Netball World Championships 2007

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Pools

The 2007 New World Netball World Championships is a round-robin & play-off tournament, with the five top seeds, original host Fiji and the ten regional qualifiers allocated to four pools, each with four teams. Each team therefore plays three Pool games during the first four days of the tournament, Saturday 10-Tuesday 13 November, earning 2 points for each win, 1 point for each draw and zero points for each loss. The Pools for the 2007 tournament are:

How the Tournament Works

A total of 48 games will be played during the 2007 New World Netball World Championships in Auckland. Pool play is conducted in a round-robin format (ie each team plays the other three teams in its pool). Points are awarded for wins and draws in these games, played on the first four days of the tournament, Saturday 10 to Tuesday 13 November. At the end of the round robin all teams are re-ranked from 1 to 4 within their Pools i.e. A1, B3, C4, D2, etc based on the points gained from their Pool game results. The top two ranked teams from each Pool move to the Section Games in the 1 to 8 section, while the bottom two ranked teams from each Pool move to the Section Games in the 9 to 16 section. All points gained from the round robin games are discarded. Both the 1 to 8 and 9 to 16 Sections commence quarter-finals, semi-finals and final play-off games, scheduled for the last four days of the tournament. All games in this phase must play to an outright winner i.e. no drawn games are permitted. Each team will play a total of six games during the World Championships. At the end of the tournament each team will have a final ranking, from 1 to 16. The tournament ends with the play-off for first and second placings - otherwise known as the Championship Final, on Saturday evening, 17 November.

 

Games

Sixteen teams in four Pools will play a total of 48 games at the 2007 New World Netball World Championships at The Trusts Stadium, Waitakere, Auckland. Download the Game Schedule as a printable PDF document. Add all the games to your Microsoft Outlook Calendar with this cool tool. (Click the link, open the file and check the box to download the game schedule.)

POOL D

England
World Ranking – 4
Automatic qualifier as fourth seed

2007 Form
January
Won 67-30 against South Africa
Won 65-30 against South Africa
Won 56-25 against South Africa

May
Won 50-45 against New Zealand
Lost 40-47 against Australia

September
Won 52-32 against Jamaica
Won 46-45 against Jamaica
Won 49-45 against Jamaica

England may be ranked fourth, but the team are determined to improve significantly on their performance four years ago and bring home medals. Victory over New Zealand for the first time in 32 years and a solid build-up have given the squad the confidence they need to push for higher honours.

South Africa
World Ranking – 5
Automatic qualifier as fifth seed

Barbados
World Ranking – 7
Second qualifier from the Americas

Malaysia
No World Ranking
Second qualifier from Asia

 

Content courtsey of the October 2007 edition of England Netball's magazine.