Upcoming Netball Events 2026–2027: Full Calendar, Fixtures, and What to Watch
Data last verified: May 2026
Netball’s biggest two-year window in the sport’s history opens in 2026, with the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games netball tournament running from 25 July to 2 August 2026 at OVO Hydro, followed by the 2027 Netball World Cup in Sydney from 25 August to 5 September 2027.
Between those flagship events, the 2026 Suncorp Super Netball season, the 2026 Netball Super League, and five confirmed World Cup regional qualifiers fill a calendar that gives fans of every nation a reason to follow the sport across every month of the next two years.
Key Takeaways
- The Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games netball tournament runs from 25 July to 2 August 2026 at OVO Hydro, Glasgow, featuring 144 athletes from 12 nations across two pools, including Australia, New Zealand, England, Jamaica, and South Africa.
- The 2026 Suncorp Super Netball season, the competition’s tenth, runs from 14 March to 4 July 2026 across 14 rounds, with the Grand Final at John Cain Arena, Melbourne, on 4 July 2026.
- The 2026 Netball Super League season in England opened on 21 February 2026 with the Netball Super Cup and runs through to the Grand Final at Resorts World Arena, Birmingham, on 29 June 2026.
- The 2027 Netball World Cup is confirmed for Sydney, Australia, from 25 August to 5 September 2027 at Qudos Bank Arena, with 64 matches across 12 days and five regional qualifier tournaments running from August to October 2026.
- Six teams, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, England, South Africa, and Uganda, qualified directly for the 2027 World Cup based on World Netball rankings as of 1 December 2025. Ten spots remain, decided through five regional qualifiers in 2026.
Want to explore past competition results that shaped these rankings? Read the full netball competition results archive on NetballOne.
What Is the Next Major International Netball Event in 2026?
The next major international netball event is the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games netball tournament, scheduled for 25 July to 2 August 2026 at OVO Hydro.
It’s a 14,300-capacity indoor arena on the Scottish Event Campus in Glasgow, Scotland, so that fans attending in person will watch elite international netball in the largest dedicated arena the sport has used at a Commonwealth Games since its introduction in 1998.
Netball made its official Commonwealth Games debut at Kuala Lumpur 1998 and has featured at every edition since, with New Zealand and Australia winning every gold medal until England’s dramatic late-goal victory at Gold Coast 2018.
At Glasgow 2014, Scotland fielded a netball team for the first time, having climbed steadily up the world rankings over the four preceding years, making OVO Hydro a venue with direct Scottish netball history as the tournament returns in 2026.
The 12 competing nations were divided into two pools based on World Netball Rankings as of 1 September 2025: Pool A contains Australia (1), England (4), South Africa (5), Malawi (8), Tonga (9), and Northern Ireland (12); Pool B contains New Zealand (2), Jamaica (3), Wales (6), Uganda (7), Scotland (10), and Trinidad & Tobago (11).
The tournament opens on 25 July with Scotland hosting New Zealand at 09:00 BST, followed by England against Northern Ireland at 14:00 BST and Wales against Uganda at 16:00 BST. Tickets are priced from £17 to £65 for non-medal matches, according to the Glasgow 2026 official schedule.
| Pool | Team | World Netball Ranking |
| Pool A | Australia | 1 |
| Pool A | England | 4 |
| Pool A | South Africa | 5 |
| Pool A | Malawi | 8 |
| Pool A | Tonga | 9 |
| Pool A | Northern Ireland | 12 |
| Pool B | New Zealand | 2 |
| Pool B | Jamaica | 3 |
| Pool B | Wales | 6 |
| Pool B | Uganda | 7 |
| Pool B | Scotland | 10 |
| Pool B | Trinidad & Tobago | 11 |
When Is the 2026 Suncorp Super Netball Season?
The 2026 Suncorp Super Netball season, the competition’s tenth, commenced on Saturday, 14 March 2026 and will conclude with the Grand Final on Saturday, 4 July 2026 at John Cain Arena in Melbourne.
The defending premiers are the Melbourne Vixens, who won the 2025 grand final by one point over West Coast Fever, so that the 2026 season opens with the Vixens as the team every other franchise is chasing across all 14 rounds.
The 2026 season was deliberately scheduled to conclude ahead of the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games in late July, giving national selectors a full 14-round home-and-away competition to assess players before international squads are named.
All 56 matches are available live on Kayo Sports, Fox Sports, and Binge.
