The Netball World Youth Cup Gaborone 2017[1] was the eighth staging of the tournament previously (until 2013) known as the World Youth Netball Championships, the premier competition in international netball, contested every four years.

Matches are to be played at University of Botswana Indoor Stadium and Ditshupo Hall.

The home nation automatically qualified, along with the next four highest-ranked teams from the 2013 World Youth Netball Championships: Qualification Tournaments The remaining fifteen teams were determined by regional qualifying tournaments, with three teams selected from each of the five international netball regions; Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceania.

The draw for the tournament was held on 20 October 2016 at Botswana.

[7] The pools for the tournament's finals is as below: New Zealand Sri Lanka Scotland Northern Ireland Samoa Australia South Africa Barbados Zimbabwe Singapore Jamaica Botswana Cook Islands Malaysia Uganda England Fiji Trinidad and Tobago Wales Grenada