2021 AFL Women's draft

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 6.

2021 AFL Women's draft
General information
Date(s)	27 July 2021
Time	7:00pm AEST
Sponsored by	NAB
Overview
League	AFL Women's
First selection	Charlie Rowbottom (Gold Coast)
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Special assistance

In May 2021, just before the draft period began, the AFL Commission approved special draft and signing assistance to the Gold Coast, Geelong, West Coast, St Kilda and Richmond to support the strengthening of their playing lists in line with the competition's leading clubs. As a condition of receiving assistance, the clubs were required to use at least five selections at the upcoming draft.^[1]

Table of special assistance

Club	Measure	Pick number/Player name	Notes	Ref
Gold Coast	First round pick	Pick 6		[1]
	First round pick	Pick 8
	Mature age signing	Unused
	Mature age signing	Unused
Geelong	First round pick	Pick 7		[1]
	First round pick	Pick 9
	Mature age signing	Claudia Gunjaca		[2]
	Mature age signing	Olivia Fuller
West Coast	Second round pick	Pick 24		[1]
	Third round pick	Pick 41
St Kilda	Second round pick	Pick 25	Traded to Western Bulldogs	[1]
Richmond	Second round pick	Pick 26	Traded to Carlton and on to Collingwood	[1]

Signing and trading period

Players can be signed for one or two year contracts. The trade period opened on 31 May 2021 and will close on 9 June 2021. Players can be re-signed until 16 June 2021.^[3]

Retirements and delistings

Table of player retirements and delistings

Date	Name	Club	Status	Ref
25 March	Aasta O'Connor	Geelong	Retired	[4]
28 March	Alison Downie	Carlton	Delisted	[5]
	Katie Loynes		Delisted
29 March	Sally Riley	Gold Coast	Retired	[6]
31 March	Alison Brown	St Kilda	Delisted	[7]
	Selena Karlson		Retired
	Tamara Luke		Delisted
	Nadia von Bertouch		Delisted
5 April	Emily Harley	Richmond	Delisted	[8]
	Luka Lesosky-Hay		Delisted
	Cleo Saxon-Jones		Delisted
	Holly Whitford		Delisted
7 April	Maddie Boyd	Geelong	Delisted	[9]
	Nicole Garner		Delisted
	Mia Skinner		Delisted
9 April	Leah Mascall	Fremantle	Retired	[10]
	Jessica Edwards	Carlton	Delisted	[11]
12 April	Sam Virgo	Gold Coast	Retired	[12]
14 April	Sharni Norder	Collingwood	Retired	[13]
16 April	Kristy Stratton	Collingwood	Delisted	[14]
	Niamh McEvoy	Melbourne	Retired	[15]
	Shae Sloane		Retired	[16]
	Tarnee Tester	Fremantle	Delisted	[17]
	Jess Trend		Delisted
	Alex Williams		Delisted
18 April	Emma Zielke	Brisbane	Retired	[18]
19 April	Lauren Arnell	Brisbane	Retired	[19]
22 April	Jessy Keeffe	Brisbane	Retired	[20]
28 April	Georgia Bevan	Gold Coast	Delisted	[21]
	Jordann Hickey		Delisted
	Molly Ritson		Delisted
30 April	Katelyn Cox	North Melbourne	Delisted	[22]
	Georgia Hammond		Delisted
13 May	Renee Forth	Adelaide	Delisted	[23]
2 June	Amelia van Oosterwijck	Western Bulldogs	Retired	[24]
4 June	Leah Kaslar	Gold Coast	Delisted	[25]
7 June	Alice Edmonds	Richmond	Delisted	[26]
	Beth Lynch	North Melbourne	Delisted	[27]
	Tahni Nestor		Delisted
8 June	Meg Downie	Melbourne	Retired	[28]
	Winnie Laing	Carlton	Delisted	[29]
	Paige Parker	Gold Coast	Delisted	[30]
	Phoebe Monahan	Richmond	Delisted	[31]
	Alana Woodward		Delisted
9 June	Alicia Janz	West Coast	Delisted	[32]
	Beatrice Devlyn		Delisted
	Brianna Green		Delisted
	Demi Liddle		Delisted
	Julie-Anne Norrish		Delisted
	Kate Orme		Delisted
	Katelyn Pope		Delisted
	Mhicca Carter		Delisted
	Tegan Cunningham	Melbourne	Retired	[33]
	Mietta Kendell		Delisted
	Akec Makur Chuot	Richmond	Delisted	[34]
	Richelle Cranston	Geelong	Delisted	[35]
	Kate Darby		Delisted
	Rebecca Goring		Delisted
	Kate Gillespie-Jones	North Melbourne	Delisted	[36]
	Beth Pinchin	Brisbane	Delisted	[37][38]
	Selina Priest		Delisted
	Jordan Zanchetta		Delisted
	Sarah Halvorsen	Greater Western Sydney	Delisted	[39]
	Jodie Hicks		Delisted
	Erin Todd		Delisted
	Britt Tully		Delisted
10 June	Abbey Green	Collingwood	Retired	[40]
	Rheanne Lugg	Brisbane	Retired	[41]
	Lauren Spark	Western Bulldogs	Retired	[42]
14 June	Chantella Perera	West Coast	Delisted	[43]
16 June	McKenzie Dowrick	West Coast	Delisted	[44]
	Katie-Jayne Grieve	Fremantle	Delisted	[45]
	Angelica Gogos	Western Bulldogs	Retired	[46]
	Danielle Marshall		Delisted	[47]
	Kim Rennie		Delisted
	Katy Herron		Delisted
	Taylah Davies	Greater Western Sydney	Delisted	[48]
29 June	Clara Fitzpatrick	St Kilda	Delisted	[49]

