AFL Women's Grand Final

The AFL Women's Grand Final is an annual women's Australian rules football match to determine the AFL Women's (AFLW) premiers for that year. Each year, the winning club receives a premiership trophy and premiership flag; all players in the winning team receive a premiership medallion and a premiership ring.

AFL Women's Grand Final
LocaleVarious
First meeting25 March 2017
Latest meeting31 March 2019
BroadcastersSeven Network (2017–)
StadiumsMetricon Stadium (2017)
Ikon Park (2018)
Adelaide Oval (2019)
Statistics
Meetings total3
Most winsAdelaide (2)

The grand final was hosted by the minor premier in the first two seasons when no finals series existed, and was hosted by the preliminary final winner with the most premiership points (percentage would have come into consideration if points were the same) in 2019 when a conference system was in place.[1] This means that different venues have been used for the grand final over the opening three seasons of the competition: Metricon Stadium hosted the grand final in 2017, Ikon Park hosted the grand final in 2018 and Adelaide Oval hosted the grand final in 2019.

While there are currently no plans for a permanent grand final venue (like in the Australian Football League (AFL), where the grand final is played annually at the Melbourne Cricket Ground), the Carlton Football Club received $40 million in state and federal government funding to redevelop Ikon Park, its home ground and the largest-capacity suburban ground in Melbourne, into a state-of-the-art precinct that would become the official home of women's football in Victoria, with the idea that all grand finals hosted in Victoria would be played there.[2][3][4]

Adelaide has won the most premierships with two, with the Western Bulldogs the other team to have won a premiership. Brisbane and Carlton are the other teams to have reached a grand final.

Best-on-ground

The best-on-ground medal is presented to the player judged as best on the ground during the grand final by a panel of experts.

Year Player Team Ref.
2017Erin PhillipsAdelaide[5]
2018Monique ContiWestern Bulldogs[6]
2019Erin PhillipsAdelaide[7]

See also

References
  1. Black, Sarah (18 March 2019). "Preliminary finals locked in: Full venue and time info". womens.afl. Retrieved 5 April 2019.
  2. Beveridge, Riley (10 February 2019). "Ikon Park receives $15m upgrade boost from Canberra". afl.com.au. Retrieved 5 April 2019.
  3. McCauley, Dana (9 February 2019). "Federal government pledges $15 million for new home of women's footy". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 5 April 2019.
  4. "Ikon Park redevelopment to enhance AFLW". Austadiums. 12 February 2019. Retrieved 5 April 2019.
  5. Matthews, Bruce (25 March 2017). "Erin Phillips drives Crows to historic AFLW premiership". afl.com.au. Retrieved 5 April 2019.
  6. Black, Sarah (26 March 2018). "AFLW: 2018 Grand Final wrap". afl.com.au. Retrieved 5 April 2019.
  7. Black, Sarah (31 March 2019). "Phillips wins best afield medal in GF despite tearing ACL in third term". womens.afl. Retrieved 5 April 2019.
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