The 2018 AFL Women's (AFLW) draft consisted of the various periods when the ten clubs in the Australian rules football women's competition could recruit players prior to the competition's 2019 season.
As in the previous season, all player contracts are all capped at one-year deals, and all existing AFLW players must be re-signed prior to the 2019 season.
Salary
AFLW players salaries are managed and paid in full by the AFL on behalf of the clubs. For the 2019 season, the league and the AFLPA agreed to the AFLW's first collective bargaining agreement (CBA). The four-tiered system salary provided for two players per team in tier one, six in each of tier two and tier three, and the remaining players in tier four:
+ AFLW salary tiersTierSalary1 $24,600 22 $19,000 63 $16,200 64 $13,400 16
Expansion club signing period From 11 May expansion clubs and were given a ten-day window to sign existing players from 2018 AFLW lists. These clubs could sign a maximum of four players between them from any existing club. No compensation was offered to those clubs losing players under this process, but the each player's existing club could make a counter-offer to the player. A number of deals were agreed to in principle and acknowledged by clubs prior to the opening of this window.
+ Table of expansion club signingsDatePlayerFormer clubNew club rowspan=9
Signing and trading period
Beginning 23 May, clubs were given a 13-day window to re-sign players on their lists from the previous season During this time clubs were also permitted to arrange player and pick trades with other clubs.
Players who do not receive offers from their 2017 club will be free to sign with any club during the four-day free agency period starting 4 June or to nominate for the 2018 draft.
Trades + Table of trades Clubs involved Trade to (from Collingwood)
pick #40 to (from Brisbane)
Nicole Hildebrand to (from Carlton)
Lauren Arnell to (from Brisbane)
pick #40 to (from North Melbourne)
pick #12 pick #47 to (from Melbourne)
Jasmine Grierson Emma Humphries pick #54 to (from Greater Western Sydney)
Renee Forth pick #31 to (from Adelaide)
pick #19 to (from Melbourne)
pick #21 pick #32 to (from Carlton)
Maddi Gay to (from Collingwood)
Amelia Barden to (from Carlton)
pick #32 to (from Greater Western Sydney)
pick #7 pick #20 to (from Geelong)
pick #11 pick #15 to (from Greater Western Sydney)
pick #11 pick #19 to (from Collingwood)
Christina Bernardi to (from Melbourne)
pick #8 pick #37 pick #47 to (from Adelaide)
Talia Radan pick #6 pick #31 pick #52 to (from Melbourne) pick #12 to (from Greater Western Sydney) pick #15
Retirements and delistings + Table key R Rookie listed player + Table of player retirements and delistingsDateNameClubStatus Retired Retired Delisted Delisted Delisted Delisted Delisted R Delisted R Delisted R Delisted Delisted Delisted Delisted Delisted R Delisted Delisted Delisted Delisted Delisted R Delisted R Retired Delisted Delisted Delisted Delisted Delisted Delisted Delisted Delisted Delisted Delisted Delisted R Delisted R Delisted R Delisted Delisted Delisted Delisted Delisted Delisted R Delisted Delisted Delisted R Delisted Delisted Delisted Delisted
Free agency A four-day free agency period was held from 4 June for clubs to secure non-signed players from other clubs.
+ Table of free agency period signingsDatePlayerFree agent typeFormer clubNew club Unlisted Delisted Delisted Delisted
A second free agency period is expected to be opened at the conclusion of the draft, allowing un-drafted players to be signed.
Rookie signings In the absence of a rookie draft, each club was required to sign two rookie players during a rookie signing period between 11 June and 28 September 2018; these rookie players must not have played Australian rules football within the previous three years or been involved in an AFLW high-performance program.
+ Table of rookie signingsClubPlayerOther/former sport Gaelic football Netball Association football Tennis Rugby sevens Rugby sevens Netball Association football/Gaelic football Basketball Association football Basketball Basketball Gaelic football Netball Cricket Volleyball Association football Basketball
Inactive players Following final list lodgements, a number of players experienced changing circumstances that made them unable to participate in the 2019 season. Clubs were granted permission to place these players on an inactive list, retaining rights to their services at a assigned cost in the 2019 draft while replacing them for the one season. In some cases, compensation was awarded in pre-draft listing at the cost of a discounted draft selection. Players on each club's inactive list ahead of the 2018 draft are listed below:
+ Table of inactive playersClubPlayerReason Work Personal Injury (ACL) Injury (achilles) Injury (foot) Injury (knee) Personal Pregnancy
Draft A draft was held at Melbourne's Marvel Stadium on 23 October 2018. As in previous drafts, players nominated a single state's draft pool, and players are eligible to be drafted only by clubs operating in their nominated state. In addition, Victorian players could nominate for one of three Victorian zones: Geelong, Melbourne metro, or the entire state. An order for the draft was announced on 22 May that allocated Geelong and North Melbourne picks at the end of each of each round, and a number of compensation picks to Geelong and clubs that lost players to reflect the relative weakness of their recruiting period and their loss of talent respectively.
