2022–23 AFL Women's player movement period

The 2022–23 AFL Women's player movement period consisted of the various periods when the 18 clubs in the AFL Women's (AFLW) competition recruited players prior to the 2023 AFL Women's season.

2022–23 AFL Women's player movement period
← 2022

Priority signing period

Following the expectation of a stagnant draft, the AFL announced the introduction of a new priority signing period (PSP) in which the four expansion clubs Essendon, Hawthorn, Port Adelaide, and Sydney will be able to poach players who have played three or more AFLW seasons.^[1] Port Adelaide were also able to sign one underaged player.^[2]

Table of pre-list signings^[3]

Date	Player	Club	Recruited from	Notes	Ref.
22 February	Chloe Molloy	Sydney	Collingwood		[4][5]
1 March	Ashleigh Woodland	Port Adelaide	Adelaide		[6][7]
2 March	Emily Bates	Hawthorn	Brisbane		[8][9]
	Greta Bodey
3 March	Matilda Scholz	Port Adelaide	Glenelg (SANFLW)	Under-age signing	[10]
	Janelle Cuthbertson		Fremantle		[11][12]
7 March	Lucy McEvoy	Sydney	Carlton		[13][14]
	Brooke Brown	Essendon	North Melbourne		[15][16]

Signing and trading period

Retirements and delistings

Table of player retirements and delistings

Date	Name	Club	Status	Ref
18 October	Jess Duffin	Hawthorn	Retired	[17]
25 October	Kara Antonio	Fremantle	Retired	[18]
31 October	Tanya Hetherington	Greater Western Sydney	Retired	[19]
4 November	Liz McGrath	Port Adelaide	Delisted	[20]
	Bella Ayre	Essendon	Delisted	[21]
	Olivia Barton		Delisted
	Jordan Zanchetta		Delisted
11 November	Ashlee Atkins	Gold Coast	Retired	[22]
13 November	Courtney Wakefield	Richmond	Retired	[23]
17 November	Imahra Cameron	West Coast	Delisted	[24]
	Hayley Bullas		Delisted
	Emily Bennett		Delisted
	Ashleigh Gomes		Delisted
	Georgie Fowler	Greater Western Sydney	Delisted	[25]
	Casidhe Simmons		Delisted
2 December	Ailish Considine	Adelaide	Delisted	[26]
6 December	Ashley Sharp	Fremantle	Retired	[27]
	Hannah Burchell	Richmond	Delisted	[28]
7 December	Zoe Hurrell	Sydney	Delisted	[29]
	Gen Lawson-Tavan		Delisted
	Alison Brown	Melbourne	Delisted	[30]
	Sabreena Duffy		Delisted
	Ella Little		Delisted
16 December	Krystal Scott	Gold Coast	Retired	[31]
	Bríd Stack	Greater Western Sydney	Retired	[32]
20 December	Charlotte Hammans	Carlton	Delisted	[33]
	Jessica Jones		Delisted
	Poppy Schaap		Delisted
	Sophie Abbatangelo	North Melbourne	Delisted	[34]
	Grace Matser		Delisted
12 January	Kate McCarthy	Hawthorn	Retired	[35]
18 January	Daisy Pearce	Melbourne	Retired	[36]
19 January	Marijana Rajcic	Adelaide	Retired	[37]
8 February	Dayna Cox		Retired	[38]
16 February	Dominique Carbone	Hawthorn	Delisted	[39]
	Isabelle Porter		Delisted
2 March	Brittany Perry	Port Adelaide	Delisted	[40]
	Tessa Doumanis		Delisted
7 March	Tori Groves-Little	Gold Coast	Delisted	[41]
	Jade Pregelj		Delisted
9 March	Gabby Collingwood	Brisbane	Delisted	[42]
	Maggie Harmer		Delisted
	Ava Seton		Delisted
10 March	Tiarne Cavanagh	Sydney	Delisted	[43]
	Sarah Dargan		Delisted
	Sarah Skinner		Delisted
	Matilda Sergeant	Fremantle	Delisted	[44]
	Bianca Webb		Delisted
15 March	Lucy Burke	St Kilda	Delisted	[45]
	Leah Cutting		Delisted
	Jess Matin		Delisted
16 March	Eloise Chaston	Collingwood	Delisted	[46]
	Abbi Moloney		Delisted
	Sophie Molan	Richmond	Delisted	[47]
	Saraid Taylor		Delisted
17 March	Maddy McMahon	Geelong	Retired	[48]
	Georgia Clarke		Delisted	[49]
	Kalani Scoullar		Delisted
	Shannon Danckert	Gold Coast	Delisted	[50]
	Annise Bradfield		Delisted
20 March	Jasmyn Hewett	Adelaide	Delisted	[51]
	Alison Downie	Collingwood	Retired	[52]
	Perri King	North Melbourne	Delisted	[53]
	Maggie Caris	Melbourne	Delisted	[54]
21 March	Eloise Ashley-Cooper	Essendon	Delisted	[55]
	Caitlin Sargent		Delisted
	Jorja Borg		Delisted
	Megan Ryan		Delisted
	Frederica Frew		Delisted
	Emily Goodsir	Greater Western Sydney	Delisted	[56]
	Elise O'Dea	Carlton	Retired	[57]
27 March	Cora Staunton	Greater Western Sydney	Retired	[58]
19 April	Danielle Hardiman	North Melbourne	Retired	[59]
19 July	Sharni Webb	Brisbane	Retired	[60]

