The AFL Women's Rising Star award is presented annually to the best young player in the
AFL Women's
AFL Women's (AFLW) is Australia's national semi-professional Australian rules football in Australia, Australian rules football league for women's Australian rules football, female players. The 2017 AFL Women's season, first season of the league ...
(AFLW) during the home-and-away season. The first award was awarded in
2017
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. The award has been sponsored by
National Australia Bank (NAB) since 2017.
Eligibility and voting procedure
Every round, two nominations are given to standout young players who performed well during that particular round. To be eligible for nomination, a player must be under 21 years of age on 1 January of that year and not have been previously nominated. Players suspended during the season may be nominated, but cannot win.
At the end of the season, each member of a voting panel, which also selects the
AFL Women's All-Australian team, awards five votes, four votes, three votes, two votes and one vote to the nominated players they judge the best to fifth-best during the season respectively. The player with the highest total of votes wins.
Winners
Nominations
Nominations by club
''Updated to the end of round 10, S7 (2022)''.
Most nominations in a season
Achievements of winners
See also
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AFL Rising Star
The AFL Rising Star is an Australian rules football award presented annually to the player adjudged the best young player in the Australian Football League (AFL) for the year. It was first presented in the 1993 season, and was won by Nathan Buc ...
References
External links
AFLW Awards
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Awards established in 2017
2017 establishments in Australia
Rising Star
Rookie player awards