2019 Suncorp Super Netball season

The 2019 Suncorp Super Netball season was the third season of the premier netball league in Australia. The season began on 27 April and concluded on 15 September 2019, however it was suspended for most of the month of July due to the Netball World Cup, which was played in Liverpool.[1]

2019 Suncorp Super Netball season
LeagueSuncorp Super Netball
SportNetball
Duration27 April – 15 September 2019
Number of teams8
TV partner(s)Nine Network
Regular season
Minor premiersSunshine Coast Lightning
Season MVPJhaniele Fowler
Top scorerJhaniele Fowler (WCF: 709 goals)
Finals
ChampionsNew South Wales Swifts
  Runners-upSunshine Coast Lightning

The New South Wales Swifts won the premiership, defeating two-time defending premiers Sunshine Coast Lightning by 17 goals in the Grand Final at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre.[2]

Overview

Teams

Team Leaders Coach Home Courts Ref.
Adelaide Thunderbirds Chelsea Pitman &
Layla Guscoth
Tania Obst Priceline Stadium
Adelaide Entertainment Centre
Territory Netball Stadium
[3]
Collingwood Magpies Madison Browne &
Geva Mentor
Rob Wright Melbourne Arena
Bendigo Stadium
Silverdome
[4]
Giants Netball Kimberlee Green Julie Fitzgerald Qudos Bank Arena
QuayCentre
AIS Arena
[5]
Melbourne Vixens Kate Moloney Simone McKinnis Melbourne Arena
Margaret Court Arena
[6]
New South Wales Swifts Maddy Proud Briony Akle Qudos Bank Arena
QuayCentre
[7]
Queensland Firebirds Gabi Simpson Roselee Jencke Queensland State Netball Centre [8]
Sunshine Coast Lightning Laura Langman Noeline Taurua University of Sunshine Coast Stadium
Brisbane Entertainment Centre
[9]
West Coast Fever Courtney Bruce Stacey Marinkovich RAC Arena [10]

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.[11] 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.[11] Clubs were given until 25 September 2018 to finalise their rosters for the 2019 season.[12]

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
Shamera Sterling Loughborough Lightning Adelaide Thunderbirds [13]
Tippah Dwan Queensland Firebirds (training partner) Queensland Firebirds [13]
Teigan O'Shannassy Giants Netball (training partner) Giants Netball [14]
Shimona Nelson Adelaide Thunderbirds Collingwood Magpies [15]
Laura Langman Unattached Sunshine Coast Lightning [16]
Natalie Haythornthwaite Wasps Netball New South Wales Swifts [17]
Caitlin Bassett Sunshine Coast Lightning Giants Netball [18]
Alice Teague-Neeld Collingwood Magpies West Coast Fever [19]
Olivia Lewis West Coast Fever (training partner) West Coast Fever [19]
Caitlin Thwaites Collingwood Magpies Melbourne Vixens [20]
Kelsey Browne Sunshine Coast Lightning Collingwood Magpies [21]
Lauren Moore New South Wales Swifts (training partner) New South Wales Swifts [22]
Peace Proscovia Loughborough Lightning Sunshine Coast Lightning [23]
Geva Mentor Sunshine Coast Lightning Collingwood Magpies [24]
Ine-Marí Venter Gauteng Jaguars Melbourne Vixens [25]
Tayla Honey Melbourne Vixens (training partner) Melbourne Vixens [25]
Cody Lange Collingwood Magpies (training partner) Adelaide Thunderbirds [26]
Kelly Altmann Unattached Adelaide Thunderbirds [26]
Amy Parmenter Giants Netball (training partner) Giants Netball [27]
Annika Lee-Jones West Coast Fever Sunshine Coast Lightning [28]
Gabrielle Sinclair Unattached Collingwood Magpies [29]
Beth Cobden Loughborough Lightning Adelaide Thunderbirds [30]
Nat Medhurst West Coast Fever Collingwood Magpies [31]
Layla Guscoth Team Bath Adelaide Thunderbirds [32]
Maria Folau Northern Mystics Adelaide Thunderbirds [33]
Matilda McDonell Unattached Giants Netball [34]
Phumza Maweni Severn Stars Sunshine Coast Lightning [35]

