# 2018 AFL Women's draft

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 tiers :
| Tier | Salary | Players |
| 1 | $24,600 | 2 |
| 2 | $19,000 | 6 |
| 3 | $16,200 | 6 |
| 4 | $13,400 | 16 |

## Expansion club signing period

From 11 May expansion clubs Geelong and North Melbourne 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 signings :
| Date | Player | Former club | New club |
| 11 May | Richelle Cranston | Melbourne | Geelong |
| 11 May | Melissa Hickey | Melbourne | Geelong |
| 11 May | Erin Hoare | Melbourne | Geelong |
| 11 May | Anna Teague | Melbourne | Geelong |
| 11 May | Jenna Bruton | Western Bulldogs | North Melbourne |
| 11 May | Jess Duffin | Collingwood | North Melbourne |
| 11 May | Jasmine Garner | Collingwood | North Melbourne |
| 11 May | Kate Gillespie-Jones | Carlton | North Melbourne |
| 11 May | Emma Kearney | Western Bulldogs | North Melbourne |
| 11 May | Danielle Hardiman | Carlton | North Melbourne |
| 11 May | Tahlia Randall | Brisbane | North Melbourne |
| 11 May | Madison Smith | — | North Melbourne |
| 11 May | Jamie Stanton | Brisbane | North Melbourne |
| 12 May | Daria Bannister | Western Bulldogs | North Melbourne |
| 14 May | Brittany Gibson | Brisbane | North Melbourne |
| 16 May | Cassie Blakeway | — | Geelong |
| 16 May | Kate Darby | — | Geelong |
| 16 May | Renee Garing | — | Geelong |
| 16 May | Rebecca Goring | — | Geelong |
| 16 May | Jordan Ivey | — | Geelong |
| 16 May | Danielle Orr | — | Geelong |
| 16 May | Elisha King | — | North Melbourne |
| 16 May | Georgia Nanscawen | — | North Melbourne |
| 16 May | Ashleigh Riddell | — | North Melbourne |
| 18 May | Aasta O'Connor | Western Bulldogs | Geelong |
| 21 May | Maddie Boyd | Greater Western Sydney | Geelong |
| 21 May | Phoebe McWilliams | Greater Western Sydney | Geelong |
| 21 May | Kaitlyn Ashmore | Brisbane | North Melbourne |
| 21 May | Moana Hope | Collingwood | North Melbourne |
| 21 May | Emma King | Collingwood | North Melbourne |

## 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 | Trade |
| Brisbane Carlton Collingwood | to Brisbane (from Collingwood) pick #40 | to Collingwood (from Brisbane) Nicole Hildebrand |
| Brisbane Carlton Collingwood | to Brisbane (from Carlton) Lauren Arnell | to Carlton (from Brisbane) pick #40 |
| Melbourne North Melbourne | to Melbourne (from North Melbourne) pick #12 pick #47 | to North Melbourne (from Melbourne) Jasmine Grierson Emma Humphries pick #54 |
| Adelaide Greater Western Sydney | to Adelaide (from Greater Western Sydney) Renee Forth pick #31 | to Greater Western Sydney (from Adelaide) pick #19 |
| Carlton Collingwood Melbourne | to Carlton (from Melbourne) pick #21 pick #32 | to Melbourne (from Carlton) Maddison Gay |
| Carlton Collingwood Melbourne | to Carlton (from Collingwood) Amelia Barden | to Collingwood (from Carlton) pick #32 |
| Adelaide Collingwood Geelong Greater Western Sydney Melbourne | to Geelong (from Greater Western Sydney) pick #7 pick #20 | to Greater Western Sydney (from Geelong) pick #11 pick #15 |
| Adelaide Collingwood Geelong Greater Western Sydney Melbourne | to Collingwood (from Greater Western Sydney) pick #11 pick #19 | to Greater Western Sydney (from Collingwood) Christina Bernardi |
| Adelaide Collingwood Geelong Greater Western Sydney Melbourne | to Adelaide (from Melbourne) pick #8 pick #37 pick #47 | to Melbourne (from Adelaide) Talia Radan pick #6 pick #31 pick #52 |
| Adelaide Collingwood Geelong Greater Western Sydney Melbourne | to Greater Western Sydney (from Melbourne) pick #12 | to Melbourne (from Greater Western Sydney) pick #15 |

