2019 Suncorp Super Netball season

The 2019 Suncorp Super Netball season was the third season of the premier netball league in Australia. The season began on 27 April and concluded on 15 September 2019, however it was suspended for most of the month of July due to the Netball World Cup, which was played in Liverpool.
The New South Wales Swifts won the premiership, defeating two-time defending premiers Sunshine Coast Lightning by 17 goals in the Grand Final at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre.

Overview

Teams

Format

The season is played over fourteen rounds, allowing every team to play each other twice, once at home and once away. The top four teams on the ladder at the conclusion of the regular season qualify for the finals series. In the first week of the finals series, the 1st ranked team hosts the 2nd ranked team in the major semi-final and the 3rd ranked team hosts the 4th ranked team in the minor semi-final. The loser of the major semi-final then hosts the winner of the minor semi-final in the preliminary final. The winner of the major semi-final then hosts the winner of the preliminary final in the Grand Final.

Player transfers

At the start of Super Netball in 2017, all players were contracted for a maximum of two years in line with the initial collective bargaining agreement negotiated by the players' association. Clubs were free to re-sign existing players in the last few weeks of the 2018 season, before the transfer window opened for unimpeded acquisitions at the end of the season. Clubs were given until 25 September 2018 to finalise their rosters for the 2019 season.

Arrivals

The following table is a list of players who moved clubs/leagues into Super Netball, or were elevated into a permanent position in the senior team, during the off-season. It does not include players who were re-signed by their original Super Netball clubs.

Name	Moving from	Moving to	Ref
Shamera Sterling	Loughborough Lightning	Adelaide Thunderbirds
Tippah Dwan	Queensland Firebirds	Queensland Firebirds
Teigan O'Shannassy	Giants Netball	Giants Netball
Shimona Nelson	Adelaide Thunderbirds	Collingwood Magpies
Laura Langman	Unattached	Sunshine Coast Lightning
Natalie Haythornthwaite	Wasps Netball	New South Wales Swifts
Caitlin Bassett	Sunshine Coast Lightning	Giants Netball
Alice Teague-Neeld	Collingwood Magpies	West Coast Fever
Olivia Lewis	West Coast Fever	West Coast Fever
Caitlin Thwaites	Collingwood Magpies	Melbourne Vixens
Kelsey Browne	Sunshine Coast Lightning	Collingwood Magpies
Lauren Moore	New South Wales Swifts	New South Wales Swifts
Peace Proscovia	Loughborough Lightning	Sunshine Coast Lightning
Geva Mentor	Sunshine Coast Lightning	Collingwood Magpies
Ine-Marí Venter	Gauteng Jaguars	Melbourne Vixens
Tayla Honey	Melbourne Vixens	Melbourne Vixens
Cody Lange	Collingwood Magpies	Adelaide Thunderbirds
Kelly Altmann	Unattached	Adelaide Thunderbirds
Amy Parmenter	Giants Netball	Giants Netball
Annika Lee-Jones	West Coast Fever	Sunshine Coast Lightning
Gabrielle Sinclair	Unattached	Collingwood Magpies
Beth Cobden	Loughborough Lightning	Adelaide Thunderbirds
Nat Medhurst	West Coast Fever	Collingwood Magpies
Layla Guscoth	Team Bath	Adelaide Thunderbirds
Maria Folau	Northern Mystics	Adelaide Thunderbirds
Matilda McDonell	Unattached	Giants Netball
Phumza Maweni	Severn Stars	Sunshine Coast Lightning

Departures

The following table is a list of players who left Super Netball clubs at the end of the previous season and joined a foreign club. It does not include players who retired from Super Netball at the end of the previous season.

Name	Super Netball team	New team	Ref
Serena Guthrie	Giants Netball	Team Bath
Leana de Bruin	Adelaide Thunderbirds	Northern Stars
Charlee Hodges	Adelaide Thunderbirds	Northern Stars
Kristina Brice	Giants Netball	Northern Mystics
Erena Mikaere	Sunshine Coast Lightning	Northern Mystics
Abigail Latu-Meafou	Adelaide Thunderbirds	Waikato Bay of Plenty Magic
Cat Tuivaiti	Adelaide Thunderbirds	UWS Sirens
Gia Abernethy	Adelaide Thunderbirds	UWS Sirens
Bongiwe Msomi	Adelaide Thunderbirds	Wasps Netball

Pre-season tournament

The league introduced a pre-season tournament for the first time, known as the #TeamGirls Cup. The tournament took place between 8 and 10 March at the newly constructed Queensland State Netball Centre.
The eight Super Netball teams were split into two groups of four and played each of their group opponents once, before playing an inter-group match to determine places from first to eighth. All matches were live-streamed on the Netball Live App and Telstra TV, with the final match between the two top teams broadcast on the Nine Network. The tournament was won by the Collingwood Magpies, who defeated local rivals the Melbourne Vixens by six goals in the final.

Pool A Fixtures

Pool B Fixtures

Finals

Place	Team
	Collingwood Magpies
	Melbourne Vixens
	Sunshine Coast Lightning
4	Giants Netball
5	New South Wales Swifts
6	Queensland Firebirds
=7	Adelaide Thunderbirds
=7	West Coast Fever

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

Ladder

Finals series

Major semi-final

Minor semi-final

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The Vixens were required to shift their home final to the SNHC due to their usual venues being unavailable.
Preliminary final