2023 AFL Women's supplementary draft

The 2023 AFL Women's supplementary draft was the draft that enabled the 18 clubs in the AFL Women's competition to recruit overage players prior to the 2023 AFL Women's season.

2023 AFL Women's supplementary draft
General information
Date(s)	4 April 2023
Sponsored by	National Australia Bank
Overview
League	AFL Women's
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On October 19, 2022, the AFL announced that the draft would be a once-off overage national draft, to be held on Tuesday, 4 April, 2023.^[1] This was a stop-gap measure due to the shortened seasons between season 7 and the 2023 season, and there being no underage competition between the last draft in June 2022 and this one. Only players aged over 19 were eligible to be drafted.^[1]

Player movement period

Main article: 2022–23 AFL Women's player movement period

Draft

Table of draft selections

Rd.	Pick	Player	Club	Recruited from		Notes
				Club	League
1	1	Erin Hoare	Geelong	Geelong	VFLW	←Sydney
	2	Jasmin Stewart	Port Adelaide	Claremont	WAFLW
	3	Tahleah Mulder	Fremantle	South Fremantle	WAFLW	←West Coast
	4	Mattea Breed	Hawthorn	North Adelaide	SANFLW
	5	Lulu Beatty	Carlton	Carlton	VFLW
	6	Cara McCrossan	Gold Coast	Casey Demons	VFLW	←St Kilda
	7	Emmelie Fiedler	Fremantle	East Fremantle	WAFLW
	8	Caitlin Miller	Greater Western Sydney	Southport	QAFLW
	9	Madeline Hendrie	Carlton	Western Bulldogs	VFLW	←Essendon
	10	Meara Girvan	Gold Coast	Bond University	QAFLW
	11	Dominique Carruthers	Western Bulldogs	Western Bulldogs	VFLW
	12	Katelyn Pope	Port Adelaide	North Adelaide	SANFLW	←Geelong
	13	Eleri Morris	Collingwood	Collingwood	VFLW
	14	Selena Karlson	Collingwood	Collingwood	VFLW	←St Kilda←Richmond
	15	Passed	Western Bulldogs	—	—	←Collingwood←North Melbourne
	16	Georgie Jaques	Port Adelaide	Norwood	SANFLW	←Adelaide
	17	Poppy Boltz	Brisbane	Southport	QAFLW
2	18	Jae Flynn	Fremantle	East Fremantle	WAFLW	←West Coast
	19	Kristy Stratton	Hawthorn	Box Hill Hawks	VFLW
	20	Marianna Anthony	Carlton	North Melbourne	VFLW
	21	Bethany Pinchin	St Kilda	Southern Saints	VFLW
	22	Joanne Cregg	Fremantle	Subiaco	WAFLW
	23	Annise Bradfield	Greater Western Sydney	Gold Coast	AFLW
	24	Passed	Gold Coast	—	—
	25	Passed	Western Bulldogs	—	—
	26	Ruby Tripodi	North Melbourne	Williamstown	VFLW	←St Kilda←Collingwood
	27	Shelby Knoll	Richmond	Casey Demons	VFLW
3	28	Chloe Wrigley	Carlton	Peel Thunder	WAFLW
4	29	Yvonne Bonner	Adelaide	Donegal GAA	Ladies' Gaelic Football

Free agency and replacement signings

Where players were moved to inactive list after the draft had taken place, club were entitled to replace them by free agency signing.