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
Serena Guthrie Giants Netball Team Bath [36]
Leana de Bruin Adelaide Thunderbirds Northern Stars [13]
Charlee Hodges Adelaide Thunderbirds Northern Stars [13]
Kristina Brice Giants Netball Northern Mystics [13]
Erena Mikaere Sunshine Coast Lightning Northern Mystics [13]
Abigail Latu-Meafou Adelaide Thunderbirds Waikato Bay of Plenty Magic [37]
Cat Tuivaiti Adelaide Thunderbirds UWS Sirens [38]
Gia Abernethy Adelaide Thunderbirds UWS Sirens [39]
Bongiwe Msomi Adelaide Thunderbirds Wasps Netball [40]

Pre-season tournament

The league introduced a pre-season tournament for the first time, known as the #TeamGirls Cup. The tournament took place between 8 and 10 March at the newly constructed Queensland State Netball Centre.[41]

The eight Super Netball teams were split into two groups of four and played each of their group opponents once, before playing an inter-group match to determine places from first to eighth. All matches were live-streamed on the Netball Live App and Telstra TV, with the final match between the two top teams broadcast on the Nine Network.[41] The tournament was won by the Collingwood Magpies, who defeated local rivals the Melbourne Vixens by six goals in the final.[42]

Pool A Fixtures

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Melbourne Vixens 3 3 0 0 125 91 +34 12 Final
2 Sunshine Coast Lightning 3 2 0 1 105 104 +1 8 Classification matches
3 Queensland Firebirds (H) 3 1 0 2 113 126 13 4
4 Adelaide Thunderbirds 3 0 0 3 83 105 22 0
Updated to match(es) played on 9 March 2019. Source: SSN
(H) Host.
8 March 2019
16:00
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Stats
Sunshine Coast Lightning30 – 26Adelaide Thunderbirds    Queensland State Netball Centre
Proscovia  15/16 (94%)
Koenan  12/21 (57%)
Wood  3/4 (75%)
Glasgow  21/29 (72%)
Allen  3/5 (60%)
Lange  2/6 (33%)
8 March 2019
19:00
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Melbourne Vixens53 – 32Queensland Firebirds    Queensland State Netball Centre
Philip  18/19 (95%)
Venter  18/19 (95%)
Thwaites  17/17 (100%)
Aiken  19/27 (70%)
Tippett  9/12 (75%)
Dwan  4/8 (50%)
9 March 2019
13:00
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Melbourne Vixens30 – 24Adelaide Thunderbirds    Queensland State Netball Centre
Thwaites  15/17 (88%)
Venter  13/18 (72%)
McDonald  2/7 (29%)
Glasgow  17/22 (77%)
Horjus  7/10 (70%)
Lange  0/2 (0%)
Allen  0/2 (0%)
9 March 2019
14:00
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Queensland Firebirds36 – 40Sunshine Coast Lightning    Queensland State Netball Centre
Aiken  19/25 (76%)
Tippett  17/20 (85%)
Proscovia  25/28 (89%)
Koenan  8/9 (89%)
Wood  7/9 (78%)
9 March 2019
19:00
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Sunshine Coast Lightning35 – 42Melbourne Vixens    Queensland State Netball Centre
Proscovia  21/21 (100%)
Koenan  13/18 (72%)
Wood  1/3 (33%)
Philip  16/17 (94%)
Thwaites  13/14 (93%)
Venter  13/14 (93%)
9 March 2019
20:00
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Queensland Firebirds45 – 33Adelaide Thunderbirds    Queensland State Netball Centre
Aiken  25/32 (78%)
Tippett  20/24 (83%)
Glasgow  23/28 (82%)
Lange  10/11 (91%)

