AFL Queensland (AFLQ) is the governing body of Australian rules football in Queensland. AFL Queensland has over 216,000 participants playing at all levels of football from the introductory NAB AFL Auskick program to the AFL Masters Competition. AFL Queensland covers 13 regions, 24 leagues and 159 clubs.
The United States Australian Football League (USAFL) is the governing body for Australian rules football in the United States. It was conceived in 1996 and organized in 1997. It is based in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin.
Erin Victoria Phillips is an Australian former professional basketball player, an Australian rules footballer for Adelaide in the AFL Women's (AFLW) competition, and currently Dallas Wings director of player and franchise development. She has played basketball in Australia's WNBL for the Australian Institute of Sport and the Adelaide Lightning. She has played in the USA's WNBA for Connecticut Sun, Indiana Fever, Phoenix Mercury, Los Angeles Sparks and Dallas Wings. She has also played professionally for European club sides for teams in Israel and Poland. She was a member of the Australia women's national basketball team, winning a silver medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics and a gold medal at the 2006 FIBA World Championship for Women.
The Australian women's international rules football team is the Australian women's representative team in international rules football, a hybrid of Australian rules football and Gaelic football.
The NAB AFL Under 18 Championships are the annual national Australian rules football championships for players aged 18 years or younger. The competition is seen as one of the main pathways towards being drafted into a team in the fully professional Australian Football League (AFL). Originally known as the Teal Cup, the competition began in 1953 between Queensland and New South Wales, but now features teams from each Australian state and mainland territory. Since 2017, the division 2 competition has been replaced by the Under 18 Academy Series, with teams from the 4 Queensland and NSW AFL clubs' academies in addition to Northern Territory and Tasmania state teams. The best players from the academy competition then combine to form an 'Allies' team in conjunction with South Australia, Western Australia and two Victoria teams, Metro and Country to contest the division 1 tournament. The tournament is currently sponsored by the National Australia Bank, having previously been sponsored by Caltex and the Commonwealth Bank. The winner of the 2018 division 1 tournament was South Australia.
AFL Quebec is a 9-a-side Australian football competition formerly known as the Eastern Canadian Australian Football League or ECAFL. The league has both a men's and women's division and consists of teams from Montréal and its surrounding areas. Players from the current regular season teams are eligible to play representative 18-a-side football for the men's team the Québec Saints or the women's team the Montréal Angels. The Saints and Angels participate in the United States AFL National Championships Tournament, the Saints having previously participated in the AFL Ontario Division 2 competition from 2008–10.
Hannah Mouncey is an Australian national team handball player who also plays Australian rules football. Mouncey represented Australia in men's handball before transitioning. She has been the subject of controversy over her eligibility to participate in women's competitions. Mouncey debuted with the Australia women's national handball team at the 2018 Asian Women's Handball Championship.
Alison Downie is an Australian sportswoman most notable for her career as a basketball player for the Dandenong Rangers in the Women's National Basketball League. Downie is currently an Australian rules footballer, playing with Carlton in the AFL Women's competition.
Monique Conti is an Australian rules footballer and basketballer with the Richmond Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW) and the Melbourne Boomers in the Women's National Basketball League (WNBL). She previously played for the Western Bulldogs from 2018 to 2019.
Chelsea Randall is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Adelaide Football Club in the AFL Women's competition. She is one of the club's inaugural AFLW team co-captains.
Jacinda Barclay is an Australian sportswoman who has played baseball, Australian football, and American football at high levels. She has represented the Australian national team in five Women's Baseball World Cups, and played professional football for the Chicago Bliss in the Legends Football League and Greater Western Sydney in the AFL Women's competition. For her success across multiple sports, one writer has called Barclay "the Sonny Bill Williams of women's sport".
Melissa Hickey is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Geelong Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW). She has served as Geelong captain since the club's inaugural season in 2019. Hickey previously played for the Melbourne Football Club from 2017 to 2018. She has also played in the Victorian Women's Football League/VFL Women's since 2009, representing the Darebin Falcons and St Albans Spurs. In the VWFL/VFLW, Hickey has won seven premierships, represented Victoria on three occasions and featured in the VFL Women's team of the year.
Prior to the creation of the AFL Women's (AFLW), the AFL ran four years of exhibition matches between sides representing Melbourne and Western Bulldogs. The winner received the Hampson–Hardeman Cup. Named after women football pioneers Barb Hampson and Lisa Hardeman, who developed the first women's championships in 1998.
Ruby Schleicher is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Collingwood Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW).
Paul Groves is a former Australian rules football coach who served as the head coach of the Western Bulldogs in the AFL Women's competition (AFLW) between 2017 and 2019 including to the club's first AFLW premiership in 2018.
Eloise Jones is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Adelaide Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW).
Scott Gowans is an Australian rules football coach who currently serves as the head coach of the North Melbourne Football Club in the AFL Women's competition (AFLW).
