After a stirring victory over the Gold Coast,the Swans’ AFLW team are three games away from a maiden premiership. Coach Scott Gowans has helped them understand that their time is now.
The popularity of football among Victorian girls has left single-sex schools strapped for space,and created a race to pluck promising players for scholarships.
North Melbourne have handed reigning premiers Melbourne a reality check,keeping the Demons to just nine points in a 41-point qualifying final thumping at Ikon Park.
We looked at the data and consulted five experts to decide who were the top 10 players in the AFLW.
In only their second season,the Sydney Swans are into their first AFLW finals campaign and are leading the league with the highest average home attendances.
The Magpies were in top-four contention just two weeks ago,but on Sunday copped a 52-point hiding from Richmond in a must-win game as they failed to make the eight.
The AFLW knows exactly how many people would need to attend the final round of its season to trigger an extra round in 2024,but it also knows it will fall short of that mark.
The AFLW is losing another great of the competition,with its most decorated player,Port Adelaide’s Erin Phillips,to finish up this weekend.
Five teams are battling for three top eight spots going into the last round of the season. Can Collingwood and St Kilda make it?
Lauren Arnell is in the third trimester of her pregnancy – a baby girl – all while coaching Port Adelaide’s second season in the AFLW.
For those keen to make their favourite sport their day job,the timing couldn’t be better,says AFL’s general manager of women’s football,Nicole Livingstone.