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AFL Women's (AFLW) is Australia's national semi-professional Australian rules football league for female players.The first season of the league in February and March 2017 had eight teams; the league expanded to 10 teams in the 2019 season, 14 teams in 2020 and 18 teams in 2022.
The AFLW attracts a large audience of more than one million attendees [1] and over two million viewers, [2] and has managed to maintain its high levels of interest despite moving to primarily ticketed and subscription broadcasting models in 2021. The AFLW competition is one of the most popular women's football competitions in the world with an ...
Australian rules football has been played in Buenos Aires, Argentina since 1997, the Asociación Argentina de Futbol Australiano as the de facto governing body.. Ricardo Acuña, having seen footage of the game in the 1990s, decided to start the game in Argentina and is now president of the Argentine Alternative Sports Association.
Players contest the first ball-up at the inaugural AFLW match. The full fixture was released on Friday 9 December 2016. [1] [2] Notable features of the draw include: Carlton and Collingwood featured in the league's first ever match, [3] the match was initially scheduled to be held at Collingwood's home Olympic Park Oval, but was moved in January 2017 to the higher capacity Ikon Park due to ...
The Texas–Texas Tech football rivalry is an American college football rivalry [2] between the Texas Longhorns and the Texas Tech Red Raiders. The winner of this gauntlet receives the other university's chancellor's sterling silver boot spurs which is what the name of the rivalry is named after.
The Texas Tech Red Raiders college football team competes in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly known as Division I-A), representing Texas Tech University in the Big 12 Conference. [1] Texas Tech has played its home games at Jones AT&T Stadium in Lubbock, Texas since 1947. [2]
During Southwest Conference play in 1960–1995, Texas Tech led the series 21–12–3 (the series' 3 ties came in 3 straight games in Lubbock in 1979, 1981 and 1983). As members of different conferences during 1996–2011, the two teams met twice and split, 1–1.
With the introduction of a women's competition in 2016 (to commence in 2017), a draft was set up for the AFLW. In 2016, the first draft pick was awarded to the GWS Giants by lot, though this selection would be taken after 16 selections were made for marquee players: Nicola Barr was the first player to be drafted in AFLW history.