2016 Netball Superleague season
The 2016 Vitality Netball Superleague season saw Surrey Storm retain the title after defeating Manchester Thunder in the grand final. Thunder finished top of the table following the regular season. The league was sponsored by VitalityHealth.
Teams
This was Yorkshire Jets final season in the Netball Superleague. In June 2016 England Netball announced that Jets had lost their place in the league.2016 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 | Sport Central | North East England |
Surrey Storm | University of Surrey | Greater London/South East England |
Yorkshire Jets | Hull / Leeds / Sheffield | Yorkshire |
Regular season
The opening day of the regular season saw the introduction of Super Saturday. This saw the eight teams play all four Round 1 games at the Genting Arena in front of a 7,500 crowd. During the season Sky Sports broadcast several matches live on Monday nights. Manchester Thunder finished top of the table following the regular season.Final table
Play-offs
Semi-finals
3rd/4th place play off
Grand Final
Team of the Season
A panel of Sky Sports commentators and pundits including Katharine Merry, Caroline Barker, Karen Atkinson, Tamsin Greenway and Jess Thirlby selected a 2016 Team of the Season.Position | Player | Team |
GK | Ama Agbeze | Loughborough Lightning |
GD | Layla Guscoth | Hertfordshire Mavericks |
WD | Amy Flanagan | Surrey Storm |
C | Sara Bayman | Manchester Thunder |
WA | Natalie Haythornthwaite | Manchester Thunder |
GA | Pamela Cookey | Surrey Storm |
GS | Rachel Dunn | Surrey Storm |