Netball is promoted in Malaysia at the Sport Carnival for All (KESUMA).^[1] In 1998, 113 districts held netball competitions.^[1] That year, there were 1,718 registered netball teams in the country.^[1] In 2001, netball was sufficiently popular in South East Asia for it to be included in the 21st Southeast Asian Games in Kuala Lumpur.^[2] Malaysia had a national team compete in the fifth Asian Netball Championships in Colombo in 2001.^[3] Malaysia also competed in the 7th Asian Youth Netball Championship in India in 2010.^[4] Petronas, the national oil company, has been a major sponsor of netball in the country. This type of sponsorship was encouraged by the government as part of the Rakan Sukan programme.^[5]

Important netball competitions held in Malaysia include:

• The 1998 Commonwealth Games^[6]

The top performances for the Malaysia national netball team include:

• 2010 Asian Youth Netball Championship: First^[2]

As of August 2016, the women's national team was ranked number nineteenth in the world.^[7]