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Seventh women's draft organised by the Australian Football League From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The 2019 AFL Women's draft consisted of the various periods when the 14 clubs in the AFL Women's competition can recruit players prior to the competition's 2020 season.
2019 AFL Women's draft | |
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General information | |
Date(s) | 22 October 2019 |
Time | 11:00am AEDT |
Location | Victoria Pavilion, Melbourne Showgrounds |
Network(s) | afl.com.au |
Sponsored by | National Australia Bank |
Overview | |
League | AFL Women's |
First selection | Gabby Newton (‹See Tfd›Western Bulldogs) |
At the conclusion of the period clubs were required to have 27 senior-listed and three rookie-listed players.
Prior to the completion of the 2019 season, future expansion clubs ‹See Tfd›Gold Coast, ‹See Tfd›Richmond, ‹See Tfd›St Kilda and ‹See Tfd›West Coast were permitted to pre-list up to 10 players from their women's academies or designated development zones. A maximum of seven of these players could be open-age signings who had nominated for the 2018 AFL Women's draft but not been selected. A final three spots were reserved for three junior players of minimum draft age (born in 2001) and who hailed from the clubs' designated development regions.[1]
From 8 April expansion clubs ‹See Tfd›Gold Coast, ‹See Tfd›Richmond, ‹See Tfd›St Kilda and ‹See Tfd›West Coast will have an 11-day window until 18 April to sign players who played for existing clubs during the 2019 season.[23] These clubs can sign a maximum of 12 players each through this mechanism. All existing clubs other than Brisbane and ‹See Tfd›Fremantle could lose no more than four players to the mechanism while Brisbane and Fremantle can each lose a maximum of eight due to the entry of ‹See Tfd›Gold Coast and West Coast into their previously exclusive state-zones.[23] No compensation will be offered to those clubs losing players under this process, but the player's existing club are permitted to negotiate to re-sign the player. Players can be signed under this mechanism to one or two year contracts.[24]
Concurrently to the expansion club signing period, all 14 clubs were able to sign and trade players. Players can be signed during this period are eligible for one or two year contracts.[24] A second stage to the trade period will open from 23 April and run until 26 April, with only the 10 established clubs able to take part.[49]
A free agency period was held between the end of the trading and signing period on April 26 and until April 30 in which clubs were permitted to sign delisted or uncontracted players.[49] At the conclusion of the period, clubs are permitted to have retained no more than 22 senior players and two rookies.[74] Team lists matching those requirements must be submitted on May 3.[49]
Date | Player | Former club | New club | Ref |
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30 April | Hannah Burchell | ‹See Tfd›Geelong | ‹See Tfd›Richmond | [75] |
Mia-Rae Clifford | ‹See Tfd›Geelong | ‹See Tfd›Fremantle | [76] | |
Melissa Kuys | ‹See Tfd›Collingwood | ‹See Tfd›St Kilda | [77] | |
Tilly Lucas-Rodd | ‹See Tfd›Carlton | |||
Rheanne Lugg | ‹See Tfd›Adelaide | Brisbane | [78] | |
Jordann Hickey | ‹See Tfd›Melbourne | ‹See Tfd›Gold Coast | [79] | |
Sally Riley | ‹See Tfd›Adelaide | [80] | ||
In the absence of a rookie draft, each club was required to sign two rookie players, either new or retained from their rookie list the year prior. New players to this list must not have played Australian rules football within the previous three years or been involved in an AFLW high-performance program.[81]
A draft was held on October 22, 2019. Players nominated for a single selection pool, aligned to a state or metropolitan region, with players only being eligible to be drafted by clubs operating in that region.[94] An indicative draft order was published in early April while the final draft order was published by the AFL in the wake of the expansion signing period on 23 April.[49][95]
A final free agency period opened after the conclusion of the draft, allowing clubs that passed on a draft selection to recruit from outside their state-based zone.
Date | Player | Free agent type | Former club | New club | Ref |
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23 October | Hannah Munyard | Undrafted | South Adelaide | ‹See Tfd›Western Bulldogs | [96] |
Nadia von Bertouch | Undrafted | North Adelaide | ‹See Tfd›St Kilda |
Before the opening round of the season, clubs were permitted to replace players who had suffered a long-term injury or for whom personal circumstances had ruled them out for playing in any match that year. The replacement players are signed to a train-on list and are considered semi-eligible for section. Though they are eligible to train with the club, they cannot be selected for match play until further injuries to player on the club's list mean a club has fewer than 23 players available for any single match.[97]
Club | New signing | Player replacing | Reason for replacement | Ref |
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‹See Tfd›Adelaide | Czenya Cavouras | Ruth Wallace | Personal | [98] |
Rachelle Martin | Chelsea Randall | Injury (ACL) | ||
‹See Tfd›Geelong | Elise Coventry | Mia Skinner | Injury (ACL) | |
‹See Tfd›Greater Western Sydney | Elizabeth Graham | Amanda Farrugia | Retirement | |
‹See Tfd›Melbourne | Sarah Perkins | Katherine Smith | Injury (ACL) | |
Kirby Bentley | Shae Sloane | Injury (ACL) | ||
‹See Tfd›North Melbourne | Vivien Saad | Jess Duffin | Pregnancy | [99] |
‹See Tfd›Richmond | Hannah McLaren | Emily Harley | Injury (shoulder) | [98] |
‹See Tfd›West Coast | Andrea Gilmore | Alicia Janz | Injury (shoulder) | |
‹See Tfd›Western Bulldogs | Nicole McMahon | Aisling Utri | Injury (shoulder) |
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