Pool B Fixtures

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Collingwood Magpies 3 2 0 1 128 103 +25 8 Final
2 Giants Netball 3 2 0 1 119 112 +7 8 Classification matches
3 New South Wales Swifts 3 2 0 1 105 108 3 8
4 West Coast Fever 3 0 0 3 80 109 29 0
Updated to match(es) played on 9 March 2019. Source: SSN
8 March 2019
17:00
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West Coast Fever28 – 40Collingwood Magpies    Queensland State Netball Centre
Stanton  25/34 (74%)
Cosh  3/4 (75%)
Nelson  27/28 (96%)
Sinclair  13/15 (87%)
8 March 2019
18:00
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New South Wales Swifts47 – 33Giants Netball    Queensland State Netball Centre
Housby  20/23 (87%)
Wallace  16/19 (84%)
Garbin  11/14 (79%)
Harten  22/24 (92%)
Marshall  6/8 (75%)
Austin  5/8 (63%)
9 March 2019
11:00
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New South Wales Swifts29 – 51Collingwood Magpies    Queensland State Netball Centre
Wallace  17/21 (81%)
Haythornthwaite  6/6 (100%)
Garbin  6/8 (75%)
Nelson  33/35 (94%)
Sinclair  10/12 (83%)
Medhurst  8/10 (80%)
9 March 2019
12:00
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Giants Netball40 – 28West Coast Fever    Queensland State Netball Centre
Harten  19/21 (90%)
Austin  18/25 (72%)
Marshall  3/3 (100%)
Stanton  28/35 (80%)
Cosh  0/1 (0%)
9 March 2019
17:00
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West Coast Fever24 – 29New South Wales Swifts    Queensland State Netball Centre
Stanton  17/23 (74%)
Cosh  6/7 (86%)
Teague-Neeld  1/5 (20%)
Garbin  13/15 (87%)
Haythornthwaite  9/14 (64%)
Samantha Wallace  7/8 (88%)
9 March 2019
18:00
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Giants Netball46 – 37Collingwood Magpies    Queensland State Netball Centre
Austin  26/29 (90%)
Harten  20/24 (83%)
Nelson  30/31 (97%)
Medhurst  7/9 (78%)

Finals

10 March 2019
09:30
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Adelaide Thunderbirds27 – 27West Coast Fever    Queensland State Netball Centre
Glasgow  13/14 (93%)
Allen  9/12 (75%)
Lange  5/10 (50%)
Fowler  15/15 (100%)
Stanton  11/17 (65%)
Teague-Neeld  1/3 (33%)
10 March 2019
10:30
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Queensland Firebirds41 – 42New South Wales Swifts    Queensland State Netball Centre
Aiken  24/30 (80%)
Tippett  17/17 (100%)
Wallace  30/30 (100%)
Garbin  12/16 (75%)
10 March 2019
11:30
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Sunshine Coast Lightning46 – 44Giants Netball    Queensland State Netball Centre
Proscovia  23/23 (100%)
Wood  16/18 (89%)
Koenan  7/8 (88%)
Austin  25/27 (93%)
Harten  19/22 (86%)
10 March 2019
13:30
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Melbourne Vixens33 – 39Collingwood Magpies    Queensland State Netball Centre
Philip  20/22 (91%)
Thwaites  9/12 (75%)
Venter  4/6 (67%)
Nelson  35/41 (85%)
Medhurst  3/7 (43%)
Sinclair  1/2 (50%)

Regular season

Round 1

Round 2

Round 3

Round 4

Round 5

Round 6

Round 7

Round 8

Round 9

Round 10

Round 11

Round 12

Round 13

Round 14

Ladder

2019 Suncorp Super Netball ladder
Pos Team P W D L GF GA % BP PTS
1 Sunshine Coast Lightning141202855759112.653381
2 New South Wales Swifts141013845755111.923678
3 Melbourne Vixens14815836775107.872963
4 Collingwood Magpies14725788771102.202759
5 Giants Netball14716834821101.582959
6 West Coast Fever1423982190490.821833
7 Adelaide Thunderbirds1432970880388.171430
8 Queensland Firebirds14121181591489.171826
Last updated: 25 August 2019 — Source

Finals series

Major semi-final

Sat 31 Aug
3.00pm
Report
Stats
Sunshine Coast Lightning5848New South Wales Swifts    USC Stadium Nine
Scoring by quarter: 13–14, 14–11, 18–10, 13–13
Koenen  30/32 (94%)
Wood  22/29 (76%)
Proscovia  6/7 (86%)
Housby  16/18 (89%)
Garbin  16/18 (89%)
Wallace  16/19 (84%)

