ANZ Premiership
Current season, competition or edition: 2017 ANZ Premiership season
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| Sport | Netball |
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| Inaugural season | 2017 |
| Motto | Made From More |
| No. of teams | 6 |
| Country | New Zealand |
| TV partner(s) | Sky Sport |
| Sponsor(s) | ANZ |
| Official website | anzpremiership.co.nz |
The ANZ Premiership is the premier domestic netball league in New Zealand. Inaugurated in 2017, the league is contested by six teams, with a total of 47 games played over 14 weeks from March until June.
The new domestic league was launched by Netball New Zealand as a successor to the ANZ Championship, a Trans-Tasman netball competition that was contested by five Australian teams and five New Zealand teams from 2008 until its final season in 2016. The Suncorp Super Netball league was launched in Australia in 2017, in conjunction with the ANZ Premiership in New Zealand. The New Zealand league was announced in July 2016.
The ANZ Premiership will consist of the five current New Zealand ANZ Championship teams – Northern Mystics, Waikato Bay of Plenty Magic, Central Pulse, Mainland Tactix and Southern Steel, in addition to one new team, the Northern Stars.
The ANZ Premiership operates as a 14-week tournament with 47 matches during the first half of the calendar year. In 2017, the official pre-season will be held at Te Wānanga o Raukawa Campus in Otaki, with all six teams competing in the tournament between 10–12 March.
The season begins with a 13-week round-robin stage, followed by a two-game finals series. During the round-robin stage, each team plays every other team three times, accumulating competition points throughout the regular season. In the finals series, the 2nd and 3rd-ranked teams on the points table play off in the elimination final. The winner of this plays against the top-ranked team in the grand final.
Games throughout the season will be held on Sundays, Mondays and Wednesdays. Three Super Sunday events will be held during the 2017 season, with all 3 games being played featuring all six teams back to back at one venue.
All 47 games will be shown live on Sky Sport in New Zealand. Three Super Sunday events will be broadcast during the season, with all six teams playing back to back at one venue. Sky Sport will also show live games on Sundays, Mondays and Wednesdays throughout the season, and air the popular Sky Sport TV show Netball Zone.
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