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This article draws on Goffman’s work  Stigma  to provide a critical perspective on how elite male players manage their identity in a ‘female sport’. Following interviews with players from an all-male netball team in London, England, we critically discuss the different strategies that male netballers use to construct and manage their stigmatized identity(ies), through a variety of stages and strategies associated with stigma management over time, these include;  Passing, Group Alignment, and Normalization , strategies which change over time. The article highlights how the individual strategies for stigma management adopted by the male players are a consequence of wider gender relations in sport and the ways in which most sports continue to be organized according to sex segregation. The men in this study experience  stigma  for playing netball because it is perceived as a sport for women, by exploring the experiences of male netballers it emphasizes how the continued gender binary approach to sport continues to create  stigma  for male and female athletes.

‘Do full-grown men really play netball?’ Stigma and men’s experiences of playing for an elite London netball team