2020 AFL Women's season

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2020 Premiership season
File:2020 AFLW Season Logo.png
Date 7 February—22 March 2020
Teams 14
Premiers Not awarded
Matches played 46
Attendance 205,050 (Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character ",". per match)
Highest attendance 35,185 (round 2, Template:AFLW WC v Fremantle)
Leading goalkicker Caitlin Greiser (St Kilda)
10 goals
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The 2020 AFL Women's season was the fourth season of the AFL Women's competition, the highest-level senior Australian rules football competition in Australia. The season featured fourteen clubs, with four new teams joining the league: Template:AFLW GC, Richmond, St Kilda and Template:AFLW WC.

The season ran from 7 February until 22 March. It was intended to comprise an 8-game home-and-away season followed by a finals series featuring the top six clubs; however, the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020 saw the season curtailed and finally abandoned. No premiership was awarded.

Background

New teams

Four new teams, Template:AFLW GC, Richmond, St Kilda and Template:AFLW WC, joined the competition, bringing the total number of teams to fourteen. This followed on from the inclusion of Geelong and North Melbourne in the previous season.[1] Template:AFLW expansion

Collective bargaining agreement

Prior to the season commencing a collective bargaining agreement failed to pass the player's association, with only 70% agreeing, falling short of the required 75% threshold. One of the demands of the dissenters was to have a longer season, so that all the teams could play each other once.[2] The players later voted with a vote of 98% to agree to a revised agreement, which steadily increased the number of matches to be played over three years.[3]

Conference system

The conference system utilised in the previous season was retained for this season, though it was expanded to cater for the additional teams. Seven teams were placed in each of the two conferences, with teams playing all their intra-conference rivals once and two cross-over matches against teams from the other conference, resulting in an 8-round home and away season. The placing of the teams was determined by the AFL with competitiveness, list assessments and the previous season's results in mind.[4]

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Conference A
Team Stadium(s) Capacity
Adelaide Richmond Oval
Unley Oval		 16,500
10,000
North Melbourne Arden Street Oval
UTAS Stadium
North Hobart Oval		 5,000
21,000
18,000
Geelong GMHBA Stadium 36,000
Greater Western Sydney Blacktown ISP Oval
Robertson Oval
Giants Stadium		 10,000
10,000
24,000
Brisbane Hickey Park
Gabba		 5,000
42,000
Template:AFLW GC Metricon Stadium
Great Barrier Reef Arena
Fankhauser Reserve		 25,000
10,000
8,000
Richmond Swinburne Centre
Ikon Park
Queen Elizabeth Oval		 6,000
21,000
10,000

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Conference B
Team Stadium(s) Capacity
Fremantle Fremantle Oval 17,500
Melbourne Casey Fields
TIO Traeger Park		 12,000
7,000
Western Bulldogs VU Whitten Oval 12,000
Carlton Ikon Park
Marvel Stadium		 21,000
56,000
Collingwood Victoria Park
Morwell Recreation Reserve
Marvel Stadium		 15,000
12,000
56,000
St Kilda RSEA Park 10,000
Template:AFLW WC Mineral Resources Park
Leederville Oval
Optus Stadium		 15,000
15,000
60,000

Impact of 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic

The 2020 season was disrupted and then brought to an early end by the COVID-19 pandemic, which was formally declared a pandemic on 11 March 2020, prior to Round 6. The pandemic had the following effects on the season:

  • All matches played from 14 March onwards were played to empty stadiums.[5]
  • The final two rounds of the home-and-away season were scratched and the finals brought forward by two weeks, being played based on ladder positions at the time.[6]
  • The finals series was expanded from six teams to eight. Under the original schedule, the top team in each conference was to advance directly to the preliminary finals while the second and third placed teams played off in semi-finals; but under the modified system, the fourth placed teams also qualified, and faced the first placed teams in semi-finals.[6] Partway through the finals series, it was announced that no premiership will be awarded after the Victorian government announced a shutdown of all non-essential operations on 22 March 2020.[7]

Premiership season

The originally scheduled eight-round fixture and make-up of the conferences was released on 29 October 2019.[8]

  • All starting times are Australian Eastern Time.[8]
  • Richmond home games originally scheduled at the Swinburne Centre, the club's home ground, were later moved to Ikon Park out of concerns for crowd capacity.[9]