Trades

Table of trades^[50]

Clubs involved	Trade		Ref
Collingwood Richmond	to Collingwood (from Richmond) Sabrina Frederick pick #26 pick #55	to Richmond (from Collingwood) Maddie Shevlin pick #16 pick #48	[51]
St Kilda Richmond	to Richmond (from St Kilda) Poppy Kelly	to St Kilda (from Richmond) Pick #48	[52]
Western Bulldogs Greater Western Sydney	to Western Bulldogs (from Greater Western Sydney) Elle Bennetts	to Greater Western Sydney (from Western Bulldogs) Pick #28	[53]
Melbourne Geelong	to Melbourne (from Geelong) Olivia Purcell Pick #37	to Geelong (from Melbourne) Chantel Emonson Pick #15	[54]
Geelong Adelaide	to Geelong (from Adelaide) Chloe Scheer	to Adelaide (from Geelong) Pick #20
Adelaide Melbourne	to Adelaide (from Melbourne) Pick #47	to Melbourne (from Adelaide) Pick #49
Carlton Greater Western Sydney	to Carlton (from Greater Western Sydney) Jessica Dal Pos Pick #10 Pick #27	to Greater Western Sydney (from Carlton) Chloe Dalton Katie Loynes
Melbourne Greater Western Sydney	to Melbourne (from Greater Western Sydney) Pick #42	to Greater Western Sydney (from Melbourne) Pick #37
Melbourne Carlton	to Melbourne (from Carlton) Tayla Harris Pick #44	to Carlton (from Melbourne) Pick #32
Gold Coast St Kilda	to Gold Coast (from St Kilda) Claudia Whitfort	to St Kilda (from Gold Coast) Pick #36	[55]
Carlton Collingwood	to Carlton (from Collingwood) Pick #26 Pick #55	to Collingwood (from Carlton) Pick #29 Pick #32	[56]
Carlton Western Bulldogs	to Carlton (from Western Bulldogs) Pick #11 Pick #57	to Western Bulldogs (from Carlton) Pick #12 Pick #27	[57]
St Kilda Western Bulldogs	to St Kilda (from Western Bulldogs) Pick #12	to Western Bulldogs (from St Kilda) Pick #22 Pick #25	[58]
Greater Western Sydney North Melbourne	to Greater Western Sydney (from North Melbourne) Jasmine Grierson	to North Melbourne (from Greater Western Sydney) Pick #28	[59]
West Coast Fremantle	to West Coast (from Fremantle) Evangeline Gooch	to Fremantle (from West Coast) Pick #38	[60]
Richmond Carlton	to Richmond (from Carlton) Jess Hosking Pick #55 Pick #57	to Carlton (from Richmond) Pick #23 Pick #40	[34]
Gold Coast North Melbourne	to Gold Coast (from North Melbourne) Vivien Saad Pick #30	to North Melbourne (from Gold Coast) Pick #19	[61]

