2020 AFL Women's draft

The 2020 AFL Women's draft consists of the various periods when the 14 clubs in the AFL Women's competition can recruit players prior to the competition's 2021 season.

2020 AFL Women's draft
General information
Date(s)	October 2019
Overview
League	AFL Women's

Signing and trading period

A significantly delayed trade period was announced to begin from 3 August and conclude on 12 August, following the suspension of normal list management responsibilities due to COVID-19 pandemic. Concurrently, clubs will be permitted to re-sign existing players and will have until 17 August to do so. Players can be signed for one or two year contracts.[1]

Retirements and delistings

Table of player retirements and delistings

Date	Name	Club	Status	Ref
19 March	Melissa Hickey	Geelong	Retired	[2]
20 March	Nicole Callinan	Western Bulldogs	Retired	[3]
23 March	Emma Mackie	St Kilda	Retired	[4]
25 March	Emma Grant	Collingwood	Retired	[5]
25 March	Lauren Tesoriero	Richmond	Retired	[6]
27 March	Laura Bailey	Richmond	Retired	[7]
27 March	Jess Foley	Adelaide	Retired	[8]
4 June	Eliza Hynes	Collingwood	Retired	[9]
20 June	Mairéad Seoighe	North Melbourne	Delisted	[10]
	Chloe Haines		Delisted	[11]
	Libby Haines		Delisted
	Taylor Mesiti		Retired
15 July	Courtney Cramey	Adelaide	Retired	[12]
17 July	Courtney Gum	Adelaide	Retired	[13]
	Sophie Li		Retired
31 July	Talia Radan	West Coast	Retired	[14]
1 August	Joanne Doonan	Carlton	Delisted	[15]
	Emerson Woods		Delisted
	Katie Harrison		Delisted
	Sharnie Whiting		Delisted
3 August	Georgia Gourlay	Collingwood	Delisted	[16]
	Machaelia Roberts		Retired
7 August	Arianna Clarke	Brisbane	Retired	[17]
	Bri McFarlane		Delisted
	Hannah Hillman		Delisted
11 August	Anna Teague	Geelong	Retired	[18]
	Cassie Blakeway		Delisted
	Gemma Wright		Delisted
11 August	Emma Humphries	North Melbourne	Delisted	[19]
12 August	Ella Wood	Richmond	Retired	[20]
	Nekaela Butler		Delisted	[21]
	Ciara Fitzgerald		Delisted
	Emma Horne		Delisted
12 August	Emily Bonser	West Coast	Retired	[22]
	Kate Bartlett		Delisted
	Cassie Davidson		Delisted
	Emily McGuire		Delisted
	Danika Pisconeri		Delisted
	Tarnee Tester		Delisted

