The 2020

AFL Women's All-Australian team The AFL Women's All-Australian team is an all-star team of women's Australian rules footballers playing in the AFL Women's (AFLW), selected by a panel at the end of each season. It represents a complete team, including interchange players and ...

represents the best-performed players of the

2020 AFL Women's season The 2020 AFL Women's season was the fourth season of the AFL Women's competition, the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Australia. The season featured fourteen clubs, with four new teams joining the league: , , and ...

. It was announced on 27 April 2020 as a complete

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team of 21 players. The team is honorary and does not play any games.

Selection panel

The selection panel for the 2020 AFL Women's All-Australian team consisted of chairwoman

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, Steve Hocking, Josh Vanderloo,

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, Sarah Black, Tim Harrington, Shelley Ware and

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Initial squad

The initial 40-woman All-Australian squad was announced on 3 April. had the most players selected in the initial squad with five, and every team had at least one representative. Eleven players from the 2019 team were among those selected.

Final team

The final team was announced on 27 April. Finalists , and had the most selections with three, and every team except and had at least one representative. Eleven players achieved selection for the first time, while eight players from the 2019 team were selected, two of whom – Melbourne vice-captain

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and North Melbourne captain Emma Kearney – achieved selection for the fourth consecutive year. Paxman was announced as the All-Australian captain and Kearney was announced as the vice-captain. Note: the position of coach in the AFL Women's All-Australian team is traditionally awarded to the coach of the premiership-winning team; as no premiership was awarded in 2020, the coach position was not awarded.

References

External links

AFLW Awards
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