The 2017 NAB

AFL Women's Under-18 Championships The NAB AFL Women's Under-18 Championships are the annual national Australian rules football championships for women players aged 18 years or younger. The competition is seen as one of the main pathways towards being drafted into a team in the p ...

was played between May and July 2017, with six teams competing and with a further three playing in a two-match round-robin series as a de facto Division 2. An Allies side (made up of players from the division two competition) was introduced as a division one team. This was designed to give the best prospects from those regions the opportunity to play at a national level in the division one carnival. Thus, division one was made up of six teams—Allies, NSW/ACT, Queensland, Vic Country, Vic Metro and Western Australia—playing each other across five rounds. Vic Country was the only division one team to play four matches that went undefeated, making them the de facto tournament winners. Vic Metro's

Madison Prespakis Madison Prespakis (born 2 November 2000) is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Essendon Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW). She previously played for the Carlton Football Club from 2019 to 2022. A midfielder who won multiple ...

was named the tournament's best player, while Vic Country's Eden Zanker was the competition's leading goalkicker.

Fixture

Division 1

Division 2

All-Australian team

The 2017 Women's All-Australian team

Initial squad

* NSW/ACT:

Alyce Parker Alyce Parker (born 15 August 2000) is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Greater Western Sydney Giants in the AFL Women's competition (AFLW). Parker grew up in Holbrook, New South Wales, and was an active participant in numerous ...

, Georgia Breward, Haneen Zreika, Ellie Delgano-Fixture, Jordyn Jolliffe * Northern Territory:

Danielle Ponter Danielle Ponter (born 8 January 2000) is an Australian rules footballer playing for Adelaide Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW). She played for St Mary's and Essendon in her junior career, typically as a forward. Ponter was selected w ...

* Queensland: Kitara Farrar, Ruby Blair,

Arianna Clarke Arianna Clarke (born 6 April 1999) is a retired Australian rules footballer who played for the Brisbane Lions in the AFL Women's. Early life Clarke was born in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. At the age of 13, she moved to the Gold Coast and ...

, Courtney Bromage,

Gabby Collingwood Gabrielle "Gabby" Collingwood (born 15 January 1999) is an Australian rules footballer who played for the Brisbane Lions in the AFL Women's (AFLW). Junior and state football Collingwood started playing Australian rules football in May 2011, w ...

, Tarni White,

Lauren Bella Lauren Bella (born 12 September 2000) is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Gold Coast in the AFL Women's competition (AFLW). She has previously played for Brisbane. Early life Bella was born in Mackay, Queensland. Her father, Ant ...

, Sophie Conway,

Kalinda Howarth Kalinda Howarth (born 2 August 1999) is an Australian rules footballer with the Collingwood Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW). She was previously listed at the Brisbane Lions in 2018 and played for the Gold Coast Suns from 2020 to 2023 ...

, Jemma Abott * South Australia: Nikki Gore, Eloise Jones,

Chloe Scheer Chloe Scheer (born 7 October 1999) is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Geelong Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW). Early life and state football Scheer was a talented underage cricketer, classed as a top order batswoman. Sh ...

, Jess Allen * Tasmania:

Mia King Mia King (born 6 April 2001) is an Australian rules footballer who plays for North Melbourne in the AFL Women's AFL Women's (AFLW) is Australia's national semi-professional Australian rules football in Australia, Australian rules football ...

, Daria Bannister * Vic Country:

Rebecca Webster Rebecca Webster (born 22 October 2000) is an Australian rules footballer with the Geelong Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW). Webster played with Murray Bushrangers in the TAC Cup and Melbourne University in the VFL Women's (VFLW) compet ...

, Courtney Jones, Iilish Ross,

Bridie Kennedy Bridie Kennedy (born 23 September 1999) is an Australian rules footballer who plays for Sydney in the AFL Women's (AFLW). She previously played for Carlton. She played junior representative football with the Dandenong Stingrays in the TAC ...

Lucy McEvoy Lucy McEvoy (born 13 May 2001) is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Sydney Swans in the AFL Women's (AFLW). McEvoy was drafted by Carlton with their first selection and second overall in the 2019 AFL Women's draft. She made her ...

, Georgia Clarke, Darcy Guttridge,

Tyla Hanks Tyla Hanks (born 15 February 2000) is an Australian rules footballer playing for in the AFL Women's (AFLW). An inside midfielder, she played junior football in the TAC Cup Girls and VFL Women's, and competed at four AFL Women's Under 18 Champi ...

Jordyn Allen Jordyn Allen (born 6 July 2000) is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Collingwood Football Club in the AFL Women's competition (AFLW). State football Allen played junior football with boys at Rye Demons in the Mornington Peninsu ...

, Aisling Tupper,

Olivia Purcell Olivia Purcell (born 5 September 2000) is an Australian rules footballer with the Melbourne Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW). Early life Purcell was born in Geelong, Victoria and is the second-youngest of five sisters. The family mov ...

Georgia Gee Georgia Gee (born 28 October 1999) is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Essendon Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW). Gee was drafted by Carlton with their first selection and twelfth overall in the 2017 AFL Women's draft. She ...

Rene Caris Rene Caris (born 18 March 1999) is an Australian rules footballer who played for Geelong Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW). Caris is from Horsham, Victoria and attended Ballarat Grammar School. She played with Greater Western Victor ...

, Denby Taylor, Eden Zanker * Vic Metro: Olivia Vesley, Georgia Ricardo, Georgia McPherson, Molly Warburton,

, Maddy Guerin, Olivia Flanagan, Georgia Patrikios, Emerson Woods * Western Australia:

Sabreena Duffy Sabreena McKinnon (born Sabreena Duffy 26 March 2000) is an Australian rules footballer who played for Fremantle and Melbourne in the AFL Women's (AFLW). She was known as Sabreena Duffy during her playing career, but legally changed her famil ...

, McKenzie Dowrick, Courtney Hodder, Sonia Dorizzi, Tayla McAuliffe, Emily McGuire, Kate Bartlett, Rosie Deegan

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