Netball in Singapore

There are 80,000 netball players in Singapore.[1] playing several variations of netball, including beach netball.[1] In Singapore, the 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]

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

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 Nations Cup: Fourth Singapore[9]
  • 2010 Asian Youth Netball Championship: Third[5]

Professional league

In 2000, the professional Netball Super League (NSL) was formed.[5] The Netball Super League is a seven-week-long netball tournament developed to cater for elite players in Singapore.[10] It was established and is governed by Netball Singapore and six teams compete.[5] In 2004, the audience was big enough that the Netball Super League was broadcast on television.[5] The Stingrays came in second in 2008 and first in the 2009 competition.[10] The 2010 competition was won by the Malaysian Arowanas.[11]

See also
  • Netball Super League

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

Bibliography

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