The AFL Women's Rising Star award is presented annually to the best young player in the

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(AFLW) during the home-and-away season. The first award was awarded in

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. The award has been sponsored by

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since 2024.

Eligibility and voting procedure

To be eligible for nomination, a player must be under 21 years of age on 1 January of that year and not have been previously nominated. Players suspended during the season may be nominated, but cannot win. At the end of the season, each member of a voting panel, which also selects the

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, awards five votes, four votes, three votes, two votes and one vote to the nominated players they judge the best to fifth-best during the season respectively; the player with the highest total of votes wins.

Winners

Nominations

Nominations by club

''Updated to the end of the 2024 season''.

Most nominations in a season

Achievements of winners

Won a premiership *

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( 2017 Rising Star;

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and S6 premierships) *

Tyla Hanks Tyla Hanks (born 15 February 2000) is an Australian rules footballer playing for in the AFL Women's (AFLW). An inside midfielder, she played junior football in the TAC Cup Girls and VFL Women's, and competed at four AFL Women's Under 18 Champio ...

( 2021 Rising Star; S7 premiership) Won the Rising Star and a premiership in the same season *

( 2017 Rising Star and premiership) Won the AFL Women's best and fairest *

( 2017 Rising Star; 2024 best and fairest) *

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( 2019 Rising Star; 2020 best and fairest)

References

External links

AFLW Awards
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