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The 2024 AFL Women's draft was the annual draft that enabled the 18 clubs in the AFL Women's (AFLW) competition to recruit players following the 2024 AFL Women's season. It was held on 16 December 2024. It took place during the 2024–25 AFL Women's player movement period, which began in November 2024 and ran until March 2025.[1]
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In June 2024, the Australian Football League (AFL) announced that long-time major partner Telstra had expanded its partnership with the league to become the naming rights sponsor for the AFL and AFLW drafts and both competitions' Rising Star awards from 2024 onwards.[2] Later that month, AFL executive general manager Laura Kane announced that the AFL Women's draft would transition to a fully national draft for the first time, following feedback from clubs and the use of an "opt-in model" in the 2023 draft, where nearly 70 per cent of draftees (including twelve of the top 16 selections) nominated for the national draft pool rather than chose to remain in their home state.[3] The draft also saw the introduction of minimum two-year contracts for draftees.[3] In August, AFLW general manager Emma Moore announced that the girls' draft combine would also become a national event for the first time, having previously been staged only as state-based events, and would be held in Melbourne in October on the same weekend as the boys' combine.[4] Players who were not invited to the national combine were also able to attend smaller state-based draft combines in Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia.[5]
The draft was held on 16 December at Marvel Stadium and broadcast on afl.com.au and the official AFL app.[6] In the week leading up to the draft, experts from afl.com.au,[7] The Age[8] and Fox Sports considered Gippsland Power midfielder Ash Centra the favourite to be taken by Collingwood with the first selection;[9] the Herald Sun reported the day before the draft that Collingwood had already settled on Centra for the selection,[10] with Collingwood confirming the selection the following night at the draft.[11]
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The order of selections for the national draft was finalised on 11 December, at the conclusion of the 2024 trade period.[12]
| A | Academy selection |
| FD | Father–daughter selection |
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- Matched bid from Melbourne
- Matched bid from Geelong
- Matched bid from Essendon
- Matched bid from North Melbourne
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