2020 AFL Women's draft

The 2020 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 2021 season.

2020 AFL Women's draft
General information
Date(s)	6 October 2020
Time	7:00pm AEST
Sponsored by	NAB
Overview
League	AFL Women's
First selection	Ellie McKenzie (Richmond)
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Signing and trading period

A significantly delayed trade period was announced to begin from 3 August and conclude on 12 August, following the suspension of normal list management responsibilities due to COVID-19 pandemic. Concurrently, clubs will be permitted to re-sign existing players and will have until 17 August to do so. Players can be signed for one or two year contracts.^[1]

Retirements and delistings

Table of player retirements and delistings

Date	Name	Club	Status	Ref
17 January	Ruth Wallace	Adelaide	Retired	[2]
19 March	Melissa Hickey	Geelong	Retired	[3]
20 March	Nicole Callinan	Western Bulldogs	Retired	[4]
23 March	Emma Mackie	St Kilda	Retired	[5]
25 March	Emma Grant	Collingwood	Retired	[6]
25 March	Lauren Tesoriero	Richmond	Retired	[7]
27 March	Laura Bailey	Richmond	Retired	[8]
27 March	Jess Foley	Adelaide	Retired	[9]
4 June	Eliza Hynes	Collingwood	Retired	[10]
20 June	Mairéad Seoighe	North Melbourne	Delisted	[11]
	Chloe Haines		Delisted	[12]
	Libby Haines		Delisted
	Taylor Mesiti		Retired
15 July	Courtney Cramey	Adelaide	Retired	[13]
17 July	Courtney Gum	Adelaide	Retired	[14]
	Sophie Li		Retired
31 July	Talia Radan	West Coast	Retired	[15]
1 August	Joanne Doonan	Carlton	Delisted	[16]
	Emerson Woods		Delisted
	Katie Harrison		Delisted
	Sharnie Whiting		Delisted
3 August	Georgia Gourlay	Collingwood	Delisted	[17]
	Machaelia Roberts		Retired
5 August	Ainslie Kemp	Melbourne	Delisted	[18]
7 August	Arianna Clarke	Brisbane	Retired	[19]
	Bri McFarlane		Delisted
	Hannah Hillman		Delisted
11 August	Anna Teague	Geelong	Retired	[20]
	Cassie Blakeway		Delisted
	Gemma Wright		Delisted
11 August	Emma Humphries	North Melbourne	Delisted	[21]
12 August	Ella Wood	Richmond	Retired	[22]
	Nekaela Butler		Delisted	[23]
	Ciara Fitzgerald		Delisted
	Emma Horne		Delisted
12 August	Emily Bonser	West Coast	Retired	[24]
	Kate Bartlett		Delisted
	Cassie Davidson		Delisted
	Emily McGuire		Delisted
	Danika Pisconeri		Delisted
	Tarnee Tester		Delisted
12 August	Maisie Nankivell	Adelaide	Retired	[25]
	Nicole Campbell		Delisted
	Jaimi Tabb		Delisted
12 August	Kate Flood	Fremantle	Retired	[26]
	Mia-Rae Clifford		Delisted
	Sarah Garstone		Delisted
	Lindal Rohde		Delisted
12 August	Courteney Munn	St Kilda	Retired	[27]
	Sammie Johnson		Delisted
	Melissa Kuys		Delisted
	Kelly O'Neill		Delisted
14 August	Georgia Breward	Gold Coast	Delisted	[28]
	Alexia Hamilton		Delisted
	Maddy Roberts		Retired
	Tayla Thorn		Delisted
	Kitara Whap-Farrar		Delisted
16 August	Kaila Bentvelzen	Collingwood	Retired	[29]
17 August	Ellie Brush	Greater Western Sydney	Retired	[30]
	Ingrid Nielsen		Retired
	Maggie Gorham		Retired
3 October	Tiarna Ernst	Gold Coast	Retired	[31]
10 October	Lucy Bellinger	Brisbane	Delisted	[32]

