Netball New Zealand

Netball New Zealand is the national body that oversees, promotes and manages netball in New Zealand, including the Silver Ferns national team. It is the governing body for organised netball in the country, overseeing competition at school, club, regional, national and international level, and it was founded from the New Zealand Basketball Association, which was established in 1924, and has helped to organise standard rules of play both internationally and within New Zealand. It oversees the five netball zones, Netball Northern, Netball Waikato Bay of Plenty, Netball Central, Netball Mainland and Netball South, looks after the domestic competitions and major events, and supervises the six ANZ Premiership franchises. In 2019 it had 137,713 registered players.