The AFL Women's All-Australian team is an all-star team of

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ers playing in the

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(AFLW), selected by a panel at the end of each season. It represents a complete team, including interchange players and a coach, of the best-performed players during the home-and-away season. The first AFL Women's All-Australian team was selected in 2017 following the competition's inaugural season. The team also follows the AFL's tradition of the All-Australian coach being the coach of that season's premiership-winning side, with no coach being selected in 2020 when no premiership was awarded. Despite its nature, the AFL Women's All-Australian team is only ceremonial: the AFL Women's has not played any all-star matches as of season seven, and the difference in skill level between the All-Australian team and the nearest international competitor is currently too large for any contest to be competitive. Like in the

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(AFL) with their

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since 1991 (following the Victorian Football League's conversion to a national competition), the panel chooses a complete AFLW team consisting of sixteen players and five interchange players (as opposed to eighteen players and four interchange players in the AFL), based on performances during the home-and-away season. The inaugural team was the only team to contain 22 players, as match-day teams in the AFLW were reduced to 21 players from 2018. The AFL Women's All-Australian team was sponsored by

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in the competition's first three seasons and by

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in 2020.

Teams

2017

2018

2019

2020

2021

2022

Season seven

Most selections

The following players have achieved selection in at least three AFL Women's All-Australian teams.

References

External links

AFLW Awards
{{DEFAULTSORT:AFL Women's All-Australian team National Australian rules football teams Lists of AFL Women's players