The 2017

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season (known for sponsorship reasons as the

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Netball Superleague) was the twelfth season of the Netball Superleague. The league was won by

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. In the

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Wasps defeated regular season winners, Loughborough Lightning.

Teams

The 2017 season saw the number of teams expand from eight to ten. In June 2016

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announced that Yorkshire Jets had lost their place in the league. At the same time, they also announced that three new franchises,

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, Scottish Sirens and

would be joining.

Regular season

Final table

Loughborough Lightning finished top of the table after winning seventeen of their eighteen matches.

were the only team to beat Lightning in the regular season.

Final Four

The two play-off semi-finals, the 3rd/4th place play-off and the

were all played at

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on the ''Final Four'' weekend. The ''Final Four'' was originally due to be hosted at

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but was switched to the Barclaycard Arena following the

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Semi-final

3rd/4th place play-off

Grand Final

References

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