2024 VFL Women's season
2024 VFL Women's season | |
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Date | 22 March − 21 July |
Teams | 12 |
Premiers | North Melbourne 1st premiership |
Minor premiers | Williamstown 1st minor premiership |
Leading goalkicker | Monique De Matteo Darebin (24 goals) |
Matches played | 94 |
← 2023 2025 → |
The 2024 VFL Women's season was the eighth season of the VFL Women's (VFLW), the state level senior women's Australian rules football competition in Victoria. The season ran from 22 March to 21 July, comprising a home-and-away season, followed by a finals series featuring the top six clubs.
The season was contested by 12 clubs. It also included matches against New South Wales AFL Women's teams Greater Western Sydney and Sydney; the New South Wales teams were not premiership eligible, but there was be premiership points available for the Victorian clubs in the matches.[1]
Prior to the start of the season, there was speculation that Collingwood would affiliate with Williamstown for the 2024 VFLW season "as part of broader reviews from the AFL and the club into the direction of the VFLW". However, no affiliation agreement resulted from the reviews.[2]
North Melbourne defeated Western Bulldogs in the Grand Final played at ETU Stadium, scoring a record high score of 10.8 (68) points against the Bulldogs 7.6 (48) to claim the club's first VFL Women's premiership.
Coach appointments
New coach | Club | Date of appointment | Previous coach | Ref. |
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Lache Walker | Darebin | 14 September 2023 | Kate Tyndall | [3] |
Michael Ericson | Box Hill | November 2023 | Cherie O'Neill | [4] |
Brett Gourley | North Melbourne | 21 November 2023 | Steph Binder | [5] |
Cherie O'Neill | Essendon | 31 January 2024 | Travis Cloke | [6] |
Win/loss table
- Fixture list
- Home matches are in bold and opponents are listed above the margins.
+ | Win | Draw | |
- | Loss | X | Bye |
Team | Home-and-away season | Finals series | ||||||||||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | FW1 | FW2 | FW3 | GF | |
Box Hill | CAS +108 | GEE +96 | COL +34 | WIL +10 | NM +50 | SYD -63 | WB -25 | SS +11 | DAR -8 | CAR +60 | ESS -10 | GEE +90 | NM -9 | PM 0 | PM -18 | |||
Carlton | GEE +31 | NM -21 | GWS -8 | COL -17 | PM +8 | WB -18 | GEE +3 | DAR -25 | WIL -28 | BOX -60 | CAS -10 | ESS +24 | SS +75 | DAR -9 | ||||
Casey | BOX -108 | WB -21 | NM +3 | PM +23 | SYD -85 | SS +16 | WIL 0 | ESS -41 | GEE +13 | DAR -21 | CAR +10 | COL -15 | WB -33 | SS -16 | ||||
Collingwood | SS -8 | PM -40 | BOX -34 | CAR +17 | DAR +28 | ESS -17 | SYD +2 | GEE +42 | WB -30 | NM -5 | SS -4 | CAS +15 | DAR +9 | WIL -10 | ||||
Darebin | WIL -76 | SS -25 | ESS -30 | GEE -7 | COL -28 | WIL -38 | PM -8 | CAR +25 | BOX +8 | CAS +21 | NM -6 | WB +18 | COL -9 | CAR +9 | ||||
Essendon | PM -47 | WIL 0 | DAR +30 | WB -2 | SS +9 | COL +17 | GWS -47 | CAS +41 | NM -66 | PM +12 | BOX +10 | CAR -24 | WIL -18 | GEE +49 | NM -63 | |||
Geelong Cats | CAR -31 | BOX -96 | SS +18 | DAR +7 | GWS -85 | NM +24 | CAR -3 | COL -42 | CAS -13 | WIL -86 | WB -71 | BOX -90 | PM -47 | ESS -49 | ||||
Greater Western Sydney | X | X | CAR +8 | SS +62 | GEE +85 | PM +25 | ESS +47 | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||||
North Melbourne | WB +22 | CAR +21 | CAS -3 | SYD -89 | BOX -50 | GEE -24 | SS +1 | WIL -4 | ESS +66 | COL +5 | DAR +6 | PM +11 | BOX +9 | WB -7 | ESS +63 | WIL +18 | X | WB +20 |
Port Melbourne | ESS +47 | COL +40 | WIL +23 | CAS -23 | CAR -8 | GWS -25 | DAR +8 | WB -33 | SS +4 | ESS -12 | WIL -2 | NM -11 | GEE +47 | BOX 0 | BOX +18 | WB -12 | ||
Southern Saints | COL +8 | DAR +25 | GEE -18 | GWS -62 | ESS -9 | CAS -16 | NM -1 | BOX -11 | PM -4 | WB -10 | COL +4 | WIL -30 | CAR -75 | CAS +16 | ||||
Sydney | X | X | WB +62 | NM +89 | CAS +85 | BOX +63 | COL -2 | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||||
Western Bulldogs | NM -22 | CAS +21 | SYD -62 | ESS +2 | WIL -21 | CAR +18 | BOX +25 | PM +33 | COL +30 | SS +10 | GEE +71 | DAR -18 | CAS +33 | NM +7 | WIL -18 | PM +12 | WIL +44 | NM -20 |
Williamstown | DAR +76 | ESS 0 | PM -23 | BOX -10 | WB +21 | DAR +38 | CAS 0 | NM +4 | CAR +28 | GEE +86 | PM +2 | SS +30 | ESS +18 | COL +10 | WB +18 | NM -18 | WB -44 |
Ladder
Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | D | PF | PA | PP | Pts | Qualification |
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1 | Williamstown | 14 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 594 | 314 | 189.2 | 44 | Finals series |
2 | Western Bulldogs | 14 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 619 | 492 | 125.8 | 40 | |
3 | Box Hill | 14 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 734 | 390 | 188.2 | 34 | |
4 | North Melbourne (P) | 14 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 519 | 555 | 93.5 | 32 | |
5 | Essendon | 14 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 446 | 482 | 92.5 | 30 | |
6 | Port Melbourne | 14 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 458 | 403 | 113.6 | 26 | |
7 | Collingwood | 14 | 6 | 8 | 0 | 341 | 375 | 90.9 | 24 | |
8 | Casey | 14 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 457 | 732 | 62.4 | 22 | |
9 | GWS Giants (E) | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 299 | 72 | 415.3 | 20 | |
10 | Carlton | 14 | 5 | 9 | 0 | 447 | 502 | 89.0 | 20 | |
11 | Darebin | 14 | 5 | 9 | 0 | 341 | 487 | 70.0 | 20 | |
12 | Sydney Swans (E) | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 418 | 121 | 345.5 | 16 | |
13 | Southern Saints | 14 | 4 | 10 | 0 | 319 | 503 | 63.4 | 16 | |
14 | Geelong Cats | 14 | 3 | 11 | 0 | 287 | 851 | 33.7 | 12 |
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) percentage; 3) number of points for.
(E) Club playing a limited number of exhibition matches, ineligible for progression to finals series; (P) Premiers
Progression by round
Team ╲ Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 |
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Box Hill | 4 | 8 | 12 | 16 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 24 | 24 | 28 | 28 | 32 | 32 | 34 |
Carlton | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 16 | 20 | 20 |
Casey | 0 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 12 | 14 | 14 | 18 | 18 | 22 | 22 | 22 | 22 |
Collingwood | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 12 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 20 | 24 | 24 |
Darebin | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 12 | 16 | 16 | 20 |
Essendon | 0 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 14 | 14 | 18 | 18 | 22 | 26 | 26 | 26 | 30 |
Geelong Cats | 0 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 |
Greater Western Sydney | − | − | 4 | 8 | 12 | 16 | 20 | – | − | − | − | − | − | − |
North Melbourne | 4 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 12 | 12 | 16 | 20 | 24 | 28 | 32 | 32 |
Port Melbourne | 4 | 8 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 16 | 16 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 24 | 26 |
Southern Saints | 4 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 16 |
Sydney | − | − | 4 | 8 | 12 | 16 | 16 | − | − | − | − | − | − | − |
Western Bulldogs | 0 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 12 | 16 | 20 | 24 | 28 | 32 | 32 | 36 | 40 |
Williamstown | 4 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 14 | 16 | 20 | 24 | 28 | 32 | 36 | 40 | 44 |
Finals series
Match-ups set using the second McIntyre final six system.
Qualifying final | Semi-finals | Preliminary final | Grand final | |||||||||||||||
30 June, DSV Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||
1 | Williamstown | 7.3 (45) | ||||||||||||||||
2 | Western Bulldogs | 4.3 (27) | 7 July, DSV Stadium | 21 July, ETU Stadium | ||||||||||||||
Williamstown | 5.5 (35) | North Melbourne | 10.8 (68) | |||||||||||||||
Elimination finals | North Melbourne | 8.5 (53) | 14 July, ETU Stadium | Western Bulldogs | 7.6 (48) | |||||||||||||
29 June, Fenjiu Stadium | Williamstown | 2.4 (16) | ||||||||||||||||
3 | Box Hill | 4.7 (31) | 6 July, Mission Whitten Oval | Western Bulldogs | 9.6 (60) | |||||||||||||
6 | Port Melbourne | 7.7 (49) | Western Bulldogs | 5.4 (34) | ||||||||||||||
30 June, Arden Street Oval | Port Melbourne | 3.4 (22) | ||||||||||||||||
4 | North Melbourne | 12.4 (76) | ||||||||||||||||
5 | Essendon | 2.1 (13) | ||||||||||||||||
Qualifying and elimination finals
Qualifying final | |||||
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Sunday, 30 June (2:00 pm) | Williamstown 7.3 (43) | def. | Western Bulldogs 4.3 (27) | DSV Stadium | Report |
