The change was voted in at a recent meeting and was supported by all clubs, Dunedin Netball general manager Lee-Anne Anderson said.
Premier B and C, and senior grades, will still be played on Saturdays.
''We have to listen to players and there are a lot of time commitments on players,'' Anderson said.
''Looking at the influx of students that we get into Dunedin and the type of players that are playing netball here, a lot of players in our premier competition are trying to juggle university, work and sporting commitments.
''I think Thursday night is certainly worth a trial and it's something all of our clubs were keen to have a go at.''
The premier A competition will start on April 21 and expand from six to eight teams.
Each team will play the other seven teams once, before splitting into a top-four and bottom-four. They will then play three more games, followed by semifinals and finals.
''Clubs were supportive of the change and it should, hopefully, allow for more spectators on a Thursday night,'' Anderson said.
''Hopefully, it frees up our top umpires being able to umpire on a Thursday and a Saturday. Hopefully, the flow-on effects will be quite good.''
The change to Thursday nights should also free up any Dunedin-based players picked to play in the new national league Netball New Zealand plans to launch in April.
While the format of the proposed national league, which will be made up of one team from each of the five zones, is not set in concrete, the majority of the games will be played on Sundays.
NNZ chief executive Hilary Poole told the Otago Daily Times last week 14 games would be played directly after the ANZ Championship on Sunday evenings, while seven games would be played on Saturdays.
The league will run in conjunction with the ANZ Championship and is being introduced to increase the quality and depth of players in the country.
''We would like to think we would have a fairly strong contingent of Dunedin players playing in that league,'' Anderson said.
''The introduction of that new competition should be really good for the development of our players and officials.''
While the new league effectively means the Dunedin, formerly Otago, team is defunct, Anderson thinks its introduction makes sense.
Dunedin most recently won the national championship in 2012 and 2013, and finished sixth in this year's competition.
''I think it needs to happen,'' Anderson said.
''It's a big call to step up from club or [NPC] level into say a Steel squad. That's a big difference, so we need to bridge that gap and, hopefully, this is the right way.''
NNZ is looking at introducing a new competition - possibly a national club tournament - to replace the week-long national championships in the next few years.
