Birmingham Panthers

England

Founded

2024

Birmingham Panthers is excited to bring elite netball to the West Midlands and will work with the University of Worcester to build on the success of Severn Stars to establish netball and its players as a leading force across the region and beyond. An exciting new chapter also awaits the East Midlands with the introduction of Nottingham Forest Netball to the League. Owned and managed by the Premier League football team, this marks the organisation’s inaugural elite level netball Club as part of major plans to develop a multi-sport model for the football club.

Manchester Thunder

England

Founded

2005

Arena

Wright Robinson Sports College

Manchester Thunder are part of the Netball Superleague, which consists of the top ten netball teams in England, Scotland and Wales. The club is located in Manchester. They finished third in the 2017 Netball Superleague season, beating Team Bath in the third-place play off, were runners-up in 2016 to Surrey Storm and third in the 2015 Netball Superleague season, beating Yorkshire Jets 55-49 in the 3rd-place playoff. Thunder's Director of Netball and Head Coach is Karen Greig , who previously worked as assistant coach at Thunder under previous Head Coach Dan Ryan. Ryan was appointed in June 2015 after previous coach Tracey Neville was appointed manager of the England national netball team. The club's home court is the Wright Robinson Sports College, which is known as The Thunderdome when hosting Manchester Thunder matches. The club won the annual Mike Greenwood Trophy three times in a row between 2012-2014, before losing to Team Bath in the 2015 edition.