Round 1

Round 1
Friday, 7 February (7:45 pm) Richmond 2.2 (14) def. by Carlton 6.12 (48) Ikon Park (crowd: 15,337) Report
Saturday, 8 February (1:10 pm) Greater Western Sydney 1.3 (9) def. Template:AFLW GC 1.2 (8) Blacktown ISP Oval (crowd: 1,540) Report
Saturday, 8 February (3:10 pm) Melbourne 3.4 (22) def. North Melbourne 3.2 (20) Casey Fields (crowd: 3,500) Report
Saturday, 8 February (5:10 pm) Brisbane 5.4 (34) def. Adelaide 3.3 (21) Hickey Park (crowd: 3,002) Report
Sunday, 9 February (1:10 pm) Collingwood 5.8 (38) def. Template:AFLW WC 1.5 (11) Victoria Park (crowd: 6,100) Report
Sunday, 9 February (3:10 pm) St Kilda 2.2 (14) def. by Western Bulldogs 6.3 (39) RSEA Park (crowd: 8,000) Report
Sunday, 9 February (5:10 pm) Fremantle 6.8 (44) def. Geelong 4.4 (28) Fremantle Oval (crowd: 5,509) Report
  • The match between Greater Western Sydney and Template:AFLW GC, which was played in torrential rain, was the lowest scoring match in AFL history, in either the men's or women's competition, with the two teams scoring a combined score of only 2.5 (17). GWS's score of 1.3 (9) was the lowest winning score in history.[10]


Round 2

Round 2
Friday, 14 February (7:40 pm) Western Bulldogs 2.0 (12) def. by Melbourne 4.8 (32) VU Whitten Oval (crowd: 3,133) Report
Saturday, 15 February (3:10 pm) North Melbourne 6.1 (37) def. Greater Western Sydney 2.7 (19) UTAS Stadium (crowd: 2,102) Report
Saturday, 15 February (5:10 pm) Template:AFLW GC 5.3 (33) def. Richmond 2.10 (22) Metricon Stadium (crowd: 7,071) Report
Saturday, 15 February (7:10 pm) Template:AFLW WC 2.3 (15) def. by Fremantle 9.6 (60) Optus Stadium (crowd: 35,185) Report
Sunday, 16 February (1:10 pm) Geelong 3.2 (20) def. by Brisbane 6.3 (39) GMHBA Stadium (crowd: 5,567) Report
Sunday, 16 February (3:10 pm) Carlton 3.6 (24) def. by Collingwood 6.3 (39) Ikon Park (crowd: 7,529) Report
Sunday, 16 February (5:10 pm) Adelaide 6.4 (40) def. St Kilda 4.3 (27) Richmond Oval (crowd: 6,433) Report


Round 3

Round 3
Friday, 21 February (7:10 pm) St Kilda 3.1 (19) def. Melbourne 1.8 (14) RSEA Park (crowd: 4,012) Report
Saturday, 22 February (3:10 pm) Western Bulldogs 4.6 (30) def. by Carlton 8.3 (51) VU Whitten Oval (crowd: 8,259) Report
Saturday, 22 February (5:10 pm) Template:AFLW GC 4.4 (28) drew with Brisbane 4.4 (28) Metricon Stadium (crowd: 4,223) Report
Saturday, 22 February (7:10 pm) Fremantle 5.3 (33) def. Collingwood 4.6 (30) Fremantle Oval (crowd: 5,636) Report
Sunday, 23 February (1:10 pm) Greater Western Sydney 6.6 (42) def. Template:AFLW WC 2.2 (14) Blacktown ISP Oval (crowd: 1,980) Report
Sunday, 23 February (3:10 pm) Richmond 2.8 (20) def. by North Melbourne 12.4 (76) Ikon Park (crowd: 3,697) Report
Sunday, 23 February (5:10 pm) Geelong 6.2 (38) def. by Adelaide 8.1 (49) GMHBA Stadium (crowd: 3,195) Report


