2019 AFL Women's season | |
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Overview | |
Date | 2 February—31 March 2019 |
Teams | 10 |
Premiers | Adelaide 2nd premiership |
Runners-up | Carlton 1st runners-up result |
Best and fairest | Erin Phillips (Adelaide) 19 votes |
Leading goalkicker | Stevie-Lee Thompson (Adelaide) 13 goals |
Attendance | |
Matches played | 38 |
Total attendance | 251,792 (6,626 per match) |
Highest (H&A) | 18,429 (round 1, Geelong v Collingwood) |
Highest (finals) | 53,034 (grand final, Adelaide v Carlton) |
The 2019 AFL Women's season was the third season of the AFL Women's (AFLW) competition, the highest-level senior women's Australian rules football competition in Australia. The season featured ten clubs and ran from 2 February to 31 March, comprising a seven-round home-and-away season followed by a two-week finals series featuring the top two clubs from each conference. Australian Football League (AFL) clubs Geelong and North Melbourne featured for the first time in 2019.
Adelaide won the premiership, defeating Carlton by 45 points in the 2019 AFL Women's Grand Final; it was Adelaide's second AFL Women's premiership. Adelaide's Erin Phillips won her second AFL Women's best and fairest award as the league's best and fairest player, and teammate Stevie-Lee Thompson won the AFL Women's leading goalkicker award as the league's leading goalkicker.