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DateRHome v Away-
10/27 06:05 9 [4] Brisbane Women v Sydney Women [15] 78-10
10/27 04:05 9 [18] Collingwood Women v Carlton Women [14] 28-32
10/27 02:05 9 [13] Western Bulldogs Women v St Kilda Women [11] 36-35
10/26 09:15 9 [8] Essendon Women v Richmond Women [6] 42-42
10/26 07:05 9 [11] West Coast Women v Geelong Women [12] 23-56
10/26 05:05 9 [17] Gold Coast Women v Port Adelaide Women [7] 24-58
10/26 03:05 9 [16] GWS Women v Fremantle Women [6] 25-55
10/25 08:45 9 [3] Adelaide Women v North Melbourne Women [2] 33-41
10/24 08:45 9 [2] Hawthorn Women v Melbourne Women [9] 23-17
10/20 06:05 8 [18] Collingwood Women v Adelaide Women [4] 13-56
10/20 04:05 8 [7] Essendon Women v North Melbourne Women [2] 7-58
10/20 02:05 8 [14] Geelong Women v Brisbane Women [3] 47-37
10/19 08:05 8 [10] West Coast Women v Fremantle Women [6] 12-35
10/19 06:05 8 [11] Melbourne Women v Richmond Women [5] 51-38
10/19 04:05 8 [15] Sydney Women v Gold Coast Women [18] 46-50
10/19 02:05 8 [2] Hawthorn Women v GWS Women [16] 61-24
10/18 08:45 8 [9] Port Adelaide Women v St Kilda Women [8] 47-32
10/17 08:15 8 [12] Carlton Women v Western Bulldogs Women [15] 28-61
10/13 06:05 7 [16] GWS Women v Adelaide Women [5] 28-92
10/13 04:05 7 [8] St Kilda Women v Melbourne Women [11] 30-44
10/13 02:05 7 [3] North Melbourne Women v Sydney Women [14] 87-27
10/12 08:15 7 [6] Fremantle Women v Carlton Women [15] 30-34
10/12 06:05 7 [3] Brisbane Women v Gold Coast Women [18] 44-28
10/12 04:05 7 [4] Richmond Women v Geelong Women [12] 46-39
10/12 02:05 7 [3] Hawthorn Women v West Coast Women [10] 74-8
10/11 08:15 7 [14] Western Bulldogs Women v Essendon Women [9] 3-26
10/10 08:45 7 [10] Port Adelaide Women v Collingwood Women [17] 33-25
10/09 08:45 7 [5] Adelaide Women v Melbourne Women [13] 14-16
10/08 08:15 7 [10] St Kilda Women v GWS Women [16] 49-15
10/06 06:05 6 [6] Fremantle Women v Hawthorn Women [4] 25-34
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AFL Women's (AFLW) is Australia's national semi-professional Australian rules football league for female players. The first season of the league in February and March 2017 had eight teams; the league expanded to 10 teams in the 2019 season, 14 teams in 2020 and 18 teams in 2022. The league is run by the Australian Football League (AFL) and is contested by each of the clubs from that competition. The reigning premiers are the Brisbane Lions.

The AFLW is the second most attended women's football competition in Australia (behind A-League Women) and one of the most popular women's football competitions in the world. Its average attendance in 2019 of 6,262 per game made it the second-highest of any domestic women's football competition. Its record attendance of 53,034 for the 2019 AFL Women's Grand Final was until 2020 the highest match attendance for women's sport in Australia.

The AFLW has attracted an audience of more than 1 million attendees and 2 million viewers and has managed to maintain high interest while moving to primarily ticketed and subscription broadcasting models since the 2021 season. It consistently ranks in the top three (alongside cricket and netball) most watched women's sporting competitions in Australia. The league receives international interest, particularly in Ireland where it has begun to attract a significant television audience due to the ongoing recruitment of Irish Gaelic football stars. However, it was reported in mid-2023 that data revealed a significant drop in attendances for the seventh season of the women's league compared to the first season.