Trades

Table of trades

Clubs involved	Trade		Ref
Carlton Richmond	to Carlton (from Richmond) pick #15	to Richmond (from Carlton) Sarah Hosking	[33]
North Melbourne Richmond	to North Melbourne (from Richmond) Grace Campbell	to Richmond (from North Melbourne) pick #43	[34]
Collingwood North Melbourne	to Collingwood (from North Melbourne) Abbey Green	to North Melbourne (from Collingwood) pick #40	[35]
Carlton St Kilda	to Carlton (from St Kilda) pick #36	to St Kilda (from Carlton) Jayde Van Dyk pick #42	[36]
Collingwood Richmond	to Collingwood (from Richmond) pick #31 pick #45	to Richmond (from Collingwood) Sarah D'Arcy Sarah Dargan	[37]
Melbourne Richmond	to Melbourne (from Richmond) pick #17	to Richmond (from Melbourne) Harriet Cordner	[37]
Collingwood Melbourne	to Collingwood (from Melbourne) pick #11 Aliesha Newman	to Melbourne (from Collingwood) pick #10 pick #17	[37]
West Coast Western Bulldogs	to West Coast (from Western Bulldogs) pick #3 Aisling McCarthy	to Western Bulldogs (from West Coast) pick #2 pick #16	[38]
Adelaide St Kilda	to Adelaide (from St Kilda) Jess Sedunary pick #42	to St Kilda (from Adelaide) pick #34	[39]
North Melbourne St Kilda	to North Melbourne (from St Kilda) pick #22 pick #57	to St Kilda (from North Melbourne) pick #29 pick #40 pick #50	[40]
Melbourne St Kilda	to Melbourne (from St Kilda) pick #29	to St Kilda (from Melbourne) Bianca Jakobsson	[40]
Adelaide Greater Western Sydney	to Adelaide (from GWS Giants) Lisa Whiteley pick #25	to Greater Western Sydney (from Adelaide) pick #20 pick #42	[41]
Greater Western Sydney Melbourne	to Greater Western Sydney (from Melbourne) Katherine Smith pick #29	to Melbourne (from GWS) pick #20 pick #39	[41]
Carlton Melbourne	to Carlton (from Melbourne) Elise O'Dea Maddy Guerin	to Melbourne (from Carlton) pick #15	[42]
Collingwood Western Bulldogs	to Collingwood (from Western Bulldogs) pick #33	to Western Bulldogs (from Collingwood) Katie Lynch pick #45	[43]
Adelaide Western Bulldogs	to Adelaide (from Western Bulldogs) Hannah Munyard pick #45	to Western Bulldogs (from Adelaide) pick #25	[43]
Collingwood Western Bulldogs	to Collingwood (from Western Bulldogs) pick #19 pick #25	to Western Bulldogs (from Collingwood) pick #11	[44]
Geelong Melbourne	to Geelong (from Melbourne) pick #10 pick #20 pick #27 pick #39	to Melbourne (from Geelong) pick #5 pick #35 pick #49	[45]
Fremantle North Melbourne	to Fremantle (from North Melbourne) Jess Trend	to North Melbourne (from Fremantle) pick #44	[46]
Fremantle West Coast	to Fremantle (from West Coast) pick #46	to West Coast (from Fremantle) Tayla Bresland	[47]
Carlton Gold Coast	to Carlton (from Gold Coast) Charlotte Hammans	to Gold Coast (from Carlton) pick #56	[48]
Brisbane Gold Coast	to Brisbane (from Gold Coast) Taylor Smith pick #37 pick #51	to Gold Coast (from Brisbane) pick #24	[49]
Gold Coast St Kilda	to Gold Coast (from St Kilda) Alison Drennan	to St Kilda (from Gold Coast) pick #24	[50]

Delisted free agency

A delisted free agency period was held from August 17 to August 21, where unsigned players could move to other clubs.^[1]

Table of free agency signings

Date	Player	Former club	New club	Ref
17 August	Tarnee Tester	West Coast	Fremantle	[51]

Rookie signings

In the absence of a rookie draft, each club was permitted to sign players that had not played Australian rules football within the previous three years or been involved in an AFLW high-performance program.

Table of rookie signings

Club	Player	Other/former sport	Ref
Brisbane	Courtney Hodder	Rugby union	[52]
Collingwood	Imogen Purcell	Rowing	[53]
Greater Western Sydney	Bríd Stack	Gaelic football	[54]
Melbourne	Lauren Magee	Gaelic football	[55]

Inactive players

Following final list lodgements, a number of players experienced changing circumstances that made them unable to participate in the 2021 season. Clubs were granted permission to place these players on an inactive list, gaining end of draft selections to replace them for the one season.^[56] Players on each club's inactive list ahead of the 2020 draft are listed below:

