The 2026 VFL Women's season will be the tenth season of the VFL Women's (VFLW), the state-level senior women's Australian rules football competition in Victoria. The season is scheduled to begin on 16 May and conclude with the grand final on the weekend of 19-20 September.
In September 2025, the Australian Football League (AFL) announced that the Tasmania Football Club would join the VFL Women's in 2026, thereby increasing the number of teams in the competition to 13. Tasmania will field a senior women's team in the VFLW in 2026 and 2027, before graduating to the AFL Women's (AFLW) in 2028, upon which it is expected to field a reserve women's team in the VFLW. Though a Tasmanian team played in the Victorian Football League (VFL) men's competition from 2001 to 2008, this marked the first time a Tasmanian team had competed in the VFLW.
The competition calendar was shifted for the second consecutive season, with the league to be played between May and September, as opposed to between April and August. In announcing the change, Jennie Loughnan, the AFL's head of state league competitions, said "the decision to push back the VFLW season dates ensures more crossover with the NAB AFLW competition." The fixture dates were confirmed on 11 February 2026. This is the first occasion in which the VFLW grand final will be held on the same weekend as the VFL men's grand final. Though the top six teams still qualify for the finals series, the format of the series was altered, with two elimination finals (3rd vs 6th and 4th vs 5th) held in the first week, followed by the preliminary finals hosted by the top two teams in the second week (1st vs lowest-ranked elimination finals winner and 2nd vs highest-ranked elimination finals winner), and the grand final between the two preliminary finals winners in the third week.
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For the second consecutive season, an interstate representative match was arranged against the SANFL Women's League (SANFLW). As was the case with the 2025 fixture, the match has been timed to coincide with the AFL's Gather Round fixtures in Adelaide. The match will be held as part of a double-header with the equivalent men's interstate match.