I get free frozen Coke from my mum when I play NBA Jam.

90% of women in the WNBL would be earning less then $1000 a game.

That's about as much as some ABA teams spend in an entire season!

Not in Victoria!

Out of interest, their is some money in local footy, but as mentioned above, most players get nothing or a token amount which they are expected to spend back over the bar straight after the game.

From my experience, SEABL players at Victorian clubs get paid similar amounts to VFL players.

I imagine that many players in the NZ NBL would have day jobs to supplement income. Doubt anyone in our ABL here has a solid income from the ABL alone. Even fringe NBL could be a dangerous zone to be in - not getting enough to set yourself up, but spending enough time that it hampers your studies or alternative career.

Won't name them, but an NBL player I've talked with who had what many would consider to be a very solid career, is a great networker and always has side projects/employment going, said that they wished they'd studied more (even just short courses) while playing to prepare for life after basketball.

Unless you were a top-tier player, you'd want to be investing a lot in property/shares/etc, networking like crazy, and working towards a plan for when your body breaks down at 33-40 and you're out of the league.

Most of the people that are earning $1k per game of footy would be very close to playing league football if they had the desire and wanted to do the work

There is nothing even close here in Australia to what footballers get paid. Over the last couple of years there has been an introduction to Country football leagues a points cap (similar to NBL) so instead of clubs in the past recruiting 10 players and paying them all $300 a game, they now try and get the best players possible and recruit say only 3 players and pay them $1000 per game.
In the SEABL there wouldn't be many players who would get paid more than $500 a game and that would probably be for NBL players. Basketball just doesn't have the sponsorship that Football teams get and most Football teams like mentioned above have a bar and players and supporters hang back at the club and drink till late. The fact that we play our games at 8:15pm means that by the time the games finished it's about 10:30pm and everyone would have already gone home.

The footy stuff is interesting. A guy i know involved with geelong basketball has been talking up for years the fact that the merger of Country Footy and Netball is going to have a significant impact on women's basketball in the country. I saw him at the pre-season tournament for bigV it appears he was right on the money.

Apparently netballers in Geelong are being paid anything up to $350 per game for 'local league" netball by their footy/netball club. Same thing has apparently caused the demise of Shepparton's women's team in the bigV lower leagues (a team that was for many years an powerhouse in terms of results and produced players like Aneka and Tania Kerr).

The big clubs in suburban and country footy in melbourne pay big money - VCFL estimated in 2003 that country footy clubs spend 40% of their revenue on player payments and that combined their revenue was 20 million.

There are a thousand stories in vic basketball about a good basketballer going to footy for $400 per game, $200 per game etc etc.

sorry guys, shit memory, Went back and checked the report. VCFL says country footy clubs spend 56 million in operating costs and player payments accounts for 30% of that.

http://www.vcfl.com.au/index.php?id=22

But this was back in 2003 and they now all fund netball clubs as well. 30% of 56 million is a lot of bucks for players.

As a basketballer who has gone to play football I can confirmt he big money getting thrown around. I had only been playing for 2 seasons of footy when I was being paid $400 a game and then the following year was offered $650/game. Considering during my basketball career the most I was paid was $150 a game I can now see I should have played a lot more footy!!!
I was never the best player but I did get a chance to play in the SEABL where the top players were getting only about $300 a game, so there is a big difference in money between sports.

I have a friend who had a pretty solid 10-12year NBL career, enough to make him a 'restricted' player in the SEABL and he was getting something around $15,000 for his SEABL club.

In the SEABL his club payed him, another NBL veteran & an import. The others played for the "love of the game". There were a lot of long bus trips on weekends...

Actually Anon's, the reason that there is now money in 2nd and 3rd tier netball is nothing to do with participation rates, or sponsorship or tv rights (netball gets not tv rights revenue AFAIK - I know they pay TEN HD). the reason there is money in country netball is because in Country Victoria netball and footy have basically merged. therefore the operating principles of the footy clubs have been transferred to their netball section.

The VCFL requires that EVERY footy club have a netball section. The vic state government has over the last 3-5 years funded the construction of hundreds of netball courts next to footy grounds to facilitate this.

Sorry to disappoint you but netball Australia is not particularly flush with cash. the ANZ championship is an expensive joint venuture for example.

fair enough anonymous, but I can assure the VCFL's approach was self survival, nothing to do with recognising women's sport. They saw that bringing netball in with footy would bring social outcomes. money over the bar and volunteers.

As I said, my mate predicted some outcomes as early as 2003, and he appears to be seeing all that come true. the merger of footy and netball in country victoria is now doing damage to other women's sport - basketball probably being the first casualty - he was telling me about good female geelong basketballers who will not play bigv with geelong because they earn easier and better money in local netball . Apparently hockey and softball are suffering the same.

And netball generally are stilled pissed about it. their traditional competitions have suffered as a result.

hey guys,
My name is Rithvik Thammareddy from Hyderabad,India. I was just wanted to know if players playing in the Waratah league, SBL, QBL BigV and NBL1 get paid how much? and can i sustain getting a college degree in Melbourne and simultaneously play for clubs in the leagues mentioned above.

Thanks.

hey guys,
My name is Rithvik Thammareddy from Hyderabad,India. I was just wanted to know if players playing in the Waratah league, SBL, QBL BigV and NBL1 get paid how much? and can i sustain getting a college degree in Melbourne and simultaneously play for clubs in the leagues mentioned above.

Thanks.

There is literally $0 in netball for men. Nobody breathing cares about it and there are no semi-professional teams.

Rithvik, many players do both but I doubt you're a NBL1 level player. Everyone in those leagues has a job.