Rookie signings

In the absence of a rookie draft, each club was permitted to sign players that had not played Australian rules football within the previous three years or been involved in an AFLW high-performance program.

Table of rookie signings

Club	Player	Recruited from	Other/former sport	Ref
Adelaide	Taylah Levy	Cleveland State	Basketball	[61]
Brisbane	Jennifer Dunne	Dublin GAA	Ladies' Gaelic football	[62]
	Courtney Murphy	Long Beach State	Basketball	[63]
Carlton	Dayna Finn	Mayo GAA	Ladies' Gaelic football	[64]
	Erone Fitzpatrick	Laois GAA	Ladies' Gaelic football
Geelong	Anna-Rose Kennedy	Tipperary GAA	Ladies' Gaelic football	[65]
	Aishling Moloney	Tipperary GAA	Ladies' Gaelic football
Gold Coast	Niamh McLaughlin	Donegal GAA	Ladies' Gaelic football	[66]
Hawthorn	Casey Dumont	Melbourne Victory	Soccer	[67]
Melbourne	Aimee Mackin	Armagh GAA	Ladies' Gaelic football	[68]
North Melbourne	Niamh Martin	Tipperary GAA	Ladies' Gaelic football	[69]
Sydney	Jennifer Higgins	Roscommon GAA	Ladies' Gaelic football	[70]
	Paris McCarthy	East Tennessee State & Kerry GAA	Basketball & Ladies' Gaelic football
	Julie O'Sullivan	Kerry GAA	Ladies' Gaelic football