Delisted free agency

The delisted free agency period will close on 25 June 2021.^[3]

Table of free agency signings

Date	Player	Former club	New club	Ref
9 June	Aimee Schmidt	Greater Western Sydney	West Coast	[62][63]
10 June	Alison Downie	Carlton	Collingwood	[40]
15 June	Alana Woodward	Richmond	St Kilda	[64]
18 June	Richelle Cranston	Geelong	Western Bulldogs	[65]
	Phoebe Monahan	Richmond	Brisbane	[66]
25 June	Jasmyn Hewett	Gold Coast	Adelaide	[67]

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
Adelaide	Jasmine Simmons	Basketball	[68]
Geelong	Rachel Kearns	Gaelic football	[2]
Melbourne	Eliza West	Basketball	[69]
St Kilda	Paige Price	Basketball	[70]

Inactive players

Following final list lodgements, a number of players experienced changing circumstances that made them unable to participate in 2022 season 6. Clubs were granted permission to place these players on an inactive list, gaining end of draft selections to replace them for the one season.^[71] Players on each club's inactive list ahead of 2022 season 6 are listed below:

Table of inactive players

Club	Player	Reason	Ref
Adelaide	Jess Sedunary	Olympics	[23]
	Ange Foley	Injury	[72]
	Rhiannon Metcalfe	Work commitments
	Deni Varnhagen	Unvaccinated	[73]
Brisbane	Lily Postlethwaite	Knee	[74]
Carlton	Serena Gibbs	Mental health	[75]
Collingwood	Jordan Membrey	Knee	[40]
	Joanna Lin	Shoulder	[76]
Fremantle	Sabreena Duffy	Work commitments	[77]
	Ashley Sharp	Pregnancy	[78]
Geelong	Denby Taylor	Personal break	[79]
	Millie Brown	Personal break	[74][80]
	Renee Garing	Pregnancy	[81]
Gold Coast	Annise Bradfield	Knee	[82]
	Emma Pittman	Work commitments
	Maddison Levi	Rugby	[83]
	Teagan Levi	Rugby
Greater Western Sydney	Jessica Allan	Army	[39]
	Yvonne Bonner	Pregnancy	[48]
	Emily Goodsir	Pregnancy	[84]
	Isadora McLeay	Knee	[85]
Melbourne	Isabella Simmons	Foot	[86]
North Melbourne	Elisha King	Knee	[87]
Richmond	Iilish Ross	Lower leg	[88]
	Hannah McLaren	Illness	[89]
St Kilda	Paige Price	Hip	[90]
	Tyanna Smith	Knee	[91]
Western Bulldogs	Gabby Newton	Shoulder	[92]
	Kirsten McLeod	Concussion	[93]

