The St Kilda Football Club, nicknamed the Saints, 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 ...

club based in

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. The club plays in the

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 l ...

(AFLW), and is associated with the St Kilda men's team. In September 2017, the club was granted a license by the AFL to compete in the league from the start of the 2020 season. The team plays its home games out of

Moorabbin Oval Moorabbin Oval (also known as RSEA Park under a naming rights agreement) is an Australian rules football ground in the city of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia at Linton Street in the suburb of Moorabbin. The ground was most notable as the home ...

, in

Moorabbin, Victoria Moorabbin is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 15 km south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Kingston local government area. Moorabbin recorded a population of 6,287 at the . Most of the e ...

. The club had a reserves affiliation with the

Sandringham Football Club The Sandringham Football Club, nicknamed the Zebras, is an Australian rules football club based in the Melbourne suburb of Sandringham, Victoria, Sandringham. It currently competes in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and the VFL Women's (VF ...

in the

VFL Women's VFL Women's (VFLW) is the major state-level women's Australian rules football league in Victoria (Australia), Victoria. The league initially comprised the six premier division clubs and the top four division 1 clubs from the now-defunct Victori ...

(VFLW) competition. A team known as the "

Southern Saints Southern Saints was the name of an Australian rules football club that played in the VFL Women's (VFLW), the major state-level women's Australian rules football league in Victoria. It was affiliated with both the St Kilda Football Club, which com ...

" participated in the league between 2018 and 2024, originally being co-managed by both clubs before the license was taken over by Sandringham in 2020. Since 2025 the "Southern Saints" name has been dropped and the team's identity has been consolidated by the Sandringham Football Club.

History

2020–present: Foundation

On 18 February 2017, the

Australian Football League The Australian Football League (AFL) is the pre-eminent professional sports, professional competition of Australian rules football. It was originally named the Victorian Football League (VFL) and was founded in 1896 as a breakaway competition ...

(AFL) announced the creation of a women's competition the following year. St Kilda was one the first 13 clubs to apply for an inaugural license to join the competition. Despite being unsuccessful in its bid, it was granted a provisional license, meaning it would take preference over other bidders in subsequent bids. Following the successful completion of the inaugural AFLW season in 2017, the AFL launched a second round of bidding for licenses to enter the competition from 2019 onwards. St Kilda was again among eight clubs that applied. In September 2017, the club was announced as one of six clubs to receive a licence to join the competition, and as one of four to join in 2020.

Players

Current AFLW squad

Corporate

Administrative Board

* President:

Andrew Bassat Andrew Reuven Bassat is a co-founder of Seek Limited along with his brother Paul Bassat. Since its inception in September 1997, the company has become the #1 Job seeking portal in Australia. Bassat remained CEO of SEEK until 2021 (succeeded by Ia ...

* Vice-president: Russell Caplan * Chief Executive Officer: Matt Finnis * Director:

Dean Anderson Dean Anderson (born 1 August 1967) is a former Australian rules 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 ...

* Director:

Jennifer Douglas Jennifer Colleen Douglas (born 1964) is an American writer/producer and activist. She has worked in film, video, television, radio, print and Internet projects. She is the writer and co-producer of the 2012 documentary film, '' Save KLSD: Medi ...

* Director: Paul Kirk * Director: Jack Rush * Director: Danni Roche * Director: Adam Hilton

Club Honour Boards

Honour Boards

AFLW

Records and statistics

Achievements

Club Best and Fairest

Notes

References

External links

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