90 Best Netball Trivia Questions (With Answers)

Netball might just be the most Australian sport there is. It’s the country’s most popular team sport for women and girls, the Diamonds are the most successful national team in world netball history, and there’s a good chance someone in your house has played it at school, on the weekend, or during the school holidays. So we’ve pulled together the ultimate netball trivia quiz — 90 questions and answers covering everything from the Australian Diamonds and Suncorp Super Netball to court rules, positions and record-breaking moments.

Whether you’re planning a family trivia night these school holidays, running a quiz for your netball club, or just want to settle an argument about who’s actually the best netball nation on Earth (spoiler: it’s Australia), this list has you covered. Grab a scorepad, split into teams, and see who really knows their netball.

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Easy Netball Trivia Questions (Warm-Up)

Start things off gently with these ones — great for kids, beginners, or anyone who just wants an easy win before the questions get harder.

What is the Australian national netball team nicknamed? Answer: The Diamonds.
How many players from each team are on the court at one time? Answer: Seven.
Which sport did netball originally develop from? Answer: Basketball.
In which country was modern netball developed? Answer: England.
How many quarters make up a netball match? Answer: Four.
What is Australia’s professional domestic netball league called? Answer: Suncorp Super Netball.
How many teams currently compete in Suncorp Super Netball? Answer: Eight.
Which two positions are the only ones allowed to shoot goals? Answer: Goal Shooter (GS) and Goal Attack (GA).
What is it called when a player holds onto the ball for too long without passing or shooting? Answer: A held ball.
How far away must a defending player stand from the player holding the ball? Answer: 0.9 metres (3 feet).
What is the rule called that restricts how a player can move their feet after catching the ball? Answer: The footwork rule.
Which position is responsible for defending the opposition’s Goal Attack? Answer: Wing Defence (WD).
What is the name of the annual trophy contested between Australia and New Zealand? Answer: The Constellation Cup.
True or false: players are allowed to dribble the ball in netball like they can in basketball. Answer: False — netball is a passing-only game with no dribbling.
What colour is most associated with the Australian Diamonds’ playing uniform? Answer: Yellow (Aussie gold), paired with green trim.

Australian Diamonds & International Netball Trivia

Australia isn’t just good at netball — it’s the most dominant nation in the sport’s history. Test yourself on the Diamonds’ record on the world stage.

How many Netball World Cup titles have the Australian Diamonds won? Answer: 12, the most of any nation.
Which country is Australia’s fiercest rival in netball? Answer: New Zealand.
What is the nickname of the New Zealand national netball team? Answer: The Silver Ferns.
In what year did Australia play its first official international netball match? Answer: 1938.
Who did Australia beat in that first international match, and by what score? Answer: New Zealand, 40–11.
Where was that first international netball match played? Answer: Royal Park, Melbourne.
Besides Australia and New Zealand, which is the only other nation to have won a Netball World Cup title? Answer: Trinidad and Tobago (a three-way tie in the 1979 championship).
Where was the 2023 Netball World Cup held? Answer: Cape Town, South Africa — and Australia won it.
Who holds the record for the most Test caps for the Australian Diamonds? Answer: Liz Ellis, with 122 caps.
What is Australia’s largest-ever international netball win? Answer: A 113–12 victory over Singapore in 1991.
What is the short-form, faster version of netball that Australia competes in internationally? Answer: Fast5 Netball, contested at the Fast5 Netball World Series.
How many Commonwealth Games gold medals has Australia won in netball? Answer: Four.
Who has captained the Australian Diamonds through the mid-2020s, including the 2024 Constellation Cup series? Answer: Liz Watson.
Who is the Australian Diamonds’ head coach? Answer: Stacey Marinkovich.
What is the name of New Zealand’s professional domestic netball league? Answer: The ANZ Premiership.

Suncorp Super Netball Trivia

Aussie club netball at its highest level — this is the round for Super Netball die-hards.

