2017 AFL Women's season | |
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Overview | |
Date | 3 February—25 March 2017 |
Teams | 8 |
Premiers | Adelaide 1st premiership |
Runners-up | Brisbane 1st runners-up result |
Minor premiers | Brisbane 1st minor premiership |
Best and fairest | Erin Phillips (Adelaide) 14 votes |
Leading goalkicker | Darcy Vescio (Carlton) 14 goals |
Attendance | |
Matches played | 29 |
Total attendance | 198,020 (6,828 per match) |
Highest | 24,568 (round 1, Carlton v Collingwood) |
The 2017 AFL Women's season was the inaugural season of the AFL Women's (AFLW) competition, the highest-level senior women's Australian rules football competition in Australia. The season ran from 3 February to 25 March, comprising a seven-round home-and-away season followed by a grand final contested by the top two clubs. Eight Australian Football League (AFL) clubs featured in the inaugural season: Adelaide, Brisbane, Carlton, Collingwood, Fremantle, Greater Western Sydney, Melbourne and the Western Bulldogs.
Adelaide won the inaugural premiership, defeating Brisbane by six points in the 2017 AFL Women's Grand Final. Brisbane won the minor premiership by finishing atop the home-and-away ladder with a 6–0–1 win–loss–draw record. Adelaide's Erin Phillips won the AFL Women's best and fairest award as the league's best and fairest player, and Carlton's Darcy Vescio won the AFL Women's leading goalkicker award as the league's leading goalkicker.