| Founded | 2009 |
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| First season | 2009 |
| Owner(s) | ANZ Championship |
| No. of teams | 2 |
| Country | Australia |
| TV partner(s) | Network 10 ONE HD |
| Sponsor(s) | ANZ Holden Mars |
Netball's Festival of Stars was a series of celebrity netball matches organised by Network Ten and the ANZ Championship. It featured two teams representing two Australian charities, Beyond Blue and the National Breast Cancer Foundation. Matches featured two halves of fifteen minutes and were played before an ANZ Championship regular season match.
2009
The inaugural Festival of Stars was hosted at Sydney Olympic Park Sports Centre on 21 June 2009, before the 2009 ANZ Championship Round 12 match between New South Wales Swifts and West Coast Fever. Team Beyond Blue and Team NBCF were captained by Network 10 commentators, Luke Darcy and Liz Ellis, respectively. Team Beyond Blue, coached by Julie Fitzgerald, won the game following a penalty shoot-out between the two captains. The match was viewed by a television audience of 345,164 viewers.
- Match summary
| 20 May 2012 | Team Beyond Blue | v | Team NBCF | Sydney Olympic Park Sports Centre | Network 10 |
- Teams
| Head Coach: Julie Fitzgerald
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Head Coach: Matthew Elliott
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2010
The second Festival of Stars was hosted at Hisense Arena on 6 June 2010, before the 2010 ANZ Championship Round 12 match between Melbourne Vixens and Adelaide Thunderbirds. Once again Team Beyond Blue and Team NBCF were captained by Luke Darcy and Liz Ellis, respectively. The match featured two fifteen minute halves and was umpired by Natalie Medhurst and Wendy Fleming, a former Australia under-21 international. ANZ donated $1,000 for the first goal scored in each half and $100 for every other goal scored in the match. This raised $20,000 for the two charities.
- Match summary
| 6 June 2010 | Mars Team Beyond Blue | 11–9 | Holden Cruze Team NBCF | Hisense Arena Umpires: Natalie Medhurst Wendy Fleming |
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| Scoring by half: 4-3, 7-6 | |||||||
| Luke Darcy Dave Hughes Rebecca Twigley |
Ryan Moloney Adam Spencer Caitlin Thwaites | ||||||
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2011
The third Festival of Stars was hosted at Sydney Olympic Park Sports Centre on 20 March 2011, before the 2011 ANZ Championship Round 6 match between New South Wales Swifts and Queensland Firebirds. Team Beyond Blue and Team NBCF were captained by comedians, Charlie Pickering and Adam Spencer, respectively. This was the third time Spencer played for Team NBCF. The show was hosted by Kelli Underwood and Liz Ellis with Sue Gaudion as the courtside expert. The event raised $13,800 for the two charities. Kerri Pottharst's nine goal tally helped Team NBCF win the match for the first time. Other notable performers included Iron Men Shannon Eckstein, who scored seven goals for Team Beyond Blue, and Matt Poole, who was named Player of the Match.
- Match summary
| 20 March 2011 | Holden Barina Spark Team NBCF | 10–9 | Team Beyond Blue | Sydney Olympic Park Sports Centre Umpires: Shelley O'Donnell Alison Broadbent |
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| Scoring by half: 4-3, 6-6 | |||||||
Kerri Pottharst  9Adam Spencer 1
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Shannon Eckstein 7 Charlie Pickering 2
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References
- "ANZ Championship nets Mars sponsorship". www.sportspromedia.com. 10 March 2010. Retrieved 26 February 2021.
- ^ "MARS signs up with ANZ Championship on eve of 2010 season". www.netballnz.co.nz. 10 March 2010. Retrieved 26 February 2021.
- "2009 Annual Report - Netball Australia" (PDF). netball.com.au. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
- ^ "Netball's Festival of Stars". www.anz-championship.com. Archived from the original on 25 May 2010. Retrieved 21 February 2021.
- "Herald Sun snaps Netball's Festival of Stars training session". www.netball.asn.au. 4 June 2010. Archived from the original on 27 November 2010. Retrieved 21 February 2021.
- "Netball Australia Annual Report 2010" (PDF). Netball Australia. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 October 2020. Retrieved 28 June 2020.
- "Rebecca Judd". www.dailytelegraph.com.au. Retrieved 21 February 2021.
- "Stars raise $13,800 in ANZ Championship's annual celebrity charity netball match". www.netballnz.co.nz. 21 March 2011. Retrieved 21 February 2021.
- "2011 Annual Report – Netball Australia" (PDF). netball.com.au. Retrieved 26 August 2020.
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