Netball WA unveil ambitious five-year strategic plan which includes multiple West Coast Fever premierships

West Coast Fever are aiming to win multiple premierships and achieve a record 10,000 members by 2030 as part of an ambitious five-year strategic plan laid out by Netball WA. The State’s peak netball body will unveil its bold plan for 2026 to 2030 on Wednesday, which will centre around several lofty goals for Fever, the organisation and community netball. In the next five years, they plan to continue their on-court success at Fever, aiming to add at least two premierships to the one they claimed in 2022. An average crowd of 10,000 fans at every home game and a record 10,000 members are also part of the goals for the professional set-up. At a community level, Netball WA want to achieve a $25m revenue, 165,000 total participants across the sport in the state and 60,000 community netball members. Netball WA chief executive Simone Hansen said it was the next step for the organisation to take, and it included a plan to target the international market to grow the sport. “When you look at the plan, we’re still focused on making sure that we’re providing what we need to from a netball perspective for all the community participants, so we are going to continue to focus on our core and making sure netball can be played by anyone who wants to play it,” she told The West Australian. “It’s also looking outside of WA a little bit. How can we pitch our West Australian Netball League, our community association championships, or West Coast Fever to international markets, in particular the Asian area. “We don’t have a philanthropic side to Netball WA, so trying to look at other ways of generating interest in netball and investment because running sports costs money. “And West Coast Fever have been successful for a number of years, so how do we help have a voice in the sporting landscape across Australia, not just WA. The time is right.” Hansen is confident all of those goals could be met. “We’ve had a 20 per cent growth since last year, so from 2025 to 2026, membership we’ve seen a 20 per cent growth, so we’re nearly at 6000, and we do want to get that to 10,000,” she said. “They’re not huge numbers when you compare them to the AFL clubs, but when you look at some of the comparable sports, 6000 is good, but it could and should be higher. “It (winning multiple premierships) is a hard one because when you have high-performance teams, you want them to win as much as they can, but it’s hard to expect any team to win a premiership year after year.” Fremantle were the last big sporting club in WA to release a bold strategic plan and were criticised when they didn’t meet its lofty goals, including winning premierships at both the AFL and AFLW levels. Hansen said that didn’t deter Netball WA when it came to putting together their own. “I work on making sure we do achieve our objectives, and we do achieve our KPI’s,” she said. “I’m not setting things that I don’t think are achievable. “We’ve clearly got to make the right investment to make sure we’ve got the right people, the right structures, the right resources to achieve what we want to achieve. But I’m certainly not setting a plan where I think it can’t be done.” Netball WA Strategic Plan 2026-2030 Highlights - $25m Total Revenue For NWA - 165,000 Total Participants Across The State - 60,000 Total Netball Community Membership - 10,000 West Coast Fever Members - 10,000 West Coast Fever Average Home Crowd - West Coast Fever To Win Multiple Premierships