Monique Conti, international basketballer and inaugural AFL women's academy member, wants to play both sports at the top level.

The AFLW premiership coach has heard plenty of insults, but one almost made her walk away from football.

Canberra's Bec Goddard might've just created history in the AFL Women's, but her SANFL club has turned their back on her.

Lace up some rainbow laces next weekend and help kick prejudice out of sport.

Speaking as an Australian, there was sadness – heartbreak really – to watch AFLW best and fairest winner Erin Phillips pay tribute to her partner in the knowledge that the couple have returned to a country that still bans them from getting married.

Daisy Pearce has been named captain of the first female AFL All-Australian team.

Adelaide premiership co-captain Erin Phillips has capped her outstanding AFLW season by winning the best and fairest award.

The prospect of a showdown between the Women's Big Bash League and AFLW next summer is becoming more realistic, and Cricket Australia hopes its beefed-up pay offer to female players will help sway them to choose cricket over football

The list size of AFL Women's clubs will increase by three and the marquee concept is likely to be scuttled under plans outlined to players.

The AFL will look at extending the women's footy season next year following the hugely successful inaugural campaign this year.

When Erin Phillips accepted her third major gong in 48 hours, she gave insight into how she's managed to mother, train and, in the past two months, blitz on footy fields.

Erin Phillips has been voted by her peers as the most valuable player in the first AFLW season.

The Adelaide premiership coach has a bit of Luke Beveridge about her, and she belted out a rendition of a Tina Turner classic at the Crows' AFLW premiership function.

Adelaide hung on to make history in the AFLW grand final, with five Canberrans lifting the trophy at the end.

Erin Phillips had 28 possessions to lead Adelaide to the first AFL Women's premiership, while the Brisbane Lions were inconsolable at the grand final being their first defeat.

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Adelaide hung on to make history in the AFLW grand final.

Craig Starcevich stuck to a classic script: predicting the first AFLW premiership would be determined by desperate acts.

Jenna McCormick is keen to avenge her Canberra United heartache with an AFLW premiership.

On the eve of the first AFL women’s grand final Samantha Lane reveals the love letters that have bonded Adelaide’s history-making team.

The myth-busting dominance of Brisbane, undefeated AFLW grand finalists despite a lowly pre-season rating, has continued at the All Australian selection table.

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The AFL has imposed a significant rule change for the inaugural women's grand final, mandating time-on after points and for out of bounds for the first time all season.

The AFL expects a crowd of at least 10,000 will attend the historic first women's grand final where Susan Alberti and Debbie Lee will present Brisbane or Adelaide with silverware.

AFLW players are to ask for something the AFL has strategically – and somewhat contentiously – resisted to date: for fans, in the countdown to the first women's grand final, to show them the money.

The AFL's chief executive has launched a stinging rebuke at Gabba management after the AFLW grand final had to be moved to the Gold Coast because of the state of the turf.

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The AFLW grand final venue debacle that has so enraged league bosses and the Brisbane Lions is perhaps symptomatic of a competition born in haste and raised on the run.

A decision on the venue for the first AFLW grand final won't be made until Monday as talks continued on Sunday night between the AFL and the Queensland Government.

Overlooked on draft day, Sarah Perkins could not be ignored on Sunday, booting four vital goals for Adelaide to defeat Collingwood 70-46.

With neither side a chance to make the final, the Greater Western Sydney Giants' game with the Western Bulldogs was a reflection on the season just gone.

Melbourne have done everything within their power to push for an AFLW grand final berth, notching the biggest score thus far in thrashing the Fremantle Dockers by 56 points.