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Netball Australia was founded on 26/27 August 1927 as the All Australia Women's Basket Ball Association during an interstate women's basketball carnival. Its founding members included the Sydney City Girls' Amateur Sports Association (New South Wales), the Australian Ladies Basket Ball Association (), the South Australian Women's Basket Ball Association (South Australia), the Melbourne Girls ...
Establishment of the Australian Netball League, the country's second-tier feeder league; National team becomes the "Australian Netball Diamonds” 2009. Australia wins the World Youth Netball Championships in the Cook Islands, beating New Zealand in the Final. 2010. Australia wins silver at the Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games. New Zealand win gold.
An international governing body was formed to oversee the sport globally, now called the International Netball Federation (INF). [46] At the INF Congress 2013 in Glasgow, the INF announced that the Rules of Netball would be freely available online for individual use to assist the growth and development of the sport. [1]
Netball is a ball sport played on a rectangular court by two teams of seven players. The primary objective is to shoot a ball through the defender's goal ring while preventing the opposing team from shooting through their own.
Since 2022, Australia Men have played in the Men's Fast5 Netball World Series. [28] Australia won the 2024 series after defeating New Zealand 32–30 in the final. [29] Australia's pre-match dance to NSYNC's Bye Bye Bye saw them widely viewed on social media. However, this also led to homophobic abuse.
The following is a list Australian netball international players who have captained the national team in international tournaments such as the Commonwealth Games, the INF Netball World Cup, the World Games, the Constellation Cup, the Netball Quad Series and in other senior test matches.
The Bellarine Football Netball League (BFNL) is an Australian rules football and netball competition based in the Bellarine Peninsula region of Victoria, Australia. Established in 1971 as the Bellarine & District Football League , the competition was formed out of the ashes of the Polwarth Football League , which had six of its former teams join.
The rules of indoor netball are similar to that of netball, with two teams aiming to score as many goals as possible. An indoor netball game usually consists of four-quarters of 10 minutes. There are two umpires one for each half of the court. The winning team is the one with the most points at the end of the match.