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2024 VFL Women's Season
The 2024 VFL Women's season was the eighth season of the VFL Women's (VFLW), the state level senior women's Australian rules football competition in Victoria. The season ran from 22 March to 21 July, comprising a home-and-away season, followed by a finals series featuring the top six clubs. The season was contested by 12 clubs. It also included matches against New South Wales AFL Women's teams and ; the New South Wales teams were not premiership eligible, but there were premiership points available for the Victorian clubs in the matches. The NSW clubs each played five matches featuring many of their AFL Women's contracted players, with the two clubs using the VFLW competition to gain experience ahead of the 2024 AFL Women's season which began in August. The presence of the NSW clubs playing their AFLW-listed players differed from the Victorian clubs who chose not to play their AFLW-listed players in their VFLW programs citing the risk of injury. This resulted in some lop-sided r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023 VFL Women's Season
The 2023 VFL Women's season was the seventh season of the VFL Women's (VFLW). The season commenced on 25 March and concluded with the grand final on 30 July. won the club's first VFLW premiership defeating in the grand final, a week after eliminating defending premiers in the preliminary final. Clubs There was one change to the competition, with the Hawthorn Football Club transferring their VFL Women's license to Box Hill during the off-season, replicating the club's men's team reserves arrangement in the Australian Football League and Victorian Football League. Due to ongoing construction work at the Whitten Oval, played their home matches at 's ETU Stadium. Ladder Finals series ''Match-ups set using the second McIntyre final six system''. Qualifying and elimination finals Semi finals Preliminary final Grand Final Awards * Lambert–Pearce Medal (Best and Fairest): Jordan Mifsud (), Akayla Peterson (), Charlotte Simpson () * Rohenna You ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southern Saints
The Southern Saints are an Australian rules football club playing in the VFL Women's, the major state-level women's Australian rules football league in Victoria. It is affiliated with the Sandringham Football Club, which competes in the Victorian Football League. History The Southern Saints entered the VFLW in 2018, after the Seaford Football Netball Club opted to transfer its licence to the St Kilda Football Club. In its first year, the club had an agreement with the Frankston Football Club. It finished 8th on the ladder at the end of the season. In 2019, St Kilda and its VFL affiliate, Sandringham, moved to co-manage the club. Since St Kilda entered the AFL Women's competition in 2020, Sandringham holds the Southern Saints team licence. The club's best season came in 2022, when it finished fifth on the home-and-away ladder. They lost in the grand final to Essendon, going down by 35 points. Before 2018, the St Kilda Sharks competed in the VFLW, and before that, in the n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alana Barba
Alana Barba (born 26 September 2001) is an Australian rules footballer most recently playing for the Essendon Football Club in the AFLW. She previously played for the Gold Coast Suns in 2022 (S6). Barba won a VFL Women's premiership with the Bombers in 2022, before signing with Bombers AFLW side for the 2022 (S7) season. Her contract was not renewed for 2024. AFLW Career Gold Coast Suns (2022) Barba joined the Suns ahead of the 2022 (S6) season as one of two replacements for players existing players moved to the inactive list. Barba made her debut for the Suns in Round 1 of 2022 (S6) against the GWS Giants. She was dropped for the Round 2 match-up against the West Coast Eagles and didn’t earn a recall until Round 9 against Carlton. This turned out to be Barba’s final game for the Suns, being omitted for the Round 10 match against Fremantle before not being offered a contract for the 2022 (S7) season. Following her delisting, Barba returned to the Essendon Bomb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lambert–Pearce Medal
The Lambert–Pearce Medal is awarded to the best and fairest player in the VFL Women's (VFLW) during the home-and-away season, as determined by votes cast by the officiating field umpires after each game. It is the most prestigious award for individual players in the VFLW. 's Georgia Nanscawen is the most recent winner of the award, winning consecutive awards in 2021 and 2022. History The VFL Women's best and fairest award was named the Lambert–Pearce Medal in 2018 to honour Victorian Women's Football League (VWFL) founding committee member and former president Helen Lambert (the namesake of the Helen Lambert Medal, the VWFL best and fairest award) and Daisy Pearce, who won the inaugural VFL Women's best and fairest award in 2016 after having previously won six Helen Lambert Medals in the VWFL. Criteria Voting procedure To determine the ''best'' player, the three field umpires (not the goal umpires or boundary umpires) confer after each home-and-away match and award three ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seven Sport
Seven Sport is the brand and production department under which all sporting events on the Seven Network are broadcast. It broadcasts some of Australia's most prominent sporting events, such as the AFL, cricket, the Olympics and Paralympics, as well as horse racing and motor racing. In late September 2019, it was announced that Head of Sport Saul Shtein (who had been in the position since 2004) would be leaving the company after the AFL Grand Final, reportedly as a result of widespread company cost cutting and restructuring. He was replaced by long-time Seven Melbourne managing director Lewis Martin. History The Seven Network is a major player in Australian sports broadcasting. Australian rules football From the first year of television in Australia in 1956 to 2001, Seven was the main broadcaster of the VFL/AFL. From the early 1970s to 1986 Seven was along with the ABC the main broadcaster of the VFL showing replays and highlights of matches played that Saturday. In 1977 Seve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whitten Oval
