2019 AFL Women's season

For the 2019 season of the Australian Football League, see 2019 AFL season.

2019 AFL Women's season
Teams	10

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, Template:AFLW Gee and Template:AFLW NM, 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			Entry in 2022 (S7)
	Placed bid	Granted entry	Placed bid	Granted entry		Placed bid	Granted entry
				2019	2020
Adelaide	Yes	Yes	—
Brisbane	Yes	Yes	—
Carlton	Yes	Yes	—
Collingwood	Yes	Yes	—
Essendon	No	—	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes
Fremantle	Yes	Yes	—
Geelong	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	—
Gold Coast	No	—	Yes	No	Yes	—
Greater Western Sydney	Yes	Yes	—
Hawthorn	No	—	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes
Melbourne	Yes	Yes	—
North Melbourne	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	—
Port Adelaide	No	—	No	—	—	Yes	Yes
Richmond	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	—
St Kilda	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	—
Sydney	No	—	No	—	—	Yes	Yes
West Coast	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	—
Western Bulldogs	Yes	Yes	—

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.

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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Round 4

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Round 5

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Round 6

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Round 7

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Finals series

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Club leadership

Club	Coach	Captain(s)	Vice-captain(s)	Ref
Template:AFLW Ade	Matthew Clarke
Template:AFLW Bri	Craig Starcevich
Template:AFLW Car	Daniel Harford
Template:AFLW Col	Wayne Siekman
Template:AFLW Fre	Trent Cooper
Template:AFLW Gee	Paul Hood
Template:AFLW GWS	Alan McConnell
Template:AFLW Mel	Mick Stinear
Template:AFLW NM	Scott Gowans
Template:AFLW WB	Paul Groves

See also

• 2018 AFL Women's draft

External links

• Official AFL Women's website