Brianna Iris Davey is an Australian footballer in both the Association football (soccer) and Australian rules football codes. In soccer, she was a goalkeeper for the national women's team the Matildas and played in the W-League for Melbourne Victory and Melbourne City. In 2016, she transitioned from soccer to Australian rules football, and was one of two initial marquee recruits for the Carlton Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW). She won the inaugural Carlton best and fairest award and was named in the 2017 AFL Women's All-Australian team. Davey served as Carlton captain from 2018 to 2019 before being traded to the Collingwood Football Club. She was appointed Collingwood co-captain alongside Steph Chiocci in 2021, and won the league best and fairest award for the 2021 season.
Darcy Vescio is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Carlton Football Club in the AFL Women's competition. As a heavily marketed marquee player, Vescio has been referred to as a "household name" in Australia by ESPN.
The 2017 AFL Women's season was the inaugural season of the AFL Women's competition, the new highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Australia. The season featured eight clubs, ran from 3 February until 25 March, and comprised a 7-game home-and-away season followed by a grand final featuring the top two clubs.
Jessica Dal Pos is an Australian rules footballer playing for Carlton in the AFL Women's competition. She previously played for Greater Western Sydney, being one of their four priority selections prior to the 2016 AFL Women's draft.
Nicola Stevens is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Carlton Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW). She previously played for the Collingwood Football Club in 2017. Stevens was selected in the inaugural AFL Women's All-Australian team and was the inaugural Collingwood best and fairest winner during her only season with the Magpies in 2017.
Alicia Eva is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Greater Western Sydney Giants in the AFL Women's (AFLW). She previously played for the Collingwood Football Club in 2017. Eva was selected in the AFL Women's All-Australian team and won the Gabrielle Trainor Medal in her first season at the Giants in 2018. She has served as Greater Western Sydney captain since the 2020 season.
Jasmine Garner is an Australian rules footballer with North Melbourne in the AFL Women's (AFLW) competition. Garner scored the AFLW's first-ever goal while playing for Collingwood in the league's inaugural match in 2017.
Breann Moody is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Carlton Football Club in the AFL Women's competition (AFLW). She was drafted by Carlton with the club's ninth selection and the sixty seventh overall in the 2016 AFL Women's draft. She made her debut in Round 1, 2017, in the club and the league's inaugural match at Ikon Park against Collingwood. Moody finished 2017 having played in all seven of Carlton's matches that season. In 2018, Moody received a nomination for the 2018 AFL Women's Rising Star award after recording 29 hitouts and eleven disposals in Carlton's round 5 loss to Adelaide. At the end of the 2018 season, she was the joint winner of the club best and fairest alongside Katie Loynes.
Matilda Lucas-Rodd is an Australian rules footballer who plays for the St Kilda Football Club in the AFL Women's competition (AFLW). She was drafted by Carlton with the 99th overall selection in the 2016 AFL Women's draft, making her debut in Round 1, 2017, in the league's inaugural match at Ikon Park against Collingwood. In round 5 she earned a nomination for the 2017 AFLW Rising Star award following her match against Fremantle. Lucas-Rodd finished 2017 having played in all seven of Carlton's matches that season.
Kate Darby is an Australian rules footballer who played for the Carlton Football Club in the AFL Women's competition (AFLW). She was drafted by Carlton with the club's sixteenth selection and the one hundred and twenty sixth overall in the 2016 AFL Women's draft. She made her debut in round 2, 2017, in a match against Greater Western Sydney at Ikon Park. She was dropped from the team the following week however and would not return until the final match of the season in round 7. She was subsequently delisted at season's end.
The 2018 AFL Women's season was the second season of the AFL Women's competition, the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Australia. The season featured eight clubs, ran from 2 February until 24 March, and comprised a 7-game home-and-away season followed by a grand final featuring the top two clubs.
Tara Morgan is an Australian rules footballer who last played for Collingwood in the AFL Women's (AFLW).
Christina Bernardi is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Richmond Football Club in the AFL Women's competition (AFLW). Bernadi was drafted by Collingwood in 2017 and was selected in the 2018 AFL Women's All-Australian team and was Collingwood's leading goalkicker in 2018.
Chloe Molloy is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Collingwood Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW). She is also a correspondent on Fox Footy show AFL Tonight, and also works as a match-day interviewer for the Collingwood website, after graduating from Holmesglen Institute with a Bachelor Degree in Sports Media.
In the AFL Women's (AFLW), the Carlton best and fairest award is awarded to the best and fairest player at the Carlton Football Club during the home-and-away season. The award has been awarded annually since the competition's inaugural season in 2017, and Brianna Davey was the inaugural winner of the award.
Natalie "Nat" Grider is an Australian rules footballer playing for Brisbane in the AFL Women's competition (AFLW).
Katie Lynch is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Western Bulldogs in the AFL Women's competition (AFLW). She has previously played for the Collingwood Football Club.
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: Gold Coast, Richmond, St Kilda and West Coast.
Ebony O'Dea is an Australian rules footballer who plays for Collingwood in the AFL Women's (AFLW). She was drafted by Greater Western Sydney in the 2018 national draft. Delisted after one season, she was re-drafted by Collingwood in the 2019 national draft and made her professional debut in round 2 of the 2020 season.
The 2021 AFL Women's draft consists of the various periods when the 14 clubs in the AFL Women's competition can recruit players prior to the competition's 2022 season.
