A-League Women A-League Women (known as the Liberty A-League for sponsorship reasons), formerly the W-League, is the top-division women's soccer league in Australia. The W-League was established in 2008 by Football Australia (then known as Football Federatio ...

, known as the W-League before the 2021–22 season, is an

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

competition organised by

Football Australia Football Australia is the governing body of soccer, futsal, and beach soccer within Australia, headquartered in Sydney. Although the first governing body of the sport was founded in 1911, Football Australia in its current form was only establ ...

. It is the highest level of women's club football in Australia. The competition is held between 11 teams from across Australia and one in

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. The competition takes the form of a number of "regular season" matches between all teams, after which the top four contest semi-finals in order to qualify for the Grand Final, to play for the title of A-League Women Champions at the home ground of the higher-ranked team over the regular season. The first W-League Grand Final was won by

Queensland Roar Brisbane Roar Football Club is an Australian professional soccer club based in Brisbane, Queensland and has won the domestic title on three occasions, as well as holding the longest unbeaten record of 36 league matches without defeat. Brisb ...

, who beat

Canberra United Canberra United Football Club is an Australian professional soccer club based in the southern Canberra suburb of Wanniassa, Australian Capital Territory. Founded in 2008 by Capital Football, the club was an inaugural member of the W-League and t ...

2–0. Melbourne City have won a record four Championships and are the only A-League Women team to have won 3 championships back-to-back.

Sydney Sydney ( ) is the capital city of the state of New South Wales, and the most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about towards the Blue Mountain ...

have been runners-up more than any other team, having lost in the Grand Final six times.

Melbourne Victory Melbourne Victory Football Club is an Australian professional soccer club based in Melbourne, Victoria. Competing in the country's premier men's competition, the A-League Men, under licence from Australian Professional Leagues (APL), Victory e ...

are the current Champions, having beaten Sydney 2–1 in the 2022 Grand Final.

History

The winners of the first tournament were

(who were later to change their name to "Brisbane Roar"), after finishing at the top of the table over the regular season ("Premiers"). The Roar made all but two of the first seven W-League grand finals. In the 14 A-League Women seasons to date (including the 13 played under the original W-League branding), the Premiers have only gone on to win the Grand Final four times. The 2015 Grand Final was the first to feature neither the Roar nor

Sydney FC Sydney Football Club is an Australian professional soccer club based in Sydney, New South Wales. It competes in the country's premier men's competition, A-League Men, under licence from Australian Professional Leagues (APL). The club was fo ...

. The home side has lost the Grand Final on four occasions.

and

are the only sides to have hosted the Final more than once; both have won once at their home ground, with Sydney having lost twice and Melbourne Victory once. Between 2012 and 2014, the W-League Champions were invited to play in the International Women's Club Championship.

Finals

Key

Results

Results by team

Notes

A. Attendance refers to the number of people present during that year's final.
B. 2020 Grand Final was played behind closed doors due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
C. Brisbane Roar's total includes one win under the earlier name of Queensland Roar.

References

External links

A-League Women official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:A-League Women Grand Finals A-League Women lists