History

Establishment

In 2010, the AFL commissioned a report into the state of women's football around the country. Along with findings concerning grassroots and junior football, the report recommended the AFL Commission begin working toward the establishment of a national women's league. While the option of new stand-alone clubs was considered, a model using the resources and branding of existing AFL clubs was to be the preferred model for the planned league.

The first on-field step towards the competition took place in early 2013, when the AFL announced an exhibition match to be played between women's teams representing Melbourne and Western Bulldogs in June of that year. On 15 May 2013, the first women's draft was held, establishing the playing lists for the two clubs in the forthcoming exhibition match. The match played on 29 June 2013 marked the first time two women's sides had competed under the banners of AFL clubs. A crowd of 7,518 watched the historic match, which Melbourne won by 35 points. The exhibition match became a series between the clubs, with another game played in 2014 and two played in 2015, the last of which – on 16 August 2015 – was the first women's AFL game to be broadcast on free-to-air television. It attracted an average audience of 175,000, surpassing the 114,000 average audience for the AFL men's clash of the previous day, between Adelaide and Essendon.

The success of these exhibition matches prompted the AFL to accelerate its plans for a nationwide women's competition, announcing a preferred start date of 2017. Prior to this, the league had announced only aspirational plans to have the women's competition established by 2020. The already-planned 2016 exhibition series was expanded at this time, with a total of ten matches to be played in venues across the country and featuring a range of new temporary representative teams.

In 2016, the AFL opened a process for existing clubs to tender applications to join the new competition. The 18 clubs in the men's league had until 29 April 2016 to place a bid for a licence, with 13 clubs making bids: Adelaide, Brisbane, Carlton, Collingwood, Fremantle, Geelong, Greater Western Sydney, Melbourne, North Melbourne, Richmond, St Kilda, West Coast, and Western Bulldogs. The AFL's preferred distribution of clubs was four clubs from Victoria and one each from New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, and Western Australia.

The inaugural teams were announced on 8 June 2016. Adelaide, Brisbane, and Greater Western Sydney were the only teams to bid in their respective states and were granted licences to compete in 2017. Both Western Australian clubs made bids, with Fremantle's bid chosen ahead of the bid from West Coast. Eight Victorian clubs made bids: Melbourne, Western Bulldogs, Carlton and Collingwood were successful, with Geelong, North Melbourne, Richmond and St Kilda being unsuccessful but granted provisional licences.

Details about the branding of the league were released in the second half of 2016. On 15 September 2016, the AFL announced that the league would be named "AFL Women's" or AFLW for short, with the logo being unveiled on 19 September 2016. The logo is a stylised rendition of an Australian rules football ground goal square and goal posts, drawn from a perspective that resembles a "W". On 10 October 2016, the National Australia Bank was named as the league's naming rights sponsor.

Carlton and Collingwood players contesting the first ball-up in the inaugural AFL Women's match in February 2017. The match was played before a lockout crowd of 24,568 – the highest attendance of the inaugural season.

The first premiership game was played at Ikon Park on Friday, 3 February 2017. The AFL had initially planned to host the game at Melbourne's Olympic Park Oval, with a capacity of just 7,000, but was forced to change to Ikon Park due to overwhelming interest and a need for more seating. The match was deemed a "lockout" with a capacity crowd of 24,568 in attendance, with estimates of a few thousand left outside. Gillon McLachlan, the AFL's CEO, personally apologised to those who missed out. The game was also a great success on TV, attracting a national audience of 896,000, including 593,000 metropolitan free-to-air viewers, 180,000 regional free-to-air viewers, and 123,000 on Fox Footy. The Melbourne metropolitan audience of 424,000 was on par with that of Friday-night AFL men's matches.

The inaugural season concluded with the Grand Final held on Saturday, 25 March 2017. The Adelaide Crows were crowned the league's first premiers after defeating the minor premiers, the Brisbane Lions. The scoreline read Adelaide 4.11 (35) def. Brisbane 4.5 (29).

