Senior & Collegiate Information
Senior/Collegiate Saturday Netball
Games are 4 x 10min quarters with 2min breaks.
Rounds will be 12pm, 1pm & 2pm
All grades/teams, umpire own games. You can pay $300 for an umpire for the entire season.
All Championship Round games will be Centre Allocated Umpires.
The new 'Only 3 Prem Players Rule' is no longer in force. Teams may place players in one Prem team. Prem players should not be in the lower grades.
This section has the document with the information you need to register a team in the Senior/Collegiate comps this year.
- Our Registration system will be done through the online system.
- Registration are due 21 April for Clubs and 9 April for Schools, this is the due date but we recommend that you register before so you can be issued your invoice. We ask schools to do theirs before the end of term 1.
- Automated invoices will be issued from the new system once you register.
Opening Day is 3rd May looking to finish the season 16 August.
Reminder King’s Birthday and Matariki public holidays mean no netball Saturdays, 31 May & 21 June.
Premier Grade
Umpire Initiative for Prem Grade
This year, we require all Premier Grade teams to provide an umpire with a Zone Award or higher qualification. If you cannot provide this, you may pay for a qualified umpire with the same Umpire fees of $300 for the season per team.
Saturday Senior Open Grades (registrations open until 21 April)
Registration: Open to all club teams and secondary teams.
Length of Competition: 12 weeks approx
Day: Saturday (afternoons)
Venue: Nita Shannon Netball Complex, Eve Rimmer Park
Registration Fee: $1150/team
Registration Close: 21st April 2025
Fees must be included with your registration. Please ensure you select the grade your team/s are entering.
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Saturday Collegiate Grade or Collegiate Teams (registrations open until 9 April)
Registration: Open to secondary senior teams or clubs with a team of secondary school players.
Length of Competition: 11 weeks approx
Day: Saturday (afternoons)
Venue: Nita Shannon Netball Complex, Eve Rimmer Park
Registration Fee: $750/team
Registration Close: 9th April 2025
Fees must be included with your registration. Please ensure you select the grade your team/s are entering.
General Info: Fees - Netball Whakatane/Waikato/BOP Netball Zone/Netball NZ Affiliation fees
Please note: NWC have obsorbed all price increases of costs of netball for the past 5 years without increasing fees.
Netball NZ and the Waikato BOP Zone have put their fees up slightly but not so much where we need to. Our fees will continue as we had in previous years (not covid season). Every few years or so we get new teams so just wanted to inform and remind everyone what your fees cover. Along with fees we need to pay to NNZ and WBOP (like taxes) the fee you pay is not just for the competition and organisation of your season, but also covers all the maintenance and services i.e. court maintenance, insurance, lease, toilets; toilet supplies, power, security, refuse and much much more etc.. We always try to keep our expenses down and seek funding when we can as it is sparse out there to help keep our fees down. Fees also pay for any player/coach/umpire development that we will provide to teams.