### Retirements and delistings

Table key :
| R | Rookie listed player |
Table of player retirements and delistings :
| Date | Name | Club | Status |
| 16 March | Amy Lavell | Fremantle | Retired |
| 21 March | Bree White | Collingwood | Retired |
| 4 June | Sophie Armitstead | Adelaide | Delisted |
| 4 June | Georgia Bevan | Adelaide | Delisted |
| 4 June | Abbey Holmes | Adelaide | Delisted |
| 4 June | Rachael Killian | Adelaide | Delisted |
| 4 June | Calista Boyd | Adelaide | Delisted R |
| 4 June | Becchara Palmer | Adelaide | Delisted R |
| 4 June | Brianna Walling | Adelaide | Delisted R |
| 4 June | Ruby Blair | Brisbane | Delisted |
| 4 June | Renee Cowan | Brisbane | Delisted |
| 4 June | Kalinda Howarth | Brisbane | Delisted |
| 4 June | Jessy Keeffe | Brisbane | Delisted |
| 4 June | Molly Ritson | Brisbane | Delisted R |
| 4 June | Laura Attard | Carlton | Delisted |
| 4 June | Madeline Keryk | Carlton | Delisted |
| 4 June | Sarah Last | Carlton | Delisted |
| 4 June | Kate Shierlaw | Carlton | Delisted |
| 4 June | Tiahna Cochrane | Carlton | Delisted R |
| 4 June | Katie-Jayne Grieve | Carlton | Delisted R |
| 4 June | Caitlyn Edwards | Collingwood | Retired |
| 4 June | Meg Hutchins | Collingwood | Delisted |
| 4 June | Tara Morgan | Collingwood | Delisted |
| 4 June | Lauren Tesoriero | Collingwood | Delisted |
| 4 June | Stacey Barr | Fremantle | Delisted |
| 4 June | Kirby Bentley | Fremantle | Delisted |
| 4 June | Lara Filocamo | Fremantle | Delisted |
| 4 June | Tiah Haynes | Fremantle | Delisted |
| 4 June | Emily McGuire | Fremantle | Delisted |
| 4 June | Belinda Smith | Fremantle | Delisted |
| 4 June | Jodie White | Fremantle | Delisted |
| 4 June | Jade de Melo | Fremantle | Delisted R |
| 4 June | Beatrice Devlyn | Fremantle | Delisted R |
| 4 June | Lisa Webb | Fremantle | Delisted R |
| 4 June | Melissa Freckleton | Greater Western Sydney | Delisted |
| 4 June | Rebecca Privitelli | Greater Western Sydney | Delisted |
| 4 June | Alex Saundry | Greater Western Sydney | Delisted |
| 4 June | Philippa Smyth | Greater Western Sydney | Delisted |
| 4 June | Renee Tomkins | Greater Western Sydney | Delisted |
| 4 June | Haneen Zreika | Greater Western Sydney | Delisted R |
| 4 June | Laura Duryea | Melbourne | Delisted |
| 4 June | Alyssa Mifsud | Melbourne | Delisted |
| 4 June | Maddie Shevlin | Melbourne | Delisted R |
| 4 June | Jessica Anderson | Western Bulldogs | Delisted |
| 4 June | Laura Bailey | Western Bulldogs | Delisted |
| 4 June | Kimberley Ebb | Western Bulldogs | Delisted |
| 4 June | Rachel Ashley | Western Bulldogs | 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 signings :
| Date | Player | Free agent type | Former club | New club |
| 7 June | Sophie Abbatangelo | Unlisted | — | North Melbourne |
| 7 June | Ruby Blair | Delisted | Brisbane | Brisbane |
| 7 June | Jessy Keeffe | Delisted | Brisbane | Brisbane |
| 7 June | Belinda Smith | Delisted | Fremantle | Western Bulldogs |
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 signings :
| Club | Player | Other/former sport |
| Adelaide | Ailish Considine | Gaelic football |
| Adelaide | Maisie Nankivell | Netball |
| Brisbane | Bri McFarlane | Association football |
| Brisbane | Krystal Scott | Tennis |
| Carlton | Chloe Dalton | Rugby sevens |
| Carlton | Brooke Walker | Rugby sevens |
| Collingwood | Sharni Layton | Netball |
| Collingwood | Sarah Rowe | Association football/Gaelic football |
| Fremantle | Brianna Moyes | Basketball |
| Fremantle | Angelique Stannett | Association football |
| Geelong | Maddy McMahon | Basketball |
| Geelong | Georgie Rankin | Basketball |
| Greater Western Sydney | Yvonne Bonner | Gaelic football |
| Greater Western Sydney | Taylah Davies | Netball |
| Melbourne | Chantel Emonson | Cricket |
| Melbourne | Shae Sloane | Volleyball |
| North Melbourne | Jessie Williams | Association football |
| Western Bulldogs | Tessa Boyd | Basketball |
| Western Bulldogs | Celine Moody | — |

