NetSetGO: What Age, What It Costs and When Netball Registration Opens
24 September 2026
Woolworths NetSetGO is Netball Australia's entry program, marketed for children aged 5 to 10 across three tiers — Net, Set and Go. But its own participant terms and conditions set a wider band: your child must "be between the ages of 4 and 12 (inclusive)". That gap matters if you have a keen four-year-old or an eleven-year-old who wants to start late.
A season runs 8 to 10 weeks, with sessions of "roughly 45 minutes" for Net and "roughly 60 minutes" for Set and Go. There is no national price — Netball Australia says "prices will vary depending on your local centre" — but one Queensland association publishes $165 for an eight-week program including the participant pack, which works out at about $20.63 a session.
And it is boys and girls. State netball bodies describe NetSetGO as "Australia's official starter program for girls and boys aged 5 to 10".
Key takeaways
- Marketed 5 to 10, allowed 4 to 12. The tiers are Net (5-6), Set (7-8) and Go (9-10), but Netball Australia's participant terms say ages 4 to 12 inclusive.
- Open to boys. State netball bodies say so explicitly; the national pages say nothing about gender at all.
- 8 to 10 weeks, "with most programs aligned with school terms", and a published minimum of 8 weeks.
- No national price. A real published club price of $165 for eight weeks works out at about $20.63 a session — the dearest entry program in this series.
- The fee has two parts: a Service Fee to your state body and a Goods Fee to Netball Australia for the participant pack.
- A voucher covers most or all of it in every state and territory except the ACT.
- Get the voucher code BEFORE you register. Netball Queensland states that applying one to a completed registration breaches its provider terms.
- No 2027 date is published yet. The 2026 season opened on 1 December 2025.
What age can my child start netball?
The honest answer has two numbers, and only one of them is advertised.
Every Netball Australia page you will land on says the same thing: "Woolworths NetSetGo has three aged-based tiers for children aged between 5-10 years of age — Net, Set, and Go", split as "Net (5-6 year olds), Set (7-8 year olds) and Go (9-10 year olds)".
But the document you actually agree to when you sign up says something wider. Netball Australia's participant terms and conditions require that you warrant your child "will be between the ages of 4 and 12 (inclusive) when they participate in NetSetGo".
So the marketing band is 5 to 10 and the contractual band is 4 to 12. In practice this means a four-year-old and an eleven- or twelve-year-old are not disqualified from the program — whether a group exists for them is a decision your local centre makes. If your child falls outside 5 to 10 and you have been assuming netball is closed to them, it is worth one phone call rather than a year's wait.
Tiers are not a promise either. Centres run the groups they have numbers for; one Queensland association we read runs its program for five and six year olds only. Ask which groups are running near you, not which tier your child is in.
And it is not girls-only. Netball Victoria and Netball SA both describe NetSetGO as "Australia's official starter program for girls and boys aged 5 to 10". Netball Australia's national pages make no statement about gender either way, which is probably why the assumption persists.
What does NetSetGO cost?
Netball Australia does not publish a price: "Prices will vary depending on your local centre, contact them directly to confirm cost."
What it does publish is the structure, and understanding it explains why quotes differ so much between clubs. The fee "is made up of a Service Fee and a Goods Fee. The Service Fee is paid to the State or Territory Member Organisation… The Goods Fee is paid to Netball Australia in return for your child or dependant's participant pack."
So three organisations take a slice: your club, your state body and Netball Australia. Netball NSW publishes its side of that — a 2026 Netball Australia fee of $5.61 and a NetSetGO combined Netball NSW and Netball Australia fee of $95.00 — and your local centre's program fee sits on top of that.
For a real, published, all-in number: a Queensland association charges "$165 for the eight week program", including the Woolworths NetSetGO participation pack.
| Published club program price | $165 |
| Program length | 8 weeks |
| Session length (Set and Go) | roughly 60 minutes |
| Per session | $20.63 |
That division is ours, not theirs. At about $20.63 a session netball is the dearest entry program in this series — roughly four times a cheap Auskick session, and above cricket's $12.38. Not a reason to avoid it, but a reason to ask what is included and to line the voucher up first.
