2018 Fast5 Netball World Series

2018 Fast5 Netball World Series

Dates	27–28 October 2018

The 2018 Fast5 Netball World Series will be the ninth staging of the annual Fast5 Netball World Series, and the sixth to be played under the new Fast5 rules, which replaced the older fastnet rules introduced in 2009. The tournament will be held in Australia for the third time at Melbourne Arena in Melbourne, Victoria.

The tournament will be contested by the same six teams that competed last year.

Overview

Format

18 matches are played over two days, under the Fast5 rules of netball. Each team plays each other once during the first two days in a round-robin format. The two highest-scoring teams from this stage progress to the Grand Final while the remaining teams contest the third-fourth place playoff match and fifth-sixth place playoff match.

Teams

The tournament is contested by the six top national netball teams in the world, according to the INF World Rankings:

• Australia
• England
• New Zealand
• Jamaica
• South Africa
• Malawi

Fixtures

Round-robin

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Saturday 27 October (Round Robin Matches)
Game	Time (AEDST)	Match			Details
1	13:45	Australia	29-15	Malawi
2	14:30	South Africa		Jamaica
3	15:15	New Zealand		England
4	16:00	Australia		Jamaica
5	16:45	England		Malawi
6	17:30	New Zealand		South Africa
7	18:15	Jamaica		Malawi
8	19:00	England		South Africa
9	19:45	Australia		New Zealand

Sunday 28 October (Round Robin Matches)
Game	Time (AEDST)	Match			Details
10	12:15	Malawi		South Africa
11	13:00	Australia		England
12	13:45	New Zealand		Jamaica
13	14:30	Australia		South Africa
14	15:15	New Zealand		Malawi
15	16:00	Jamaica		England

Finals

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Sunday 28 October (Placement Matches)
Game	Time (AEDST)	Match			Details
16	17:45	TBC		TBC	5th/6th Playoff
17	18:35	TBC		TBC	3rd/4th Playoff
18	19:25	TBC		TBC	Final

References

Official Link