2025 AFL Women's season

The 2025 AFL Women's season was the tenth season of the AFL Women's (AFLW) competition, the highest-level senior women's Australian rules football competition in Australia. The season featured 18 clubs and ran from 14 August to 29 November, comprising a twelve-round home-and-away season followed by a four-week finals series featuring the top eight clubs.

won the premiership, defeating by 40 points in the 2025 AFL Women's Grand Final; it was North Melbourne's second (consecutive and overall) AFL Women's premiership. North Melbourne won the minor premiership by finishing atop the home-and-away ladder with a perfect 12–0 win–loss record and won all three of its finals, completing a perfect season. North Melbourne's Ash Riddell won the AFL Women's best and fairest award as the league's best and fairest player, while 's Indy Tahau won the AFL Women's leading goalkicker award as the league's leading goalkicker.

Background

In September 2024, Australian Football League (AFL) chief executive officer Andrew Dillon announced that the 2025 season would have an earlier start date than previous seasons to accommodate an extra home-and-away match, and in November, AFL executive general manager Laura Kane announced that a twelve-match home-and-away season would be played over twelve weeks in 2025, abandoning the strategy of a compressed fixture trialled in 2024 where eleven matches were played over ten weeks.

Coach appointments

Club leadership

Pre-season

All starting times are local time. Source: afl.com.au (fixture; results/report)

Home-and-away season

All starting times are local time. Source: afl.com.au

Round 1

Round 2

Round 3

Round 4

Round 5

Round 6

Round 7

Round 8

Round 9

Round 10

Round 11

Round 12

Ladder

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Progression by round

Source: Australian Football

Home match attendance

The following table includes all home match attendance figures from the home-and-away season.

Source: Australian Football

Finals series

All starting times are local time. Source: afl.com.au

Finals week 1

Finals week 2

Finals week 3

Grand final

Win–loss table

The following table can be sorted from biggest winning margin to biggest losing margin for each round. If two or more matches in a round are decided by the same margin, these margins are sorted by percentage (i.e. the lowest-scoring winning team is ranked highest and the lowest-scoring losing team is ranked lowest). Home matches are in bold, and opponents are listed above the margins.

Source: Australian Football

Season notes

• St Kilda and West Coast qualified for finals for the first time.
• North Melbourne completed a perfect season, winning all 15 matches across the home-and-away season and finals series, and became the first club in the competition's history to win consecutive premierships.

Coach departures

Awards

Major awards

• The AFL Women's best and fairest was awarded to midfielder Ash Riddell.
• The AFLPA AFLW most valuable player was awarded to North Melbourne's Jasmine Garner; the best captain award was also won by Garner, the most courageous player award was won by Kiara Bowers of and best first-year player was won by Zippy Fish of .
• The AFLCA AFLW champion player of the year was awarded to North Melbourne's Ash Riddell.
• The AFL Women's All-Australian team was announced on 24 November; North Melbourne's Jasmine Garner was named captain and Melbourne forward Kate Hore was named vice-captain. Garner's selection was the eighth of her career, tying the league record with teammate Emma Kearney.
• The AFL Women's leading goalkicker was awarded to 's Indy Tahau, who scored 25 goals in the home-and-away season.
• The AFL Women's Rising Star was awarded to Sydney's Zippy Fish.
• The Goal of the Year was awarded to Sydney's Montana Ham.
• The Mark of the Year was awarded to 's Sarah Hosking.

