TG4is to broadcast weekly matches and highlights from the upcoming Australian Football League Women’s (AFLW) season.
The Competition begins next weekend with fourteen teams battling it out over twelve weekends to see who will reach the Grand Final in April.
There will be fourteen Irish players playing in this season’s competition including Sinead Goldrick, Niamh McEvoy and Lauren Magee who were part of the Dublin Ladies Football team that won the TG4 All Ireland final in December.
The agreement between TG4 and the Australian Football League (AFL) will see matches being broadcast deferred each weekend as well as weekly highlights. The coverage will begin on TG4 on Saturday 30th January at 5.10 pm.
The first season of the league in 2017 had 8 teams; the league expanded to 10 teams in the 2019 season and expanded to 14 teams in the 2020 season. The league is run by the Australian Football League (AFL) and is contested by a subset of clubs from that competition.
“We are proud to expand the AFLW broadcast to Ireland, a significant announcement for Australian Football given the impact Irish footballers have had on the NAB AFL Women’s Competition,” said AFL Head of Women’s Football Nicole Livingstone.
“We have 14 Irish players currently on AFLW lists and it is great to know that their family and friends back home will be able to watch them in action this season.”
“There are a lot of players from Ireland who play in the AFLW and we would like to thank the AFL for giving us the opportunity to showcase their sport in Ireland.”
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