Draft

Table of draft selections

Rd.	Pick	Player	Club	Recruited from		Notes
				Club	League
1	1	Charlie Rowbottom	Gold Coast	Oakleigh Chargers	NAB League Girls
	2	Georgie Prespakis	Geelong	Calder Cannons	NAB League Girls
	3	Charlie Thomas	West Coast	Subiaco Lions	WAFL Women's
	4	Ella Friend	St Kilda	Greater Western Victoria Rebels	NAB League Girls
	5	Stella Reid	Richmond	Oakleigh Chargers	NAB League Girls
	6	Teagan Levi	Gold Coast	Bond University Football Club	AFL Queensland Women's League
	7	Zali Friswell	Geelong	Calder Cannons	NAB League Girls
	8	Ashanti Bush	Gold Coast	Darwin Football Club	Northern Territory Football League
	9	Gabbi Featherston	Geelong	Geelong Falcons	NAB League Girls
	10	Annie Lee	Carlton	Geelong Falcons	NAB League Girls	←Greater Western Sydney
	11	Keeley Sherar	Carlton	Eastern Ranges	NAB League Girls	←Western Bulldogs
	12	Ashleigh Richards	St Kilda	Dandenong Stingrays	NAB League Girls	←Western Bulldogs←Carlton
	13	Tess Craven	North Melbourne	Geelong Falcons	NAB League Girls
	14	Amy Franklin	Fremantle	Claremont Football Club	WAFL Women's
	15	Annabel Johnson	Geelong	Geelong VFLW	VFL Women's	←Melbourne
	16	Emilia Yassir	Richmond	Calder Cannons	NAB League Girls	←Collingwood
	17	Zoe Prowse	Adelaide	Sturt Football Club	SANFL Women's
	18	Maggie Harmer	Brisbane	Maroochydore Football Club	AFL Queensland Women's League
2	19	Tara Slender	North Melbourne	Bendigo Pioneers	NAB League Girls	←Gold Coast
	20	Brooke Tonon	Adelaide	Glenelg	SANFL Women's	←Geelong
	21	Courtney Rowley	West Coast	Peel Thunder	WAFL Women's
	22	Amanda Ling	Western Bulldogs	Oakleigh Chargers	NAB League Girls	←St Kilda
	23	Brooke Vickers	Carlton	Oakleigh Chargers	NAB League Girls	←Richmond
	24	Beth Schilling	West Coast	Peel Thunder	WAFL Women's
	25	Aurora Smith	Western Bulldogs	Murray Bushrangers	NAB League Girls	←St Kilda
	26	Imogen Milford	Carlton	Casey Demons	VFL Women's	←Collingwood←Richmond
	27	Elizabeth Snell	Western Bulldogs	Bendigo Pioneers	NAB League Girls	←Carlton←Greater Western Sydney
	28	Kim Rennie	North Melbourne	Western Bulldogs	AFL Women's	←Greater Western Sydney←Western Bulldogs
	29	Eliza James	Collingwood	Oakleigh Chargers	NAB League Girls	←Carlton
	30	Giselle Davies	Gold Coast	Bond University Football Club	AFL Queensland Women's League	←North Melbourne
	31	Dana East	Fremantle	Swan Districts Football Club	WAFL Women's
	32	Eloise Chaston	Collingwood	Eastern Ranges	NAB League Girls	←Carlton←Melbourne
	33	Imogen Barnett	Collingwood	Collingwood	VFL Women's
	34	Abbie Ballard	Adelaide	West Adelaide	SANFL Women's
	35	Bella Smith	Brisbane	Maroochydore Football Club	AFL Queensland Women's League
3	36	Pass	St Kilda			←Gold Coast
	37	Ally Morphett	Greater Western Sydney	Murray Bushrangers	NAB League Girls	←Melbourne←Geelong
	38	Makaela Tuhakaraina	Fremantle	South Fremantle Football Club	WAFL Women's	West Coast
	39	Pass	Carlton
	40	Sarah Lakay	West Coast	Swan Districts Football Club	WAFL Women's	←Greater Western Sydney
	41	Georgia Campbell	Melbourne	Eastern Ranges	NAB League Girls	←Greater Western Sydney
	42	Tahlia Gillard	Melbourne	Calder Cannons	NAB League Girls	←Carlton
	43	Perri King	North Melbourne	Glenorchy Football Club	Tasmanian Football League
	44	Airlie Runnalls	Fremantle	North Melbourne	VFL Women's	←Greater Western Sydney
	45	Alison Brown	Melbourne	Casey Demons	VFL Women's	←Adelaide
	46	Mikayla Pauga	Brisbane	Bond University Football Club	AFL Queensland Women's League
4	47	Emily Bennett	West Coast	Claremont Football Club	WAFL Women's	←Melbourne
	48	Meagan Kiely	Richmond	North Melbourne	VFL Women's	←Carlton←Collingwood
	49	Jessica Doyle	Greater Western Sydney	Manly Warringah	AFL Sydney	←Adelaide
	50	Ingrid Houtsma	Richmond	Geelong Falcons	NAB League Girls	←Carlton←Western Bulldogs
	51	Jasmine Ferguson	North Melbourne	Collingwood	VFL Women's
	52	Jessica Low	Fremantle	Claremont Football Club	WAFL Women's
	53	Luka Yoshida-Martin	Brisbane	University of Queensland	AFL Queensland Women's League
5	54	Akec Makur Chuot	Richmond	Richmond	AFL Women's
	55	Brodee Mowbray	Greater Western Sydney	Sutherland AFC	AFL Sydney
	56	Ella Maurer	North Melbourne	North Melbourne	VFL Women's
	57	Sarah Wielstra	Fremantle	Swan Districts Football Club	WAFL Women's
	58	Lucinda Pullar	Brisbane	Bond University Football Club	AFL Queensland Women's League
6	59	Georgina Fowler	Greater Western Sydney	East Coast Eagles	AFL Sydney
7	60	Casidhe Simmons	Greater Western Sydney	UNSW-Eastern Suburbs Bulldogs	AFL Sydney
8	61	Erin Todd	Greater Western Sydney	Western Suburbs Magpies AFC	AFL Sydney

