Netball Coaching Toolkit
The Netball Coaching Toolkit draws a 30.5 × 15.25 m court with its thirds, centre circle and 4.9 m goal circles, then shades where each position may legally play. Centre-pass patterns, circle work and defensive outlets come as editable playbooks, alongside a drill library, session planner, fitness timers and a match desk with shooting accuracy and court time.
How to use this calculator
- Start on the Tactics tab: the board opens with an illustrative Netball example, drawn to scale in metres. Drag tokens, or select one in the object list and move it with the arrow keys.
- Use Run, Pass, Carry and Screen to draw movement: click a token, then where it goes (for a pass, click the receiver). Set timings and an instruction in the inspector.
- Add scenes with 'Continue to new scene', and add branches for what happens when the opposition or context changes. Play a scene or the whole sequence; captions and a transcript follow along.
- Open a starter drill from the Drills tab, plan sessions (including parallel stations) on the Training tab, time fitness work on the Fitness tab and keep a match record on Match day.
- Export a PDF, SVG, PNG or .zcoach file. Exports are anonymised unless you choose to include names, notes or results.
How it works
Everything on the board is stored in real field units, not screen pixels: the board scales uniformly to fit, and rotating or zooming the view never changes a stored position. Field markings are generated from geometry, so fixed-size markings keep their size on a custom field.
A playbook is a graph of scenes joined by labelled branches. Paths move tokens at constant speed along their length; a pass carries the ball to its receiver, and a warning appears if the receiver will not be there. A loop must have a repeat limit before it can play or export.
Select a player labelled GS, GA, WA, C, WD, GD or GK to shade their legal area. Transverse lines belong to both thirds and a circle edge belongs to the circle; reversing the attack direction mirrors all seven areas.
Shooting accuracy is goals ÷ attempts. With no attempts it shows no data rather than 0%.
Assigning one player to two positions in the same period is flagged, naming both positions.
Your work saves automatically in this browser about half a second after each change, with undo for the last 100 edits and the last 20 saved revisions kept. A board changed in another tab is never overwritten silently — you can keep yours as a copy.
Worked example
Worked example: accuracy and legal areas. A shooter scores 7 of 10 attempts: 70% accuracy. A wing attack placed inside the attacking goal circle is outside the WA legal area and is flagged; a goal shooter in the same spot is legal.
Common mistakes
- Treating the shading as a ruling on contact or footwork. It covers court areas only.
- Reading 0 attempts as 0% accuracy. No attempts means no data.
- Sharing a named export by accident. Exports leave out names, notes and results unless you tick them in, and anonymising removes them from the file rather than hiding them.
Frequently asked questions
Where can each netball position go?
GS: attacking third. GA: attacking and centre thirds. WA: attacking and centre thirds, but not the goal circle. C: everywhere except both goal circles. WD: defending and centre thirds, not the circle. GD: defending and centre thirds. GK: defending third. The board shades the area for whichever position you select.
Is my team's information uploaded?
No. Boards, rosters, sessions, results and matches are saved only in this browser on this device, with no account. Anyone using the same browser profile can see them, and clearing site data removes them — download a backup from the Library tab if they matter.
Are the drills and plays official?
No. The Netball starter drills and playbooks are original teaching examples written for this toolkit and still awaiting review by qualified coaches. They are a starting point, not a complete curriculum, and contact is none by default.
Does the toolkit apply the rules of my competition?
It draws field markings from published geometry and keeps every competition-dependent value — scoring values, period lengths, interchange limits — as a setting you confirm. Advisories (legal areas, offside position, retreat lines) are teaching overlays, never a referee's decision.
Can I share a play with my team?
Yes, by file: export a PDF or image for players, or a .zcoach file another coach can import. An imported file opens as a new copy and never overwrites your work. There is no hosted team link.
Is the shuttle timer a beep test?
No. It is a custom paced shuttle you configure — lane length, speeds, shuttles and recoveries — and it is labelled as not a standardised test. Named standard tests stay switched off until their exact timing, rules, edition and reuse rights are verified, and no VO2 or fitness ranking is produced.
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Cite this tool
Zerdly. (2026). Netball Coaching Toolkit. Retrieved from https://www.zerdly.com/tools/netball-coaching/
Tip: Enter any known values to calculate the remaining results.
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