Expansion (2019–present)

Expansion of the competition occurred in two instalments, with two clubs added in 2019 and four added in 2020, resulting in 14 teams in total.

The 10 AFL clubs not originally participating in the competition were invited to bid for inclusion, with priority given to the five clubs that had submitted unsuccessful bids to participate in the inaugural season. The deadline to lodge submissions was 16 June 2017. The only clubs not to bid were Port Adelaide and Sydney. North Melbourne worked with AFL Tasmania to craft its bid, with the club aiming to play home matches in Melbourne, Hobart, and Launceston, and also to select half of its playing list from Tasmania.

A final decision on which clubs would be admitted to the competition was expected by the end of July 2017, but was delayed several times. On 27 September 2017, the AFL announced that Geelong and North Melbourne had been selected to enter the competition in 2019. North Melbourne retained its commitment to playing matches in Tasmania. The league then added four teams in 2020, with the AFL selecting Gold Coast, Richmond, St Kilda and West Coast to join the competition. The growth in clubs for the 2019 season was accompanied by the introduction of an American-style conference structure, which was abandoned after the 2020 season in favour of the traditional single ladder. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 season was curtailed and eventually cancelled without a premiership awarded.

On 12 August 2021, the other four AFL clubs without AFLW licenses – Essendon, Hawthorn, Port Adelaide and Sydney – were granted entry into the competition, to commence in AFL Women's season seven.

Expansion of AFL Women's
Club Entry in 2017 Entry in 2019/20 Entry in 2022 (S7)
Placed
bid 		Granted
entry 		Placed
bid 		Granted entry Placed
bid 		Granted
entry
2019 2020
Adelaide Yes Yes —
Brisbane Yes Yes —
Carlton Yes Yes —
Collingwood Yes Yes —
Essendon No — Yes No No Yes Yes
Fremantle Yes Yes —
Geelong Yes No Yes Yes —
Gold Coast No — Yes No Yes —
Greater Western Sydney Yes Yes —
Hawthorn No — Yes No No Yes Yes
Melbourne Yes Yes —
North Melbourne Yes No Yes Yes —
Port Adelaide No — No — — Yes Yes
Richmond Yes No Yes No Yes —
St Kilda Yes No Yes No Yes —
Sydney No — No — — Yes Yes
West Coast Yes No Yes No Yes —
Western Bulldogs Yes Yes —
The AFL Women's (AFLW) tournament is a highly anticipated Australian rules football competition held annually in Australia. It showcases the incredible talent and skill of female athletes in the sport, providing them with a platform to compete at the highest level.

The AFLW tournament features teams from various Australian states and territories, including Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia, South Australia, and Tasmania. These teams consist of talented female players who have trained rigorously to showcase their abilities on the field.

The tournament follows the same rules as the men's Australian Football League (AFL), with a few modifications to accommodate the physical differences between male and female players. The matches are played on oval-shaped fields, with teams aiming to score goals by kicking the ball between the two tall goalposts or behinds by kicking it between the outer posts.

The AFLW tournament attracts a large and passionate fan base, with supporters from all over the country coming together to cheer for their favorite teams. The matches are known for their high intensity, fast-paced action, and fierce competition, making it an exhilarating experience for both players and spectators.

The AFLW tournament not only provides a platform for female athletes to showcase their skills but also plays a crucial role in promoting gender equality in sports. It has inspired countless young girls to take up Australian rules football and has paved the way for more opportunities and recognition for women in the sport.

With each passing year, the AFLW tournament continues to grow in popularity and significance, attracting more attention and support from fans, sponsors, and media. It has become a symbol of empowerment and a celebration of the immense talent and dedication of female athletes in Australia.

Overall, the AFL Women's tournament is a thrilling and inspiring event that showcases the best of Australian rules football and highlights the incredible achievements of women in the sport.