshine Coast retain Super Netball title". ABC News. 26 August 2018.
  3. 1 2 "The subplot that could make or break teams heading into Super Netball finals". Fairfax Media. 4 July 2018.
  4. ↑ "It's head hunting season". Netball Scoop. 31 August 2018.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "2019 Suncorp Super Netball teams at a glance (as at Saturday September 1)". Netball Scoop. 1 September 2018.
  6. ↑ "Poolman, Price & Austin Re-Sign With Giants". Giants Netball. 1 September 2018.
  7. ↑ "Nelson to fly with Pies in 2019". Magpies Netball. 3 September 2018.
  8. ↑ "New Zealand star Laura Langman to return to Sunshine Coast Lightning for 2019". News.com.au. 3 September 2018.
  9. ↑ "Natalie Haythornthwaite: England attacker leaves Wasps Netball to join NSW Swifts". BBC Sport. 3 September 2018.
  10. ↑ "GWS Giants sign Sunshine Coast Lightning's Caitlin Bassett in major Super Netball coup". Wide World of Sports. 4 September 2018.
  11. 1 2 "Young guns sign with Fever". West Coast Fever. 4 September 2018.
  12. ↑ "Australian Diamonds shooter Caitlin Thwaites joins Melbourne Vixens in surprise move". News.com.au. 5 September 2018.
  13. ↑ "Black and white for Brazill and Browne". Magpies Netball. 5 September 2018.
  14. ↑ "Lauren Moore joins NSW Swifts as 2019 roster is finalised". New South Wales Swifts. 6 September 2018.
  15. ↑ "Ugandan shooter latest Peace in Lightning puzzle". Sunshine Coast Lightning. 6 September 2018.
  16. ↑ "Geva Mentor becomes a Magpie in 2019". Magpies Netball. 7 September 2018.
  17. 1 2 "Vixens Welcome Venter and elevate Honey". Melbourne Vixens. 11 September 2018.
  18. 1 2 "Adelaide Thunderbirds sign new and returning South Australian talent". Adelaide Thunderbirds. 11 September 2018.
  19. ↑ "Amy Parmenter elevated to 2019 Giants". Giants Netball. 12 September 2018.
  20. ↑ "Defensive duo ready to strike". Sunshine Coast Lightning. 13 September 2018.
  21. ↑ "Brandley and Sinclair back in Magpies nest". Magpies Netball. 13 September 2018.
  22. ↑ "Commonwealth Games gold medallist signs with Thunderbirds". Adelaide Thunderbirds. 13 September 2018.
  23. ↑ "Medhurst signing completes squad". Magpies Netball. 14 September 2018.
  24. ↑ "Layla Guscoth: England defender joins Adelaide Thunderbirds from Team Bath". BBC Sport. 24 September 2018.
  25. ↑ "Sharpshooter Maria Folau joins the Adelaide Thunderbirds in 2019". Adelaide Thunderbirds. 25 September 2018.
  26. ↑ "GIANTS Netball Sign Matilda McDonell for 2019 Season". Giants Netball. 24 September 2018.
  27. ↑ "Maweni makes Lightning ten". Suncorp Super Netball. 25 September 2018.
  28. ↑ "Serena Guthrie: England centre to return to Bath for 2019 Superleague season". BBC Sport. 29 August 2018.
  29. ↑ "New-look Magic for 2019". Radio NZ. 3 September 2018.
  30. ↑ "Cat Tuivaiti signs for Sirens". Sky Sports Netball. 10 September 2018.
  31. ↑ "Sirens sign Abernethy, Maxwell returns". Sky Sports Netball. 11 September 2018.
  32. ↑ "Bongiwe Msomi makes Wasps Netball return" (PDF). Wasps Netball. 16 September 2018.
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