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Wasps Netball

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2016 (8 years old)

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Ricoh Arena
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Coventry, England

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27/05 Sirens Netba 41 - 42 Wasps Netbal
20/05 Team Bath 43 - 41 Wasps Netbal
09/05 Celtic Drago 45 - 46 Wasps Netbal
17/04 Severn Stars 56 - 47 Wasps Netbal
16/04 Wasps Netbal 38 - 44 London Pulse

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Wasps Netball are an English netball team which competes in the Netball Superleague, being one of three new teams in the league along with the UWS Sirens and Severn Stars. On 11 June 2017, they came first in the Netball Superleague playing against the team Loughborough Lightning. The game ended with a score of 55-51 to Wasps Netball.

In the 2018 season, they finished in top position, with Loughborough Lightning in 2nd place. Both teams proceeded to the Grand Final for a 2017 rematch, with Wasps winning their 2nd consecutive title with a scoreline identical to the 2017 final.

The team was announced in June 2016 and was created by Premiership rugby union side Wasps in order to expand their brand. They play their home games at the Ericsson Exhibition Hall at the Wasps-owned Ricoh Arena in Coventry.

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The Ricoh Arena in Coventry, England, is a complex which includes a 32,609-seater stadium, used by Wasps rugby union and Coventry City football clubs, a 6,000 square metres (65,000 sq ft) exhibition hall, a hotel and a casino. The site is also home to Arena Park Shopping Centre, containing one of UK's largest Tesco Extra hypermarkets. Built on the site of the Foleshill gasworks, it is named after its sponsor, Japanese company Ricoh, which paid £10 million for the naming rights over 10 years. For the 2012 Summer Olympic Games, where stadium naming sponsorship was forbidden, the stadium was known as the City of Coventry Stadium.

Originally built as a replacement for Coventry City's Highfield Road ground, the stadium was initially operated by Arena Coventry Limited (ACL), with Coventry City as tenants. ACL was owned jointly by Coventry City Council and the Higgs Charity. The stadium hosted its first football match in August 2005. The official opening was performed by Dame Kelly Holmes and sports minister Richard Caborn on 24 February 2007, by which time the arena had already hosted a sell-out England U21 football match against Germany as well as a full season of Coventry City matches.

The Ricoh Arena was the first cashless stadium in the United Kingdom, with customers using a prepay smartcard system in the grounds bars and shops. However, the stadium now accepts cash at all kiosks.

Following a protracted rent dispute between Coventry City and ACL, the football club left the Ricoh Arena in 2013, playing home matches at Sixfields Stadium in Northampton for over a year before returning to the Ricoh in September 2014. Within two months, both shareholders in ACL were bought out by rugby union Premiership club Wasps, who relocated to the stadium from their previous ground, Adams Park in High Wycombe. Wasps' first home match in Coventry as owners was on 21 December 2014 against London Irish.

In April 2017 the Ricoh Arena was listed by FourFourTwo magazine as the worst stadium of all 92 in the Premier League and English Football League, citing “a depressing experience” in an “often soulless atmosphere in a virtually empty stadium”.

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