2019 AFL Women's season

2019 AFL Women's season
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The 2019 AFL Women's season will be the third season of the elite women's Australian rules football competition. Ten teams compete in the league, two more than the previous season, all of which are associated with existing Australian Football League (AFL) clubs. The first game will be played in the first weekend of February, and the season is scheduled to conclude with the grand final in the last weekend of March.

New teams and move to conference format

Two new teams, Geelong and North Melbourne, will join the competition, bringing the total number of teams to ten. The North Melbourne team will also have a strong Tasmanian focus; some players will be based in Tasmania and some home games will be held in the state. The introduction of the new teams is the first stage of a two-year expansion that will take the league to fourteen teams for the 2020 season.

Expansion of AFL Women's
Club Entry in 2017 Entry in 2019/20
Placed
bid		 Granted
entry		 Placed
bid		 Granted entry
2019 2020
AdelaideYesYesN/A
Brisbane LionsYesYesN/A
CarltonYesYesN/A
CollingwoodYesYesN/A
EssendonNoN/AYesNoNo
FremantleYesYesN/A
GeelongYesNoYesYesN/A
Gold CoastNoN/AYesNoYes
Greater Western SydneyYesYesN/A
HawthornNoN/AYesNoNo
MelbourneYesYesN/A
North MelbourneYesNoYesYesN/A
Port AdelaideNoN/ANoN/A
RichmondYesNoYesNoYes
St KildaYesNoYesNoYes
SydneyNoN/ANoN/A
West CoastYesNoYesNoYes
Western BulldogsYesYesN/A

Despite the introduction of new teams, the league will retain a seven round home-and-away season. This will be achieved by splitting the competition into two conferences. Each team will play four games against their fellow conference members and three "cross-over" matches against teams from the other conference. Conference membership will be based on the final ladder positions of the 2018 season.

The finals series will expand to include preliminary finals for the first time; the two teams who finish the highest in each conference at the end of the home-and-away season will qualify for the preliminary finals. The winners of these games will then play in the AFL Women's Grand Final.[1]

Premiership season

The full fixture and make-up of the conferences will be released in October.

  • All starting times are local.

Round 1

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Club leadership

Club Coach Captain(s) Vice-captain(s) Ref
Adelaide Matthew Clarke
Brisbane Craig Starcevich
Carlton Daniel Harford
Collingwood Wayne Siekman
Fremantle Trent Cooper
Geelong Paul Hood
Greater Western Sydney Alan McConnell
Melbourne Mick Stinear
North Melbourne Scott Gowans
Western Bulldogs Paul Groves

See also

References

  1. ↑ Black, Sarah (7 September 2018). "AFLW 2019: How the conference system works - AFL.com.au". afl.com.au. Australian Football League.

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