# 2024 AFL Women's draft

The 2024 AFL Women's draft was the annual draft that enabled the 18 clubs in the AFL Women's (AFLW) competition to recruit players following the 2024 AFL Women's season. It was held on 16 December 2024.

## Background

In June 2024, the Australian Football League (AFL) announced that long-time major partner Telstra had expanded its partnership with the league to become the naming rights sponsor for the AFL and AFLW drafts and both competitions' Rising Star awards from 2024 onwards. Later that month, AFL executive general manager Laura Kane announced that the AFL Women's draft would transition to a fully national draft for the first time, following feedback from clubs and the use of an "opt-in model" in the 2023 draft, where nearly 70 per cent of draftees (including twelve of the top 16 selections) nominated for the national draft pool rather than chose to remain in their home state. The draft also saw the introduction of minimum two-year contracts for draftees. In August, AFLW general manager Emma Moore announced that the girls' draft combine would also become a national event for the first time, having previously been staged only as state-based events, and would be held in Melbourne in October on the same weekend as the boys' combine. Players who were not invited to the national combine were also able to attend smaller state-based draft combines in Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia.
The national draft took place during the 2024–25 AFL Women's player movement period, which began in November 2024 and runs until March 2025; the event was held on 16 December at Marvel Stadium and broadcast on afl.com.au and the official AFL app. In the week leading up to the draft, experts from afl.com.au, The Age and Fox Sports considered Gippsland Power midfielder Ash Centra the favourite to be taken by Collingwood with the first selection; the Herald Sun reported the day before the draft that Collingwood had already settled on Centra for the selection, with Collingwood confirming the selection the following night at the draft.

