2017 Netball World Youth Cup

2017 Netball World Youth Cup
Tournament details
Host country	Botswana
Dates	8–16 July 2017
Teams	20
Final positions
Champions	New Zealand (4th title)
Runner-up	Australia
Third place	England
	← 2013 2025 →

The Netball World Youth Cup Gaborone 2017^[1] was the eighth staging of the tournament previously (until 2013) known as the World Youth Netball Championships, the premier competition in international netball, contested every four years. The 2017 tournament, to be held from 8–16 July, held in Gaborone, Botswana, which is first African region country to host the tournament. Matches are to be played at University of Botswana Indoor Stadium and Ditshupo Hall.^[2] Twenty nations competed at the championships.

Teams

Qualification

Twenty teams contested the 2017 tournament. The home nation automatically qualified, along with the next four highest-ranked teams from the 2013 World Youth Netball Championships:

Qualification Tournaments The remaining fifteen teams were determined by regional qualifying tournaments, with three teams selected from each of the five international netball regions; Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceania.

Region	Host	Teams	Dates	Winners	Runners-up	2nd Runners- up
Asia	Hong Kong	12	14–20 December 2015	Sri Lanka	Malaysia	Singapore
Africa^[3]	Botswana	8	24–30 July 2016	South Africa	Zimbabwe	Uganda
Americas^[4]	Sint Maarten	7	22–28 August 2016	Barbados	Trinidad and Tobago	Grenada
Oceania^[5]	New Zealand	6	26–29 September 2016	Fiji	Cook Islands	Samoa
Europe^[6]	Wales	4	7–9 October 2016	Scotland	Wales	Northern Ireland

Draw

The draw for the tournament was held on 20 October 2016 at Botswana.^[7] The pools for the tournament's finals is as below:

Pool A	Pool B	Pool C	Pool D
New Zealand Sri Lanka Scotland Northern Ireland Samoa	Australia South Africa Barbados Zimbabwe Singapore	Jamaica Botswana Cook Islands Malaysia Uganda	England Fiji Trinidad and Tobago Wales Grenada

Preliminary rounds

Pool A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GR	Pts	Qualification	NZL	SCO	SAM	NIR	SRI
1	New Zealand	4	4	0	377	96	3.927	8	Advance to 1/8th placement playoff	—	78–26	85–33	89–22	125–15
2	Scotland	4	3	1	196	206	0.951	6	Advance to 1/8th placement playoff	26–78	—	46–44	55–36	69–48
3	Samoa	4	2	2	215	208	1.034	4		33–85	44–46	—	65–28	73–49
4	Northern Ireland	4	1	3	142	253	0.561	2		22–89	36–55	28–65	—	56–44
5	Sri Lanka	4	0	4	156	323	0.483	0		15–125	48–69	49–73	44–56	—

Source: Standing, Results

Pool B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GR	Pts	Qualification	AUS	RSA	ZIM	BAR	SGP
1	Australia	4	4	0	363	113	3.212	8	Advance to 1/8th placement playoff	—	65–36	86–33	93–32	119–12
2	South Africa	4	3	1	228	159	1.434	6	Advance to 1/8th placement playoff	36–65	—	56–42	62–30	74–22
3	Zimbabwe	4	2	2	199	215	0.926	4		33–86	42–56	—	58–35	66–38
4	Barbados	4	1	3	165	257	0.642	2		32–93	30–62	35–58	—	68–44
5	Singapore	4	0	4	116	327	0.355	0		12–119	22–74	38–66	44–68	—

Source: Standing, Results

Pool C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GR	Pts	Qualification	UGA	JAM	BOT	COK	MAS
1	Uganda	4	3	0	1	218	146	1.493	6	Advance to 1/8th placement playoff	—	39–44	46–42	52–39	81–21
2	Jamaica	4	3	0	1	203	150	1.353	6	Advance to 1/8th placement playoff	44–39	—	46–48	43–41	70–22
3	Botswana (H)	4	3	0	1	212	159	1.333	6		42–46	48–46	—	50–41	72–26
4	Cook Islands	4	0	1	3	166	190	0.874	1		39–52	41–43	41–50	—	45–45
5	Malaysia	4	0	1	3	114	268	0.425	1		21–81	22–70	26–72	45–45	—

Source: Standing, Results
(H) Hosts

Pool D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GR	Pts	Qualification	ENG	FIJ	TRI	WAL	GRD
1	England	4	4	0	305	104	2.933	8	Advance to 1/8th placement playoff	—	63–29	75–27	69–23	98–25
2	Fiji	4	3	1	206	149	1.383	6	Advance to 1/8th placement playoff	29–63	—	55–28	48–35	74–23
3	Trinidad and Tobago	4	2	2	167	197	0.848	4		27–75	28–55	—	36–32	76–35
4	Wales	4	1	3	162	183	0.885	2		23–69	35–48	32–36	—	72–30
5	Grenada	4	0	4	113	320	0.353	0		25–98	23–74	35–76	30–72	—

Source: Standing, Results

Playoff and placement

17th to 20th place

Semi-finals		Crossover		Seventeenth place

13 July

Malaysia	62
		14 July
Grenada	49
		Malaysia	57
13 July
		Sri Lanka	53
Singapore	63
				15 July
Sri Lanka	36
				Malaysia	64

				Singapore	44

		14 July

		Grenada	55

		Singapore	68	Nineteenth place

				15 July

				Sri Lanka	51

				Grenada	48

9th to 16th place


Thirteenth place		Round 2		Quarterfinals		Semifinals		Ninth place



				Botswana	51

				Wales	39

		Wales	47			Botswana	45

		Barbados	44			Samoa	43

				Samoa	54

				Barbados	48

Wales	44							Botswana	41

Trinidad and Tobago	43							Zimbabwe	56

				Northern Ireland	37

				Zimbabwe	65

Fifteenth place		Northern Ireland	40			Zimbabwe	55	Eleventh place

		Trinidad and Tobago	51			Cook Islands	41

Barbados	54			Trinidad and Tobago	31			Samoa	64

Northern Ireland	42			Cook Islands	40			Cook Islands	37

1st to 8th place

Bracket


Fifth place		Consolation semifinals		Quarterfinals		Semifinals		Final



				New Zealand	69

				South Africa	32

		South Africa	59			New Zealand	79

		Uganda	35			Fiji	28

				Uganda	37

				Fiji	39

South Africa	47							New Zealand	60

Jamaica	52							Australia	57

				Scotland	22

				Australia	95

Seventh place		Scotland	45			Australia	59	Third place

		Jamaica	58			England	39

Uganda	55			Jamaica	38			Fiji	35

Scotland	42			England	55			England	70

Quarter-finals

13 July
10:00 (CAT)

New Zealand

69–32

South Africa