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2025 AFL Women's Season
The 2025 AFL Women's season is the upcoming tenth season of the AFL Women's (AFLW) competition, the highest-level senior women's Australian rules football competition in Australia. The season will feature 18 clubs and run from 14 August to 29 November, comprising a twelve-round home-and-away season followed by a four-week finals series featuring the top eight clubs. Background In September 2024, Australian Football League (AFL) chief executive officer Andrew Dillon announced that the 2025 season would have an earlier start date than previous seasons to accommodate an extra home-and-away match, and in November, AFL executive general manager Laura Kane announced that a twelve-match home-and-away season would be played over twelve weeks in 2025, abandoning the strategy of a compressed fixture trialled in 2024 where eleven matches were played over ten weeks. Coach appointments Club leadership Pre-season All starting times are local time. Sourceafl.com.au Home-and-aw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AFL Women's
AFL Women's (AFLW) is Australia's national semi-professional Australian rules football in Australia, Australian rules football competition for women's Australian rules football, female players. The 2017 AFL Women's season, first season of the league in February and March 2017 had eight teams; the league expanded to 10 teams in the 2019 season, 14 teams in 2020 and 18 teams in 2022. The league is run by the Australian Football League (AFL) and is contested by each of the clubs from that competition. The reigning premiers are the North Melbourne Kangaroos. The AFLW is the second most attended women's football competition in Australia (behind A-League Women) and one of the most popular women's football competitions in the world. Its average attendance in 2019 of 6,262 per game made it the second-highest of any domestic women's football competition. Its record attendance of 53,034 for the 2019 AFL Women's Grand Final was until 2020 the highest match attendance for women's sport in A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nat Grider
Natalie "Nat" Grider (born 10 October 2000) is an Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an Australian rules football playing field, oval field, often a modified ...er playing for Brisbane Lions#AFL Women's team, Brisbane in the AFL Women's competition (AFLW). Junior and state football Grider was raised in Brisbane, Queensland and began playing Australian rules football as a teenager with the junior Jindalee Australian Football Club, Jindalee Jags club in suburban Jindalee, Queensland, Jindalee. She was also a member of the Brisbane Lions Academy and excelled for the club in the 2018 Winter Series against Greater Western Sydney Giants#AFL Women's team, Greater Western Sydney and Gold Coast Suns#AFL Women's team, Gold Coast. After three years at Jindalee Jags, in 2017, Grider joined the University of Queensland Austral ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jordyn Allen
Jordyn Allen (born 6 July 2000) is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Collingwood Football Club in the AFL Women's competition (AFLW). State football Allen played junior football with boys at Rye Demons in the Mornington Peninsula Junior Football League. In 2016, Allen started playing with Dandenong Stingrays Youth Girls Academy. She also played as vice-captain for Vic Metro and helped them win the 2016 AFL Youth Girls National Championships as the team beat Western Australia by 95 points at the MCG under the coaching of Wayne Siekman. She was named Vic Metro's Most Valuable Player for her defensive efforts and leadership. Allen was selected for the 2017 AFL Women's Under 18 All-Australian team. Allen started the 2018 season as a top AFLW draft prospect. For a second consecutive season, she played for and captained Dandenong Stingrays in the TAC Cup. At the end of the season, she won the club's best and fairest award and was selected for the 2018 TAC Cup Team ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruby Schleicher
ttps://www.tiktok.com/@ruby.schleicher @Ruby.Schleicher TikTok Ruby Jayne Schleicher ( ; born 16 March 1998) is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Collingwood Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW). Schleicher is a dual AFL Women's All-Australian and won the Collingwood best and fairest award in 2024. She will serve as Collingwood captain from the 2025 season. Early life and state football As a junior basketball player with the Willetton Tigers, Schleicher won the Western Australian Basketball League (WABL) Female Player of the Year award in 2014. She also represented the under-16 and the under-18 Western Australian Metropolitan teams. She was on the way to receiving a basketball scholarship at an American college, before breaking a vertebra playing and half-a-year later breaking one on the other side while surfing, which as a result of the college decided not to risk her. In 2015, Schleicher was named in the Western Australian squad for the AFL Youth Girls Nat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlton Football Club
The Carlton Football Club, nicknamed the Blues, is a professional Australian rules football club based at Princes Park (stadium), Princes Park in Carlton North, Victoria, Carlton North, an inner suburb of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia. The club competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's premier competition. Founded in the 1860s, the club began playing out of parklands historically part of Carlton, Victoria, Carlton not far from its current base. It quickly became one of the major football clubs in the city. It was a foundation member of the Victorian Football League, Victorian Football Association (VFA), winning the inaugural premiership in 1877 VFA season, 1877. In 1896, Carlton joined the breakaway Victorian Football League (since renamed the AFL), and alongside rivals , and is regarded as one of the league's historical "Big Four" clubs, with 16 VFL/AFL premierships (a joint record with Collingwood and Essendon). The club's AFL Women's team has compete ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harriet Cordner
Harriet Cordner (born 22 July 1992) is an Australian rules footballer with the Carlton Football Club in the AFL Women's competition. She previously played four seasons with after being recruited to the club as a category B rookie in October 2016. She made her debut in the fifteen point loss to at Casey Fields in the opening round of the 2017 season. She played every match in her debut season to finish with seven games. She was delisted in May 2017 but was quickly re-signed by Melbourne as a free agent. She is the granddaughter of the former player, Brownlow Medallist, and two-time VFL premiership player Don Cordner. At the conclusion of the 2020 season, she was traded to Richmond in exchange for an early second round pick in the 2020 draft. Cordner achieved selection in Champion Data's 2021 AFLW All-Star stats team, after leading the league for average intercept marks in the 2021 AFL Women's season, totalling 2.6 a game. In March 2023, Cordner was traded to Carlton. St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tara Bohanna
