Tournament details | |
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Host country | New Zealand |
Dates | 5–6 November 2022 |
Teams | 6 |
Final positions | |
Champions | Australia |
Runner-up | South Africa |
The 2022 Fast5 Netball World Series was the tenth staging of the Fast5 Netball World Series, and the seventh to be played under the Fast5 rules, which replaced the older fastnet rules introduced in 2009. The tournament was held in New Zealand for the fourth time. The host city Christchurch was awarded hosting rights for the 2022 and 2023 tournaments, with matches played at the Christchurch Arena. [1] [2]
The 2022 tournament marked the return of this format to international netball since 2018, with a men's competition also held for the first time. [2]
Host nation New Zealand entered the tournament as defending champions, having won the competition seven times. [3]
22 matches are played over two days, under the Fast5 rules of netball. [4] Each team plays each other once during the first two days in a round-robin format. The two highest-scoring teams from this stage progress to the Grand Final while the remaining teams contest the third-fourth place playoff match and fifth-sixth place playoff match.
The tournament was contested by the six top national netball teams in the world, according to the World Netball Rankings:
Australia [7] | New Zealand [8] | Jamaica | England [9] | South Africa | Uganda |
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Coach: Briony Akle |
Coach: Debbie Fuller |
Coach: Annette Daley |
Coach: Kat Ratnapala |
Coach: Martha Mosoahle-Samm |
Coach: Fred Mugerwa |
Australia | New Zealand | England |
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Coach: Nerida Stewart |
Coach: Dion Te Whetu |
Coach: Sharron Lewis-Burke |
Saturday 5 November (round robin matches) | |||||
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Game | Time (NZDST) | Match | Details | ||
1 | 12:30 | Australia | 39–15 | Jamaica | Stats |
2 | 13:15 | New Zealand | 49–32 | Uganda | Stats |
3 | 14:00 | England | 26–32 | South Africa | Stats |
4 | 14:45 | Australia Men | 29–20 | England Men | Stats |
5 | 15:30 | Jamaica | 22–33 | Uganda | Stats |
6 | 16:15 | South Africa | 19–25 | Australia | Stats |
7 | 17:45 | New Zealand | 31–32 | England | Stats |
8 | 18:30 | New Zealand Men | 24–31 | Australia Men | Stats |
9 | 19:15 | South Africa | 28–27 | Jamaica | Stats |
10 | 20:00 | England | 38–35 | Uganda | Stats |
11 | 20:45 | New Zealand | 31–33 | Australia | Stats |
Sunday 6 November (round robin matches) | |||||
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Game | Time (NZDST) | Match | Details | ||
12 | 12:00 | Jamaica | 27–32 | England | Stats |
13 | 12:45 | Uganda | 32–30 | Australia | Stats |
14 | 13:30 | New Zealand | 37–38 | South Africa | Stats |
15 | 14:15 | New Zealand Men | 36–22 | England Men | Stats |
16 | 15:00 | Australia | 34–28 | England | Stats |
17 | 15:45 | New Zealand | 40–22 | Jamaica | Stats |
18 | 16:30 | Uganda | 22–27 | South Africa | Stats |
Sunday 6 November (Placement Matches) | |||||
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Game | Time (NZDST) | Match | Details | ||
19 | 17:20 | Australia Men | 25–29 | New Zealand Men | Men's final Stats |
20 | 18:10 | Uganda | 32–10 | Jamaica | 5th/6th Playoff Stats |
21 | 19:00 | England | 25–39 | New Zealand | 3rd/4th Playoff Stats |
22 | 19:50 | Australia | 34–20 | South Africa | Final Stats |
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New Zealand [13] | |
Australia | |
England |
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