Leading goalkickers

! rowspan=2 style=width:2em | # ! rowspan=2 | Player ! rowspan=2 | Team ! colspan=12 | Home-and-away season<br>(AFL Women's leading goalkicker) ! colspan=4 | Finals series ! rowspan=2 | Total ! rowspan=2 | Games ! rowspan=2 | Average |- ! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4 !! 5 !! 6 !! 7 !! 8 !! 9 !! 10 !! 11 !! 12 !! F1 !! F2 !! F3 !! GF |- ! scope=row style=text-align:center rowspan=2 | 1 | align=left | Blaithin Bogue || align=left | || 2₂ || 1₃ || 4₇ || 1₈ || 3₁₁ || 1₁₂ || 2₁₄ || 1₁₅ || 2₁₇ || 1₁₈ || 2₂₀ || 1₂₁ || 1₂₂ || X₂₂ || 3₂₅ || 0₂₅ || 25 || 15 || 1.67 |- | align=left | Indy Tahau || align=left | || 0₀ || 0₀ || 3₃ || 2₅ || 3₈ || 2₁₀ || 1₁₁ || 4₁₅ || 1₁₆ || bgcolor=C9F0FF | 5₂₁ || bgcolor=C9F0FF | 2₂₃ || bgcolor=CCFFCC | 2₂₅ || colspan=4 | || 25 || 12 || 2.08 |- ! scope=row style=text-align:center rowspan=2 | 3 | align=left | Kate Hore || align=left | || 2₂ || 1₃ || 2₅ || 2₇ || 3₁₀ || 2₁₂ || 2₁₄ || 0₁₄ || 1₁₅ || 1₁₆ || 1₁₇ || 1₁₈ || 1₁₉ || 3₂₂ || 2₂₄ || || 24 || 15 || 1.60 |- | align=left | Tahlia Randall || align=left | || 0₀ || 1₁ || 3₄ || 2₆ || 2₈ || 2₁₀ || 1₁₁ || 3₁₄ || 2₁₆ || 1₁₇ || 1₁₈ || 4₂₂ || 1₂₃ || X₂₃ || 0₂₃ || 1₂₄ || 24 || 15 || 1.60 |- ! scope=row style=text-align:center | 5 | align=left | Gemma Houghton || align=left | || 0₀ || 2₂ || 4₆ || 1₇ || 1₈ || 1₉ || 2₁₁ || 1₁₂ || 2₁₄ || 3₁₇ || 2₁₉ || 4₂₃ || colspan=4 | || 23 || 12 || 1.92 |- ! scope=row style=text-align:center rowspan=2 | 6 | align=left | Áine McDonagh || align=left | || 2₂ || 1₃ || 0₃ || 2₅ || 1₆ || 2₈ || 2₁₀ || 1₁₁ || 3₁₄ || 3₁₇ || 3₂₀ || 1₂₁ || 0₂₁ || 1₂₂ || colspan=2 | || 22 || 14 || 1.57 |- | align=left | Eden Zanker || align=left | || 2₂ || 2₄ || 1₅ || 1₆ || 0₆ || 5₁₁ || 0₁₁ || 0₁₁ || 1₁₂ || 4₁₆ || 2₁₈ || 4₂₂ || 0₂₂ || –₂₂ || 0₂₂ || || 22 || 14 || 1.57 |- ! scope=row style=text-align:center | 8 | align=left | Jasmine Garner || align=left | || 1₁ || 6₇ || 1₈ || –₈ || 1₉ || 2₁₁ || 1₁₂ || 4₁₆ || 2₁₈ || 1₁₉ || 0₁₉ || 0₁₉ || 0₁₉ || X₁₉ || 1₂₀ || 1₂₀ || 21 || 14 || 1.50 |- ! scope=row style=text-align:center | 9 | align=left | Chloe Molloy || align=left | || bgcolor=C9F0FF | 4₄ || bgcolor=C9F0FF | 7₁₁ || bgcolor=C9F0FF | 1₁₂ || bgcolor=C9F0FF | 2₁₄ || bgcolor=C9F0FF | 1₁₅ || bgcolor=C9F0FF | 0₁₅ || bgcolor=C9F0FF | 2₁₇ || bgcolor=C9F0FF | 0₁₇ || bgcolor=C9F0FF | 2₁₉ || –₁₉ || –₁₉ || –₁₉ || colspan=4 | || 19 || 9 || 2.11 |- ! scope=row style=text-align:center rowspan=2 | 10 | align=left | Sophie McKay || align=left | || 0₀ || 0₀ || 1₁ || 2₃ || 3₆ || 1₇ || 1₈ || 0₈ || 0₈ || 2₁₀ || 2₁₂ || 0₁₂ || 2₁₄ || 3₁₇ || 1₁₈ || || 18 || 15 || 1.20 |- | align=left | Taylor Smith || align=left | || 1₁ || 2₃ || 1₄ || 2₆ || 0₆ || 2₈ || 1₉ || 3₁₂ || 1₁₃ || 1₁₄ || 1₁₅ || 2₁₇ || 0₁₇ || X₁₇ || 1₁₈ || 0₁₈ || 18 || 15 || 1.20

Source: Australian Football

Club best and fairest

Player movement and draft

See also

• 2025 AFL season

Notes

References

Sources

• 2025 AFL Women's season at afl.com.au
• 2025 AFL Women's season at Australian Football
• 2025 AFL Women's season at Austadiums