The 2021
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
2021 AFL Women's season
The 2021 AFL Women's season was the fifth season of the AFL Women's competition, the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Australia. The season featured fourteen clubs, ran from 28 January until 17 April, and comprised ...
. The team was announced on 20 April 2021 as a complete
women's Australian rules football
Women's Australian rules football (in areas where it is popular, known simply as women's football or women's footy or women's AFL), is the female-only form of Australian rules football, generally with some modification to the laws of the game.
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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 2021 AFL Women's All-Australian team consisted of chairwoman
Nicole Livingstone
Nicole Dawn Livingstone, OAM (born 24 June 1971) is an Australian former competitive swimmer. Since retiring from swimming Livingstone has had careers as a television sports commentator and media presenter and as a sports administrator. She wa ...
,
Steve Hocking
Steven Hocking (born 18 January 1965) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with the Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Hocking became CEO of Geelong after the 2021 season. He is the elder brother of fo ...
, Josh Vanderloo,
Kelli Underwood
Kelli Underwood (born 1977) is an Australian radio and television sports journalist and sportscaster specialising in Australian rules football, netball and tennis. She was the first woman to call an Australian Football League match on televisi ...
, Sarah Black,
Tim Harrington, Shelley Ware,
Sharelle McMahon
Sharelle Jane McMahon (born 12 August 1977) is an Australian former netball player who captained the Australia national netball team. She played in the goal attack and goal shooter positions.
Domestic career
Born in Bamawm, Victoria, McMahon ...
,
Courtney Cramey
Courtney Jane Cramey (born 28 November 1985) is a former Australian rules footballer who played 20 matches over four seasons at the Adelaide Football Club in the AFL Women's competition. She was a two-time premiership player and a one-time All-A ...
and
Melissa Hickey
Melissa Hickey (born 18 December 1984) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Melbourne Football Club and the Geelong Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW). She served as Geelong captain in the club's first two AFL Wom ...
.
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Initial squad
The initial 40-woman All-Australian squad was announced on 31 March. had the most players selected in the initial squad with six, and every team had at least one representative. Fifteen players from the 2020 team were among those selected.
Final team
The final team was announced on 20 April. Collingwood had the most selections with four, and every team except and had at least one representative. Six players achieved selection for the first time, while seven players from the 2020 team were selected, two of whom – vice-captain Karen Paxman
Karen Paxman (born 25 November 1988) is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Melbourne Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW). A defender, tall, Paxman plays primarily on the half-back line with the ability to push into the midfi ...
and captain Emma Kearney – achieved selection for the fifth consecutive year. Collingwood co-captain Brianna Davey
Brianna Iris Davey (born 13 January 1995) is an Australian footballer in both the Association football (soccer) and Australian rules football codes. In soccer, she was a goalkeeper for the national women's team the Matildas and played in the W ...
was announced as the All-Australian captain and midfielder Kiara Bowers
Kiara Bowers (born 16 November 1991) is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Fremantle Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW).
Career
In July 2016, Bowers was announced as Fremantle's second marquee signing ahead of the inaugural A ...
was announced as the vice-captain.
References
External links
AFLW Awards
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2021 AFL Women's season