Trades

Table of trades

Clubs involved	Trade		Ref
Carlton Richmond	to Carlton (from Richmond) pick #15	to Richmond (from Carlton) Sarah Hosking	[23]
North Melbourne Richmond	to North Melbourne (from Richmond) Grace Campbell	to Richmond (from North Melbourne) pick #43	[24]
Collingwood North Melbourne	to Collingwood (from North Melbourne) Abbey Green	to North Melbourne (from Collingwood) pick #40	[25]
Carlton St Kilda	to Carlton (from St Kilda) pick #36	to St Kilda (from Carlton) Jayde Van Dyk pick #42	[26]
Collingwood Richmond	to Collingwood (from Richmond) pick #31 pick #45	to Richmond (from Collingwood) Sarah D'Arcy Sarah Dargan	[27]
Melbourne Richmond	to Melbourne (from Richmond) pick #17	to Richmond (from Melbourne) Harriet Cordner	[27]
Collingwood Melbourne	to Collingwood (from Melbourne) pick #11 Aliesha Newman	to Melbourne (from Collingwood) pick #10 pick #17	[27]
West Coast Western Bulldogs	to West Coast (from Western Bulldogs) pick #3 Aisling McCarthy	to Western Bulldogs (from West Coast) pick #2 pick #16	[28]
Adelaide St Kilda	to Adelaide (from St Kilda) Jessica Sedunary pick #42	to St Kilda (from Adelaide) pick #34	[29]
North Melbourne St Kilda	to North Melbourne (from St Kilda) pick #22 pick #57	to St Kilda (from North Melbourne) pick #29 pick #40 pick #50	[30]
Melbourne St Kilda	to Melbourne (from St Kilda) pick #29	to St Kilda (from Melbourne) Bianca Jakobsson	[30]
Adelaide Greater Western Sydney	to Adelaide (from GWS Giants) Lisa Whiteley pick #25	to Greater Western Sydney (from Adelaide) pick #20 pick #42	[31]
Greater Western Sydney Melbourne	to Greater Western Sydney (from Melbourne) Katherine Smith pick #29	to Melbourne (from GWS) pick #20 pick #39	[31]
Carlton Melbourne	to Carlton (from Melbourne) Elise O'Dea Maddy Guerin	to Melbourne (from Carlton) pick #15	[32]
Collingwood Western Bulldogs	to Collingwood (from Western Bulldogs) pick #33	to Western Bulldogs (from Collingwood) Katie Lynch pick #45	[33]
Adelaide Western Bulldogs	to Adelaide (from Western Bulldogs) Hannah Munyard pick #45	to Western Bulldogs (from Adelaide) pick #25	[33]
Collingwood Western Bulldogs	to Collingwood (from Western Bulldogs) pick #19 pick #25	to Western Bulldogs (from Collingwood) pick #11	[34]
Geelong Melbourne	to Geelong (from Melbourne) pick #10 pick #20 pick #27 pick #39	to Melbourne (from Geelong) pick #5 pick #35 pick #49	[35]
Fremantle North Melbourne	to Fremantle (from North Melbourne) Jess Trend	to North Melbourne (from Fremantle) pick #44	[36]
Fremantle West Coast	to Fremantle (from West Coast) pick #46	to West Coast (from Fremantle) Tayla Bresland	[37]
Carlton Gold Coast	to Carlton (from Gold Coast) Charlotte Hammans	to Gold Coast (from Carlton) pick #56	[38]
Brisbane Gold Coast	to Brisbane (from Gold Coast) Taylor Smith pick #37 pick #51	to Gold Coast (from Brisbane) pick #24	[39]
Gold Coast St Kilda	to Gold Coast (from St Kilda) Alison Drennan	to St Kilda (from Gold Coast) pick #24	[40]

Delisted free agency

A delisted free agency period will be held from August 17 to August 21.[1]

Rookie signings

In the absence of a rookie draft, each club was permitted to sign players that had not played Australian rules football within the previous three years or been involved in an AFLW high-performance program.

Table of rookie signings

Club	Player	Other/former sport	Ref
Collingwood	Imogen Purcell	Rowing	[41]

Richmond and West Coast concessions

After poor on-field performances and list builds in 2020, the AFL decided to award special assistance to both Richmond and West Coast. Each club was issued an end-of-first round draft selection which they were required to on-trade to another club in exchange for an established player. Clubs were permitted to package the picks (15 and 16 for Richmond and West Coast, respectively) but could not receive draft selections back in any trade.[42]

Draft

A draft is expected to be held in October 2020. Players will nominate for a single selection pool, aligned to a state or metropolitan region, with players only being eligible to be drafted by clubs operating in that region.

Table of draft selections

Rd.	Pick	Player	Club	Recruited from		Notes
				Club	League
1	1		Richmond
	2		Western Bulldogs			←West Coast
	3		West Coast			←Western Bulldogs
	4		Adelaide
	5		Melbourne			←Geelong
	6		St Kilda
	7		Gold Coast
	8		Brisbane
	9		Greater Western Sydney
	10		Geelong			←Melbourne←Collingwood
	11		Collingwood			←Melbourne
	12		Carlton
	13		North Melbourne
	14		Fremantle
	15		Carlton			←Richmond, assistance pick with on-trade stipulation
	16		Western Bulldogs			←West Coast, assistance pick with on-trade stipulation

See also

• 2020 AFL draft

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