Teams
The tournament featured eight teams. These included the top three from the 2017 ANZ Premiership season – Southern Steel, Central Pulse and Northern Mystics. [7] [11]
| Team | League | Head coach | Captain |
|---|---|---|---|
 Celtic Flames | (Note 1) | Trish Wilcox | Suzy Drane |
 Central Pulse | ANZ Premiership | Yvette McCausland-Durie | Cathrine Tuivaiti |
 Gauteng Jaguars [12] | Brutal Fruit Netball Cup | Jenny van Dyk | Shadine van der Merwe |
 Marama Vou | (Note 2) | Unaisi Rokoura | Vaiti Waqatabu |
 New South Wales Institute of Sport | (Note 3) | Briony Akle | |
| Northern Mystics | ANZ Premiership | Helene Wilson | Anna Harrison |
| Southern Steel | ANZ Premiership | Reinga Bloxham | Wendy Frew |
 University of Trinidad and Tobago [13] | All Sectors Netball League | Bridget Adams | |
- Notes
^1 Celtic Flames were effectively the Wales national netball team plus guests. Wales play as Celtic Dragons in the Netball Superleague. The Celtic Flames squad featured past and present Dragons players, including Chelsea Lewis and Nia Jones. They also included two New Zealand internationals as guest players, Anna Thompson and Temalisi Fakahokotau of Mainland Tactix. [14] [15] [16] [17] [18]
^2 Marama Vou were a Netball Fiji representative team featuring mainly Fiji under-19 players. The team also included Brooke Leaver and Erikana Pedersen of Mainland Tactix as guest players. [11] [19] [20]
^3 The New South Wales Institute of Sport team was effectively a combined New South Wales Swifts and Giants Netball team. Its head coach was Briony Akle while Julie Fitzgerald was an assistant coach. [21] [22] [23] [24]
Source: [10]