Round 4

Round 4
Friday, 28 February (5:40 pm) Collingwood 4.2 (26) def. by Melbourne 7.4 (46) Marvel Stadium (crowd: 21,528) Report
Saturday, 29 February (3:10 pm) Richmond 7.3 (45) def. by Geelong 10.7 (67) Queen Elizabeth Oval (crowd: 4,906) Report
Saturday, 29 February (5:10 pm) North Melbourne 6.11 (47) def. Template:AFLW GC 5.4 (34) Arden Street Oval (crowd: 3,280) Report
Saturday, 29 February (7:10 pm) Template:AFLW WC 4.6 (30) def. Western Bulldogs 3.8 (26) Leederville Oval (crowd: 2,455) Report
Sunday, 1 March (1:10 pm) Adelaide 4.4 (28) def. by Carlton 5.6 (36) Richmond Oval (crowd: 7,281) Report
Sunday, 1 March (3:10 pm) St Kilda 3.5 (23) def. by Fremantle 3.6 (24) RSEA Park (crowd: 3,870) Report
Sunday, 1 March (5:10 pm) Brisbane 7.9 (51) def. Greater Western Sydney 3.5 (23) Hickey Park (crowd: 3,297) Report


Round 5

Round 5
Friday, 6 March (7:10 pm) Template:AFLW GC 2.6 (18) def. by Geelong 5.8 (38) Great Barrier Reef Arena (crowd: 2,788) Report
Saturday, 7 March (3:10 pm) North Melbourne 9.9 (63) def. Adelaide 3.3 (21) North Hobart Oval (crowd: 2,843) Report
Saturday, 7 March (5:10 pm) Greater Western Sydney 7.14 (56) def. Richmond 1.5 (11) Robertson Oval (crowd: 3,377) Report
Saturday, 7 March (7:10 pm) Carlton 8.2 (50) def. St Kilda 4.5 (29) Ikon Park (crowd: 3,871) Report
Sunday, 8 March (1:10 pm) Collingwood 8.5 (53) def. Western Bulldogs 3.3 (21) Morwell Recreation Reserve (crowd: 1,992) Report
Sunday, 8 March (3:10 pm) Melbourne 10.6 (66) def. Template:AFLW WC 1.1 (7) Casey Fields (crowd: 1,800) Report
Sunday, 8 March (5:10 pm) Fremantle 7.8 (50) def. Brisbane 4.8 (32) Fremantle Oval (crowd: 4,446) Report


Round 6

Round 6
Friday, 13 March (7:10 pm) Geelong 3.2 (20) def. by North Melbourne 10.6 (66) GMHBA Stadium (crowd: No attendance recorded) Report
Saturday, 14 March (3:10 pm) Brisbane 2.2 (14) def. by Collingwood 5.13 (43) Hickey Park (crowd: 0) Report
Saturday, 14 March (5:10 pm) St Kilda 6.6 (42) def. Richmond 0.3 (3) RSEA Park (crowd: 0) Report
Saturday, 14 March (7:40 pm) Melbourne 3.6 (24) def. by Carlton 6.4 (40) TIO Traeger Park (crowd: 0) Report
Sunday, 15 March (1:10 pm) Western Bulldogs 8.3 (51) def. by Fremantle 10.6 (66) VU Whitten Oval (crowd: 0) Report
Sunday, 15 March (3:10 pm) Adelaide 3.3 (21) def. by Greater Western Sydney 4.2 (26) Richmond Oval (crowd: 0) Report
Sunday, 15 March (5:10 pm) Template:AFLW WC 1.2 (8) def. by Template:AFLW GC 5.3 (33) Mineral Resources Park (crowd: 0) Report
  • Richmond's score of 0.3 (3) was, at the time, the lowest in AFL Women's history.[12]
  • Round 6 matches were played without spectators, with the exception of the Friday night Geelong-North Melbourne match – which was open to be public, but did not have its attendance officially recorded.


Ladders

Ladder progression

  • Numbers highlighted in green indicates the team finished the round inside the top 3.
  • Numbers highlighted in blue indicates the team finished in first place in the conference for that round.
  • Numbers highlighted in red indicates the team finished in last place in the conference for that round.

