AFLW gamers will nonetheless obtain lower than the lads regardless of the league pledging to double the prize cash for the 2023 season.
The announcement was made on Monday by incoming AFL chief Andrew Dillon, lower than two weeks till the primary spherical of season eight.
The prize cash will improve from $632,922 to $1.1 million to match the lads’s competitors however the purse will likely be break up throughout the highest eight groups, versus a top-four break up within the males’s league.
Despite the uneven break up, AFLW chief Nicole Livingstone is assured the brand new season would be the greatest iteration given it comes off the again of the profitable Women’s World Cup.
“With the passionate enthusiasm currently in Australia around women’s sport, we really do feel like there’s no better time than to burst onto the scene with AFLW,” she mentioned on Monday.
“We’ve been here now for seven years and we really do think that this year is going to be our best season yet.
“The message is really clear, if you love women’s sport, get behind AFLW.
“Go to a match or watch a match (on television) and support our players and our clubs.”
The league’s 18 membership skippers gathered at Marvel Stadium for the launch of the brand new season, with 14 of them telling an AFL ballot they count on the Demons to go all the way in which once more.
In 2022’s pre-season questionnaire, eight captains appropriately predicted Melbourne would take out season seven.
The 2023 marketing campaign indicators one thing of a brand new period for the Demons, who’ve retained 28 gamers however will likely be with out inaugural skipper Daisy Pearce as they bid for back-to-back titles.
Two-time All-Australian Kate Hore has loved a promising begin to her process of filling Pearce’s boots, main the facet to 2 dominant wins in pre-season.
“It’s not something that I thought that I would be doing in 10 or 15 years but to be here now – I’m just super pumped, very honoured and can’t wait to lead the girls out this season,” Hore mentioned on the AFLW Captain’s Day.
“Obviously big shoes to fill with ‘Dais’ but I feel so well supported.
“It’s definitely not just going to be me or left up to me. Everyone’s got such great strengths to bring.
“We don’t really listen to the outside noise too much and we’ll just keep going about our business.”
AFLW’s eighth season begins on September 1 with a showdown between Melbourne and Collingwood at Ikon Park.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