Key fixtures include two Anzac Day matches on Saturday 25 April, a Round 7 grand final rematch between Melbourne Vixens and West Coast Fever at John Cain Arena, and First Nations Rounds across Rounds 11 and 12, coinciding with National Reconciliation Week from 27 May to 3 June 2026.
For the full history of the Suncorp Super Netball competition, including past champions and results, visit NetballOne.
When Is the 2026 Netball Super League Season in England?
The 2026 Netball Super League season opened on Saturday, 21 February 2026, with the return of the Netball Super Cup, a one-day tournament at Sheffield’s Utilita Arena featuring all eight clubs competing for the first honors of the season before the regular rounds begin. Adelaidethunderbirds
The regular season runs from 17 February through to the Grand Final on 29 June 2026 at Resorts World Arena, Birmingham.
The eight competing clubs are Birmingham Panthers, LexisNexis Dragons, London Mavericks, London Pulse, Loughborough Lightning, Manchester Thunder, NIC Leeds Rhinos, and Nottingham Forest, playing 14 rounds before play-offs and the Grand Final, with selected games live on Sky Sports. netball.com.auNetball Scoop
London Pulse enter as defending champions, having won their first Netball Super League title in 2025.
A series of double-header fixtures was added to the 2026 competition schedule, allowing fans to watch two elite matches under one roof, a format designed to increase attendance and audience reach as the league continues its professionalization journey.
| Competition | Season Dates | Grand Final | Grand Final Venue |
| Suncorp Super Netball (Australia) | 14 March – 4 July 2026 | 4 July 2026 | John Cain Arena, Melbourne |
| Netball Super League (England) | 21 February – 29 June 2026 | 29 June 2026 | Resorts World Arena, Birmingham |
| Commonwealth Games Netball | 25 July – 2 August 2026 | 2 August 2026 | OVO Hydro, Glasgow |
| Netball World Cup | 25 August – 5 September 2027 | 5 September 2027 | Qudos Bank Arena, Sydney |
What Is the 2027 Netball World Cup and How Do Teams Qualify?
The 2027 Netball World Cup, the seventeenth staging of the sport’s premier competition, will be held in Sydney, Australia, from 25 August to 5 September 2027.
The tournament will be the first to include a Cup and Plate competition, with all 64 matches played at one venue, Qudos Bank Arena, Sydney, confirmed as the primary venue with an 18,000-capacity netball configuration according to World Netball’s official event page.
Sydney previously hosted the Netball World Cup in 1991 and 2015, with Australia victorious on both occasions, making 2027 the third time Sydney hosts the tournament and the first since 2015, so that Australian fans can watch the Diamonds defend the 2023 Cape Town title on home soil after a 12-year gap.
Six teams qualified directly based on World Netball Rankings as of 1 December 2025: Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, England, South Africa, and Uganda.
The remaining ten spots are decided through five regional qualifier tournaments running from August to October 2026, confirmed by World Netball’s official qualifier announcement
| Qualifier | Host | Dates |
| Asia | Hong Kong | 7–16 August 2026 |
| Oceania | Tonga | 14–19 September 2026 |
| Africa | Kenya | 19–26 September 2026 |
| Europe | Scotland | 25–27 September 2026 |
| Americas | Barbados | 19–26 October 2026 |
After the 2027 World Cup in Sydney, all future Netball World Cups will take place in November on a new two-year cycle, with the following edition scheduled for November 2029.
For a full history of which nations have won the Netball World Cup across every edition, read the complete guide on NetballOne.
Which Players Should You Watch at the 2026 Commonwealth Games?
The 2026 Commonwealth Games netball tournament arrives at a critical moment in the international player cycle.
Australia enters Glasgow as both World Cup holders, having won the 2023 Cape Town title defeating England 61–45, and as the nation whose 21U squad won the 2025 World Youth Cup in Gibraltar, so that Australia carries simultaneous senior and under-21 titles into the Glasgow tournament for the first time in the program’s history.
Lily Graham, Melbourne Vixens Goal Attack and 2025 World Youth Cup Player of the Tournament, is among the players whose 2026 SSN performances will determine senior Diamonds squad consideration ahead of Glasgow.
Graham recorded a 73.4% overall shooting accuracy and 90.6% one-point shooting rate across the 2025 SSN season, per Champion Data, a combination that established Graham as one of the most efficient young shooters in the Australian system, so that a strong 2026 SSN campaign could accelerate a first senior cap before the Glasgow squads are named in July. Read the full Lily Graham player profile on NetballOne.
