Super Netball Reserves

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Super Netball Reserves
Founded 2008
Owner Netball Australia
No. of teams8 (2025) [1]
Country Australia
Most recent
champion		 West Coast Fever Reserves
(2025)
Most titles Vixens Academy/Victorian Fury
(8 titles)
Level on pyramid2
Official website Australian Netball Championships

The Super Netball Reserves or SN Reserves, formerly the Australian Netball Championships (ANC) and Australian Netball League (ANL), is an Australian netball competition. It has served as a second-level competition, initially below the ANZ Championship, and later below Suncorp Super Netball, and is organised by Netball Australia.

Contents

The teams in the competition are the reserve teams of Suncorp Super Netball teams, featuring selected stand-out players from state leagues, SSN club training partners and SSN contracted players. The competition also includes three Netball Australia Member Organisation representative teams from Tasmania, the ACT and the Northern Territory.

The Victorian Fury (now Vixens Academy) are the competition's most successful team, having won eight premierships.

History

Australian Netball League

Foundation

The Australian Netball League was first played for during the 2008 season. Netball Australia wanted to organise a second level national league to bridge the gap between state leagues, like the South Australia state netball league, the Victorian Netball League and the West Australian Netball League, and the new ANZ Championship. It was also designed to provide a national competition for the states and territories of Australia, such the Australian Capital Territory, Northern Territory and Tasmania, who did not have an ANZ Championship franchise. [2] [3] [4]

Victorian Fury dominance

Victorian Fury were the inaugural champions, defeating the Australian Institute of Sport 56–41 in the first grand final. [2] [5] In 2009 Fury retained the title [4] [6] [7] and in 2010 they completed a three in a row. [8] [9] In 2011 NNSW Waratahs became the first team other than Fury to win the ANL title. In the grand final they defeated Fury 55–46. [10] [11] Between 2013 and 2016 Fury completed a four in a row of ANL titles. [12] In 2016 Fury won their seventh title [13] and in 2019 they won their eighth. [14] [15] [16]

Australian Netball Championships

In June 2020, Netball Australia announced that the 2020 ANL season would be cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [17] [18] [19] In October 2020, it was announced that the ANL was to be rebranded as the Australian Netball Championships, featuring a new tournament style format with expanded team entry parameters. Super Netball teams and Netball Australia member organisations would all be invited to enter teams. [20] [21] In July 2021, Netball Australia announced details of the planned inaugural ANC tournament due to be played in September and hosted by Latrobe City Council and Collingwood Magpies in Traralgon. [22] [23] [24] [25] However, in August 2021 this tournament was also cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [26] [27] The competition was run for the first time under its new name in 2022.

Super Netball Reserves

In 2024, the competition was run alongside the Suncorp Super Netball season as a pilot program, and was officially introduced for the 2025 season. The reworked competition included reserve teams of all eight SSN clubs, plus three Netball Australia member organisation teams.

The eight reserves teams play in a home-and-away season, playing each team once. Games take place alongside their respective SSN club, usually the day before or after an SSN match at a different venue, or pre- or post-SSN match at the same venue. At the conclusion of the home-and-away season, the competition holds a Finals weekend at a central venue, which includes a Grand Final contested between the teams in first and second on the ladder, a 3rd v 4th final contested between the teams in third and fourth on the ladder, and a series of matches between the three member organisation teams and the teams from the bottom four positions on the ladder. The three member organisation teams contest a "play-in tournament" prior to the finals weekend to determine seeding and opponents.

Teams

2025 teams

The main teams in the competition are the reserve teams of Suncorp Super Netball teams, featuring selected stand-out players from state leagues, SSN club training partners and even SSN contracted players. The first eight teams listed below play in the main home-and-away season of the competition.

In order to increase opportunities for states and territories without SSN representation, the SN Reserves competition also includes three Member Organisation representative teams, who play in a mini "play-in tournament" between themselves, and then against the teams from the bottom four positions on the ladder on the Finals weekend.

