Basics, history and facts
Netball Team Names NZ: Funny, Social and Clever Ideas
Picking a team name is one of the first jobs a new netball squad tackles, whether you are entering an elite winter club grade, a
Lydia Marchbank
August 17, 2026
Picking a team name is one of the first jobs a new netball squad tackles, whether you are entering an elite winter club grade, a
Kitting out a squad with netball uniforms is one of the first jobs on any New Zealand club or school’s pre-season list, and it involves
Netball is one of the biggest participation sports on New Zealand’s East Coast, and in Hawke’s Bay it brings thousands of players onto the court
Netball is one of the busiest winter sports in the South Canterbury district, and Netball South Canterbury is the regional body that keeps it running.
Netball has been played in Rotorua since the 1930s, and the city is home to what is widely described as New Zealand’s largest club netball
Netball asks for less gear than almost any comparable team sport. A marked court, two padded goalposts, one match ball and a set of positional
A full-size netball court is 30.5 metres long and 15.25 metres wide, divided into three equal thirds with a semi-circular goal circle at each end.
A netball bib has one job: to tell players, umpires and spectators which of the seven positions a player is filling, and therefore which parts
Netball asks a child’s feet to do something running shoes were never built for: stop dead, change direction sideways and land on one leg, over
Netball across the Waimakariri and Hurunui districts is run by a single organisation and played at two main venues in Rangiora. For families and new
Coaching netball to beginners and children comes down to two priorities: keep everyone moving, and teach the handful of rules that make netball different from
Ask who invented netball and you will not get one tidy answer the way you would for basketball. There is no single founder and no
Netball is one of Canterbury’s biggest winter sports, played by thousands of women, men and children from the heart of Christchurch to the paddocks of
In netball, passing is not one skill among many — it is the only way the ball travels down the court. Players cannot run with
Netball is the most-played women’s sport in New Zealand, yet many people who played it at school never learned where the game came from or
Netball and basketball share an ancestor and an identical ring height. Almost everything else about the two games is different. This guide sets those differences
Netball shooting has one feature that shapes everything about the technique: there is no backboard. The ring is 380 mm across, attached to a bar
For most of netball’s history, a match between New Zealand’s Silver Ferns and England was rarely a fair fight — the Ferns usually won, and