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2020 AFL Women's season

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2020 AFL Women's season
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The 2020 AFL Women's season was the fourth season of the AFL Women's (AFLW) competition, the highest-level senior women's Australian rules football competition in Australia. The season featured 14 clubs and ran from 7 February to 22 March; it was intended to comprise an eight-round home-and-away season followed by a three-week finals series featuring the top three clubs from each conference, however the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in March saw the season curtailed and finally abandoned without a premiership being awarded. Australian Football League (AFL) clubs Gold Coast, Richmond, St Kilda and West Coast featured for the first time in 2020.

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Carlton's Madison Prespakis won the AFL Women's best and fairest award as the league's best and fairest player, and St Kilda's Caitlin Greiser won the AFL Women's leading goalkicker award as the league's leading goalkicker.

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Background

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New teams

Four new teams, Gold Coast, Richmond, St Kilda and West Coast, joined the competition, bringing the total number of teams to fourteen. This followed on from the inclusion of Geelong and North Melbourne in the previous season.[1]

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Collective bargaining agreement

Prior to the season commencing a collective bargaining agreement failed to pass the player's association, with only 70% agreeing, falling short of the required 75% threshold. One of the demands of the dissenters was to have a longer season, so that all the teams could play each other once.[2] The players later voted with a vote of 98% to agree to a revised agreement, which steadily increased the number of matches to be played over three years.[3]

Conference system

The conference system utilised in the previous season was retained for this season, though it was expanded to cater for the additional teams. Seven teams were placed in each of the two conferences, with teams playing all their intra-conference rivals once and two cross-over matches against teams from the other conference, resulting in an 8-round home and away season. The placing of the teams was determined by the AFL with competitiveness, list assessments and the previous season's results in mind.[4]

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Impact of 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic

The 2020 season was disrupted and then brought to an early end by the COVID-19 pandemic, which was formally declared a pandemic on 11 March 2020, prior to Round 6. The pandemic had the following effects on the season:

  • All matches played from 14 March onwards were played to empty stadiums.[5]
  • The final two rounds of the home-and-away season were scratched and the finals brought forward by two weeks, being played based on ladder positions at the time.[6]
  • The finals series was expanded from six teams to eight. Under the original schedule, the top team in each conference was to advance directly to the preliminary finals while the second and third placed teams played off in semi-finals; but under the modified system, the fourth placed teams also qualified, and faced the first placed teams in semi-finals.[6] Partway through the finals series, it was announced that no premiership will be awarded after the Victorian government announced a shutdown of all non-essential operations on 22 March 2020.[7]
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Home-and-away season

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The originally scheduled eight-round fixture and make-up of the conferences was released on 29 October 2019.[8]

  • All starting times are Australian Eastern Time.[8]
  • Richmond home games originally scheduled at the Swinburne Centre, the club's home ground, were later moved to Ikon Park out of concerns for crowd capacity.[9]

Round 1

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Round 2

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Round 3

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Round 4

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Round 5

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Round 6

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Ladders

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Progression by round

  • Numbers highlighted in green indicates the team finished the round inside the top 3.
  • Numbers highlighted in blue indicates the team finished in first place in the conference for that round.
  • Numbers highlighted in red indicates the team finished in last place in the conference for that round.
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Finals series

 
Semi finalsPreliminary finalsGrand final
 
          
 
March 21, Ikon Park
 
 
North Melbourne5.4 (34)
 
28–29 March
 
Collingwood5.2 (32)
 
North Melbourne Cancelled
 
March 22, Ikon Park
 
CarltonCancelled
 
Carlton6.8 (44)
 
4–5 April
 
Brisbane2.3 (15)
 
N/A Cancelled
 
March 21, Fremantle Oval
 
N/A Cancelled
 
Fremantle12.8 (80)
 
28–29 March
 
Gold Coast1.4 (10)
 
Fremantle Cancelled
 
March 21, Giants Stadium
 
MelbourneCancelled
 
Greater Western Sydney3.8 (26)
 
 
Melbourne4.5 (29)
 

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Win–loss table

+WinQualified for finals
-LossXBye
DrawEliminated
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Awards

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League awards

Best and fairests

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AFLW leading goalkicker

  • Numbers highlighted in blue indicates the player led the season's goal kicking tally at the end of that round. The total is updated following the conclusion of the round.
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Coach changes

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Club leadership

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