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| Founded | 2023 |
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| Based in | Glen Waverley, Victoria |
| Regions | City of Melbourne |
| Home venue | John Cain Arena[1] MyState Bank Arena |
| Head coach | Tracey Neville |
| Captain | Amy Parmenter |
| Premierships | Nil |
| League | Super Netball |
| 2025 placing | 7th |
Melbourne Mavericks is anAustralian professional netball team who have competed inSuper Netball since the 2024 season. The club is operated by theSports Entertainment Group (SEG) and is based at theWaverley Netball Centre inGlen Waverley, Victoria.
The Mavericks hold the SSN license made vacant by theCollingwood Magpies, who folded and withdrew from the league at the conclusion of the2023 season.[2]
Following the demise of theCollingwood Magpies, speculation circled as to who would be awarded the eighth license for the 2024Super Netball season and beyond. Submissions for the new license closed on 20 June 2023, with as many as six initial bids being whittled down to two by the closing date, according to media reports.[3]
On 21 July 2023, the league announced that the Sports Entertainment Group (SEG), led by chief executiveCraig Hutchison, was awarded the license for a team to be based insouth-east Melbourne. As part of the licensing agreement,Netball Australia will operate the team for the rest of 2023 before transitioning to SEG for 2024 and beyond.[4]ABC News reported that the SEG bid was preferred by broadcastersFox Netball over the alternate bid put forward byNetball Victoria, which suggested a regional team 'floating' betweenGeelong,Bendigo orBallarat.[3]
On 2 August 2023, decorated English netball coachTracey Neville was announced as the inaugural head coach of the then-unnamed Mavericks.[5]
In their debut season, Neville guided Mavericks to a fifth place finish, just missing out on the finals on goal average.[6] This was despiteLauren Moore andSasha Glasgow suffering season ending injuries before round one.[7]
The Mavericks played one home game each season in 2024 and 2025 at theDerwent Entertainment Centre inHobart,Tasmania.[8][9]
The team was initially announced as being representative of 'south-east Melbourne' without a specific location named. In October 2023, SEG confirmed that the club's administration and training base would be located at theWaverley Netball Centre inGlen Waverley, Victoria.[10]
The identity of the Mavericks was officially announced by netball operations general managerShae Bolton-Brown on 20 September 2023, with the club's name, logo and primary colours—sky blue, 'pacificcyan' andsapphire—revealed after months of speculation.[11]
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| Coach | Years |
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| Tracey Neville | 2024–2025 |
