The season motto will be "Arrive, play, leave" as even during cross-over times between games maxium crowd number restrictions must be adhered to.

After a huge logistical planning effort and negotiations by Netball NSW and Maitland Netball Association for Covid-19 restriction clearance, the first juniors take to the court from 8am.

The Maitland Netball complex will effectively divided into three playing sections, each with a maximum of 500 participants and spectators, allowing all games to be played on site in a single day.

An 11-round competition will run through to September 19, with a finals weekend on September 25-26.

Preliminary finals between first and fourth placed teams and second and third will be held on the Saturday with the winners of both games progressing to the grand final on the Sunday.

Grades will be combinations of two grades from last season and most will feature 12 teams, allowing each team to play each other once.

"It's been a tiring couple of weeks but .once we start playing on Sunday it should all fall into place and all should be quite smooth hopefully," Maitland Netball Association president Kim Starkey said.

"The association has been able to meet Covid-19 crowd and participant restrictions by establishing three playing sections at the Maitland Park complex.

"Each section has its own designated car park with one section on Bloomfield Street, another on Park Street and the final on Gipps Street.

"We have limited the number of games in each section so that we never exceed the maximum gathering of 500 for each section. We are probably keeping it to about 400 people in each section.

"We're quite lucky the sections we've got are clearly designated. The brand new courts are blue and the old ones are black. The black courts separate the new blue courts. We've been able to colour-code the whole operation.

"Everyone can still access the toilets and canteen, but people will need to walk around their section to gain access."

Starkey said the competition had to meet and adhere to strict government guidelines to proceed.

"Social distancing still needs to take place and every spectator must register. The spectators will register on the score sheets of the game they are watching so that we can keep our registrations for any kind of tracking that might be required by public health," Starkey said.

"It is quite clear in the public health order that there is no exemption on the conditions for spectators. It is still only one parent/guardian per junior allowed to come as a spectator.

"Our senior teams we are asking them to limit their spectators down to about two per team.

"I know it's disappointing for grand parents and the like not being able to attend games, but unfortunately that is the case this year.

"Our priority is to let of players gets back on court and that requires restrictions on spectators."

"We've got more time slots so we could fit more people in and we have longer times between games to allow people to leave and people to turn up and not have a cross-over clash."