2013 Netball Superleague season

The 2013 Netball Superleague season was the eighth season of the Netball Superleague. The league was won by Team Bath who defeated Celtic Dragons in the grand final. 2013 used a three phases format similar to 2012.

2013 Netball Superleague season
League	Netball Superleague
Number of teams	8
TV partner(s)	Sky Sports
Champions	Team Bath
Runners-up	Celtic Dragons
Season MVP	Stacey Francis (Team Bath) [1]

Teams

During the close season Northern Thunder changed their name to Manchester Thunder.^[2]

2013 Superleague teams	Home venue/base	Country/Region
Celtic Dragons	Sport Wales National Centre	Wales
Hertfordshire Mavericks	University of Hertfordshire	East of England
Loughborough Lightning	Loughborough University	East Midlands
Manchester Thunder	Wright Robinson College	North West England
Team Bath	University of Bath	South West England/West of England
Team Northumbria	West Gate Centre for Sport, Newcastle	North East England
Surrey Storm	University of Surrey	Greater London/South East England
Yorkshire Jets	Hull / Leeds / Sheffield	Yorkshire

Regular season

Phase 1

2013 Netball Superleague season – Phase 1

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	PP	Pts	Qualification
1	Team Bath	7	6	0	1	396	315	125.7	18	Qualified for Showdown
2	Surrey Storm	7	5	0	2	398	328	121.3	15
3	Celtic Dragons	7	4	1	2	405	339	119.5	13
4	Hertfordshire Mavericks	7	4	1	2	343	315	108.9	13
5	Manchester Thunder	7	4	0	3	393	319	123.2	12	Qualified for Challenger League
6	Yorkshire Jets	7	3	0	4	342	353	96.9	9
7	Team Northumbria	7	1	0	6	255	415	61.4	3
8	Loughborough Lightning	7	0	0	7	262	412	63.6	0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Phase 2

2013 Netball Superleague season – Showdown

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	PP	Pts	Qualification
1	Team Bath	6	5	0	1	358	273	131.1	15	Qualified for semi-finals
2	Celtic Dragons	6	4	0	2	359	343	104.7	12
3	Surrey Storm	6	3	0	3	338	322	105.0	9
4	Hertfordshire Mavericks	6	0	0	6	246	363	67.8	6	Qualified for 4th/5th place play-off

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

2013 Netball Superleague season – Challenger League

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	PP	Pts	Qualification
5	Manchester Thunder	6	6	0	0	337	225	149.8	18	Qualified for 4th/5th place play-off
6	Yorkshire Jets	6	4	0	2	305	295	103.4	12
7	Loughborough Lightning	6	1	0	5	262	311	84.2	3
8	Team Northumbria	6	1	0	5	251	324	77.5	3

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Playoffs

4th/5th place play-off

16 May 2013

Hertfordshire Mavericks

38–47

Manchester Thunder

[3][4]

Semi-finals

19 May 2013		Team Bath	53–43	Manchester Thunder		University of Bath[4][5]	Sky Sports
		Scoring by quarter: 14–9, 25–22, 39–31, 52–50
		Pamela Cookey  27/30 (90%) Kadeen Corbin  26/33 (79%)		Janelle Lawson  25/31 (81%) Kathryn Turner  8/12 (67%) Krista Enziano  2/2 (100%) Alice Travis  8/10 (80%)

20 May 2013		Celtic Dragons	65–52	Surrey Storm		Sport Wales National Centre[6][7]
		Scoring by quarter: 19–12, 31–30, 50–36, 65–52

Grand Final

Further information: 2013 Netball Superleague Grand Final

25 May 2013		Team Bath	62–56	Celtic Dragons		University of Worcester Arena, Worcester[8][9][10][11][12][13] Attendance: 1,506 Umpires: Gary Burgess and Tracy Smith	Sky Sports
		Scoring by quarter: 16–15, 30–31, 46–44, 62–56
		Pamela Cookey  37/41 (90%) Kadeen Corbin  25/38 (66%)		Lottysha Cato  54/58 (93%) Cara Moseley  2/4