Secondary Basketball
Manchester Schools’ Secondary Basketball is very popular, with an increasing number of schools taking part in a programme of participation for all year groups to suit all standards.
All Manchester Schools are invited to take part in the annual Basketball programme, which commences in September every academic year. If you would like to take part or require any further details, please contact Simon Jones.
There are 2 different types of participation on offer and when entering, schools may select which is most appropriate.
EXCEL:- League system which is competitive and results are recorded, creating league tables which are published via Koboca. Teams are arranged into groups and play each other once or twice depending on the numbers entered. The format is either a straight league, or where necessary two divisions followed by crossover semi-final and finals.
INSPIRE:- This format is designed to encourage participation at a lower level of performance, There are no league tables or results published, however, results are kept for monitoring purposes only. Inspire teams are arranged into one Inspire Group and schools can play as many or a few games as they wish. The focus though, is on enjoyment and participation, not the result.
For Excel & Inspire, fixtures are organised for the schools to ensure an equal number of home and away games. Dates are then arranged by the schools for fixtures to take place, with teams sharing the officiating responsibility.
Secondary Boys Basketball 2024-25
Boys’ teams will play each other once. Click on the links below to see the results of each Excel division. The links will take you to the results site via Koboca. NB/ Inspire results are collected for monitoring purposes only, these are not published and will not appear on Koboca.
Y7 – Run as a one off Excel competition in Summer Term
Y8 – Excel
U14 – Excel
U16s – Excel
Secondary Girls Basketball 2024-25
For the 2024/25 Girls teams we will be running central venue events for U16s and U14s girls where teams can attend and play short matches with the focus on playing and establishing levels with no scores recorded..
Historical Data
The number of teams taking part in the programme has been broken down by gender and age group. NB/ Obviously Covid affected 2019/20 and 2020/21so those number are reflected by the original entries.
BOYS
| Year | 2018 – 2019 | 2019 – 2020 | 2020 – 2021 | 2021 – 2022 | 2022 – 2023 | 2023 – 2024 |
| 7 | 11 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | |
| 8 | 11 | 12 | 14 | 16 | 18 | |
| U14 | 15 | 12 | 15 | 22 | 21 | |
| U16 | 12 | 9 | 13 | 20 | 22 | |
| Totals | 49 | 48 | 57 | 73 | 76 |
With each team averaging 10 players within their squad, we can safely estimate that there are over ???? boys playing Basketball in our secondary schools. More than ???? fixtures will be played during the Autumn and Spring terms across the 4 age groups.
GIRLS
| Year | 2018 – 2019 | 2019 – 2020 | 2020 – 2021 | 2021 – 2022 | 2022 – 2023 |
| 7 | 7 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 12 |
| U14 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 11 | 16 |
| U16 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 14 |
| Totals | 30 | 33 | 34 | 32 | 42 |
For 2024/2025 Girls are now playing in festival fixtures with 4 central venue dates per year.
With each team averaging 10 players within their squad, we can safely estimate that there are over ???? girls playing Basketball in our secondary schools. More than ???? fixtures will be played during the Autumn and Spring terms across the 4 age groups.
Basketball England
Details of the Basketball England competitions for schools are on their website.