2020 AFL Women's All-Australian Team
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The 2020 AFL Women's All-Australian team represents the best-performed players of the
2020 AFL Women's season The 2020 AFL Women's season was the fourth season of the AFL Women's (AFLW) competition, the highest-level senior women's Australian rules football competition in Australia. The season featured 14 clubs and ran from 7 February to 22 March; it ...
. It was announced on 27 April 2020 as a complete
women's Australian rules football Women's Australian rules football (in areas where it is popular, known simply as women's football or women's footy or women's AFL), is the female-only form of Australian rules football, generally with some modification to the laws of the game. ...
team of 21 players. The team is honorary and does not play any games.


Selection panel

The selection panel for the 2020 AFL Women's All-Australian team consisted of chairwoman
Nicole Livingstone Nicole Dawn Livingstone, AO (born 24 June 1971) is an Australian former competitive swimmer. Since retiring from swimming Livingstone has had careers as a television sports commentator and media presenter and as a sports administrator. She was ...
,
Steve Hocking Steven Hocking (born 18 January 1965) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with the Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Hocking became CEO of Geelong after the 2021 season. He is the elder brother of fo ...
, Josh Vanderloo, Kelli Underwood, Sarah Black, Tim Harrington, Shelley Ware and
Sharelle McMahon Sharelle Jane McMahon (born 12 August 1977) is an Australian former netball player who captained the Australia national netball team. She played in the goal attack and goal shooter positions. Domestic career Born in Bamawm, Victoria, McMahon ...
.


Initial squad

The initial 40-woman All-Australian squad was announced on 3 April. had the most players selected in the initial squad with five, and every team had at least one representative. Eleven players from the 2019 team were among those selected.


Final team

The final team was announced on 27 April. Finalists , and had the most selections with three, and every team except and had at least one representative. Eleven players achieved selection for the first time, while eight players from the 2019 team were selected, two of whom – Melbourne vice-captain
Karen Paxman Karen "Paxy" Paxman (born 25 November 1988) is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Melbourne Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW). A defender, tall, Paxman plays primarily on the half-back line with the ability to push into the ...
and North Melbourne captain Emma Kearney – achieved selection for the fourth consecutive year. Paxman was announced as the All-Australian captain and Kearney was announced as the vice-captain. Note: the position of coach in the AFL Women's All-Australian team is traditionally awarded to the coach of the premiership-winning team; as no premiership was awarded in 2020, the coach position was not awarded.


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AFLW Awards
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