Netball in Singapore
CountrySingapore
National team(s)Singapore
Registered players80,000

There are 80,000 netball players in Singapore.[1] playing several variations of netball, including beach netball.[1] Sport Singapore (formerly known as Singapore Sports Council) is responsible for maintaining 8 netball courts.[2] Netball Singapore is the official governing body for the sport in Singapore.[1] It was created in 1962, with 63 registered clubs.[1]

International tournaments

In 1983, the country held the 1983 Netball World Championships.[1][3] In 2001, Singapore hosted the INFA World Congress.[1] In 2005, the country hosted the Asian Netball Championships.[1] In 2006, Netball Singapore created and hosted the first major Asian netball tournament, The Nations Cup.[1] The 13th World Netball Championships was held in Singapore in 2011.[1]

National team

Singapore has several national squads: Opens, 21 & Under, 19 & Under (Post School), 19 & Under (Schools), 17 & Under, and 14 & Under.[4] The national team competed in its first major tournament in 1967 at the Netball World Championships.[5] Singapore had a national team compete in the fifth Asian Netball Championships held in Colombo, Sri Lanka in 2001.[6] Singapore competed in the 7th Asian Youth Netball Championship held in 2010 in India.[7] As of August 2016, the women's national team was ranked number seventeenth in the world.[8]

Some of the top performances for the Singapore national netball teams include:

  • 2010 Asian Youth Netball Championship: Third[5]

Professional league

In 2000, the professional Netball Super League (NSL) was established and governed by Netball Singapore.[5]

The Netball Super League, comprising six teams, is a seven-week-long netball tournament developed to cater for professional netball players in Singapore. In 2004, the audience was big enough that the league was broadcast on television.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Netball Singapore 2011
  2. ↑ DaCosta & Miragaya 2002, p. 198
  3. ↑ International Federation of Netball Associations 2008
  4. ↑ Netball Singapore 2010
  5. 1 2 3 4 Netball Singapore 2011b
  6. ↑ Government of Sri Lanka 2001
  7. ↑ Sagar 2010
  8. ↑ International Netball Federation. "Current World Rankings". Last updated 20 August 2016.

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