Table of inactive players

Club	Player	Reason	Ref
Brisbane	Gabby Collingwood	Injury (ACL)	[56]
	Sharni Webb	Pregnancy	[57]
Fremantle	Jess Trend	Personal	[58][59]
	Leah Mascall	Injury (ACL)	[60]
Geelong	Kate Darby	Pregnancy	[56]
Gold Coast	Jasmyn Hewett	Work	[56]
	Jacqui Yorston	Injury (ACL)	[61]
Greater Western Sydney	Jacinda Barclay1	Personal	[56]
	Yvonne Bonner	Visa	[62]
North Melbourne	Elisha King	Injury	[63]
Richmond	Holly Whitford	Injury (foot)	[64]
St Kilda	Clara Fitzpatrick	Visa	[65]
West Coast	Mhicca Carter	Injury (foot)	[66]
	McKenzie Dowrick	Personal	[67]
	Ashton Hill	Injury (ACL)	[68]
Western Bulldogs	Katy Herron	Personal	[69]

¹ Barclay passed away on 12 October 2020.^[70]

Richmond and West Coast concessions

After poor on-field performances and list builds in 2020, the AFL decided to award special assistance to both Richmond and West Coast. Each club was issued an end-of-first round draft selection which they were required to on-trade to another club in exchange for an established player. Clubs were permitted to package the picks (15 and 16 for Richmond and West Coast, respectively) but could not receive draft selections back in any trade.^[71]

Draft

A draft was held on the night of 6 October 2020.^[72] Players will nominate 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.^[73]

Table of draft selections

Rd.	Pick	Player	Club	Recruited from		Notes
				Club	League
1	1	Ellie McKenzie	Richmond	Northern Knights	NAB League
	2	Jess Fitzgerald	Western Bulldogs	Northern Knights	NAB League	←West Coast
	3	Isabella Lewis	West Coast	Claremont	WAFLW	←Western Bulldogs
	4	Teah Charlton	Adelaide	South Adelaide	SANFLW
	5	Alyssa Bannan	Melbourne	Northern Knights	NAB League	←Geelong
	6	Tyanna Smith	St Kilda	Dandenong Stingrays	NAB League
	7	Annise Bradfield	Gold Coast	Bond University	QAFLW
	8	Zimmorlei Farquharson	Brisbane	Yeronga South Brisbane	QAFLW
	9	Tarni Evans	Greater Western Sydney	Queanbeyan	AFL Canberra
	10	Darcy Moloney	Geelong	Geelong Falcons	NAB League	←Melbourne←Collingwood
	11	Sarah Hartwig	Western Bulldogs	Sandringham Dragons	NAB League	Collingwood←Melbourne
	12	Mimi Hill	Carlton	Oakleigh Chargers	NAB League
	13	Isabella Eddey	North Melbourne	Sandringham Dragons	NAB League
	14	Sarah Verrier	Fremantle	Peel Thunder	WAFLW
	15	Eliza McNamara	Melbourne	Sandringham Dragons	NAB League	Carlton←Richmond, assistance pick with on-trade stipulation
	16	Isabelle Pritchard	Western Bulldogs	Western Jets	NAB League	←West Coast, assistance pick with on-trade stipulation
2	17	Maggie Caris	Melbourne	GWV Rebels	NAB League	←Richmond←
	18	Shanae Davison	West Coast	Swan Districts	WAFLW
	19	Tarni Brown	Collingwood	Eastern Ranges	NAB League	Father–daughter selection (Daughter of Gavin Brown) ←Western Bulldogs
	20	Laura Gardiner	Geelong	Geelong Falcons	NAB League	←Adelaide
	21	Olivia Barber	Geelong	Murray Bushrangers	NAB League
	22	Alice O'Loughlin	North Melbourne	Oakleigh Chargers	NAB League	←St Kilda
	23	Sarah Perkins	Gold Coast	Hawthorn	VFLW
	24	Alice Burke	St Kilda	Sandringham Dragons	NAB League	Father–daughter selection (Daughter of Nathan Burke) ←Brisbane
	25	Amelia Velardo	Collingwood	Western Jets	NAB League	←Greater Western Sydney
	26	Joanna Lin	Collingwood	Oakleigh Chargers	NAB League
	27	Stephanie Williams	Geelong	Geelong Falcons	NAB League	←Melbourne
	28	Daisy Walker	Carlton	Sandringham Dragons	NAB League
	29	Emily Pease	Greater Western Sydney	Belconnen	AFL Canberra	←North Melbourne
	30	Mikayla Morrison	Fremantle	East Perth	WAFLW
3	31	Abbi Moloney	Collingwood	Sandringham Dragons	NAB League	←Richmond
	32	Julie-Anne Norrish	West Coast	East Fremantle	WAFLW
	33	Pass	Collingwood	—	—
	34	Renee Saulitis	St Kilda	GWV Rebels	NAB League
	35	Megan Fitzsimon	Melbourne	Gippsland Power	NAB League
	36	Winnie Laing	Carlton	Sandringham Dragons	NAB League
	37	Indy Tahau	Brisbane	South Adelaide	SANFLW
	38	Ruby Svarc	Brisbane	Essendon	VFLW
	39	Carly Remmos	Geelong	Geelong Falcons	NAB League
	40	Jacqueline Vogt	St Kilda	Southern Saints	VFLW
	41	Mietta Kendall	Melbourne	Eastern Ranges	NAB League
	42	Libby Graham	Greater Western Sydney	Manly Warringah	Sydney AFL
	43	Tessa Lavey	Richmond	Dandenong Rangers	WNBL	←North Melbourne
	44	Georgia Hammond	North Melbourne	Darebin Falcons	VFLW
	45	Rachelle Martin	Adelaide	West Adelaide	SANFLW
4	46	Tiah Haynes	Fremantle	Subiaco	WAFLW
	47	Ashleigh Woodland	Adelaide	North Adelaide	SANFLW
	48	Isabella Simmons	Melbourne	GWV Rebels	NAB League
	49	Brooke Brown	North Melbourne	Launceston	TWFL
	50	Maddison Levi	Gold Coast	Bond University	QAFLW
	51	Pass	St Kilda	—	—
5	52	Luka Lesosky-Hay	Richmond	Richmond	VFLW
	53	Andrea Gilmore	West Coast	Claremont	WAFLW
	54	Janet Baird	Gold Coast	Palmerston	NTFL
	55	Amy Smith	North Melbourne	Williamstown	VFLW	Father–daughter selection (Daughter of Shaun Smith)
6	56	Pass	West Coast	—	—
	57	Lucy Single	Gold Coast	Bond University	QAFLW
7	58	Bess Keaney	Gold Coast	Southern Saints	VFLW
8	59	Pass	West Coast	—	—
	60	Daisy D'Arcy	Gold Coast	Hermit Park	AFL Townsville
9	61	Wallis Randell	Gold Coast	Bond University	QAFLW