Trades

Table of trades

Clubs involved	Trade		Ref
Collingwood North Melbourne St Kilda	to St Kilda (from Collingwood) Steph Chiocci Jaimee Lambert pick #31	to Collingwood (from St Kilda) Tarni White	[71]
	to North Melbourne (from St Kilda) Kate Shierlaw	to Collingwood (from North Melbourne) Grace Campbell pick #15
Essendon Richmond	to Essendon (from Richmond) Kodi Jacques	to Richmond (from Essendon) pick #27	[72]
St Kilda Richmond Carlton	to Richmond (from St Kilda) Caitlin Greiser	to St Kilda (from Carlton) Natalie Plane	[73]
	to Carlton (from Richmond) Harriet Cordner	to St Kilda (from Richmond) pick #14
Gold Coast Richmond	to Gold Coast (from Richmond) Maddy Brancatisano	to Richmond (from Gold Coast) Courtney Jones	[74]
Carlton Fremantle	to Carlton (from Fremantle) Tahlia Read	to Fremantle (from Carlton) Serena Gibbs	[75]
Geelong Port Adelaide	to Geelong (from Port Adelaide) Kate Surman	to Port Adelaide (from Geelong) Maddy Keryk pick #12	[76]
Hawthorn North Melbourne	to North Melbourne (from Hawthorn) Eliza Shannon pick #40	to Hawthorn (from North Melbourne) pick #33	[77]
Richmond Sydney	to Richmond (from Sydney) Molly Eastman	to Sydney (from Richmond) pick #27	[78]
North Melbourne St Kilda Collingwood Gold Coast Brisbane	to North Melbourne Lulu Pullar (from Brisbane) pick #31 (from St Kilda) to St Kilda Jesse Wardlaw (from Brisbane) Serene Watson (from Gold Coast) to Collingwood pick #14 (from St Kilda)	to Gold Coast Jordan Membrey (from Collingwood) Clara Fitzpatrick (from St Kilda) Ella Maurer (from North Melbourne) pick #6 (from St Kilda) to Brisbane Ellie Hampson (from Gold Coast) pick #40 (from North Melbourne)	[79]
Essendon Carlton	to Essendon (from Carlton) Brooke Walker	to Carlton (from Essendon) pick #9	[80]
West Coast Fremantle	to West Coast (from Fremantle) Amy Franklin	to Fremantle (from West Coast) pick #3 pick #21	[81]
Sydney Geelong	to Sydney (from Geelong) Laura Gardiner	to Geelong (from Sydney) pick #1	[82]
Adelaide Port Adelaide	to Adelaide (from Port Adelaide) Sarah Goodwin	to Port Adelaide (from Adelaide) Jasmine Simmons pick #16 pick #34	[83]
Adelaide Greater Western Sydney	to Adelaide (from Greater Western Sydney) Jessica Allan	to Greater Western Sydney (from Adelaide) pick #52	[84]
Collingwood Western Bulldogs	to Collingwood (from Western Bulldogs) Nell Morris-Dalton	to Western Bulldogs (from Collingwood) pick #15	[85]

Delisted free agency

Table of free agency signings

Date	Player	Former club	New club	Ref
22 March	Leah Cutting	St Kilda	Essendon	[86]
	Georgia Clarke	Geelong
	Hayley Bullas	West Coast	Sydney	[87]
	Jade Pregelj	Gold Coast	Brisbane	[88]
	Liz McGrath	Port Adelaide	North Melbourne	[89]
	Georgie Fowler	Greater Western Sydney	Melbourne	[90]

Inactive players

Table of inactive players

Club	Player	Reason	Ref
Adelaide	Hannah Button	Knee	[91]
	McKenzie Dowrick	Knee	[92]
Brisbane	Kate Lutkins	Pregnancy	[93]
	Luka Yoshida-Martin	Knee	[94]
	Zimmorlei Farquharson	Personal	[95]
Carlton	Maddy Guerin	Knee	[96]
	Lulu Beatty	Leg	[97]
Essendon	Cat Phillips	Pregnancy	[98]
Fremantle	Mikayla Morrison	Knee	[99]
Gold Coast	Kaylee Kimber	Foot	[97]
	Maddison Levi	Rugby	[100]
	Teagan Levi	Rugby
	Claire Ransom	Personal	[101]
Greater Western Sydney	Tait Mackrill	Knee	[102]
	Meghan Gaffney	Knee	[103]
North Melbourne	Zoe Savarirayan	Knee	[104]
	Vicki Wall	Rugby	[105]
Port Adelaide	Jacqui Yorston	Wellbeing	[106]
Richmond	Tessa Lavey	Foot	[107]
	Stephanie Williams	Personal	[92]
St Kilda	Jade Van Dyk	Knee	[108]
Sydney	Hayley Bullas	Knee	[109]
	Maddy Collier	Knee
West Coast	Krstel Petrevski	Ankle	[110]

Supplementary draft

Main article: 2023 AFL Women's supplementary draft