2022 VFL Women's season

2022 VFL Women's season
Teams12
PremiersEssendon
1st premiership
Minor premiersEssendon
1st minor premiership
Best and fairestGeorgia Nanscawen
Essendon (33 votes)
Leading goalkickerFederica Frew
Essendon (29 goals)
Matches played91
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The 2022 VFL Women's season was the sixth season of the VFL Women's (VFLW). The season commenced on 12 February and concluded with the grand final on 3 July.[1] Essendon went through the season undefeated and won its first VFLW premiership, defeating the Southern Saints by 35 points in the grand final; this resulted in the first completed VFLW season since 2019 after COVID-19 disruptions affected the previous two seasons.[2]

The season consisted of 14 games for each of the 12 clubs, all of whom returned from the 2021 VFL Women's season.[3] For the first time, all matches were available to watch via the AFL website/app or the VFL/VFLW YouTube channel.[4]

  1. ^ Black, Sarah (30 November 2021). "VFLW season brought forward to better align with AFLW". womens.afl. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  2. ^ Vinall, Marnie (3 July 2022). "'Living the dream': Essendon get VFLW premiership ahead of inaugural AFLW season". The Age. Retrieved 4 July 2022.
  3. ^ "2022 rebel VFLW Premiership Season launched". afl.com.au. 3 February 2022. Retrieved 3 February 2022.
  4. ^ "All rebel VFLW matches to be live streamed in 2022". afl.com.au. 11 February 2022. Retrieved 25 March 2022.