Tara Bohanna (born 3 March 1995) is an Australian rules footballer playing for Carlton in the AFL Women's (AFLW). She previously played for Gold Coast, and was appointed their captain in August 2022. Career Bohanna debuted for the Suns in round 1 of 2022 season 6, having been signed as a replacement player by the club during the 2021 off-season. She played for the Southern Saints in the VFL Women's (VFLW) competition in 2019 and 2021, and took out the club's best and fairest In Australian sport, the best and fairest award recognises the player(s) adjudged to have had the best performance in a game or over a season for a given sporting club or competition. The awards are sometimes dependent on not receiving a suspensi ... award in the latter season. She was also the league's third-highest goalkicker in 2021 and averaged over 16 disposals and four marks a game. Following her signing by the Suns, she established herself quickly as a goal-kicking forward and was the club's hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mimi Hill
Mimi Hill (born 4 October 2002) is an Australian rules footballer playing for in the AFL Women's (AFLW). She was drafted with the twelfth selection in the 2020 AFL Women's draft by the . In Season 6, Hull won the Rising Star award and in Season 7 the Club’s Best and Fairest winner. In 2023 Mimi Hill was elected Co-Vice Captain and continues to be Vice Captain in 2024 alongside fellow midfielder and Cartlton Captain Abbie McKay. Early life Hill played junior football for the Kew Comets in the Yarra Junior Football League for around three years. Hill spent two years playing for the Old Scotch Football Club, where was named best on ground while playing for them in the Victorian Amateur Football Association for the premiership. Cited as a natural leader from a young age, Hill was appointed the captain of the Oakleigh Chargers in her bottom age year. She played 10 games in her first season at the Chargers, where she averaged 16.8 disposals, and 2 in her second, where she averaged ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abbie McKay
Abbie McKay is an Australian rules footballer playing for Carlton in the AFL Women's competition (AFLW). She was selected by Carlton with the 16th pick in the 2018 draft as the first woman selected under the father–daughter rule. Her father, Andrew was a premiership player for Carlton in 1995. McKay was educated at Melbourne Girls Grammar AFLW career McKay made her debut against in round 4. After managing 4 games in her debut AFLW season, she played 12 games in the VFLW in 2019, kicking 3 goals and averaging 15 disposals, 10 contested possessions and 3.5 clearances. McKay struggled to break into the senior team in 2020, not playing any games at the highest level. McKay won a 2021 AFL Women's Rising Star nomination in the third round of the 2021 AFL Women's season after her 17 disposal, 7 tackle game against . This game saw her break her disposals record and equal her tackles record. She signed a 2-year contract with on 10 June 2021, after it was revealed the team had c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brisbane Lions
The Brisbane Lions are a professional Australian rules football in Australia, Australian rules football club based in Brisbane, Queensland, that compete in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's elite competition. Brisbane are the reigning AFL List of VFL/AFL premiers, premiers, having won the 2024 AFL Grand Final, 2024 Grand Final by sixty points. The Lions came into existence in 1996 when the AFL expansion club the Brisbane Bears, established in 1987, absorbed the AFL operations of one of the league's foundation clubs, Fitzroy Football Club, Fitzroy, established in Melbourne, Victoria in 1883. Its colours of maroon, blue, and gold were drawn from both Fitzroy and the Bears. The club plays its home matches at the Gabba in Brisbane, and its headquarters and training facilities are located at Springfield Central Stadium. The Lions are one of the most successful AFL clubs of the 2000s, appearing in four consecutive AFL Grand Final, grand finals from 2001 AFL season, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruby Svarc
Ruby Svarc (born 28 September 1993) is an Australian rules footballer who plays for Brisbane in the AFL Women's (AFLW). Svarc is from Corowa, New South Wales and grew up on a farm with older sister Cathy Svarc in a family passionate about Australian rules. She grew up playing soccer, volleyball and cricket. Though she played Australian rules informally on the farm, she did not play the sport in New South Wales as there were few opportunities for young girls to play. It wasn't until she was 19 that she moved to Melbourne and began playing with St Mary's Salesian in the Victorian Amateur Football Association that she developed a desire to play the sport at the highest level. She played for Essendon in the VFL Women's before being drafted by with the 38th pick in the 2020 AFL Women's draft. She spent the 2021 season on the Lions' list without making her debut and was announced as a delisting at the end of the season. She was, however, shortly afterwards reinstated to the Lion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cathy Svarc
Catherine Svarc (born 25 November 1991) is an Australian rules footballer playing for Brisbane in the AFL Women's competition (AFLW). Svarc is from Corowa, New South Wales and grew up on a farm with younger sister Ruby Svarc in a family passionate about Australian rules. Cathy played competitive netball before moving to Geelong to become a physiotherapist. She moved to Queensland playing two seasons for Wilston Grange in the AFL Queensland Women's League before being drafted by with the 16th pick in the 2019 AFL Women's draft. Svarc made her debut in the Lions' round 1 game against at Hickey Park Hickey Park is an Australian rules football ground in Stafford, a suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It is the primary home ground for Wilston Grange in the Queensland Australian Football League. It has also been featured in the AFL Wom ... on 8 February 2020. References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Svarc, Cathy 1991 births Living people Sportswomen fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
