Netball South Africa Challenge

Current season, competition or edition: 2021 SPAR Challenge Series
Sport	Netball
First season	2012
No. of teams	3-6
Most recent champion(s)	South Africa (5th title)
Most titles	South Africa (5 titles)

The Netball South Africa Challenge (previously known as the Diamond Challenge and currently known as the SPAR Challenge) is an international netball tournament held close to biannually in South Africa and organised by the country's governing body for the sport, Netball South Africa. The challenge is contested by the South African national team and up to five other African nations. The inaugural tournament was held in 2012 and it has been contested in most subsequent years.

History

The tournament has been held in different South African cities since it began in 2012. The South African team has won each of the tournaments on offer. The tournament did not take place in 2014 and 2017.^[1][2] Despite South Africa's dominance at the tournament, head coach Norma Plummer has stated "we respect all teams we play in the Diamond Challenge and we [work] hard to win these games confidently".^[3] In the 2016 and 2018 editions, an invitational second-tier side, known as the South African Presidents XII, has participated with a view to developing the "next tier" of South African netballers with international experience.^[3]

Results

Year	City	Opponent(s)	Results	Winner	Ref
2012	Pretoria	Botswana  Malawi  Zambia	3rd/4th: BOT 45-36 ZAM Final: RSA 47-43 MAW	South Africa	[4]
2013	Port Elizabeth	Zambia  Zimbabwe	Final: SA 59-45 ZIM	South Africa	[5]
2015	Margate	Malawi  Uganda  Zambia	3rd/4th: UGA 59-34 ZAM Final: RSA 40-35 MAW	South Africa	[6]
2016	Durban	SAP XII  Uganda  Zimbabwe	3rd/4th: UGA 54-54 SAP XII Final: RSA 68-34 ZIM	South Africa	[7]
2018	Seshego	Botswana  Namibia SAP XII  Zambia  Zimbabwe	1st: South Africa / 2nd: Zambia 3rd: Zimbabwe / 4th: Botswana 5th: Namibia / 6th: Presidents XII[nb 1]	South Africa	[8] [9]
2021	Cape Town	Uganda  Namibia SAP XII SA U21	TBC	TBC	N/A