2016 | |
Tournament information | |
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Sport | Australian rules football |
Location | Melbourne |
Dates | 2 May–6 May |
Tournament format(s) | Round-robin |
Venue(s) | MCG Olympic Park Oval Punt Road Oval Shepley Oval Trevor Barker Oval |
Teams | 4 (pool A) 5 (pool B) |
Final positions | |
Champions | Vic Metro (pool A) NSW/ACT (pool B) |
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 16 |
The 2016 edition of the AFL Youth Girls National Championships was held from 2 May to 6 May in Melbourne, Victoria. Nine teams competed in the round-robin tournament, divided into pool A: Queensland, Western Australia, Vic Country and Vic Metro; and pool B: the Northern Territory, South Australia, Tasmania, a combined New South Wales and Australian Capital Territory side (NSW/ACT) and the Indigenous Australian Woomeras. [1]
A round-robin tournament is a competition in which each contestant meets all other contestants in turn. A round-robin contrasts with an elimination tournament, in which participants are eliminated after a certain number of losses.
Queensland is the second-largest and third-most populous state in the Commonwealth of Australia. Situated in the north-east of the country, it is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean. To its north is the Torres Strait, with Papua New Guinea located less than 200 km across it from the mainland. The state is the world's sixth-largest sub-national entity, with an area of 1,852,642 square kilometres (715,309 sq mi).
Western Australia is a state occupying the entire western third of Australia. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, and the Southern Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east, and South Australia to the south-east. Western Australia is Australia's largest state, with a total land area of 2,529,875 square kilometres, and the second-largest country subdivision in the world, surpassed only by Russia's Sakha Republic. The state has about 2.6 million inhabitants – around 11 percent of the national total – of whom the vast majority live in the south-west corner, 79 per cent of the population living in the Perth area, leaving the remainder of the state sparsely populated.
A professional women's Australian rules football competition (AFL Women's (AFLW)) was to be inaugurated in 2017, creating a new incentive for performance in the championships. [2] Several clubs who had received AFLW licences used the competition to scout potential players. [3]
Women's Australian rules football, also known simply as women's football or women's footy, is a form of Australian rules football played by women, generally with some modification to the laws of the game.
AFL Women's (AFLW) is Australia's national Australian rules football league for female players. The first season of the league began in February 2017 with 8 teams, expanded to 10 teams in the 2019 season, and will expand to 14 teams in the 2020 season. The league is run by the Australian Football League (AFL) and is contested by a subset of clubs from that competition. The reigning premiers are Adelaide.
Vic Metro won pool A, completing an unbeaten tournament by holding Western Australia scoreless in the final played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. [4] NSW/ACT prevailed in pool B and was also undefeated in their group. [5] Commenting on the pool A final, Herald Sun reporter Sam Edmund said "This is football as we remember it. No flooding, no pressing and players holding position. As good as the AFL has been this year, this was refreshing." [6]
The Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), also known simply as "The G", is an Australian sports stadium located in Yarra Park, Melbourne, Victoria. Founded and managed by the Melbourne Cricket Club, it is the largest stadium in the Southern Hemisphere, the 10th largest globally, and the largest cricket ground by capacity. The MCG is within walking distance of the city centre and is served by Richmond and Jolimont railway stations, as well as the route 70 tram. It is adjacent to Melbourne Park and is part of the Melbourne Sports and Entertainment Precinct.
The Herald Sun is a daily newspaper based in Melbourne, Australia, published by The Herald and Weekly Times, a subsidiary of News Corp Australia, itself a subsidiary of News Corp. The Herald Sun primarily serves Melbourne and the state of Victoria and shares many articles with other News Corporation daily newspapers, especially those from Australia.
Flooding is a tactic used in the sport of Australian rules football. It involves the coach releasing players in the forward line from their set positions and directing them to the opposition forward area, congesting the area and making it more difficult for the opposition to score. It is commonly deployed to protect a lead, to stop a rout or as a counterattack tactic based on rebounding the ball to an open forward line. This is possible due to the lack of an offside rule or similar restrictions on players field movements.
Pool A [1] | |||||
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Monday, 2 May 10:30am | Vic Metro 10.10 (70) | def. | Queensland 3.2 (20) | Olympic Park Oval | Report |
Monday, 2 May 1:50pm | Western Australia 6.6 (42) | def. | Vic Country 5.3 (33) | Olympic Park Oval | Report |
Tuesday, 3 May 10:40am | Western Australia 3.5 (23) | def. by | Vic Metro 10.7 (67) | Trevor Barker Oval | Report |
Tuesday, 3 May 2:00pm | Queensland 5.4 (34) | def. by | Vic Country 6.7 (43) | Trevor Barker Oval | Report |
Thursday, 5 May 10:40am | Queensland 7.6 (48) | def. by | Western Australia 7.7 (49) | Shepley Oval | Report |
Thursday, 5 May 12:20pm | Vic Country 2.4 (16) | def. by | Vic Metro 6.9 (45) | Shepley Oval | Report |
Friday, 6 May 12:10pm | Vic Country 6.6 (42) | def. | Queensland 5.4 (34) | Punt Road Oval | Report |
Friday, 6 May 5:20pm | Vic Metro 14.11 (95) | def. | Western Australia 0.0 (0) | Melbourne Cricket Ground | Report |
Pool B [1] | |||||
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Monday, 2 May 12:10pm | South Australia 7.4 (46) | def. | Tasmania 2.4 (16) | Olympic Park Oval | Report |
Monday, 2 May 3:30pm | Woomeras 0.0 (0) | def. by | NSW/ACT 17.5 (107) | Olympic Park Oval | Report |
Tuesday, 3 May 9:00am | Tasmania 3.7 (25) | def. by | Northern Territory 3.11 (29) | Trevor Barker Oval | Report |
Tuesday, 3 May 12:20pm | Woomeras 3.7 (25) | def. by | South Australia 8.6 (54) | Trevor Barker Oval | Report |
Thursday, 5 May 9:00am | Woomeras 1.2 (8) | def. by | Tasmania 7.10 (52) | Shepley Oval | Report |
Thursday, 5 May 2:00pm | NSW/ACT 8.12 (60) | def. | Northern Territory 0.6 (6) | Shepley Oval | Report |
Friday, 6 May 10.30am | Woomeras 2.5 (17) | def. by | Northern Territory 9.10 (64) | Punt Road Oval | Report |
Friday, 6 May 1:50pm | South Australia 1.1 (7) | def. by | NSW/ACT 10.12 (72) | Punt Road Oval | Report |
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2016 AFL Youth Girls' All-Australian team | |||
B: | Rachel Ashley (WA) | Anne Hatchard (SA) | Arianna Clarke (Qld) |
HB: | Georgia Walker (VC) | Tahlia Randall (Qld) | Ruby Blair (Qld) |
C: | Lizzie Stokely (Tas) | Lily Mithen (VC) | Alyce Parker (NSW/ACT) |
HF: | Jasmin Stewart (WA) | Isabel Huntington (VM) | Deanna Berry (VM) |
F: | Brooke Struylaart (VM) | Isabella Ayre (VC) | Kate Bartlett (WA) |
Foll: | Erin McKinnon (NSW/ACT) | Madison Prespakis (VM) | Courtney Hodder (WA) |
Int: | Reni Hicks (VC) | Sabreena Duffy (WA) | Charis Ulu Peniata (VM) |
Shaleise Law (Qld) | |||
Coach: | Not named |
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