### 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 players :
| Club | Player | Reason |
| Adelaide | Jessica Allan | Work |
| Adelaide | Ruth Wallace | Personal |
| Brisbane | Sophie Conway | Injury (ACL) |
| Collingwood | Melissa Kuys | Injury (achilles) |
| Collingwood | Chloe Molloy | Injury (foot) |
| Fremantle | Brianna Green | Injury (knee) |
| Greater Western Sydney | Britt Tully | Personal |
| Melbourne | Daisy Pearce | 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 selection |
| Pass | The relevant club did not utilise their pick in the draft |
| ← | Selection was traded from another club; e.g. ←Greater Western Sydney ←Geelong (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 selections :
| Rd. | Pick | Player | Club | Recruited from | Recruited from | Notes |
| Rd. | Pick | Player | Club | Club | League | Notes |
| 1 | 1$^+$ | Nina Morrison | Geelong | Geelong Falcons | TAC Cup | |
| 1 | 2$^+$ | Sophie Van De Heuvel | Geelong | GWV Rebels | TAC Cup | |
| 1 | 3 | Madison Prespakis | Carlton | Calder Cannons | TAC Cup | |
| 1 | 4 | Jasmin Stewart | Fremantle | Claremont | WAWFL | |
| 1 | 5 | Jordyn Allen | Collingwood | Dandenong Stingrays | TAC Cup | |
| 1 | 6 ii | Tyla Hanks | Melbourne | Gippsland Power | TAC Cup | ←Adelaide |
| 1 | 7 | Rebecca Webster | Geelong | Murray Bushrangers | TAC Cup | ←Greater Western Sydney |
| 1 | 8 | Nikki Gore | Adelaide | South Adelaide | SANFLW | ←Melbourne |
| 1 | 9 | Paige Parker | Brisbane | Coorparoo | QAFLW | |
| 1 | 10 | Eleanor Brown | Western Bulldogs | Sandringham Dragons | TAC Cup | |
| 1 | 11 | Katie Lynch | Collingwood | Oakleigh Chargers | TAC Cup | ←Greater Western Sydney ←Geelong |
| 1 | 12 | Alyce Parker | Greater Western Sydney | Thurgoona Bulldogs | TDFL | ←Melbourne ←North Melbourne |
| 2 | 13$^+$ | Mikala Cann | Collingwood | Eastern Ranges | TAC Cup | |
| 2 | 14$^+$ | Olivia Purcell | Geelong | Geelong Falcons | TAC Cup | |
| 2 | 15$^+$ | Maddy Brancatisano | Melbourne | Northern Knights | TAC Cup | ←Greater Western Sydney ←Geelong |
| 2 | 16 | Abbie McKay^ | Carlton | Sandringham Dragons | TAC Cup | Daughter of Andrew McKay |
| 2 | 17 | Sabreena Duffy | Fremantle | Peel Thunderbirds | WAWFL | |
| 2 | 18 | Lauren Butler | Collingwood | GWV Rebels | TAC Cup | |
| 2 | 19 | Maddie Shevlin | Collingwood | Gungahlin Jets | AFL Canberra | ←Greater Western Sydney ←Adelaide |
| 2 | 20 | Denby Taylor | Geelong | Geelong Falcons | TAC Cup | ←Greater Western Sydney |
| 2 | 21 | Jayde van Dyk | Carlton | Eastern Ranges | TAC Cup | ←Melbourne |
| 2 | 22 | Nat Grider | Brisbane | University of Queensland | QAFLW | |
| 2 | 23 | Aisling McCarthy | Western Bulldogs | Tipperary GAA | LGAA | |
| 2 | 24 | Georgia Clarke | Geelong | GWV Rebels | TAC Cup | |
| 2 | 25 | Daisy Bateman | North Melbourne | Oakleigh Chargers | TAC Cup | |
| 3 | 26$^+$ | Kate Bartlett | Western Bulldogs | Peel Thunderbirds | WAWFL | |
| 3 | 27 | Charlotte Wilson | Carlton | Eastern Ranges | TAC Cup | |
| 3 | 28 | Philipa Seth | Fremantle | East Fremantle | WAWFL | |
| 3 | 29 | Sophie Alexander$^‡$ | Collingwood | Collingwood | VFL Women's | |
| 3 | 30 | Jess Foley | Adelaide | Sturt | SANFLW | |
| 3 | 31 | Jordann Hickey | Melbourne | NT Thunder | VFL Women's | ←Adelaide ←Greater Western Sydney |
| 3 | 32 | Georgia Gourlay | Collingwood | Casey Demons | VFL Women's | ←Melbourne |
