Welcome to Manchester Thunder Netball
Manchester Thunder is the Netball Super League franchise for North West England supporting and developing elite netball across the region.
Crowned four-time Netball Super League champions in 2022, 2019, 2014 and 2012, Manchester Thunder is an ambitious and passionate club and always open to anyone who shares our vision. Six-time Netball Performance League Champions (U19) and the first Super League club to set-up an academy offering elite coaching to talented youngsters.
In April 2015 we hosted our first netball match at the Manchester Arena, and at the time we attracted the second largest netball crowd ever at a domestic netball match, with 4,100 netball fans watching a Netball Super League semi-final. In 2023, we topped this at the AO Arena, with just under 4,500 netball fans coming to watch our game versus local rivals Leeds Rhinos, in arguably one of the best atmosphere’s ever seen at a netball match.
Manchester Thunder host a variety of netball camps for any ability during every school holiday, as well as our brand new performance netball camps which are designed physically hard and will be technical and tactical based. Our netball masterclasses are delivered by Netball Super League superstars, with netball masterclasses for both junior and adult players, will help to improve plays and structures, which you will be able to take back to your club and put in to action.
In 2023 we launched our hives located at locations across the North West, which provide 6 week terms of netball training to upcoming netballers aged 7 to 14 years old. They are a fun and exciting way to improve you netball skills on a weekly basis and make lots of other netballing friends.
We also run Thunder On the Road sessions in your club or school. Primary and secondary schools across the North West have the invaluable opportunity to book in bespoke school netball sessions, tailored specifically for your school netball team or students. You can build up your package with multiple sessions per day aimed at different year groups / classes, with options to add on an extra slots where your students and coaches will be able to ask any questions in an open Q&A session.
For netball coaches, we offer a variety of different coaching workshops with our coaching team, where you can learn everything from working as a team to maintain effective possession whilst under pressure to the development of an effective Centre pass with the attack unit working together to create clear phase 1 + 2 connections. We have also launched our club hubs, an exclusive members area for netball clubs based in the North West. We have always been a franchise that has led the way when it comes to developing young regional players into netball stars, and we know that a huge part of that process is down to our local clubs. The Club Hub is our space to support each other, work together, share information and ultimately, to keep pushing the netball standards in the North West forward.
Contact us to find out more about what we do and how you can get involved.