Get the voucher first — netball is strict about this
This is the single most actionable thing on this page, because netball is stricter than most sports about when you apply the code.
Netball Queensland tells its clubs: "Please do not offer to allow Play On! vouchers to be used to pay for registrations that have taken place earlier in Season 2026", and explains why — "it is a breach of the Terms and Conditions for Activity Providers (5.1(j)) to do this, as Play On! vouchers need to be obtained from the parent / legal guardian at the time of signing on." Netball Victoria is equally plain: "The Get Active Kids Voucher code must be presented at the point of registration."
So: apply for the voucher, get the code, then register. Doing it the other way round can mean the money is simply gone.
Each figure below was read at its own government page on 24 September 2026:
- Western Australia — KidSport. Up to $500 per financial year, ages 5 to 18, for children named on a Health Care Card or Pensioner Concession Card. Open year round, new rounds from 1 July, vouchers valid 90 days. Covers "registration, membership or participation fees".
- Victoria — Get Active Kids. Up to $200 per child. Round 11 closes at 10am on 13 October 2026, or sooner if the budget is exhausted. Covers "membership and registration fees".
- Queensland — Play On! Sports Vouchers. Up to $200, ages 5 to 17, one per financial year. Open until 18 December 2026; present it by 18 June 2027. This replaced FairPlay.
- South Australia — Sports Vouchers. Two of $100 per calendar year, and Netball SA confirms "a player can use a Sports Voucher up to the value of $100 for their NetSetGO program fees". From 1 January 2027 eligibility widens to all children aged 5 to 18.
- Tasmania — Ticket to Play. Two vouchers of up to $100, ages 5 to 18, on a health care or pensioner concession card or in out-of-home care. Open 6 July 2026 to 28 May 2027.
- Northern Territory — Sport Voucher Scheme. Two $100 vouchers a year, transition to Year 12. Rounds open around July and January — check sportvoucher.nt.gov.au for this round's dates.
- New South Wales — Active and Creative Kids. $50, twice a year, ages 4.5 to 18, for families on Family Tax Benefit. Two unexpired vouchers can be combined.
- Australian Capital Territory. No sport voucher here. ACT families should apply to the Future of Education Equity Fund — $400 preschool, $500 primary, $750 high school and college — which lists "sporting activities" among covered costs. Applications close 27 November 2026.
Netball Australia's own help pages list six of these schemes and omit Victoria and Queensland, even though both state bodies clearly run them. Treat the national list as incomplete and check your own state's page.
When does registration open?
For the 2026 season, "registrations for 2026 open on 1 December 2025". The 2027 date has not been published as at 24 September 2026, so if you are planning for next year, watch from about November.
There is a bigger point behind that date, though: netball has no single national season. Netball Australia says "winter and spring are the most popular times our centres run Woolworths NetSetGo, however, each centre sets its own schedule", and Netball Victoria adds that programs "can run anytime throughout the year". Programs are mostly "aligned with school terms", which vary by up to a fortnight across the country.
So unlike cricket or footy, there is no single week you might miss. If your centre's winter intake has closed, ask when the next block starts rather than waiting for next season.
Netball Australia is also part-way through rebuilding the program. Its 2025 annual report says that "in 2026, Woolworths NetSetGo will be delivered nationally as a fully refreshed, end to end participation program", with the Net tier already relaunched after "an extensive 18 month evaluation process" and Set and Go "scheduled for relaunch in 2026". If details at your centre look different from the national pages, that transition is the likely reason.
What comes after NetSetGO?
Junior Netball. Netball Australia's 2025 annual report describes the refreshed program as strengthening "the pathway for 9–10 year old participants, supporting a smooth transition into Junior Netball following their Woolworths NetSetGo journey".
It does not publish a national starting age for Junior Netball, and associations set their own entry points — Netball SA, for example, references a "9 and Under" competition. So the honest guidance is that the Go tier, at 9 to 10, is the bridge, and your association decides what sits on the far side of it. Ask your centre which competition its Go graduates move into.
