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| Netball in Singapore | |
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| Country | Singapore |
| National team | Singapore |
| Registered players | 80,000 |
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]
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]
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:
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]
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