Whitten Oval (also known as Victoria University Whitten Oval under a naming rights agreement) is a stadium in the inner-western suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, located in Barkly Street, West Footscray. It is the training and administrative headquarters of the Western Bulldogs (formerly the Footscray Football Club), which competes in the Australian Football League (AFL). The ground is also the home of the club's women's and reserves teams which compete in the AFL Women's (AFLW), Victorian Football League (VFL), and VFL Women's (VFLW). Formerly known as the Western Oval, the venue was renamed in honour of Ted Whitten in 1995, a former player, captain and coach for the club. A statue of Whitten is located at the entrance of the oval. History The Whitten Oval is the centrepiece of a reserve that, from 1860, was a stone quarry used by the railways. In 1866, the quarry was turned into a reserve that included botanical gardens. Other former quarries within the City o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arden Street Oval
Arden Street Oval (also known as North Melbourne Cricket Ground) is a sports oval in North Melbourne, Victoria. It is currently the training base of the North Melbourne Football Club, an Australian rules football club, and up to the end of the 1985 season it was used as the team's home ground for Victorian Football League (VFL) matches. History The North Melbourne Recreation Reserve is an inner-suburban sporting facility which is distinguished by its long standing association with the North Melbourne Football Club; it has served as the home of North Melbourne for more than 125 years. Not much is known about the exact date that Arden St Oval was officially opened, but local history purports it as being as old as the suburb itself. The Hotham Cricket Club served as the ground's only tenants until 1882 when they amalgamated with the Hotham Football Club - as they were then known - to effect improvements to the ground. Before then, the Hotham Football Club had been playing home ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Box Hill City Oval
Box Hill City Oval is an Australian rules football and cricket stadium located in Box Hill, Victoria, Australia. It is the home ground of the Box Hill Hawks Football Club which plays in the Victorian Football League, and the Box Hill Cricket Club which plays in the Victorian Sub-District Cricket Association. Box Hill City Oval was officially opened in 1937. The capacity of the venue is approximately 10,000 people. The largest official attendance at the ground was on 14 August 1983 when 6,200 people attended a VFA game between Box Hill and Oakleigh. In more recent times a crowd of 5,253 attended a VFL game between the Box Hill Hawks and Williamstown on 19 June 2005. On Melbourne Show Day 1953, the venue hosted a benefit game for the family of Ray Gibb, who had died in an accident in early September, between a combined – team and a Box Hill team augmented with VFL and VFA stars; the crowd at the time was estimated to be 6,000. The venue has two pavilions and terracing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Williamstown Cricket Ground
The Williamstown Cricket Ground, currently known by its sponsored name Downer Oval, and also informally as Point Gellibrand Oval, is a football and cricket stadium located in Williamstown, Victoria. The ground is located on Point Gellibrand, the southernmost point of Williamstown which juts into Port Phillip Bay. The ground is currently the home of the Williamstown Football Club in the Victorian Football League, and the Williamstown Cricket Club in the Victorian Sub-District Cricket Association. History The ground was established as early as the 1850s as a venue for cricket in Williamstown, and for the Williamstown Cricket Club which formed around the same time. Senior football was not played regularly at the Williamstown Cricket Ground until 1886. The Williamstown Football Club was unable to agree to terms with the cricket club for use of the ground, forcing the football club to play its matches without charging for admission at the unfenced Gardens Reserve; as a direct result o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
McIntyre System
The McIntyre System, or systems as there have been five of them, is a playoff system that gives an advantage to teams or competitors qualifying higher. The systems were developed by Ken McIntyre, an Australian lawyer, historian and English lecturer, for the Victorian Football League in 1931. In the VFL/AFL The first McIntyre System, the Page–McIntyre system, also known as the McIntyre Final Four System, was adopted by the VFL in 1931, after using three systems since its foundation in 1897, the major system and predecessor to the Page–McIntyre system being the " [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 VFL Women's Season
The 2024 VFL Women's season was the eighth season of the VFL Women's (VFLW), the state level senior women's Australian rules football competition in Victoria. The season ran from 22 March to 21 July, comprising a home-and-away season, followed by a finals series featuring the top six clubs. The season was contested by 12 clubs. It also included matches against New South Wales AFL Women's teams and ; the New South Wales teams were not premiership eligible, but there were premiership points available for the Victorian clubs in the matches. The NSW clubs each played five matches featuring many of their AFL Women's contracted players, with the two clubs using the VFLW competition to gain experience ahead of the 2024 AFL Women's season which began in August. The presence of the NSW clubs playing their AFLW-listed players differed from the Victorian clubs who chose not to play their AFLW-listed players in their VFLW programs citing the risk of injury. This resulted in some lop-sided r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sydney Swans
The Sydney Swans are a professional Australian rules football club based in Sydney, New South Wales. The men's team competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), and the women's team in the AFL Women's (AFLW). The Swans also field a reserves men's team in the Victorian Football League (VFL). The club's origins trace back to 21 March 1873, when a meeting was held at the Clarendon Hotel in South Melbourne to establishing a junior football club, to be called the South Melbourne Football Club. The club commenced playing in 1874 at its home ground; Lakeside Oval in Albert Park. Playing as South Melbourne, it participated in the Victorian Football Association (VFA) competition from 1878 before joining the breakaway Victorian Football League (VFL) as a founding member in 1897. Originally known as the "Bloods" in reference to the red colour used on players' guernseys, the Swan emblem was adopted in 1933 after a journalist at the time referred to them using the moniker fol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