Post-Draft

Undrafted free agency and replacement players

Due to the shortened season and small lists, replacement players are allowed for players that are placed on the inactive list, often due to injury, work commitments, personal issues or pregnancy. A final free agency period was opened after the conclusion of the draft, allowing clubs that passed on a draft selection to recruit from outside their state-based zone.

Table of replacement player signings

Date	Player	Free agent/Replacement	Former club	New club	Ref
7 October	Bella Smith	Free agent	Norwood (SANFLW)	Collingwood	[74][75]
8 October	Tahlia Meyer	Free agent	South Adelaide (SANFLW)	St Kilda	[75]
	Lauren Gauci	Free agent	North Adelaide (SANFLW)	West Coast
	Amber Ward	Free agent	North Adelaide (SANFLW)
21 October	Maggie MacLachlan	Replacement (Trend)	Subiaco (WAFLW)	Fremantle	[59]
26 November	Demi Liddle	Replacement (Hill)	Peel Thunder (WAFLW)	West Coast	[68]
21 November	Jessica Matin	Replacement (Fitzpatrick)	Dandenong Stingrays (NAB League)	St Kilda	[76]
17 December	Erin Todd	Replacement (Bonner)	Sydney Uni Flames (WNBL)	Greater Western Sydney	[62]
	Beth Pinchin	Replacement (Webb)	Coolangatta (QAFLW)	Brisbane	[57]
21 December	Hannah McLaren	Replacement (Whitford)	Richmond (VFLW)	Richmond	[64]
4 January	Annabel Strahan	Replacement (Herron)	Bendigo Pioneers (NAB League Girls)	Western Bulldogs	[77]
13 January	Katelyn Cox	Replacement (Elisha King)	North Melbourne (VFLW)	North Melbourne	[63]
22 January	Mikayla Hyde	Replacement (Mascall)	Swan Districts (WAFLW)	Fremantle	[78]
25 January	Georgia Bevan	Replacement (Yorston)	Sturt (SANFLW)	Gold Coast	[79][80]
	Katelyn Pope	Replacement (Carter)	North Adelaide (SANFLW)	West Coast	[66]
26 January	Paige Trudgeon	Replacement (Dalton)	Montmorency Football Club, (NFNL)	Carlton	[81]
5 February	Rebecca Ott	Replacement (Xenos)	Southern Saints (VFLW)	St Kilda	[82]

See also

• 2020 AFL draft