Cardiff Dragons

Wales

Founded

2005

Arena

Sport Wales National Centre · 1,200 cap

Cardiff Dragons are a Welsh netball team based in Cardiff. Their senior team plays in the Netball Superleague. In 2005–06 they were founder members of the league. Their best performance in the Superleague came in 2013 when they finished as runners up to Team Bath. Playing as Celtic Flames, Dragons also played in the 2017 Netball New Zealand Super Club. Cardiff Dragons main partners include the Welsh Netball Association, the Wales national netball team and Cardiff Metropolitan University. The team changed its name from Celtic Dragons to Cardiff Dragons on 31 August 2023 in preparation for the 2024 season

Manchester Thunder

England

Founded

2005

Arena

Wright Robinson Sports College

Manchester Thunder are part of the Netball Superleague, which consists of the top ten netball teams in England, Scotland and Wales. The club is located in Manchester. They finished third in the 2017 Netball Superleague season, beating Team Bath in the third-place play off, were runners-up in 2016 to Surrey Storm and third in the 2015 Netball Superleague season, beating Yorkshire Jets 55-49 in the 3rd-place playoff. Thunder's Director of Netball and Head Coach is Karen Greig , who previously worked as assistant coach at Thunder under previous Head Coach Dan Ryan. Ryan was appointed in June 2015 after previous coach Tracey Neville was appointed manager of the England national netball team. The club's home court is the Wright Robinson Sports College, which is known as The Thunderdome when hosting Manchester Thunder matches. The club won the annual Mike Greenwood Trophy three times in a row between 2012-2014, before losing to Team Bath in the 2015 edition.