This 12 months’s AFLW grand closing might be an evening match for the primary time and there might be no condensed fixture subsequent season.
AFL soccer boss Laura Kane and AFLW basic supervisor Emma Moore confirmed the adjustments on Wednesday morning on the launch of the ladies’s closing collection in Melbourne.
This 12 months’s grand closing on November 30 will begin at 7.45pm (AEDT).
4 Victorian groups stay in competition for the premiership, whereas each Adelaide golf equipment in addition to Fremantle and Brisbane may but declare the rights to host the sport.
All attainable venues have already been locked in, with Princes Park to host the match ought to it’s performed in Victoria, moderately than the bigger Docklands.
Apart from the twilight grand finals throughout COVID-19, this would be the first time an AFL or AFLW grand closing has been performed exterior the normal afternoon time-slot.
It provides to the annual debate about whether or not the boys’s grand closing ought to change into an evening recreation, because the NRL have accomplished for a number of years.
Whereas there was no official announcement about subsequent 12 months’s AFLW fixture, Moore additionally indicated will probably be one recreation per week for every workforce.
The league’s experiment with a condensed fixture this season, with some mid-week video games, attracted loads of controversy round participant workloads and the standard of soccer.
“Subsequent season we might be increasing to 12 video games over 12 weeks, with 108 video games,” Moore mentioned.
This 12 months’s was the biggest AFLW season up to now, with 99 home-and-away video games.
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