Elimination finals | |||||
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Saturday, 29 June (11:30 am) | Box Hill 4.7 (31) | def. by | Port Melbourne 7.7 (49) | Fenjiu Stadium | Report |
Sunday, 30 June (1:00 pm) | North Melbourne 12.4 (76) | def. | Essendon 2.1 (13) | Arden Street Oval | Report |
Semi finals
Semi finals | |||||
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Saturday, 6 July (1:00 pm) | Western Bulldogs 5.4 (34) | def. | Port Melbourne 3.4 (22) | Mission Whitten Oval | Report |
Sunday, 7 July (2:00 pm) | Williamstown 5.5 (35) | def. by | North Melbourne 8.5 (53) | DSV Stadium | Report |
Preliminary final
Preliminary final | |||||
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Sunday, 14 July (12:30 pm) | Williamstown 2.4 (16) | def. by | Western Bulldogs 9.6 (60) | ETU Stadium | Report |
Grand Final
2024 VFLW Grand Final | |||||
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Sunday, 21 July (12:10 pm) | North Melbourne | def. | Western Bulldogs | ETU Stadium | Report |
4.2 (26) 6.4 (40) 6.6 (42) | Q1 Q2 Q3 | 0.1 (1) 2.4 (16) 6.6 (42) | Lisa Hardeman Medal: Nyakoat Dojiok (North Melbourne) Field umpires: G Devenish, A Bailes, N Walsh[7] Television broadcast: Seven Network | ||
10.8 (68) | Final | 7.6 (48) | |||
N. Dojiok 4 E. Paterno 2 A. Barba, M. Di Cosmo, G. Nicholas, A. Rhodes | Goals | M. Clifford, R. Saulitis, M. McLeod, I. Milford, T. Pulcino, J. Tabb, K. Hardingham | |||
N. Dojiok, A. Rhodes, A. Barba, M. Di Cosmo, M. McSweeney, K. Reynolds, N. Hales | Best | D. Carbone, K. Hardingham, T. Hurst, C. Ugle, T. Pulcino, J. Tabb | |||
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- Grand Final gallery
- Captain Jess Jones (L) and coach Brett Gourley (R) celebrate with the premiership cup
- Lisa Hardeman (R) presented Nyakoat Dojiok (L) with the Lisa Hardeman Medal for best on field
- North Melbourne players celebrating their victory
Awards
- Lambert–Pearce Medal (Best and Fairest):
- Rohenna Young Medal (Leading Goal kicker): Monique De Matteo (Darebin) – 24 goals
- Debbie Lee Medal (Rising Star):
- Coaches MVP:
- Coach of the Year:
- Lisa Hardeman Medal (Best on ground VFL Women's Grand Final): Nyakoat Dojiok (North Melbourne)
Club best and fairest winners
Club | Best & Fairest | Ref |
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Box Hill | ||
Carlton | Eliza Wood | [9] |
Casey | ||
Collingwood | Katie Day | [10] |
Darebin | ||
Essendon | El Chaston | [11] |
Geelong Cats | Lily Jordan | [12] |
North Melbourne | ||
Port Melbourne | ||
Southern Saints | Charlotte Ryan | [13] |
Western Bulldogs | Keeley Hardingham | [14] |
Williamstown |
See also
References
- ^ "Sydney to compete in rebel VFLW competition". Sydney Swans. 9 February 2024.
- ^ Cherny, Daniel. "Collingwood VFLW program issues emblematic of state league's major concerns". The Mercury.
- ^ "Lache Walker: A New Era of Leadership for Darebin Falcons VFLW team". Darebin Falcons. 14 September 2023.
- ^ "Club Statement: Cherie O'Neill". Box Hill Hawks. 4 September 2023.
- ^ "North Melbourne appoints new VFLW senior coach". nmfc.com.au. 21 November 2023. Retrieved 22 July 2024.
- ^ "O'Neill to lead Bombers' VFLW program". Essendon Football Club. 31 January 2024.
- ^ "2024 rebel VFLW Grand Final umpires announced". afl.com.au. 19 July 2024. Retrieved 20 July 2024.
- ^ Rhodes, Brendan (21 July 2024). "Roos bounce to premiership". afl.com.au. Archived from the original on 21 July 2024. Retrieved 22 July 2024.
- ^ McGuire, Casey (26 July 2024). "Wood takes out VFLW top honours". carltonfc.com.au. Retrieved 12 August 2024.
- ^ "2024 VFLW Awards wrap: Day named B&F". collingwoodfc.com.au. 10 July 2024. Retrieved 12 August 2024.
- ^ "VFLW: Chaston claims Best and Fairest". essendonfc.com.au. 18 August 2024. Retrieved 19 August 2024.
- ^ "Lily Jordan Claims Cats' VFLW Best and Fairest". Geelong Football Club. 10 August 2024. Archived from the original on 11 August 2024. Retrieved 11 August 2024.
- ^ "Recap: All the award winners from our 2024 Southern Saints Best & Fairest". sandringhamfc.com.au. 9 July 2024. Retrieved 12 August 2024.
- ^ "Hardingham crowned VFLW Best and Fairest". westernbulldogs.com.au. 11 August 2024. Retrieved 12 August 2024.
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