Specific SSSN League Rules:

1. ★ 5 points for a win
   

2. ★ 3 for a draw
   

3. ★ 1 point if you lose within 5 goals
   

1. ★ Staff permitted to play:
   

    - Teaching

    - Support

    - Trainees

1. ➡No students, including 6th Form or work experience students, are permitted to play.
   

1. ★Please note, as this is a female netball league. We ask that if you wish or need to field male staff, please can you check with your opposing team that they don’t mind. Any team starting with male players will automatically begin the match with a handicap of -5 goals per male. NB. This rule is void if both teams have the same amount of male players. Please contact the opposing team in advance as they may choose to field a male player to match any that you have.
   

1. ★ Schools that submit two teams in to the league must have two separate squads. The individual teams (ie. A or B) may select any players to play each match as long as they are from their designated squad. Squad members are not permitted to switch teams. This is to maintain fairness against the schools that only enter one team.
   

1. ★ Teams are allowed to switch and move around players at the end of each quarter (but only from the same squad if A/B teams).
   

1. ★ Both teams are asked to provide an umpire. If you have any difficulties, please contact the opposing team in advance. You are not permitted to use KS3 or KS4 students as umpires.
   

1. ★ Unless a match has been rescheduled in advance, teams must turn up with 5 or more players otherwise the match is forfeited and the opposing team get the points. If injury occurs during a match and the injured player cannot continue, a substitute should be used to fill the position. If there are no substitutes available, the team must finish the match a player down. This rule applies down to 5 players per team. In the event of a match being abandoned due to player injury, the team causing the abandonment will forfeit the game. Team captains can over-rule this and mutually decide at the point of abandonment to replay the match or submit the score as it stands.
   

1. ★ You are permitted to reschedule fixtures that your team are unable to make. Please do this with as much notice as possible. Sometimes a match will have to be rescheduled with late notice due to very bad weather. As this is a rare occurrence, please be understanding. Teams will forfeit a game if they fail to turn up for a scheduled match. Where possible, please try to rearrange for the same day but at the opposing school - if they have an available indoor court!
   

Basic Netball Rules:

Netball is a game with 14 players, each player is given a position to play with a set role:

GS - To score goals and to work in and around the circle with the GA

GA - To feed and work with GS and to score goals

WA - To feed the circle players giving them shooting opportunities

C - To take the Centre Pass and to link the defence and the attack

WD - To look for interceptions and to prevent the WA from feeding the circle

GD - To win the ball and reduce the effectiveness of the GA

GK - To work with the GD and to prevent the GS from scoring goals

Centre passes are taken alternately by the C, after a goal has been scored. All players must start in the goal thirds except the two C. The C with the ball starts with either one or both feet in the Centre Circle. The opposing C stands anywhere within the Centre Third and is free to move. The Centre pass must be caught or touched by a player in or landing in or jumping from a stance in the Centre third. A player who has caught or the ball shall play it or shoot for goal within three seconds.

1. Only GS or GA can score – they must be completely within the circle.
   

2. A toss up occurs when players come into simultaneous contact.
   

3. When a player receives a pass they are not allowed to run/dribble the ball.
   

4. To gain control of the ball, a player can bat/bounce the ball once.
   

5. A player has to be standing before they throw the ball
   

6. Players have three seconds between catching the ball and making a pass
   

7. Having caught the ball, a player may land or stand on:
   

8. •    One foot – while the landing foot remains grounded,
   

    the second foot may be moved anywhere. 

1. •    Two feet (simultaneously) – once one foot is moved,
   

    the other is considered to be the landing foot. 

1. Offside is when a player moves out of their own area.
   

2. Balls may not be thrown over two transverse lines without being touched
   

3. A ball is out of court when it contacts anything outside the court area. The ball is returned into play by a Throw-In taken from a point outside the line where the ball left the court. 
   

4. No player may contact an opponent, in such a way that interferes with the play of that opponent.
   

Obstruction:

1. Player with ball: the nearer foot of the defender must be 0.9m (3ft) feet from the landing foot of the player with the ball.
   

2. Player without ball: the defender may be close, but not touching, providing that no effort is made to intercept or defend the ball and there is no interference with the opponents throwing or shooting action. 
   

3. If a free pass is awarded it may be taken by any player allowed in that area, as soon as they have taken up a stationary position. If a penalty pass is awarded the offending player must stand out of play beside the thrower until the pass or shot has been taken. 

Positions and play zones

   

    GS -         1 & 2

    GA -         1, 2, & 3   

    WA -         2 & 3

    C -            2, 3 & 4

    WD -         3 & 4

    GD -         3, 4 & 5

    GK -         4 & 5