Minor semi-final

Sun 1 Sep
1.00pm
Report
Stats
Melbourne Vixens6249Collingwood Magpies    State Netball and Hockey Centre Nine
Scoring by quarter: 20–9, 14–10, 12–14, 16–16
Thwaites  29/33 (88%)
Philip  29/36 (81%)
Kumwenda  4/5 (80%)
Nelson  42/46 (91%)
Medhurst  7/9 (78%)
Sinclair  0/1 (0%)

Preliminary final

Sun 8 Sep
1.00pm
Report
Stats
New South Wales Swifts6047Melbourne Vixens    Quaycentre Nine
Scoring by quarter: 19–12, 14–10, 11–15, 16–10
Wallace  40/42 (95%)
Housby  19/21 (90%)
Garbin  1/1 (100%)
Kumwenda  22/26 (85%)
Philip  21/25 (84%)
Thwaites  4/7 (57%)

Grand Final

Sun 15 Sep
1.00pm
Report
Stats
Sunshine Coast Lightning4764New South Wales Swifts    Brisbane Entertainment Centre Nine
Scoring by quarter: 12–16, 11–15, 13–15, 11–18
Koenen  23/27 (85%)
Proscovia  16/18 (89%)
Wood  8/14 (57%)
Wallace  40/44 (91%)
Housby  18/22 (82%)
Garbin  6/7 (86%)

Nissan Net Points Team of the Week

Round GS GA WA C WD GD GK
Round 1 J.Fowler (WCF) J.Harten (GIA) P.Hadley (NSW) M.Proud (NSW) J.Anstiss (WCF) K.Pretorius (SCL) S.Sterling (ADE)
Round 2 J. Fowler (WCF) S.Wood (SCL) L.Scherian (SCL) K.Moloney (VIX) A.Brazill (MAG) K.Pretorius (SCL) E.Mannix (VIX)
Round 3 S.Wallace (NSW) H.Housby (NSW) I.Colyer (WCF) P.Hadley (NSW) R.Ingles (VIX) K.Pretorius (SCL) S.Sterling (ADE)
Round 4 S.Nelson (MAG) K.Stanton (WCF) L.Watson (VIX) P.Hadley (NSW) A.Brazill (MAG) K.Pretorius (SCL) S.Sterling (ADE)
Round 5 P.Proscovia (SCL) N.Medhurst (MAG) M.Proud (NSW) L.Langman (SCL) G.Simpson (FIR) K.Pretorius (SCL) S.Sterling (ADE)
Round 6 J.Fowler (WCF) H.Housby (NSW) C.Nevins (FIR) J.Price (GIA) A.Parmenter (GIA) T.Hinchliffe (FIR) C.Bruce (WCF)
Round 7 J.Fowler (WCF) H.Housby (NSW) M.Proud (NSW) P.Hadley (NSW) R.Ingles (VIX) K.Pretorius (SCL) G.Mentor (MAG)
Round 8 P.Proscovia (SCL) H.Housby (NSW) C.Pitman (ADE) J.Price (GIA) A.Brazill (MAG) K.Pretorius (SCL) P.Maweni (SCL)
Round 9 P.Proscovia (SCL) N.Medhurst (MAG) L.Watson (VIX) K.Moloney (VIX) A.Parmenter (GIA) M.Turner (NSW) S.Sterling (ADE)
Round 10 C.Koenan (SCL) S.Wood (SCL) K.Browne (MAG) J.Price (GIA) A.Brazill (MAG) K.Manu'a (GIA) S.Sterling (ADE)
Round 11 C.Bassett (GIA) G.Tippett (FIR) L.Watson (VIX) K.Moloney (VIX) A.Brazill (MAG) K.Pretorius (SCL) S.Sterling (ADE)
Round 12 S.Wallace (NSW) N.Medhurst (MAG) L.Scherian (SCL) A.Brazill (MAG) G.Simpson (FIR) K.Pretorius (SCL) S.Sterling (ADE)
Round 13 J. Fowler (WCF) G.Tippett (FIR) C.Nevins (FIR) A.Brazill (MAG) A.Parmenter (GIA) K.Pretorius (SCL) S.Sterling (ADE)
Round 14 C.Bassett (GIA) G.Tippett (FIR) C.Nevins (FIR) J.Price (GIA) J.Anstiss (WCF) K.Pretorius (SCL) S.Sterling (ADE)

Awards

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