+ Table key^ Player selected under father–daughter rule+ Recruiting compensation pick† Inactive player compensation pick‡ Inactive player compensation pre-listing# Compensation pick— The field is not applicable for this selectionPass The relevant club did not utilise their pick in the draft ←Selection was traded from another club; e.g. ← ←(selection originally held by Geelong, which traded it to Greater Western Sydney, which on-traded it to the club that used selection)
+ Table of draft selectionsPickPlayerClubRecruited fromNotesClubLeague 1 1+ Geelong Falcons TAC Cup2+ GWV Rebels TAC Cup 3 Calder Cannons TAC Cup 4 WAWFL 5 Dandenong Stingrays TAC Cup 6 ii Gippsland Power TAC Cup← 7 Murray Bushrangers TAC Cup← 8 South Adelaide SANFLW← 9 Coorparoo QAFLW 10 Sandringham Dragons TAC Cup 11 Oakleigh Chargers TAC Cup← ← 12 Thurgoona Bulldogs TDFL← ← 2 13+ Eastern Ranges TAC Cup14+ Geelong Falcons TAC Cup15+ Northern Knights TAC Cup← ← 16^ Sandringham Dragons TAC CupDaughter of Andrew McKay 17 Peel Thunderbirds WAWFL 18 GWV Rebels TAC Cup 19 Gungahlin Jets AFL Canberra← ← 20 Geelong Falcons TAC Cup← 21 Eastern Ranges TAC Cup← 22 University of Queensland QAFLW 23 Tipperary GAA LGAA 24 GWV Rebels TAC Cup 25 Oakleigh Chargers TAC Cup 326+ Peel Thunderbirds WAWFL 27 Eastern Ranges TAC Cup 28 WAWFL 29‡ Collingwood VFL Women's 30 SANFLW 31 NT Thunder VFL Women's← ← 32 Casey Demons VFL Women's← 33 WAWFL 34 Southern Saints VFL Women's 35 GWV Rebels TAC Cup 36 Southern Saints VFL Women's 437+ SANFLW← 38 Eastern Ranges TAC Cup 39 WAWFL 40 Southern Saints VFL Women's← ← 41 SANFLW 42# VFL Women'sSophie Li compensation pick 43 SANFLW 44 Southern Saints VFL Women's 45 Bond University QAFLW 46 VFL Women's 47 VFL Women's 48 VFL Women's← ← 5 49 — — 50 WAWFL 51 Wilston Grange QAFLW 52 — —←53† West Adelaide SANFLW 54 South Adelaide SANFLW 55 Burnie TSL Women's← 56 Coorparoo QAFLW 57 VFL Women's 58 Burnie TSL Women's 6 59 WAWFL 60 UNSW-Eastern Suburbs Sydney Women's AFL 61 Coorparoo QAFLW 62 VFL Women's 63 Clarence TSL Women's 7 64 WAWFL 65 Auburn-Penrith Giants Sydney Women's AFL 8 66 Peel Thunderbirds WAWFL 67 Wilston Grange QAFLW 9 68 — — 69 Auburn-Penrith Giants Sydney Women's AFL 70‡ Collingwood VFL Women's 71 SANFLW
Undrafted free agency A final free agency period opened after the conclusion of the draft, allowing clubs that passed on a draft selection to recruit from outside their state-based zone.
+ Table of undrafted free agency period signingsDatePlayerFree agent typeFormer clubNew club Undrafted Compensation (rookie) Coorparoo (QAFLW) Undrafted (SANFLW) Compensation (rookie) Wilston Grange (QAFLW) Undrafted Peel Thunderbirds (WAWFL) Compensation (rookie) Richmond (VFLW)
See also 2018 AFL draft
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