The Brighton Robins Football Club and Karana Netball Club have jointly confirmed that both clubs will unite under the new entity of the Brighton Robins Sports Club Inc

The decision by Brighton and Karana to develop a sporting club for the future aims to entice fans to Australian rules and netball and bring communities together.

“Today’s announcement is a combination of a lot of hard work from all our volunteers and committee members,” said Darren Clark of Brighton Football Club.

“We have come a long way in four years, but our job is not finished yet”

“The club, and more importantly, the Brighton community are growing, and we want to be known as the biggest and best sporting club in Tasmania.”

“Our junior pathway is now complete for both boys and girls in football and netball. If you are growing up in the Brighton and Southern Midlands area, you can play from Auskick through to senior football or junior netball through to state netball knowing you can stay at the one club.”

Karana Netball Club spokesperson Libby Morman said that the provision of pathways for players, coaches and officials from junior netball through to the elite level will make continuing participation in netball accessible tmore people.

“Karana celebrated our 60th year in 2024,” she said. “We believe that being part of the new Brighton Sports Club is a really exciting opportunity to set us up to be successful for the next 60 years.”

Netball Tasmania CEO Mitchell Coulson confirmed that the amalgamation had the blessing of Netball Tasmania.

“There are plenty of examples of the fantastic potential that can be unlocked when community focused sporting clubs choose to collaborate and work together,” he said.

“We look forward to supporting Karana through this exciting phase which will see much greater engagement for netball in the Brighton community.”

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