Australian A-League Women
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Poster
Established
2008 (18 years old)
First Recorded Event
2019-11-14
Current Season
2025-2026
Current Round
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Sport
SoccerLocation
Australia
Gender
Female
TV Rights
Australia - Network 10
Australia - Paramount+
New Zealand - Sky Open
New Zealand - Sky Sport
Hong Kong - HOY TV
Ireland - TNT Sports
United Kingdom - TNT Sports
Spain - LaLiga+
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Description
A-League Women (currently known as the Ninja A-League for sponsorship reasons), formerly the W-League, is the top-division women's soccer league in Australia. The W-League was established in 2008 by Football Australia (then known as Football Federation Australia) and was originally composed of eight teams of which seven had an affiliation with an existing A-League Men's club. As of the 2022–23 season, the league is contested by twelve teams. The league, as well as the A-League Men and A-League Youth are administered by the Australian Professional Leagues.
Seasons now run from November to April and include a 23-round regular season and an end-of-season finals series playoff tournament involving the highest-placed teams, culminating in a Grand Final match. The winner of the regular season tournament is dubbed "premiers" and the winner of the grand final is dubbed "champions". The premiers qualify for the AFC Women's Champions League, starting from the 2024–25 season.
Since the league's inaugural season, a total of five clubs have been crowned premiers and five clubs have been crowned champions. It has been currently running on a semi-professional basis, but talks about professionalisation have been emerging, beginning with the name change and placing of all women's clubs into one single Australian Professional Leagues operation and management in 2021, which served as the precursors for complete transition to professionalism of the A-League Women.
Melbourne City are the current premiers, having won their fourth title; Central Coast Mariners are the current champions, having won their first title.
Seasons
2025-2026
2024-2025
2023-2024
2022-2023
2021-2022
Teams
 Adelaide United  |  Brisbane Roar F |  Canberra United | |||
 Central Coast M |  Melbourne City |  Melbourne Victo | |||
 Newcastle Jets |  Perth Glory Wom |  Sydney FC Women | |||
 Wellington Phoe |  Western Sydney |
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Last 5 winners
Central Coast Mariners Women (2024-2025)
Sydney FC Women (2023-2024) Sydney FC Women (2022-2023)
Melbourne Victory Women (2021-2022) Melbourne Victory Women (2020-2021)Fanart
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