The Rising Champs Netball Team (formerly known as Rational Champs, Fuego Champs and Luxol Champs) was established in the nineties and ever since has participated in the National League. Throughout the years, the team always included several experienced players, some of whom were also ex-Malta National Players. The team has won several honors which include, the National League, the Knockout Competi
tion and the Super Cup. Whilst the team achieved its first triple in 2002-2003, the 2005/2006 season proved to be the most memorable in the team’s history when it achieved another triple and also succeeded in becoming the first local team to win an international tournament held in Malta. From 1998 to 2016, the team was crowned national league champions 10 times, and were runners up in 7 national leagues. It also won the knockout competition 9 times and finished runners up 2 times. Between the years 2002 and 2011 the team achieved 6 triple wins. The team also proceeded abroad three times to play against foreign teams. Their first experience was in Glasgow in 2007 where the team played a number of friendly matches against Scottish teams. Then in 2009 they ventured to the Isle of Man to participate in a Netball Club Festival organized by the Manx Netball Association. The team was the only foreign team who ever participated in this festival and out of the 15 participating teams, the team claimed an overall third place. The team’s third participation was in a Netfest Tournament held in Spain in 2010. The team has seen some changes since and had been working on building up its momentum once again which seems to be moving on the right track. With the influx of new young players in fact, in season 2018-2019, the team just missed the runners up position in the national league by one point, clenching this position in 2019-2020 and 2020-2021. The club has been rooting to enhance its performance and is aiming towards reaching its former glory. Starting season 2021/22, Rising Champs will also be competing in the U21 league with the newly built team, Young Champs U21. It is our intention to continue to strive to reach the peak once again in seasons to come.
