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 AFL Women's All-Australian team was selected in 2017 following the competition's inaugural season. The team also follows the AFL's tradition of the All-Australian coach being the coach of that season's premiership-winning side, with no coach being selected in 2020 when no premiership was awarded. The inaugural team was the only team to contain 22 players (like in the AFL) after match-day teams in the AFLW were reduced to 21 players in 2018. The AFL Women's All-Australian team was sponsored by Virgin Australia in the competition's first three seasons, and is currently sponsored by Toyota.
Teams
2017
| 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
| 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) | ||
2019
| B: | Meg McDonald (Geelong) | Ashleigh Brazill (Collingwood) | |
| HB: | Jess Duffin (North Melbourne) | Chelsea Randall (Adelaide) (vice-captain) | Kerryn Harrington (Carlton) |
| C: | Emma Kearney (North Melbourne) | Kiara Bowers (Fremantle) | Karen Paxman (Melbourne) |
| HF: | Erin Phillips (Adelaide) (captain) | Jasmine Garner (North Melbourne) | Monique Conti (Western Bulldogs) |
| F: | Gemma Houghton (Fremantle) | Stevie-Lee Thompson (Adelaide) | |
| Foll: | Lauren Pearce (Melbourne) | Ebony Marinoff (Adelaide) | Madison Prespakis (Carlton) |
| Int: | Emma King (North Melbourne) | Gabriella Pound (Carlton) | Ally Anderson (Brisbane) |
| Anne Hatchard (Adelaide) | Dana Hooker (Fremantle) | ||
| Coach: | Matthew Clarke (Adelaide) | ||
2020
| B: | Sarah Allan (Adelaide) | Kate Lutkins (Brisbane) | |
| HB: | Kerryn Harrington (Carlton) | Libby Birch (Melbourne) | Isabel Huntington (Western Bulldogs) |
| C: | Emma Kearney (North Melbourne) (vice-captain) | Kiara Bowers (Fremantle) | Jaimee Lambert (Collingwood) |
| HF: | Olivia Purcell (Geelong) | Gemma Houghton (Fremantle) | Jasmine Garner (North Melbourne) |
| F: | Caitlin Greiser (St Kilda) | Kate Hore (Melbourne) | |
| Foll: | Sharni Layton (Collingwood) | Karen Paxman (Melbourne) (captain) | Madison Prespakis (Carlton) |
| Int: | Kalinda Howarth (Gold Coast) | Alyce Parker (Greater Western Sydney) | Tayla Harris (Carlton) |
| Ashleigh Riddell (North Melbourne) | Anne Hatchard (Adelaide) | ||
| Coach: | |||
Multiple selections
The following players have achieved selection in at least two AFL Women's All-Australian teams in the first four seasons of the competition.
| Number | Player | Years |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | Emma Kearney | 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 |
| Karen Paxman | 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 (c) | |
| 3 | Tayla Harris | 2017, 2018, 2020 |
| Chelsea Randall | 2017, 2018 (c), 2019 | |
| 2 | Emily Bates | 2017, 2018 |
| Ellie Blackburn | 2017, 2018 | |
| Kiara Bowers | 2019, 2020 | |
| Sabrina Frederick | 2017, 2018 | |
| Jasmine Garner | 2019, 2020 | |
| Kerryn Harrington | 2019, 2020 | |
| Anne Hatchard | 2019, 2020 | |
| Dana Hooker | 2018, 2019 | |
| Gemma Houghton | 2019, 2020 | |
| Emma King | 2017, 2019 | |
| Kate Lutkins | 2018, 2020 | |
| Ebony Marinoff | 2017, 2019 | |
| Elise O'Dea | 2017, 2018 | |
| Daisy Pearce | 2017 (c), 2018 | |
| Erin Phillips | 2017, 2019 (c) | |
| Madison Prespakis | 2019, 2020 |
See also
References
- "AFL Record 1991 Round 22". p. 3. 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.
- Navaratnam, Dinny (2 April 2019). "Five Crows, four Roos headline All Australian team". womens.afl. Retrieved 2 April 2019.
- McGowan, Marc (27 April 2020). "AFLW All-Australian team revealed, new wave dominates". womens.afl. Retrieved 27 April 2020.