There are 80,000 netball players in Singapore. playing several variations of netball, including beach netball.

Sport Singapore Sport Singapore (SportSG) is a statutory board under the Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth of the Government of Singapore. It is the lead agency tasked with developing a holistic sports culture for the nation. History Sport Singapore was ...

(formerly known as Singapore Sports Council) is responsible for maintaining 8 netball courts.

Netball Singapore Netball Singapore, founded in 1962, is the national body for netball in Singapore. In 2002, the Association was named a merit sport by the Singapore Sports Council. In 1999, Netball Singapore established the Netball Super League with six teams com ...

is the official governing body for the sport in Singapore. It was created in 1962, with 63 registered clubs.

International tournaments

In 1983, the country held the 1983

Netball World Championships The Netball World Cup is a quadrennial international netball world championship organised by the World Netball, inaugurated in 1963. Since its inception the competition has been dominated primarily by the Australia national netball team and t ...

. In 2001, Singapore hosted the INFA World Congress. In 2005, the country hosted the

Asian Netball Championships The Asian Netball Championship is a netball competition held every two years with teams from across Asia competing. First 7 editions were held every four years, then changed to every two years starting from 2012. Sri lanka is the reigning champi ...

. In 2006, Netball Singapore created and hosted the first major Asian netball tournament, The Nations Cup. The 13th World Netball Championships was held in Singapore in 2011.

National team

Singapore has several national squads: Opens, 21 & Under, 19 & Under (Post School), 19 & Under (Schools), 17 & Under, and 14 & Under. The national team competed in its first major tournament in 1967 at the

. Singapore had a national team compete in the fifth Asian Netball Championships held in

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, Sri Lanka in 2001. Singapore competed in the 7th Asian Youth Netball Championship held in 2010 in India. As of August 2016, the women's national team was ranked number seventeenth in the world. Last updated 20 August 2016. Some of the top performances for the Singapore national netball teams include: * 2010 Asian Youth Netball Championship: Third

Professional league

In 2000, the professional

Netball Super League The Netball Super League is a five-month-long, 15-round netball tournament developed to cater for elite players in Singapore. It was established and is governed by Netball Singapore Netball Singapore, founded in 1962, is the national body for net ...

(NSL) was established and governed by

. 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.

International tournaments

National team

Professional league

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