The 2023 AFL Women's All-Australian team represents the best-performed players of the
2023 AFL Women's season
The 2023 AFL Women's season was the eighth season of the AFL Women's (AFLW) competition, the highest-level senior women's Australian rules football competition in Australia. The season featured 18 clubs and ran from 1 September to 3 December, ...
. The team was announced on 27 November 2023 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.
Selection panel
The selection panel for the AFL Women's season seven 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 ...
,
Andrew Dillon
Sir Andrew Dillon, (born 9 May 1954) is a British executive, who was chief executive of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) from 1999 to 2020. His earlier career was spent as an administrator and manager in the Nationa ...
,
Laura Kane
Laura Kane (born ) is an Australian sports administrator currently serving as the executive general manager of football at the Australian Football League (AFL).
Kane was appointed to the position in August 2023, having acted in the role since M ...
, Jason Bennett,
Kelli Underwood, Sarah Black, Katie Loynes, Narelle Smith and Megan Waters.
Initial squad
The initial 42-woman All-Australian squad was announced on 14 November 2023. Minor premiers had the most players selected in the initial squad with six. All 18 teams had at least one player named in the squad, the first time this has occurred.
Final team
The final team was announced on 27 November 2023. had the most selections with four, followed by , and with three each. Ten teams were represented overall. Eleven players achieved selection for the first time, while seven players from the 2022 season 7 team were selected, with captain
Emma Kearney achieving selection for the eighth consecutive season. Melbourne captain
Kate Hore was named as All-Australian captain, while Essendon co-captain
Bonnie Toogood
Bonnie Toogood (born 8 December 1997) is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Essendon Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW).
Early life
Toogood was educated at Melbourne Grammar School, Melbourne Grammar and then Melbourne Girls G ...
was named as vice-captain.
The three 2023 AFLW All Australian umpires were also announced, with Joel Clamp (Field Umpire), Adrian Pretorius (Boundary Umpire) and Emilie Hill (Goal Umpire) selected.
Note: the position of coach in the AFL Women's All-Australian team is traditionally awarded to the coach of the premiership-winning team.
References
External links
AFLW Awards{{2023 AFL Women's season
2023 AFL Women's season