2017 Netball World Youth Cup

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2017 Netball World Youth Cup

Tournament details
Host country	Botswana
Dates	8 July – 16 July
No. of nations	20
Final positions
Champions	New Zealand (4th title)
Runners-up	Australia
Third place	England
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The Netball World Youth Cup Gaborone 2017^[1] (NWYC2017) 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:

•  Botswana (host nation)
•  New Zealand
•  Australia
•  Jamaica
•  England

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
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:

Preliminary rounds[]

Pool A[]

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

Pool B[]

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

Pool C[]

Pos	Team v t	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			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	—

Pool D[]

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

Playoff and placement[]

17th to 20th place[]

	Semi-finals				Crossover				Seventeenth place
	13 July
	Malaysia	62
					14 July
		49
					Malaysia	57
	13 July
					Sri Lanka	53
	Singapore	63
									15 July
	Sri Lanka	36
									Malaysia	64
									Singapore	44
					14 July
						55
					Singapore	68			Nineteenth place
									15 July
									Sri Lanka	51
										48

9th to 16th place[]

	Thirteenth place (15 July)					5th–8th place playoffs (14 July)					Quarterfinals (13 July)					Semifinals (14 July)					Ninth place (15 July)
												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
						Northern Ireland	40									Zimbabwe	55
	Fifteenth place (15 July)						Trinidad and Tobago	51									Cook Islands	41			Eleventh place (15 July)
		Barbados	54									Trinidad and Tobago	31									Samoa	64
		Northern Ireland	42									Cook Islands	40									Cook Islands	37

1st to 8th place[]

	5th place match (16 July)					5th–8th place playoffs (14 July)					Quarterfinals (13 July)					Semifinals (14 July)					Final (16 July)
												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
						Scotland	45									Australia	59
	7th place match (16 July)						Jamaica	58									England	39			3rd place match (16 July)
		Uganda	55									Jamaica	38									Fiji	35
		Scotland	42									England	55									England	70

Final rankings[]

Place	Nation
	New Zealand
	Australia
	England
4	Fiji
5	Jamaica
6	South Africa
7	Uganda
8	Scotland
9	Zimbabwe
10	Botswana
11	Samoa
12	Cook Islands
13	Wales
14	Trinidad and Tobago
15	Barbados
16	Northern Ireland
17	Malaysia
18	Singapore
19	Sri Lanka
20

References[]

External links[]

• NWYC2017 website