SN Reserves Teams
TeamSSN affiliateState/Territory
Adelaide Thunderbirds Futures Adelaide Thunderbirds South Australia
GIANTS Netball Reserves GIANTS Netball New South Wales
Melbourne Mavericks Reserves Melbourne Mavericks Victoria
QBE Swifts Academy New South Wales Swifts New South Wales
Queensland Firebirds Futures Queensland Firebirds Queensland
Sunshine Coast Lightning Bolts Sunshine Coast Lightning Queensland
Vixens Academy Melbourne Vixens Victoria
West Coast Fever Reserves West Coast Fever Western Australia
TeamMember Organisation
Tasmania Wild Netball Tasmania
Capital Darters Netball ACT
Territory Storm Netball Northern Territory

Former teams

Defunct ANL and ANC teams
TeamRegionDebut seasonFinal season
Australian Institute of Sport [28] [29] Australian Capital Territory 20082012
Canberra Giants Australian Capital Territory 20172019
NNSW Blues [30] [31] [32] New South Wales 20082014
NNSW Waratahs [30] [31] [32] [33] New South Wales 20082019
Singapore [34] [35] Singapore 20092010
Tasmanian Spirit [36] [37] Tasmania 20082015
Tasmanian Magpies Tasmania 20172019
Victorian Flames [38] [39] [40] [41] Victoria 20132014
ANC Collingwood Magpies Victoria 20222023

Grand Finals and MVPs

Australian Netball League

Australian Netball League Grand Finals
SeasonWinnersScoreRunners UpVenueSeason MVP(s)
2008 [2] [5] Victorian Fury 56–41 Australian Institute of Sport Sydney Narelle Eather (NNSW Blues)
2009 [4] [6] [7] Victorian Fury 46–32 Australian Institute of Sport Brisbane Covention & Exhibition Centre Kathleen Knott (Victorian Fury)
2010 [8] [9] [42] Victorian Fury 54–47 NNSW Waratahs Waverley Netball Centre Amorette Wild (NNSW Waratahs)
2011 [10] [11] NNSW Waratahs 55–46 Victorian Fury Waverley Netball Centre Karyn Bailey (Victorian Fury)
2012 [43] [44] Southern Force 50–36 NNSW Waratahs Waverley Netball CentreKristy Guthrie (NNSW Waratahs)
2013 [45] [46] Victorian Fury 56–51 NNSW Waratahs Netball SA Stadium Mwai Kumwenda (Victorian Fury)
2014 [47] [48] Victorian Fury 51–49 Queensland Fusion Waverley Netball Centre Ashleigh Brazill (Western Sting)
Kristina Brice (NNSW Waratahs)
2015 [12] Victorian Fury 58–46 Southern Force Waverley Netball Centre Kate Shimmin (Southern Force)
2016 [13] Victorian Fury 53–46 NNSW Waratahs Netball Central Vanessa Mullampy (NNSW Waratahs)
2017 [49] [50] [51] [52] Western Sting 63–47 Victorian Fury State Netball Centre, Perth Sophie Garbin (Western Sting)
2018 [53] [54] [55] Tasmanian Magpies 54–53 Canberra Giants AIS Arena Rahni Samason (Victorian Fury)
2019 [14] [15] [16] Victorian Fury 54–53 NNSW Waratahs State Netball Hockey Centre Emma Ryde (Victorian Fury)

Australian Netball Championships

Australian Netball Championships Grand Finals
SeasonWinnersScoreRunners UpVenueSeason MVP(s)
2022 Southern Force 59–57 Victorian Fury Gippsland Regional Indoor Sports Stadium, TraralgonHannah Mundy (Victorian Fury)
2023 ANC Collingwood Magpies 57–55 Swifts Academy Morayfield Sport and Leisure CentreEmily Andrew (Victorian Fury)
2024 NNSW Waratahs 58–50 Capital Darters SolarHub ACT Netball CentreMillie Tonkin (NNSW Waratahs)

Super Netball Reserves

Super Netball Reserves Grand Finals
SeasonWinnersScoreRunners UpVenueSeason MVP(s)
2025 West Coast Fever Reserves 67–57 Melbourne Mavericks Reserves Waverley Netball CentreLucy Voyvodic (Adelaide Thunderbirds Futures)
Frederika Schneideman (QBE Swifts Academy)

Total premierships per team

WinnersSeasonsTitlesANLANCSN Reserves
Vixens Academy/Victorian Fury 2008, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 20198800
NNSW Waratahs 2011, 20242110
Southern Force 2012, 20222110
West Coast Fever Reserves/Western Sting 2017, 20252101
Tasmanian Magpies 20181100
ANC Collingwood Magpies 20231010

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