{"id":14102,"date":"2023-05-23T13:41:10","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T13:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sistersnsport.com\/coaching\/?p=14102"},"modified":"2024-10-24T15:00:13","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T15:00:13","slug":"which-netball-team-achieved-a-perfect-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sistersnsport.com\/coaching\/2023\/05\/23\/which-netball-team-achieved-a-perfect-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Which Netball Team Achieved A Perfect Season?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the rarest and most coveted achievements in domestic sports leagues is the invincible season, where a team managed the nearly impossible feat of not losing a single match throughout that entire time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ever since 1889, when the association football team Preston North End <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnefc.net\/news\/2016\/november\/preston-north-end-the-rise-of-the-invincibles-\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">avoided losing a single time<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the invincible season has become a fascination throughout sports, and whilst there are a lot of amazing individual and team accolades, perfection is one many players and coaches dream of.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, until 2022, no English team had played a full season of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/sistersnsport.com\/coaching\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">netball events<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> without losing a single time, with the 20-week season and two-round playoffs naturally lending itself to the potential for an underdog to gain an upset victory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That all changed on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/N5zASr_jEbM?t=7256\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">5th June 2022<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, when the Manchester Thunder capped off the perfect Vitality Netball Superleague season by winning their fourth Grand Final against the Loughborough Lightning, ending their season with a 22-0 season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This had never happened before in English netball history and is a credit to the incredible consistency of one of the most consistent and clinical teams in the history of the Superleague.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Internationally, there have only been two other similarly perfect seasons, both by Australian teams but neither did so over as long a season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Sydney Swifts won the 2006 Commonwealth Bank Trophy in utterly dominant fashion, winning their 14 regular season games and both matches of the final to earn a perfect record of 16-0, and during the entire history of the league only won less than ten games twice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They nearly repeated the feat four years later in the Australian and New Zealand combined ANZ Championship, winning all 13 regular season games only to lose the major semi-final and preliminary final, missing out on the Grand Final game entirely.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What perhaps stung worse was that just a year later, the Queensland Firebirds won the 2011 finals and went 15-0 throughout the season.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>he greatest achievement in domestic netball is to go through an entire season of netball events without losing a single match. 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