T&T's op­po­nents for stage one of next year's Net­ball World Youth Cup (NWYC) were re­vealed dur­ing the draw con­duct­ed live in Gibral­tar on Tues­day (No­vem­ber 19).

The ju­nior "Ca­lyp­so Girls" of the Amer­i­c­as have been drawn in Pool D along with Caribbean neigh­bour Bar­ba­dos (Amer­i­c­as), Fi­ji (Ocea­nia), South Africa (Africa) and Malawi (Africa) in NWYC2025. The draw rep­re­sents a key mile­stone in the build-up to the tour­na­ment, tak­ing place from the Sep­tem­ber 19-28, 2025 on the Rock.

The top four teams from the last NWYC in 2017 were au­to­mat­i­cal­ly placed in­to pools based on their or­der of fi­nal po­si­tion. New Zealand (Ocea­nia), hav­ing placed first was sub­se­quent­ly seed­ed and placed Pool A ahead of the draw; Sec­ond place: Pool B - Aus­tralia (Asia), third place: Pool C Eng­land (Eu­rope) and fourth place: Pool D - Fi­ji (Ocea­nia).

In the open­ing stage of the com­pe­ti­tion, all the teams will play in a round-robin for­mat in their re­spec­tive pools be­fore be­ing re­grouped for stage two based up­on their fin­ish­ing po­si­tion in the ini­tial games.

Pools

Pool A - New Zealand, Gibral­tar, Malaysia, Cook Is­lands, Zam­bia

Pool B - Aus­tralia, Samoa, Scot­land, Sin­ga­pore, North­ern Ire­land

Pool C - Eng­land, Ja­maica, Ton­ga, Wales, Sri Lan­ka

Pool D - T&T, Bar­ba­dos, Fi­ji , South Africa, Malawi