2015 Netball Superleague season

2015 Netball Superleague
League Netball Superleague
Sport Netball
Number of teams 8
TV partner(s) Sky Sports
2015 Netball Superleague
Season champions Surrey Storm (1st title)
Runners-up Hertfordshire Mavericks
Season MVP Natalie Haythornthwaite
Top scorer Lottysha Cato

Overview

The 2015 Netball Superleague season was the tenth season of the Netball Superleague. It was announced prior to the start of the season that Netball Superleague fixtures would be played to a finish in the 2015 season, meaning that games can no longer be tied. This conformed with current international standards.[1] If the scores are even after 60 minutes of play, the game will continue into extra-time consisting of two 7 minute halves. If the sides are still tied following extra-time, the game will continue until a team has moved ahead of the other, by two clear goals.

Broadcaster Sky Sports committed to a flexible schedule in all of their live broadcasts to ensure fans can watch entire games, including those that head into extra-time.[2] The first round of fixtures started on Monday 26 January 2015, with a repeat of the previous season's Grand Final, and once again Manchester Thunder got the better of Surrey Storm.[3]

The Manchester Thunder, Surrey Storm, Yorkshire Jets and Hertfordshire Mavericks secured the four play-off places, Manchester doing so by completing an unbeaten regular season, winning all fourteen games. However, Manchester suffered a shock defeat in the semi-finals in front of a club-record 4,000 fans at the Manchester Arena, losing 48-41 to the Mavericks. In the other semi-final, Surrey made it to their third final in four seasons with a 76-60 win over the Yorkshire Jets at Guildford's Surrey Sports Park.[4]

In the third-place play-off, Manchester Thunder powered to victory over Yorkshire Jets, winning 55-49.[5]

In the Grand Final, Surrey Storm beat Hertfordshire Mavericks, 56-39, at London's Copper Box Arena to win their first Superleague title.[6] Pamela Cookey was crowned Player of the Match.[7]

Teams

The following teams competed in the 2015 season:

Team Base
Celtic Dragons Cardiff, Wales
Yorkshire Jets Yorkshire, England
Loughborough Lightning Loughborough, Leicestershire
Hertfordshire Mavericks Hatfield, Hertfordshire
Manchester Thunder Manchester, Greater Manchester
Surrey Storm Guildford, Surrey
Team Bath Bath, Somerset
Team Northumbria Newcastle, Tyne and Wear

League Table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Note
1 Manchester Thunder 14140085963022942Advance to Play-Offs
2 Surrey Storm 14120298567131436Advance to Play-Offs
3 Yorkshire Jets 1410048808067430Advance to Play-Offs
4 Hertfordshire Mavericks 148067476668124Advance to Play-Offs
5 Team Bath 14509606631-2515
6 Loughborough Lightning 144010688747-5912
7 Celtic Dragons 142012564821-2576
8 Team Northumbria 141013526847-3213

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

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Play-Offs

Semi-finals

Third place match

Final

Statistics

Individual Shooting

Player Team Attempts Goals[16] %
Lottysha Cato Jets 741 670 90%
Rachel Dunn Storm 646 552 85%
Peace Proscovia Lightning 599 548 91%
Chelsea Lewis Dragons 534 420 79%
Helen Housby Thunder 418 380 91%
Rosie Allison Bath 363 300 83%
Pamela Cookey Storm 338 304 90%
Lisa Bowman Northumbria 382 282 74%
Louisa Watson Mavericks 323 276 85%
Sarah East Mavericks 217 186 86%

See also

References

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