For scale, netball remains one of the largest participation sports in the country: Netball Australia reported that "in 2025, the number of netball players nationally grew by five per cent to more than 440,000". That is all ages, not juniors — the organisation does not publish a junior-only or NetSetGO-only count, so we have not quoted one as if it were.
Finding a club near you
Netball's best club finder is Netball Australia's own at netball.com.au, and for a program starting soon it is the list to use.
Our own directory is thin on netball, and the reason generalises across junior sport: we list 1,549 tennis programs and 1,543 swim schools but only a handful of netball clubs, because tennis and swimming are taught by commercial businesses that market themselves online while netball is run largely by volunteer associations that do not. That is a fact about marketing budgets, not about how much netball is played near you.
The netball clubs we do list, each checked live today, show the pattern nicely — in country Victoria netball usually shares a club with footy, and in South Australia with tennis:
- SMAA Netball Club at West Beach, Adelaide
- St Peters Tennis and Netball Club at Maylands, Campbelltown Tennis and Netball Club and Hope Valley Tennis and Netball Club
- Point Cook Tennis and Netball in Melbourne's west
- Kangaroo Flat Football Netball Club, Marong Football and Netball Club near Bendigo, and Sale City Football and Netball Club in Gippsland
To see everything running near you in the same week, browse your suburb on kids' activities — for example West Beach, Point Cook or Kangaroo Flat — or the national picture in our Kids' Activity Index.
Frequently asked questions
What age can a child start netball in Australia?
NetSetGO is marketed for ages 5 to 10 in three tiers, but Netball Australia's participant terms allow children "between the ages of 4 and 12 (inclusive)". Whether a group runs for a four-year-old is up to your local centre.
Can boys play NetSetGO?
Yes. State netball bodies describe it as "Australia's official starter program for girls and boys aged 5 to 10".
How much does NetSetGO cost?
There is no national price. The fee combines a Service Fee to your state body and a Goods Fee to Netball Australia for the participant pack, plus your centre's own program fee. One published club price is $165 for an eight-week program including the pack, about $20.63 a session.
When do netball registrations open?
Registrations for the 2026 season opened on 1 December 2025. The 2027 date has not been published. Because each centre sets its own schedule and programs run year round, there is no single national window to miss.
Can I use a government sports voucher for netball?
Yes, in every state and territory except the ACT. Apply for the code and get it before you register — Netball Queensland states that using a voucher on a registration already completed breaches its provider terms.
What are the Net, Set and Go tiers?
Net is for 5 to 6 year olds with sessions of roughly 45 minutes; Set is for 7 to 8 year olds and Go for 9 to 10 year olds, both with sessions of roughly 60 minutes.
What comes after NetSetGO?
Junior Netball. The Go tier at 9 to 10 is the bridge, and your local association sets the entry point for its junior competitions.
How we checked
Tier ages, the 4-to-12 band in the participant terms, session lengths, season lengths, the fee structure and the 2026 registration date were all read directly on netball.com.au on 24 September 2026. The published club price of $165 for eight weeks, the Netball NSW fee table including the $5.61 Netball Australia fee, and Netball SA's $100 voucher statement were read on those organisations' own pages the same day.
Two voucher-timing quotes — Netball Victoria's and one of Netball Australia's help-centre pages — sit on a help platform that blocks automated requests, so they were read through a reader proxy; Netball Queensland's equivalent statement, which makes the same point more strongly, was read directly and is the one we have leaned on.
Participation figures are from Netball Australia's 2025 annual report. Its 440,000 figure is all netball players of all ages — the report publishes no junior-only or NetSetGO-only count, so we have not presented one. Per-session costs are our arithmetic on published prices and program lengths.
Voucher amounts, eligibility and dates come from each government's own program page, read the same day; the Northern Territory page still showed a 2021 round, so we have given its value and eligibility but no round dates. Prices and voucher rounds change — check both before you pay.