Free agency and replacement signings

Where players were moved to inactive list after the draft had taken place, club were entitled to replace them by free agency signing.

Free agent or replacement signings

Club	Player	Reason	Former club	Former league	Ref
Adelaide	McKenzie Dowrick	Replacement (Varnhagen)	Woodville-West Torrens	SANFLW	[94]
Carlton	Jess Good	Free agent	Glenelg	SANFLW	[95]
	Poppy Schaap	Replacement (Gibbs)	Geelong Falcons	NAB League Girls	[96]
Collingwood	Olivia Meagher	Replacement (Lin)	Collingwood	VFL Women's	[76]
Gold Coast	Alana Barba	Replacement (Pittman)	Essendon	VFL Women's	[97]
	Tara Bohanna	Replacement (Bradfield)	Southern Saints	VFL Women's
	Shannon Danckert	Replacement (M. Levi)	Bond University	QWAFL	[98]
	Jacqueline Dupuy	Replacement (T. Levi)	Maroochydore	QWAFL
Greater Western Sydney	Isadora McLeay	Replacement (Goodsir)	North Shore	AFL Sydney	[99]
	Ally Dallaway	Replacement (McLeay)	East Coast Eagles	AFL Sydney	[85]
Melbourne	Maeve Chaplin	Replacement (Simmons)	Northern Knights	NAB League	[86]
North Melbourne	Lexi Hamilton	Replacement (King)	North Melbourne	VFL Women's	[100]
Richmond	Beth Lynch	Replacement (Ross)	North Melbourne	AFL Women's	[88]
	Meg Macdonald	Replacement (McLaren)	Casey	VFL Women's	[101]
St Kilda	Leah Cutting	Free agent	Norwood	SANFLW	[102]
	Lucy Burke	Replacement (Price)	Southern Saints	VFL Women's	[90]
Western Bulldogs	Alice Edmonds	Replacement (Newton)	Richmond	AFL Women's	[103]
	Jemima Woods	Replacement (McLeod)	Western Bulldogs	VFL Women's	[93]

Train on players

Where multiple players were ruled unable to play due to Covid-19 related health and safety protocols, clubs were entitled to field up to five train on players to enable them to field a full side.^[104]

Train on players

Club	Player	Former club	Former league	Ref
Fremantle	Mikayla Western	Peel Thunder	WAFLW	[105]

See also

• 2021 AFL draft