In what year did Suncorp Super Netball begin as a competition? Answer: 2017 (the league itself was founded in 2016).
Which club replaced the Collingwood Magpies in the league? Answer: The Melbourne Mavericks.
Why did Collingwood Magpies leave Suncorp Super Netball? Answer: The club folded and withdrew at the end of the 2023 season due to financial difficulties.
Where are the Melbourne Mavericks based? Answer: Glen Waverley, Victoria.
Who won the 2026 Suncorp Super Netball Grand Final? Answer: The Adelaide Thunderbirds, beating the Melbourne Vixens 61–40.
What made the scoreline of that 2026 Grand Final so historic? Answer: The 21-goal margin was the biggest in Suncorp Super Netball Grand Final history.
How many premierships did that 2026 win give the Adelaide Thunderbirds in a four-year span? Answer: Three.
Which team won the 2025 Suncorp Super Netball title? Answer: The Melbourne Vixens, beating West Coast Fever by a single point in the Grand Final.
Which Jamaican shooter was the league’s leading scorer in 2025? Answer: Jhaniele Fowler-Nembhard, who plays for West Coast Fever.
What shot, introduced to Super Netball in 2020, is worth two points instead of one? Answer: The Super Shot.
From where on the court can a player attempt a Super Shot? Answer: From the outer part of the shooting circle, during the final five minutes (“Power 5”) of each quarter.
Which Sydney-based club is nicknamed the Swifts? Answer: The NSW Swifts.
What colour do GIANTS Netball play in? Answer: Orange.
Which Queensland club plays its home games at Nissan Arena in Brisbane? Answer: The Queensland Firebirds.
Which domestic competition ran across Australia and New Zealand before Super Netball replaced it in 2017? Answer: The ANZ Championship.

Netball Rules, Positions & Court Trivia

Time to get technical. These questions cover the court itself and the rules that make netball such a distinctive sport.

How long is a standard netball court? Answer: 30.5 metres.
How wide is a standard netball court? Answer: 15.25 metres.
What is the radius of the shooting circle (goal circle)? Answer: 4.9 metres.
How high are netball goalposts? Answer: 3.05 metres.
How many positions are there on a netball team? Answer: Seven.
Which position is allowed to move anywhere on the court except the two shooting circles? Answer: Centre (C).
Which position’s main job is to defend the opposition’s Goal Shooter? Answer: Goalkeeper (GK).
What is the diameter of the centre circle? Answer: 0.9 metres.
How long does a standard international netball match last in total playing time? Answer: 60 minutes, split into four 15-minute quarters.
What is it called when a defending player is penalised for standing too close to, or interfering with, an opponent? Answer: Obstruction.
Which position takes the centre pass to start (and restart) the match? Answer: The Centre (C).
How long does a player have to pass or shoot after catching the ball? Answer: Three seconds.
Netball courts don’t have backboards behind the ring — true or false? Answer: True.
What is the approximate internal diameter of a netball ring (hoop)? Answer: About 380 millimetres (38cm).
Which two positions never leave their attacking or defensive third of the court? Answer: The Goal Shooter (attacking third) and the Goalkeeper (defensive third).

Netball Legends, Records & Fun Facts

The stats, milestones and moments that make netball history.