Win/loss table

Colour Result
Green Win
Red Loss
Blue Draw

Bold – Home game
Opponent for round listed above margin
This table can be sorted by margin, winners are represented in the first half of each column, and losers are represented in the second half of each column once sorted

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 SF PF GF Ladder
Adelaide BL
13		 StK
13		 Geel
11		 Carl
8		 NM
42		 GWS
5		 GCS Rich X X X A6
Brisbane Lions Adel
13		 Geel
19		 GCS
0		 GWS
28		 Frem
18		 Coll
29		 Rich NM Carl
29		 X X A3
Carlton Rich
34		 Coll
15		 WB
21		 Adel
8		 StK
21		 Melb
16		 WCE Frem BL
29		 NM X B2
Collingwood WCE
27		 Carl
15		 Frem
3		 Melb
20		 WB
32		 BL
29		 StK Geel NM
2		 X X B4
Fremantle Geel
16		 WCE
45		 Coll
3		 StK
1		 BL
18		 WB
15		 Melb
 Carl
 GCS
70		 Melb X B1
Geelong Frem
16		 BL
19		 Adel
11		 Rich
22		 GCS
20		 NM
46		 GWS Coll X X X A5
Gold Coast GWS
1		 Rich
11		 BL
0		 NM
13		 Geel
20		 WCE
25		 Adel Melb Frem
70		 X X A4
Greater Western Sydney GCS
1		 NM
18		 WCE
28		 BL
28		 Rich
45		 Adel
5		 Geel WB Melb
3		 X X A2
Melbourne NM
2		 WB
20		 StK
5		 Coll
20		 WCE
59		 Carl
16		 Frem GCS GWS
3		 Frem X B3
North Melbourne Melb
2		 GWS
18		 Rich
56		 GCS
13		 Adel
42		 Geel
46		 WB BL Coll
2		 Carl X A1
Richmond Carl
34		 GCS
11		 NM
56		 Geel
22		 GWS
45		 StK
39		 BL Adel X X X A7
St Kilda WB
25		 Adel
13		 Melb
5		 Frem
1		 Carl
21		 Rich
39		 Coll WCE X X X B5
West Coast Coll
27		 Frem
45		 GWS
28		 WB
4		 Melb
59		 GCS
25		 Carl StK X X X B7
Western Bulldogs StK
25		 Melb
20		 Carl
21		 WCE
4		 Coll
32		 Frem
15		 NM GWS X X X B6

Finals series

 
 Semi finals Preliminary finals Grand final
 
                    
 
 March 21, Ikon Park
 
 
 North Melbourne 5.4 (34)
 
 28-29 March
 
 Collingwood 5.2 (32)
 
 North Melbourne Cancelled
 
 March 22, Ikon Park
 
 Carlton Cancelled
 
 Carlton 6.8 (44)
 
 4-5 April
 
 Brisbane 2.3 (15)
 
 N/A Cancelled
 
 March 21, Fremantle Oval
 
 N/A Cancelled
 
 Fremantle 12.8 (80)
 
 28-29 March
 
 Template:AFLW GC 1.4 (10)
 
 Fremantle Cancelled
 
 March 21, Giants Stadium
 
 Melbourne Cancelled
 
 Greater Western Sydney 3.8 (26)
 
 
 Melbourne 4.5 (29)
 

Semi finals

Semi finals
Saturday, March 21 (12:40 pm) North Melbourne 5.4 (34) def. Collingwood 5.2 (32) Ikon Park (crowd: 0)
Saturday, March 21 (2:40 pm) Greater Western Sydney 3.8 (26) def. by Melbourne 4.5 (29) Giants Stadium (crowd: 0)
Saturday, March 21 (1:40 pm) Fremantle 12.8 (80) def. Template:AFLW GC 1.4 (10) Fremantle Oval (crowd: 0)
Sunday, March 22 (1:10 pm) Carlton 6.8 (44) def. Brisbane 2.3 (15) Ikon Park (crowd: 0)


Awards

League awards

Best and fairests

Club Award name Player Ref.
Adelaide Club Champion Anne Hatchard
[19]
Brisbane Best and fairest Emily Bates
Carlton Best and fairest Madison Prespakis
Collingwood Best and fairest Jaimee Lambert
Fremantle Fairest and best Kiara Bowers
Geelong Best and fairest Olivia Purcell
Template:AFLW GC Best and fairest Jamie Stanton
Greater Western Sydney Gabrielle Trainor Medal Alyce Parker
Melbourne Best and fairest Shelley Scott
North Melbourne Best and fairest Jasmine Garner
Richmond Best and fairest Monique Conti
St Kilda Best and fairest Rosie Dillon
Caitlin Greiser
Georgia Patrikios
Olivia Vesely
Western Bulldogs Susan Alberti Award Isabel Huntington
Template:AFLW WC Best and fairest Dana Hooker

