Celebrating W, Pride Round 2025
 
During Round 9 and Round 10 of the NAB AFLW season, from Friday 10 to Sunday 19 October, we are proudly celebrating our strong connection to the LGBTQI+ community and embracing the diversity that strengthens our game.
2025 marks the sixth occasion the AFLW has held a Pride Round dedicated to supporting diversity and inclusion of LGBTQI+ communities and the first time it has been held over two rounds.
We encourage fans to attend Pride Round and be an ally, it’s easy to show your support at the footy!

See you at AFLW Pride Round!

See 2025 Pride Guernsey Designs

Pride Sherrin Design

Inaugural AFLW player Darcy Vescio is a talented artist and created the artwork for this year’s Pride Sherrin.

The design not only celebrates the strong connection AFLW has with the LGBTQI+ community but also highlights milestone moments in women’s football dating all the way back to 1892 when a woman in Bendigo was charged with being a nuisance for kicking a footy in public.

Fast forward more than one hundred years and the design also calls out moments including the late Sal Rees who was the first woman to nominate for the national draft in 1995, Alison Downie and Emma King who contested the first AFLW ruck contest and pioneer Debbie Lee, who was the first woman to be inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame.

An apt design as the league celebrates and reflects on its 10^th season this year.