Netball Hong Kong China

Netball Hong Kong China (NHKC) is the governing body for netball in Hong Kong. It was founded in 1979 as the Hong Kong Netball Association and was renamed Netball Hong Kong China in June 2023 to better represent its identity as a national sports association of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. The organisation is a member association of the Sports Federation & Olympic Committee of Hong Kong, China, and is subvented by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department (LCSD) to run a wide range of netball programmes from grassroots and school level through to academy and elite level. NHKC organises divisional leagues for ladies, men's, mixed, joint-universities and junior players, and its competition calendar includes a Premier Division plus lower divisions, semi-finals and finals. The official website publishes fixtures, results, schedules and duties, and operates an online shop and membership account system. The organisation also runs elementary netball training courses, development squad training programmes and young athletes netball training schemes, including the 中國香港投球-青苗投球培訓計劃 (Young Athletes Netball Training Scheme). Internationally, NHKC is a full member of World Netball, the internationally recognised governing body of the sport, and a member of the Asian Netball Federation. Hong Kong competes at the bi-yearly Asian Championships and Asian Youth Championships, which double as Netball World Cup qualifier events for the Asia region. To expose its squads to international standards, NHKC organises annual overseas training tours and hosts international tournaments; over the years it has hosted teams from Chinese Taipei, Gibraltar, Grenada, Ireland, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Zimbabwe. As a leisure sport in Hong Kong, there are over 1,800 women, men and children who compete in different categories and divisional leagues co-organised by NHKC and the LCSD. Netball is particularly popular among ESF and international schools, with friendly games and inter-school competitions taking place all year round. The organisation also promotes campaigns such as backing the bid for the Brisbane 2032 Olympic Games.

The Hong Kong Netball Association was founded in 1979 to govern and develop netball in Hong Kong. For more than four decades it operated under that name, building a domestic league structure and representative squads. In June 2023 the organisation renamed itself Netball Hong Kong China (NHKC) to better represent its identity as a national sports association of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. The organisation is a member association of the Sports Federation & Olympic Committee of Hong Kong, China and is subvented by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department (LCSD) to run grassroots, school, academy and elite-level netball programmes. It is a full member of World Netball and a member of the Asian Netball Federation. Hong Kong competes at the bi-yearly Asian Championships and Asian Youth Championships, which serve as Netball World Cup qualifiers for the Asia region. NHKC organises annual overseas training tours and hosts international tournaments, having hosted teams from Chinese Taipei, Gibraltar, Grenada, Ireland, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Zimbabwe. Domestically it runs divisional leagues for ladies, men's, mixed, joint-universities and juniors, with over 1,800 participants across categories co-organised with the LCSD.

• 2023

  Renamed Netball Hong Kong China (NHKC) in June 2023.

• 1979

  Hong Kong Netball Association founded.

National sports association and governing body for netball in Hong Kong, delivering grassroots-to-elite programmes and international representation.

• Premier Division league

• Divisional leagues (ladies, men's, mixed, joint-universities, juniors)

• Elementary Netball Training Courses

• Development Squad Training Program

• Young Athletes Netball Training Scheme

1. 1Netball Hong Kong China official websitenetball.org.hk
2. 2About us | Netballnetball.org.hk
3. 3Netball Hong Kong China on Wikidatawikidata.org
4. 4中國香港投球 on Wikipedia (zh)zh.wikipedia.org