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. 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.
Before the establishment of the AFLW, All-Australian sides were selected based on performances at AFL Women's National Championships, where players represented their states or territories. The first All-Australian team for the AFLW competition was selected in 2017 following the inaugural season.
Despite its nature, the AFL Women's All-Australian team has historically been only ceremonial in nature; as of 2025 the AFL Women's has not staged any representative matches featuring the All-Australian team. In 2026 the first representative match to feature an Australian team will be held against Ireland; players from the latter have previously been selected in the All-Australian team.
Like in the Australian Football League (AFL) with their All-Australian team since 1991 (following the Victorian Football League's conversion to a national competition), the panel chooses a complete AFLW team consisting of sixteen players and five interchange players (as opposed to eighteen players and four interchange players in the AFL), based on performances during the home-and-away season.
The 2017 team was the only AFLW team to contain 22 players, as match-day teams in the AFLW were reduced to 21 players from 2018. The AFL Women's All-Australian team was sponsored by Virgin Australia from 2017 to 2019 and by Toyota in 2020.
Teams
AFL Women's era: 2017–present
2017
Notes: and had five players selected in the team each, which is an equal record for most players from a club in one All-Australian team.
2018
2019
Notes: had five players selected in the team, which is an equal record for single most players from a club in one All-Australian team.
2020
Notes: The team have no coach because no AFLW premiership was awarded in 2020.
2021
2022 (S6)
2022 (S7)
Notes: Despite winning the 2022 AFL Women's season 7 best and fairest award, 's Ally Anderson was not named in the team, in the only instance where this has happened to the season's best and fairest winner.
2023
Notes: This was the last of Emma Kearney's eight consecutive selections, a record which remains unbroken for both consecutive and total selections.
2024
2025
Most selections
Players The following players have achieved selection in at least three AFL Women's All-Australian teams.
Player Seasons 8 2019, 2020, 2021, S6, S7 (c), 2023, 2024 (c), 2025 (c) 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 (vc), 2021, S6 (c), S7, 2023 7 2017, 2019, 2021, S6, S7, 2023, 2024 (vc) 5 2019, 2021, S6, S7, 2023 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 (c), 2021 2017, 2018 (c), 2019 (vc), S7, 2024 2020, S6, 2023, 2024, 2025 4 2017, 2018, 2020, S6 2019, 2020, S6, S7 2020, S7, 2023 (c), 2025 (vc) 3 2020, 2021, S6 2019, 2023, 2024 2017, 2018, S6 S7, 2023, 2024 2017, 2018, 2021 2019, 2020, 2021 (vc) 2018, 2020, 2021 2018, 2021, 2023 2017 (c), 2018 (vc), S6 2019, 2020, S6 2017 (vc), 2019 (c), 2021 2019, 2020, S7
Coaches The following coaches have achieved selection in multiple AFL Women's All-Australian teams.
