2017 AFL Women's Under-18 Championships explained

AFL Women's Under-18 Championships
Sport:Australian rules football
Year:2017
Start Date:12 May
End Date:14 July
Tournament Format:Round-robin
Venues:Adelaide Oval
Blacktown International Sportspark
Bond University
Broadbeach Sports Club
Simonds Stadium
West Adelaide
Teams:6 (div. 1)
3 (div. 2)
Champions:Vic Country (de facto)
Matches:16
Mvp:Madison Prespakis (Vic Metro)
Stat1 Label:Most goals
Stat1:Eden Zanker (Vic Country)
Previous:2016
Next:2018

The 2017 NAB AFL Women's Under-18 Championships was played between May and July 2017, with six teams competing and with a further three playing in a two-match round-robin series as a de facto Division 2.[1]

An Allies side (made up of players from the division two competition) was introduced as a division one team. This was designed to give the best prospects from those regions the opportunity to play at a national level in the division one carnival. Thus, division one was made up of six teams—Allies, NSW/ACT, Queensland, Vic Country, Vic Metro and Western Australia—playing each other across five rounds.[2]

Vic Country was the only division one team to play four matches that went undefeated, making them the de facto tournament winners. Vic Metro's Madison Prespakis was named the tournament's best player, while Vic Country's Eden Zanker was the competition's leading goalkicker.[3]

Fixture

Division 2

All-Australian team

The 2017 Women's All-Australian team[4]

Initial squad

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2017 NAB AFL Women's U18s Fixture & Results. AFL Women's. 18 October 2017. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20171018085307/http://www.afl.com.au/womens/matches/u18s. 18 October 2017.
  2. News: Women's Under-18 Championships kick off in Adelaide. 18 October 2017. AFL Media. 12 May 2017.
  3. News: Black. Sarah. AFLW U18 wrap: Vic Country, Allies undefeated. 18 October 2017. AFL Media . 14 July 2017.
  4. News: Black. Sarah. AFLW: Vic Country dominates U18 All Australian side. 18 October 2017. AFL Media . 4 September 2017.
  5. Web site: AFLW U18 All Australian squad named. Sarah. Black. Telstra Media. Australian Football League. 18 July 2017. 10 May 2020.