Australian Netball League


The Australian Netball League is a national netball league featuring teams from Australia. The league is organised by Netball Australia. It was first played for during the 2008 season. On a national level, the ANL is a second level league, below Suncorp Super Netball and above state leagues like the Victorian Netball League. The teams in the league are the reserve teams
of Suncorp Super Netball teams and/or representative teams of state leagues. The league's most successful team has been Victorian Fury who have won eight premierships.

History

The league was established in 2008, during which time Australian netball had joined forces with New Zealand to create the semi-professional ANZ Championship. It was not until 2016 however that the ANL fixture was altered to bring it in line with the ANZ Championship. As a result of the alignment, ANZ Championship athletes were permitted to play for ANL teams in cases where they were not selected for the senior team. During this time the two teams based in Tasmania and the Northern Territory were abolished, whilst the "second" teams in New South Wales and Victoria were removed in favour of having one team represent those respective states.
The following year in 2017 the ANZ Championship was replaced by the all-Australian domestic Super Netball league, which resulted in further changes to the ANL. The competition was expanded to eight teams and stand-alone teams in Canberra, Tasmania and the Northern Territory were either re-established or taken over by Super Netball clubs, ensuring that each team in the ANL was aligned with a Super Netball club. In late 2019, Netball ACT ended its affiliation with Giants Netball and established its own stand-alone team in the region, and the Giants began fielding its own team in the competition, bringing the total number of active teams up to nine. The Victorian Fury is the historically dominant team, having won eight premierships since the league's inception. The league is currently sponsored by Deakin University. The ANL was not played in 2020, with Netball Australia cutting the competition due to complications stemming from the covid-19 pandemic.

Teams

2021 teams

Former teams

Grand Finals

Winners

MVP