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Netball is a ball sport for two teams of seven players; its rules are published in print and online by the International Netball Federation. [1] Games are played on a rectangular court divided into thirds, with a raised goal at each short end.
In Australia 80% of all netball played is played at netball clubs. [4] The number of Netball Clubs around Australia has been in decline since the 1940s. [ 15 ] Between 1985 and 2003, only two Western Australian towns decreased the distance that Netball players had to travel in order to compete; these towns were Brookton and Pingelly . [ 16 ]
Variations of the rules and even names for the sport arose in different areas: "women's (outdoor) basketball" arrived in Australia around 1900 and in New Zealand from 1906, [33] [35] while "netball" was being played in Jamaican schools by 1909.
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 ...
The Central Murray Football Netball League (CMFNL) is a major country Australian rules football and netball competition based in northern Victoria and southwest New South Wales in Australia. History [ edit ]
Australia has competed in every edition of the men's competition in the Fast5 Netball World Series. They lost the 2022 and 2023 finals to New Zealand, by scorelines of 25-29 and 34-51 respectively. Australia won their first Fast5 World Series title in 2024, defeating New Zealand 32-30 in the final.
At the time, Australia played seven-a-side netball, while New Zealand played nine-a-side. For these matches, Australian seven-a-side netball was adopted, along with some netball rules from England. [18] [25] In their one encounter for that tour, Australia's national team defeated New Zealand 40–11.
The 2018 Fast5 Netball World Series was the ninth staging of the annual Fast5 Netball World Series, and the sixth to be played under the new Fast5 rules, which replaced the older fastnet rules introduced in 2009. The tournament was held in Australia for the third time at Melbourne Arena in Melbourne, Victoria. [1]