AFLW leading goalkicker

  • Numbers highlighted in blue indicates the player led the season's goal kicking tally at the end of that round. The total is updated following the conclusion of the round.
Rank Player Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Total
1 Caitlin Greiser St Kilda 00 22 24 15 27 310 x x 10
2 Sabreena Duffy Fremantle 44 15 05 05 49 09 x x 9
Kalinda Howarth Gold Coast 00 00 30 21 02 42 x x
4 Kaitlyn Ashmore North Melbourne 11 01 34 04 48 08 x x 8
Jesse Wardlaw Brisbane 11 34 15 27 18 08 x x
Jasmine Garner North Melbourne 00 22 13 03 25 38 x x
7 Tayla Harris Carlton 11 12 13 25 16 17 x x 7
Cora Staunton GWS 00 00 11 01 45 27 x x
9 Rebecca Privitelli GWS 00 00 33 14 26 06 x x 6
Ashley Sharp Fremantle 00 00 11 01 23 36 x x
Daisy Bateman North Melbourne 11 01 23 25 05 16 x x

Source[20]

Coach changes

Club Outgoing coach Manner of departure Date of vacancy Incoming coach Date of appointment
Template:AFLW WC Inaugural coach Luke Dwyer[21] 13 December 2018
Template:AFLW GC Inaugural coach David Lake[22] 5 March 2019
St Kilda Inaugural coach Peta Searle[23] 17 April 2019
Richmond Inaugural coach Tom Hunter[24] 19 June 2019
Richmond Tom Hunter End of contract[25] 15 May 2020 Ryan Ferguson[26] 6 November 2020
Template:AFLW Nor Scott Gowans End of contract[27] 4 June 2020 Darren Crocker[27] 4 June 2020
Template:AFLW WC Luke Dwyer Resigned[28] 25 September 2020 Daniel Pratt[29] 12 January 2021

Club leadership

Club Coach Captain(s) Vice-captain(s) Leadership group Ref
Adelaide Matthew Clarke Erin Phillips, Chelsea Randall Courtney Cramey, Ange Foley Sarah Allan, Jess Foley, Marijana Rajcic [30][31]
Brisbane Craig Starcevich Emma Zielke Sharni Webb Emily Bates, Breanna Koenen, Kate Lutkins [32]
Carlton Daniel Harford Kerryn Harrington, Katie Loynes Alison Downie, Sarah Hosking, Nicola Stevens [33]
Collingwood Stephen Symonds Steph Chiocci Ash Brazill, Brianna Davey [34]
Fremantle Trent Cooper Kara Antonio Ebony Antonio, Kiara Bowers, Hayley Miller, Gabby O'Sullivan [35]
Geelong Paul Hood Melissa Hickey Meg McDonald Renee Garing, Jordan Ivey, Aasta O'Connor [36]
Template:AFLW GC David Lake Leah Kaslar, Sam Virgo Tiarna Ernst, Sally Riley, Jamie Stanton [37]
Greater Western Sydney Alan McConnell Alicia Eva Jessica Dal Pos, Pepa Randall, Cora Staunton, Britt Tully [38][39]
Melbourne Mick Stinear Daisy Pearce Karen Paxman [40]
Template:AFLW Nor Scott Gowans Emma Kearney Jasmine Garner Emma King, Brittany Gibson [41]
Richmond Tom Hunter Katie Brennan Christina Bernardi Phoebe Monahan, Lauren Tesoriero [42]
St Kilda Peta Searle Cat Phillips, Kate Shierlaw, Rhiannon Watt [43]
Template:AFLW WC Luke Dwyer Emma Swanson Dana Hooker Maddy Collier, Courtney Guard, Alicia Janz [44]
Western Bulldogs Nathan Burke Ellie Blackburn Brooke Lochland Isabel Huntington, Kirsty Lamb, Hannah Scott, Lauren Spark [45]

See also

References

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