Coach Seasons 2 2019, S6 2024, 2025 2021, 2023
AFL Women's National Championship era: 1992–2013
2004 Toni Alexandrow (ACT), Lauren Bazeley (Vic senior), Kris Britt (SA), Shannon Byrne (NT), Emily Diprose (ACT), Lauren Ebsary (SA), Sheron Ford (SA), Stephanie Foster (NSW), Emma Hender (ADF), Moana Hope (Vic senior), Meg Hutchins (Vic senior), Debbie Lee (Vic senior), Alana Lowes (ACT), Kelly McFarlane (ADF), Shannon McFerran (Vic senior), Lesley Ann McGannon (Vic senior), Natasha Medbury (NT), Elizabeth Skinner (Vic senior), Alison Smith (ACT), Jemma Still (NSW), Kerry Taylor (NSW), Megan Webster (NSW)Coach: Greg Seton-Lonsdale (ACT)
2005 Mel Backhouse (ACT), Kate Burke (NT), Joanne Butland (Qld), Penny Cula-Reid (Vic under-19), Michelle Dench (Vic senior), Stephanie Foster (NSW), Moana Hope (Vic under-19), Meg Hutchins (Vic senior), Lilian Keung (Vic senior), Louise Knitter (WA), Debbie Lee (Vic senior), Alana Lowes (ACT), Shannon McFerran (Vic senior), Talei Owen (NSW), Karen Paxman (Vic under-19), Daisy Pearce (Vic under-19), Katherine Pender (Qld), Lisa Roberts (NT), Mary Ryan (SA), Elizabeth Skinner (Vic senior), Alison Smith (ACT), Natalie Wood (NT)Coach: Rickie Dolliver (ACT)
2006 Lauren Arnell (Vic under-19), Michaeline Brown (NT), Joanne Butland (Qld), Penny Cula-Reid (Vic under-19), Michelle Dench (Vic senior), Nikki Harwood (WA), Emma Hender (ADF), Moana Hope (Vic under-19), Meg Hutchins (Vic senior), Kirsten Ireland (ACT), Louise Knitter (WA), Shannon McFerran (Vic senior), Janine Milne (Vic senior), Aasta O'Connor (Qld), Talei Owen (NSW), Karen Paxman (Vic under-19), Daisy Pearce (Vic under-19), Katherine Pender (Qld), Michele Reid (SA), Krystle Rivers (WA), Lauren Tesoriero (Vic senior), Jodie White (WA)Coach: Rod Gibbsen (WA)
2007 Cassie Bell (NSW), Alice Broughton (ACT), Joanne Butland (Qld) (captain), Steph Chiocci (Vic under-19), Penny Cula-Reid (Vic under-19), Angela Doyle (WA), Loren Fricker (WA), Kate Goggins (ADF), Nikki Harwood (WA), Moana Hope (Vic under-19), Meg Hutchins (Vic senior), Shelley Matcham (WA), Shannon McFerran (Vic senior) (vice-captain), Anna McIlroy (Vic senior), Aasta O'Connor (Qld), Jess Openshaw (SA), Karen Paxman (Vic under-19), Daisy Pearce (Vic under-19), Jade Pregelj (Qld), Kerryn Stephens (Vic senior), Jodie White (WA), Lou Wotton (Vic senior)Coach: Mark Muscat (Vic under-19), assistant coach: Nicole Graves (WA)
2009 Tess Baxter (SA), Lauren Bazeley (Vic senior), Kirby Bentley (WA), Katie Brennan (Qld), Steph Chiocci (Vic senior), Stacey Cross (Vic senior), Rebecca Hall (ACT), Nikki Harwood (WA) (vice-captain), Kristy Irvine (NT), Shelley Matcham (WA), Shannon McFerran (Vic senior) (captain), Cecilia McIntosh (Vic senior), Phoebe McWilliams (Vic senior), Aasta O'Connor (Qld), Daisy Pearce (Vic senior), Chelsea Randall (WA), Natalie Redford (NSW), Lauren Stammers (WA), Natalie Thomas (Qld), Stephanie Walding (WA), Natalie Wood (Vic senior), Lou Wotton (Vic senior)Coach: Leeann Gill (Vic senior), assistant coach: Nicole Graves (WA)
2011 Lauren Arnell (Vic senior), Kirby Bentley (WA), Katie Brennan (Qld), Joanne Butland (Qld), Melissa Caulfield (WA), Steph Chiocci (Vic senior), Courtney Cramey (SA), Kara Donnellan (Vic senior), Rebecca Hall (ACT), Melissa Hickey (Vic senior), Kristy Irvine (NT), Marie Keating (NSW), Shannon McFerran (Vic senior) (captain), Roxy McGee (NSW), Aasta O'Connor (Vic senior), Elise O'Dea (ACT), Karen Paxman (Vic senior), Daisy Pearce (Vic senior), Chelsea Randall (WA), Libby Sadler (NSW), Maddison Smith (Tas), Bree White (Vic senior)Coach: Peta Searle (Vic senior), assistant coach: Nicole Graves (WA)
2013
See also
All-Australian team
References
External links AFLW Awards