2019 AFL Women's season
The 2019 AFL Women's season was the third season of the AFL Women's competition, the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Australia. The season featured ten clubs, with and joining the competition. It ran from 2 February until 31 March, and comprised a 7-game home-and-away season followed by a finals series featuring four clubs. The premiership was won by for the second time, after it defeated by 45 points in the AFL Women's Grand Final. Reforms. New teams. Two new teams, and , joined the competition, bringing the  total number of teams to ten. The North Melbourne team has a strong Tasmanian focus; some players are based in Tasmania and some home games were held in the state. The introduction of the new teams is the first stage of a two-year expansion that will take the league to fourteen teams for the 2020 season. Conferences. Despite the introduction of new teams, the league retained a seven-round home-and-away season. This was achieved by splitting the competition into two conferences. Each team play four games against their fellow conference members and three "cross-over" matches against  teams from the other conference. Conference membership was based on the final ladder positions of the 2018 season. The finals series was expanded to include preliminary finals for the first time; the two teams who finish the highest in each conference at the end of the home-and-away season qualified for the preliminary finals. The winners of these games played in the AFL Women's Grand Final. The make-up of the conferences, along with the fixture, was released in October 2018. The conference system proved controversial as the teams in Conference A consistently outplayed the teams on Conference  B, resulting in the first, second, fifth and sixth best overall teams making the finals. Rule changes. There were 11 rule changes brought in for the 2019 AFLW season (three AFLW specific). Premiership season. The full fixture and make-up of the conferences was released on 26 October 2018. Ladders. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Win/Loss table. Bold – Home game X – Bye Opponent for round listed above margin This table can be sorted by margin, winners are represented in the first half of each column, and losers are represented in the second half of each column once sorted  Awards. AFLW leading goalkicker. "Source: https://www.afl.com.au/womens/matches/stats"