SANFL Women's League
Most recent season or competition:
2023 SANFL Women's League season
SportAustralian rules football
FoundedFebruary 2017
AdministratorSANFL
No. of teams8
CountryAustralia
Most recent
champion(s)
Central District
(1st premiership)
Most titlesSouth Adelaide
North Adelaide
(2 premierships)
TV partner(s)Seven Network (Grand Final only)
Official websitewww.sanfl.com.au/women

SANFL Women's League (also known as the SANFLW or the Hostplus SANFL Women's League) is the major state-level women's Australian rules football league in South Australia.

History

The league was launched in February 2017, initially comprising four clubs from the men's South Australian National Football League (SANFL). The league now features eight teams, and acts as the second primary competition for South Australian female footballers underneath the semi-professional national AFL Women's (AFLW) competition, as well as being one of the three elite leagues in women's Australian rules football (the AFLW, SANFLW and WAFLW).

The SANFLW usually runs from February to May, meaning it partially overlapped with the AFLW season prior to AFLW Season 7, and so has been mostly played by players either not yet drafted by an AFLW club or AFLW listed players not selected for a senior premiership match.

In 2022, the SANFL Commission introduced the SANFL Women's Development League, a seven-week reserves competition providing players from the eight clubs with the opportunity to play at a level beneath the senior competition.[1]

Clubs

The first season comprised four SANFL clubs: Norwood, Glenelg, North Adelaide and West Adelaide.[2] The following year, Sturt and South Adelaide were admitted to the competition, with Woodville-West Torrens and Central District being admitted in 2019.[3]

Neither of the state's two AFL clubs, Adelaide and Port Adelaide, who field reserves teams in the SANFL, field teams in the SANFLW; Adelaide were a foundation club of the AFLW in 2017, while Port Adelaide entered the league in 2022.

Club Nickname Home venue Est. First SANFLW
season
SANFLW
seasons
SANFLW
premierships
Most
recent
Central District Bulldogs Elizabeth Oval 1959 2019 5 1 2023
Glenelg Tigers Glenelg Oval 1920 2017 7 1 2021
North Adelaide Roosters Prospect Oval 1888 2017 7 2 2022
Norwood Redlegs Norwood Oval 1878 2017 7 1 2017
South Adelaide Panthers Hickinbotham Oval 1876 2018 7 2 2019
Sturt Double Blues Unley Oval 1901 2018 6
West Adelaide Bloods Richmond Oval 1892 2017 7
Woodville-West Torrens Eagles Woodville Oval 1991 2019 5

Honours

Premiers

This lists the most recent premiers. For a full list of premiers see List of SANFL Women's League premiers.

Best and Fairest Award

This lists the most recent best and fairest winner. For a full list of winners see SANFL Women's League Best and Fairest Award.

See also

References

  1. "SANFL to expand elite talent competitions in 2022". SANFL.com.au. 1 September 2021.
  2. "SANFL launches new women's league for 2017". Adelaide Now. 14 February 2017.
  3. "2019 Statewide Super Women's League Launch". sanfl.com.au. 1 February 2019.
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