Who carried the Australian flag at the opening ceremony of the 2010 Commonwealth Games as the Diamonds’ captain? Answer: Sharelle McMahon.
How many goals did Caitlin Bassett score in Australia’s win over New Zealand in the 2014 Commonwealth Games final? Answer: 49.
What was the final score of that 2014 Commonwealth Games gold medal match? Answer: 58–40 to Australia.
What is the record attendance for a single netball match? Answer: 16,752, set at the 2015 Netball World Cup final in Sydney.
Who scored the dramatic match-winning goal in the final seconds of the 1999 World Championship final? Answer: Sharelle McMahon.
Australia trailed by six goals heading into the final quarter of that 1999 final — what was the eventual score? Answer: Australia won 42–41 after trailing 28–34 after three quarters.
Which tall Australian shooter, known for her height and reach, was a key part of the Diamonds’ shooting circle through the 2010s? Answer: Caitlin Bassett.
What is the term for an all-in restart used when two opposing players catch or touch the ball simultaneously? Answer: A toss-up.
Roughly how many countries around the world play netball? Answer: More than 80.
What is netball’s international governing body called? Answer: World Netball (formerly the International Netball Federation, or INF).
In what decade were netball’s rules first standardised internationally, following a meeting attended by Australia, New Zealand, England, South Africa, Sri Lanka and the West Indies? Answer: The 1960s (1960).
What is Australia’s short-form Fast5 team officially nicknamed? Answer: The Fast5 Flyers.
What is the nickname of Jamaica’s national netball team? Answer: The Sunshine Girls.
What is the nickname of England’s national netball team? Answer: The Vitality Roses.
What is the nickname of South Africa’s national netball team? Answer: The SPAR Proteas.

Hard Netball Trivia for Superfans

These are for the netball tragics — the ones who never miss a Super Netball round.

Which South African shooter joined the Adelaide Thunderbirds ahead of the 2026 Suncorp Super Netball season? Answer: Elmeré van der Berg.
Which New Zealand-born shooter left Northern Mystics to join the NSW Swifts for the 2025 season? Answer: Grace Nweke.
Which organisation owns and operates the Melbourne Mavericks? Answer: The Sports Entertainment Group (SEG).
What is Melbourne Mavericks’ home venue? Answer: John Cain Arena (they also use MyState Bank Arena).
Which club’s colours are sky blue, Pacific cyan and sapphire? Answer: Melbourne Mavericks.
What was Australia’s biggest-ever defeat in international netball, and against whom? Answer: A 61–36 loss to New Zealand at The Trusts Arena in 2005.
Which two teams played out a Grand Final decided by a single point in 2025? Answer: Melbourne Vixens and West Coast Fever.
What year did the Melbourne Mavericks join Suncorp Super Netball as the league’s eighth licence? Answer: 2024.
Which club’s home ground is the Adelaide Entertainment Centre? Answer: The Adelaide Thunderbirds.
In what year did netball first arrive in Australia from England? Answer: 1897.
What was netball originally called before the name “netball” was adopted? Answer: Women’s basketball (or “net ball,” reflecting the switch from baskets to netted rings).
Which American physical education instructor’s 1895 rules, based on a misunderstanding of James Naismith’s basketball court diagram, effectively created netball’s positional zones? Answer: Clara Gregory Baer.
Which Canadian instructor invented basketball in 1891, the sport netball evolved from? Answer: James Naismith.
How many world titles (including the inaugural 1963 championship) has Australia won as of the most recent Netball World Cup? Answer: 12 out of 16 tournaments played.
Which West Australian club plays home games at RAC Arena in Perth? Answer: The West Coast Fever.

Netball Trivia FAQs

Is netball the most popular women’s team sport in Australia? Yes — netball is consistently cited as Australia’s most popular team sport for women and girls, with hundreds of thousands of registered players across school, club and representative competitions.

How many players are on a netball team? Seven players from each team are on court at once, out of a wider squad. There are seven distinct positions: Goal Shooter, Goal Attack, Wing Attack, Centre, Wing Defence, Goal Defence and Goalkeeper.

What’s the difference between netball and basketball? Netball evolved from early women’s basketball in the 1890s but has no dribbling, no backboards, a strict footwork rule, and each position is restricted to specific areas of the court. Only the Goal Shooter and Goal Attack can score.

Who is the best netball team in the world? The Australian Diamonds, with 12 Netball World Cup titles, are the most successful team in the sport’s history and are usually ranked world number one.

When does the Suncorp Super Netball season run? The season typically runs from March through to a July Grand Final, featuring eight Australian club teams.

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