## National draft

The order of selections for the national draft was finalised on 11 December, at the conclusion of the 2024 trade period.
| A | Academy selection |
| FD | Father–daughter selection |
| Rd. | Pick | Player | Club | Recruited from | Recruited from | Notes |
| Rd. | Pick | Player | Club | Club | League | Notes |
| 1 | 1 | Ash Centra | Collingwood | Gippsland Power | Talent League Girls | |
| 1 | 2 | Havana Harris (A) | Gold Coast | Gold Coast Academy/Bond University | QAFL Women's | |
| 1 | 3 | Molly O'Hehir | Melbourne | South Fremantle | WAFL Women's | Received from Gold Coast |
| 1 | 4 | Sara Howley | Greater Western Sydney | Geelong Falcons | Talent League Girls | |
| 1 | 5 | Zippy Fish | Sydney | East Fremantle | WAFL Women's | |
| 1 | 6 | Poppy Scholz | Carlton | Glenelg | SANFL Women's | |
| 1 | 7 | Lucia Painter | West Coast | Bendigo Pioneers | Talent League Girls | |
| 1 | 8 | Emma McDonald | Western Bulldogs | Oakleigh Chargers | Talent League Girls | |
| 1 | 9 | Grace Belloni | Essendon | Eastern Ranges | Talent League Girls | Received from St Kilda |
| 1 | 10 | Lexi Gregor | Geelong | Bendigo Pioneers | Talent League Girls | |
| 1 | 11 | Sierra Grieves | Richmond | Western Jets | Talent League Girls | Received from Melbourne |
| 1 | 12 | Holly Ridewood | Essendon | Northern Knights | Talent League Girls | |
| 1 | 13 | India Rasheed | Adelaide | Sturt | SANFL Women's | Received from Richmond |
| 1 | 14 | Georgie Brisbane | Fremantle | Eastern Ranges | Talent League Girls | |
| 1 | 15 | Lavinia Cox | Hawthorn | Bendigo Pioneers | Talent League Girls | |
| 1 | 16 | Claudia Wright | Brisbane | Claremont | WAFL Women's | Received from Port Adelaide |
| 1 | 17 | Sophie McKay (FD) | Carlton | Sandringham Dragons | Talent League Girls | |
| 1 | 18 | Sienna Tallariti | Geelong | Oakleigh Chargers | Talent League Girls | Received from Adelaide |
| 1 | 19 | Lily Paterson | Port Adelaide | Swan Districts | WAFL Women's | Received from Brisbane |
| 1 | 20 | Zoe Hargreaves | Richmond | Northern Knights | Talent League Girls | Received from North Melbourne |
| 2 | 21 | Maggie Mahony | Melbourne | Oakleigh Chargers | Talent League Girls | Received from Gold Coast |
| 2 | 22 | Grace Martin | Greater Western Sydney | Woodville-West Torrens | SANFL Women's | |
| 2 | 23 | Daisy Flockart | Hawthorn | Sandringham Dragons | Talent League Girls | Received from Collingwood; previously from Geelong; originally from Sydney |
| 2 | 24 | Charlotte Riggs | West Coast | Central District | SANFL Women's | |
| 2 | 25 | Sarah Poustie | Western Bulldogs | Oakleigh Chargers | Talent League Girls | |
| 2 | 26 | Georgia Knight | Collingwood | Eastern Ranges | Talent League Girls | Received from Hawthorn; originally from St Kilda |
| 2 | 27 | Heidi Talbot (A) | Gold Coast | Gold Coast Academy/Bond University | QAFL Women's | Received from Geelong |
| 2 | 28 | Grace Baba | Hawthorn | Eastern Ranges | Talent League Girls | Received from Collingwood; originally from Melbourne |
| 2 | 29 | Mia Salisbury (A) | Gold Coast | Gold Coast Academy/Bond University | QAFL Women's | Received from Richmond |
| 2 | 30 | Taya Chambers | Essendon | East Fremantle | WAFL Women's | |
| 2 | 31 | Paige Scott | Richmond | Essendon | AFL Women's | Received from Fremantle |
| 2 | 32 | Zoe Besanko | St Kilda | Dandenong Stingrays | Talent League Girls | Received from Hawthorn |
| 2 | 33 | Jasmine Evans | Port Adelaide | Woodville-West Torrens | SANFL Women's | |
| 2 | 34 | Holly Egan | Fremantle | Murray Bushrangers | Talent League Girls | Received from Richmond; originally from Adelaide |
| 2 | 35 | Sophie Strong | Essendon | Tasmania Devils | Talent League Girls | Received from Brisbane |
| 2 | 36 | Claire Mahony | North Melbourne | Greater Western Victoria Rebels | Talent League Girls | |
| 3 | 37 | Piper Dunlop | Geelong | Geelong Cats | VFL Women's | Received from Collingwood |
| 3 | 38 | Evie Parker | Fremantle | Eastern Ranges | Talent League Girls | Received from Richmond; originally from Gold Coast |
| 3 | 39 | Lilly Baker (A) | Brisbane | Brisbane Academy/Maroochydore | QAFL Women's | Received from Port Adelaide; previously from Adelaide; originally from Greater Western Sydney |
| 3 | 40 | Jemma Whitington-Charity | Port Adelaide | North Adelaide | SANFL Women's | Received from Sydney |
| 3 | 41 | Nyalli Milne (A) | Gold Coast | Gold Coast Academy/Bond University | QAFL Women's | Received from Carlton |
| 3 | 42 | Violet Patterson (FD) | Collingwood | Glenelg | SANFL Women's | |
| 3 | 43 | Amy Gavin Mangan | North Melbourne | Offaly | All-Ireland ILFC | Received from West Coast |
| 3 | 44 | Georgia McKee | Adelaide | Central District | SANFL Women's | Received from Western Bulldogs |
| 3 | 45 | Elli Symonds | Hawthorn | Dandenong Stingrays | Talent League Girls | Received from St Kilda |
| 3 | 46 | Loulou Field | Carlton | Western Jets | Talent League Girls | Received from Richmond; previously from Fremantle; previously from Collingwood; originally from Geelong |
| 3 | 47 | Tara Harrington (A) | Gold Coast | Gold Coast Academy/Bond University | QAFL Women's | Received from Melbourne |
| 3 | 48 | Chloe Gaunt | Port Adelaide | Brisbane Academy/Coorparoo | QAFL Women's | Received from Essendon |
| 3 | 49 | Keely Hardingham | Western Bulldogs | Western Bulldogs | VFL Women's | Received from Adelaide; originally from Richmond |
| 3 | 50 | Rebecca Clottey | Hawthorn | Geelong Falcons | Talent League Girls | |
| 3 | 51 | Indi Strom | Fremantle | South Fremantle | WAFL Women's | Received from North Melbourne; previously from Sydney; originally from Port Adelaide |
| 3 | 52 | Jasmine Sowden | Port Adelaide | Gippsland Power | Talent League Girls | Received from Adelaide |
| 3 | 53 | Lucy Boyd | West Coast | West Adelaide | SANFL Women's | Received from North Melbourne |
| 4 | 54 | Pass | Richmond | — | — | Received from Carlton; originally from Gold Coast |
| 4 | 55 | Kyla Forbes | St Kilda | Calder Cannons | Talent League Girls | Received from Greater Western Sydney |
| 4 | 56 | Amelia Martin (A) | Sydney | Sydney Academy | Talent League Girls | |
| 4 | 57 | Kayla Dalgleish | West Coast | Dandenong Stingrays | Talent League Girls | |
| 4 | 58 | Alana Gee | St Kilda | Gold Coast | AFL Women's | |
| 5 | 59 | Caitlin Reid | Sydney | East Coast Eagles | AFL Sydney Women's | |
| 5 | 60 | Pass | Essendon | — | — | |
| 6 | 61 | Sarah Steele-Park | Sydney | North Adelaide | SANFL Women's | |
| 7 | 62 | Pass | Geelong | — | — | |
| 7 | 63 | Amelia Dethridge | Melbourne | Cross-code athlete (cross country, hockey, swimming) | Cross-code athlete (cross country, hockey, swimming) | |

## Rookie signings

| Player | Club | Date | Other/former sport | Ref. |
| Matilda Banfield | Fremantle | 6 December 2024 | Hockey | |
| Grace Kós | Greater Western Sydney | 5 December 2024 | Gaelic Football | |