The 2016 AFL Women's draft, which stocked the eight inaugural clubs, began at 1pm at the NAB Building in Docklands, with Greater Western Sydney taking Nicola Barr first.
Draftees had to be 18 or older, and each club had already signed two marquee players.
Women's football
The West Australian Football League was renamed the Western Australian National Football League (WANFL), a name it kept for more than six decades.
Administration
Melbourne beat West Coast 24.16 to 11.13 at Civic Stadium in Portland, Oregon, before 14,787, the record crowd for a match of Australian rules in the United States.
Overseas
Grand Final
WAFL · Subiaco Oval · crowd 38,021
Grand Final
WAFL · Subiaco Oval · crowd 19,876
Grand Final
WAFL · Perth Oval · crowd 19,154
Grand Final
WAFL · Subiaco Oval · crowd 11,021
Grand Final
VFA · MCG · crowd 17,304
Grand Final
WAFL · Perth Oval
Richmond, 254 games (2011-2026)
Port Adelaide, 4 games (2025-2026)
Hawthorn, 329 games (2002-2017)
