Netball Word Cup Draw

1st December 2022

The Netball World Cup 2023 (NWC2023) draw took place on Wednesday 30 November 2022 in South Africa, confirming the four pools for the group stages.

World Netball President Liz Nicholl CBE said: “My congratulations to all the teams that vied for success in the five regional qualifiers.

“42 of our Member countries participated – involving over 500 athletes, more than 45 international umpires, over 200 coaches, managers and primary carers and thousands of administrators and wonderful volunteers who have all played their part in the road to next year’s world cup.

“It was a joy to see the matches broadcast widely around the world reaching new audiences and giving our amazing sport the visibility, it deserves…but now it’s Africa’s time to shine.”

Ahead of the draw, the 16 qualified teams, were seeded according to their World Netball World Ranking on 3rd November 2022. The top 8 seeds were then placed into pools A to D. The two remaining teams in each of the four pools were drawn at random in two stages.

The first stage of the tournament will commence on 28th July 2023 with the teams competing in a round robin format in the pools.

Head coach, Tamsin Greenway says;

“It was really exciting watching the World Cup draw last night, it’s making it all very real.”

“We’re clearly thrilled with pool B. I think there is some great clashes in there and I’m sure everyone will be looking forward to the Scotland v England match.

But of course, we’ve got our eyes firmly set on some of those key matches, in particular Barbados and Malawi and then of course the cross over games as well.”

“It also means the hard work can start and we can start planning to take on some of that opposition. We can’t wait.”

The Scottish Thistle fans have been voicing their views on the group too with one fan saying

“It’s really exciting group. Malawi v Scotland is THE game and we can definitely take it if we play like we know we can.”

Others found the group a challenging draw for the Thistles adding;

“Difficult draw but we will fight for our place.”