Australia’s Suncorp Super Netball League (SSN) will start on Saturday 5th April, and here we have all the information you need to know, including the key international players we think you should look out for this season, where to watch information, and more!
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Each week we will be highlighting across our website and socials just some of the international talent competing in the SSN, with players from Jamaica, England, Malawi, and more involved in the league.
Click the team names below to reveal the players we think you keep an eye on each week.
Once again in the 2025 season it is the Jamaican Sunshine Girls you want to watch out for at Adelaide Thunderbirds.
Shamera Sterling-Humphrey and Latanya Wilson are a Thunderbirds defensive duo that you wouldn’t want to come up against.
Last season, Sterling-Humphrey (96) and Wilson (82) made up the league’s top two for deflections, whilst Sterling-Humphrey also topped the rebound and interception charts with 44 interceptions and 36 rebounds. You can view last year’s stats, here.
Hear from Sterling-Humphrey herself and find out who she would put in her world 7, here.
Taking it to the other end of the court, next up we are excited to see retired England Rose, Jo Harten play for Giants again in 2025.
Harten will play alongside Australia’s very own, Sophie Dwyer in the Giants shooting circle.
Dwyer made her Diamonds debut in 2022 and was recently awarded a Player of the Match Award for her performance in match one of the Constellation Cup against New Zealand.
You can re-watch the Constellation Cup on NetballPass, here.
We can’t wait to see this partnership continue to grow on court this season!
Returning for their second year in the SSN, it is Melbourne Mavericks.
Mavericks will once again be captained by Australian Diamond, Amy Parmenter, whilst England Rose, Eleanor Cardwell will also return as a co-vice-captain, alongside Molly Jovic. Those are just a few players to look out for!
Cardwell will miss out on the start of the season due to injury.
In their first SSN season, Mavericks finished 5th in the league, only missing out on the top 4 spot and finals by goal percentage.
Can they go one better in 2025?
One player we can’t wait to see take to court for Vixen’s this year is Rudi Ellis.
Ellis had a breakthrough SSN season in 2024, playing in 16 games and making 14 interceptions and 41 deflections.
Since the last SSN season Ellis has made her Diamonds debut playing in three matches across the England Series and Constellation Cup.
You can catch up on Ellis’ debut on NetballPass.
We think 2025 could be a big one for Ellis!
The talking point ahead of the season for NSW Swifts has been about the arrival of Silver Fern Grace Nweke.
Nweke has made the switch from the ANZ Premiership to the SSN and will join England Rose, Helen Housby, in the shooting circle for Swifts – what a duo!
Housby finished the 2024 season top of the charts for Super Shots, with 73 to her name.
Nweke had an arguably even more successful season in the ANZ Premiership with Northern Mystics, scoring 448 goals putting her 3rd in that chart, whilst she topped the most important chart too with her team winning the Premiership Final 54-53 against Pulse.
You can re-watch the ANZ Premiership Final to see Nweke at her best on NetballPass, here.
Speaking of international shooters joining the league, Queensland Firebirds have gained one of their own.
Uganda’s Mary Cholhok has made the move from the UK’s Netball Super League (NSL), to the SSN and will now be playing alongside Tippah Dwan and Emily Moore.
Cholhok won the NSL last year with Loughborough Lightning, scoring 975 goals throughout the season and topping the leagues’ goal scored charts by doing so.
England Rose, Imogen Allison, has also followed Cholhok down under from the NSL.
Allison had a great NSL 2024 season, reaching the Grand Final with Manchester Thunder and only losing out on the trophy to Cholhok’s Lightning side.
You can re-watch the NSL Final involving Cholhok and Allison on NetballPass, here.
Sunshine Coast Lightning have retained all 10 of their 2024 contacted athletes for the SSN 2025 season.
That means for Australian Diamonds Courtney Bruce and Liz Watson, it will be their second year with Lightning.
Both Diamonds made an instant impact in 2024, with Watson topping the leagues’ goal assists chart with 365 to her name and Bruce making her mark with 38 deflections and 15 intercepts.
The entire Lightning Squad will be wanting to strike back this season, after they lost their Minor Semi Final 72-62 to West Coast Fever last season, missing out on a place in the Preliminary Final.
West Coast Fever welcome Malawi Queen Mwai Kumwenda into their squad this year.
The Malawi Queen, who joins from Vixen’s, is no stranger to the league, having played 135 National League games and scored 4,598 goals since her SSN debut in 2014.
We didn’t get to see Kumwenda take to court during the 2024 season, due to her welcoming her first child into the world this July.
We can’t wait to see her make her return!
The Suncorp Super Netball (SSN) League will be available globally for the Netball Family to watch.
Those outside of Australia will be able to watch the league unfold on NetballPass, with pricing information available on NetballPass, here.
You can sign up to NetballPass, here.
For those within Australia, the league will be available on Kayo Sports, Foxtel, and for the first time on Binge too, you can find out more here.