New Zealand captain Amelia Walmsley, who drove New Zealand’s campaign at the 2025 World Youth Cup before Australia’s 63–48 final victory, and Jamaica, who reached the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games final before losing to Australia 55–51, are the combinations most likely to challenge Australia’s Pool A dominance and Pool B leadership at OVO Hydro.
For the full breakdown of how World Netball rankings are calculated and what they mean for Commonwealth Games seedings, visit NetballOne.
Why Is 2026–2027 the Most Important Two-Year Window in Netball History?
Three structural changes have aligned to make the 2026–2027 cycle uniquely significant for every nation that plays international netball.
First, the Commonwealth Games returns to Glasgow, a city where Scotland fielded a netball team for the first time at Glasgow 2014, building a home netball audience that makes OVO Hydro among the most anticipated venues in the tournament’s history.
Second, the 2025 Netball World Youth Cup in Gibraltar is confirmed as the last edition for the foreseeable future, per World Netball’s restructured event calendar, meaning every player who wants major international experience at the senior level must now target either Glasgow 2026 or Sydney 2027.
Third, after the 2027 Sydney World Cup, all future editions will run on a new two-year November cycle, making Sydney 2027 the last World Cup under the previous four-year structure that has defined the sport’s international calendar since 1963, so that the tournament carries a generational finality no previous edition has carried.
For the nations outside the top six, Malawi, Tonga, Trinidad & Tobago, Wales, Northern Ireland, and Uganda in particular, the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games represents the highest-profile stage available before the World Cup.
A strong Glasgow performance directly shapes a national program’s funding, player development pipeline, and global profile in ways that compound across the following two-year cycle leading into Sydney 2027.
Read the full breakdown of the 2025 Netball World Youth Cup results, the competition that set the current generation of under-21 players on their path toward Glasgow on NetballOne.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the next major netball competition in 2026?
The next major international netball competition is the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games netball tournament, held at OVO Hydro in Glasgow, Scotland, from 25 July to 2 August 2026. Twelve nations compete across two pools, with Pool A led by Australia, England, and South Africa, and Pool B led by New Zealand, Jamaica, and Wales.
When does the 2026 Suncorp Super Netball season start and end?
The 2026 Suncorp Super Netball season started on 14 March 2026 and concludes with the Grand Final on 4 July 2026 at John Cain Arena, Melbourne. The season runs across 14 rounds of home-and-away fixtures, with all 56 matches broadcast live on Kayo Sports, Fox Sports, and Binge.
Which teams are in the 2026 Commonwealth Games netball tournament?
Twelve nations compete: Australia, England, South Africa, Malawi, Tonga, and Northern Ireland in Pool A; New Zealand, Jamaica, Wales, Uganda, Scotland, and Trinidad & Tobago in Pool B. Eleven teams qualified via World Netball Rankings on 1 September 2025; Scotland entered as the host nation.
When is the 2027 Netball World Cup and where is it held? The 2027 Netball World Cup runs from 25 August to 5 September 2027 at Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney, Australia. Sydney is hosting the tournament for the third time, having previously staged it in 1991 and 2015, both of which Australia won.
When does the 2026 Netball Super League season finish?
The 2026 Netball Super League season concludes with the Grand Final on 29 June 2026 at Resorts World Arena in Birmingham, England. London Pulse enter as defending champions after winning their first NSL title in 2025. Eight clubs compete across 14 rounds before the play-offs.
How do teams qualify for the 2027 Netball World Cup?
Six teams qualified directly via World Netball Rankings on 1 December 2025: Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, England, South Africa, and Uganda. The remaining ten spots are decided through five regional qualifiers in Hong Kong, Tonga, Kenya, Scotland, and Barbados between August and October 2026.
What venue hosts the 2026 Commonwealth Games netball tournament?
OVO Hydro, a 14,300-capacity indoor arena on the Scottish Event Campus in Glasgow, hosts all netball matches at the 2026 Commonwealth Games from 25 July to 2 August 2026. Scotland fielded a national netball team for the first time at Glasgow 2014, making OVO Hydro a venue with direct Scottish netball history.
What happened to the Netball World Youth Cup after 2025?
World Netball’s restructured event calendar, which introduces a two-year World Cup cycle from 2029, means the Netball World Youth Cup is paused for the foreseeable future. The 2025 Gibraltar edition, won by Australia 63–48 over New Zealand, has no confirmed successor date as of May 2026. (44 words)
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