AFL Women's All-Australian team
The AFL Women's All-Australian Team is an all-star team of women's Australian rules footballers playing in the AFL Women's (AFLW), selected by a panel at the end of each season. It represents a complete team, including interchange players and a coach, of the best-performed players during the home-and-away season. As no other country could assemble a senior women's Australian rules team of the same quality, the AFL Women's All-Australian team never plays a game.
Like in the Australian Football League (AFL), the panel chooses a complete team consisting of sixteen players and five interchange players, as in the AFLW competition (as opposed to eighteen players and four interchange players in the AFL), based on performances during the AFLW home-and-away season, just as the AFL has done with the All-Australian team from 1991 onwards following the Victorian Football League's conversion to a national competition.[1]
The first official AFL Women's All-Australian team was selected in 2017, immediately following the competition's inaugural season. The team also follows the AFL's tradition of the All-Australian coach being the coach of the premiership-winning side of that year, however the inaugural team was the only team to contain 22 players (like in the AFL) after teams in the AFLW were reduced to 21 players in 2018. The AFL Women's All-Australian team has been sponsored by Virgin Australia since its inception, and the current selection panel is Simon Lethlean, Mark Evans, Josh Vanderloo, Jennie Loughnan, Kevin Sheehan, Peta Searle, Darren Flanigan, Kelli Underwood, Ros Lanigan and Shelley Ware.[2]
Teams
2017
| 2017 AFL Women's All-Australian team[3] | |||
| B: | Nicola Stevens (Collingwood) | Courtney Cramey (Adelaide) | |
| HB: | Chelsea Randall (Adelaide) | Brianna Davey (Carlton) | Karen Paxman (Melbourne) |
| C: | Elise O'Dea (Melbourne) | Daisy Pearce (Melbourne) (captain) | Emma Kearney (Western Bulldogs) |
| HF: | Erin Phillips (Adelaide) (vice-captain) | Sabrina Frederick-Traub (Brisbane) | Ellie Blackburn (Western Bulldogs) |
| F: | Sarah Perkins (Adelaide) | Darcy Vescio (Carlton) | |
| Foll: | Emma King (Collingwood) | Kara Donnellan (Fremantle) | Emily Bates (Brisbane) |
| Int: | Jessica Dal Pos (Greater Western Sydney) | Kate McCarthy (Brisbane) | Ebony Marinoff (Adelaide) |
| Tayla Harris (Brisbane) | Melissa Hickey (Melbourne) | Sam Virgo (Brisbane) | |
| Coach: | Bec Goddard (Adelaide) | ||
2018
| 2018 AFL Women's All-Australian team[4] | |||
| B: | Chloe Molloy (Collingwood) | Kate Lutkins (Brisbane) | |
| HB: | Hannah Scott (Western Bulldogs) | Chelsea Randall (Adelaide) (captain) | Ebony Antonio (Fremantle) |
| C: | Dana Hooker (Fremantle) | Emma Kearney (Western Bulldogs) | Alicia Eva (Greater Western Sydney) |
| HF: | Elise O'Dea (Melbourne) | Sabrina Frederick-Traub (Brisbane) | Brooke Lochland (Western Bulldogs) |
| F: | Jess Wuetschner (Brisbane) | Christina Bernardi (Collingwood) | |
| Foll: | Erin McKinnon (Greater Western Sydney) | Courtney Gum (Greater Western Sydney) | Daisy Pearce (Melbourne) (vice-captain) |
| Int: | Emily Bates (Brisbane) | Tayla Harris (Carlton) | Karen Paxman (Melbourne) |
| Ellie Blackburn (Western Bulldogs) | Meg Downie (Melbourne) | ||
| Coach: | Paul Groves (Western Bulldogs) | ||
See also
References
- ↑ "AFL Record 1991 Round 22". p. 3. Retrieved 12 September 2017.
- ↑ "AFLW Awards". Retrieved 12 September 2017.
- ↑ Navaratnam, Dinny (28 March 2017). "Finalists dominate AFLW All Australian team". afl.com.au. Retrieved 12 September 2017.
- ↑ Navaratnam, Dinny (27 March 2018). "W Awards: Nine named dual All Australians". afl.com.au. Retrieved 27 March 2018.