| 3 | 33 | McKenzie Dowrick | Brisbane | Subiaco | WAWFL | |
| 3 | 34 | Selena Karlson | Western Bulldogs | Southern Saints | VFL Women's | |
| 3 | 35 | Rene Caris | Geelong | GWV Rebels | TAC Cup | |
| 3 | 36 | Courteney Munn | North Melbourne | Southern Saints | VFL Women's | |
| 4 | 37$^+$ | Chloe Scheer | Adelaide | Central District | SANFLW | ←Melbourne |
| 4 | 38 | Emerson Woods | Carlton | Eastern Ranges | TAC Cup | |
| 4 | 39 | Courtney Stubbs | Fremantle | Subiaco | WAWFL | |
| 4 | 40 | Rhiannon Watt | Carlton | Southern Saints | VFL Women's | ←Brisbane ←Collingwood |
| 4 | 41 | Katelyn Rosenzweig | Adelaide | North Adelaide | SANFLW | |
| 4 | 42$^#$ | Jessica Edwards | Carlton | Collingwood | VFL Women's | Sophie Li compensation pick |
| 4 | 43 | Brittany Perry | Greater Western Sydney | North Adelaide | SANFLW | |
| 4 | 44 | Shelley Heath | Melbourne | Southern Saints | VFL Women's | |
| 4 | 45 | Lauren Bella | Brisbane | Bond University | QAFLW | |
| 4 | 46 | Jessie Davies | Western Bulldogs | Western Bulldogs | VFL Women's | |
| 4 | 47 | Maighan Fogas | Geelong | Geelong | VFL Women's | |
| 4 | 48 | Danielle Ponter | Adelaide | Essendon | VFL Women's | ←Melbourne ←North Melbourne |
| 5 | 49 | Pass | Carlton | — | — | |
| 5 | 50 | Parris Laurie | Fremantle | Claremont | WAWFL | |
| 5 | 51 | Jordan Membrey | Collingwood | Wilston Grange | QAFLW | |
| 5 | 52 | Pass | Melbourne | — | — | ←Adelaide |
| 5 | 53$^†$ | Hannah Martin | Adelaide | West Adelaide | SANFLW | |
| 5 | 54 | Lisa Whiteley | Greater Western Sydney | South Adelaide | SANFLW | |
| 5 | 55 | Chloe Haines | North Melbourne | Burnie | TSL Women's | ←Melbourne |
| 5 | 56 | Tori Groves-Little | Brisbane | Coorparoo | QAFLW | |
| 5 | 57 | Elisha Coventry | Geelong | Geelong | VFL Women's | |
| 5 | 58 | Libby Haines | North Melbourne | Burnie | TSL Women's | |
| 6 | 59 | Laura Pugh | Fremantle | West Perth | WAWFL | |
| 6 | 60 | Ingrid Nielsen | Greater Western Sydney | UNSW-Eastern Suburbs | Sydney Women's AFL | |
| 6 | 61 | Jesse Wardlaw | Brisbane | Coorparoo | QAFLW | |
| 6 | 62 | Madeline Keryk | Geelong | Geelong | VFL Women's | |
| 6 | 63 | Nicole Bresnehan | North Melbourne | Clarence | TSL Women's | |
| 7 | 64 | Matilda Sergeant | Fremantle | Claremont | WAWFL | |
| 7 | 65 | Renee Tomkins | Greater Western Sydney | Auburn-Penrith Giants | Sydney Women's AFL | |
| 8 | 66 | Ebony Dowson | Fremantle | Peel Thunderbirds | WAWFL | |
| 8 | 67 | Delma Gisu | Greater Western Sydney | Wilston Grange | QAFLW | |
| 9 | 68 | Pass | Fremantle | — | — | |
| 9 | 69 | Haneen Zreika | Greater Western Sydney | Auburn-Penrith Giants | Sydney Women's AFL | |
| 9 | 70 | Erica Fowler$^‡$ | Collingwood | Collingwood | VFL Women's | |
| 9 | 71 | Ebony O'Dea | Greater Western Sydney | Norwood | 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 signings :
| Date | Player | Free agent type | Former club | New club |
| 24 October | Kirby Bentley | Undrafted | Fremantle | Carlton |
| 24 October | Jade Ellenger | Compensation (rookie) | Coorparoo (QAFLW) | Brisbane |
| 24 October | Ashleigh Woodland | Undrafted | North Adelaide (SANFLW) | Melbourne |
| 24 October | Jacqui Yorston | Compensation (rookie) | Wilston Grange (QAFLW) | Brisbane |
| 25 October | Katie-Jayne Grieve | Undrafted | Peel Thunderbirds (WAWFL) | Fremantle |
| 25 October | Bethany Lynch | Compensation (rookie) | Richmond (VFLW) | North Melbourne |