Free agent or replacement signings

Club	Player	Reason	Former club	Former league	Ref
Adelaide	Brooke Smith	Replacement (Dowrick)	Casey Demons	VFLW	[2]
Brisbane	Analea McKee	Replacement (Farquharson)	Geelong	VFLW	[3]
	Caitlin Wendland	Replacement (Yoshida-Martin)	Central District	SANFLW	[4]
	Brooke Sheridan	Replacement (Lutkins)	University of Queensland	QAFLW	[5]
Carlton	Gen Lawson-Tavan	Replacement (Guerin)	Sydney	AFLW	[6]
Essendon	Matilda Dyke	Replacement (Phillips)	Claremont	WAFLW	[7]
Fremantle	Ariana Hetherington	Replacement (Morrison)	South Fremantle	WAFLW	[8]
Gold Coast	Darcie Davies	Replacement (Ransom)	Southport	QAFLW	[9]
Greater Western Sydney	Teagan Germech	Replacement (Mackrill)	Belconnen	AFL Canberra Women's	[10]
	Rene Caris	Replacement (Gaffney)	Collingwood	VFLW	[11]
Melbourne	Saraid Taylor	Replacement (Johnson)	Richmond	AFLW	[12]
North Melbourne	Lucy Burke	Replacement (Hardiman)	St Kilda	AFLW	[13]
	Ailish Considine	Replacement (Wall)	Adelaide	AFLW	[14]
Richmond	Charli Wicksteed	Replacement (Lavey)	South Fremantle	WAFLW	[15]
	Lilly Pearce	Replacement (Williams)	Southport	QAFLW	[16]
St Kilda	Maddie Boyd	Replacement (Van Dyk)	Box Hill Hawks	VFLW	[17]
Sydney	Tanya Kennedy	Replacement (Bullas)	Donegal GAA	N/A	[18]
West Coast	Mackenzie Webb	Replacement (Petrevski)	Claremont	WAFLW	[11]
Western Bulldogs	Maggie Gorham	Free agent (unrestricted)	Ainslie	AFL Canberra Women's	[19]
	Brianna McFarlane	Free agent (unrestricted)	Western Bulldogs	VFLW	[20]

References

1. Beveridge, Riley (19 October 2022). "AFLW set to hold one-off overage draft as stop-gap measure". AFLW. Telstra. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
2. "Tigers and Crows forwards placed on inactive lists, Vic prospect gets chance". womens.afl. Telstra. 21 July 2023.
3. "McKee Joins the Lions Pride for 2023". Brisbane Lions. Telstra. 21 June 2023.
4. "Caitlin Wendland joins the Pride". Brisbane Lions. Telstra. 1 August 2023.
5. "Welcome to the Den Brooke Sheridan". Brisbane Lions. Telstra. 15 August 2023.
6. "New addition bolsters the Blues' list". Carlton. Telstra. 9 August 2023. Blues add key defender ahead of Season 8.
7. "Rookie latest: Bombers sign West Australian ruck". womens.afl. Telstra. 22 May 2023.
8. "Dream secured! Hetherington joins Freo". Fremantle Football Club. 4 August 2023. Retrieved 5 September 2023.
9. "Suns add Academy tall after special AFL approval". 14 April 2022. Retrieved 17 April 2022.
10. "Germech Now a GIANT". Greater Western Sydney. Telstra. 15 June 2023.
11. Black, Sarah; Bastiani, Gemma (29 August 2023). "Rookie latest: Eagles sign rising young defender". AFL Women's. Retrieved 5 September 2023.
12. "Rookie latest: Former Tiger joins the Demons". womens.afl. Telstra. 25 May 2023.
13. "Kangaroos complete AFLW list after signing Saint". 9 June 2023.
14. "Dual premiership Crow becomes a Kanga". North Melbourne. Telstra. 27 July 2023.
15. "Yorston stepping away from football for 12 months". Richmond. Telstra. 27 June 2023.
16. "Pearce lands at Richmond". Richmond. Telstra. 27 July 2023.
17. "Boyd becomes a Saint in whirlwind signing". St. Kilda. Telstra. 30 June 2023. Maddie Boyd has joined St Kilda as an injury replacement player for the upcoming AFLW season.
18. "Irish contingent grows as Kennedy signs on". Sydney Swans. 14 July 2023. Retrieved 5 September 2023.
19. "Gorham arrives at the Kennel, AFLW list completed". Western Bulldogs. 5 April 2023. Retrieved 5 September 2023.
20. "Bulldogs sign McFarlane to AFLW list". Western Bulldogs. 5 April 2023. Retrieved 5 September 2023.