The story in three lines
Men's and mixed netball is growing fast but was almost impossible to find: club lists sat in dozens of association sites, Facebook groups and PDFs. This map puts every club in the world in one place, with a pin, playing days and how to join. It is free for players and clubs, run by one person, and the data is open.
Numbers you can quote
- Australia: 432 clubs in 256 cities and towns (page)
- United Kingdom: 113 clubs in 68 cities and towns (page)
- New Zealand: 59 clubs in 23 cities and towns (page)
- England: 44 clubs in 26 cities and towns (page)
- Malaysia: 38 clubs in 17 cities and towns (page)
- Sri Lanka: 34 clubs in 9 cities and towns (page)
- India: 28 clubs in 19 cities and towns (page)
- Bermuda: 16 clubs in 7 cities and towns (page)
The yearly state of men's and mixed netball puts these numbers in one citable page, and new clubs lists the latest arrivals. Every number above updates itself. For a figure on a specific date, the open data carries a timestamp, and every page says "as at" its date.
Angles
- Netball deserts. The map records where people searched for netball and found nothing, and shows those places as rings. A story about where the game is missing, from the people looking for it.
- Men's netball, mapped. 99 men's clubs and 282 mixed clubs worldwide, browsable by country: Australia, England, New Zealand.
- Clubs vouch for themselves. Every listing carries the date a club last confirmed it, and stale listings say so. Honesty over completeness.
Using the site and data
Quote any page. Embed the map or a badge from the embed page. The whole list is open data under CC BY 4.0, credit "Netball Clubs (netballclubs.com)". Pages for a city, country, region or league each end with a paragraph you can paste.
Contact
Michael Josem, michael@michaeljosem.com. Happy to pull a figure, a map image or a quote for a deadline.