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Pride Round is a sporting event that celebrates gender diversity and promotes inclusivity for LGBT+ players. Pride Round may refer to: Pride Round (AFLW), a round played by the AFL Women's League (Australian rules football) Pride Round (AIHL), a round in the Australian Ice Hockey League, hosted by the Melbourne Mustangs since 2017
In 2018, the Western Bulldogs and Carlton women's teams held the first Pride game, to celebrate gender diversity, promote inclusion for LGBTIQA+ players, and to help stamp out homophobia. St Kilda and Melbourne held a Pride Match in 2020, and the first full AFLW Pride Round was held in 2021. [52] [53] An Indigenous Round was established in 2021 ...
The Australian Football League (AFL) is one of the rare fully professional leagues to have no active—or even retired—players to publicly identify as gay or bisexual despite more than a century of elite competition and at least 16,885 players in the VFL/AFL, although multiple players at an amateur level or semi-professional level have come ...
The AFL Women's National Championships were inaugurated in 1992. In 2010 the Australian Football League (AFL) assumed control of the sport with the intention of professionalising it and began restructuring competitions around the country to support an Australian national league, AFL Women's (AFLW), that commenced its inaugural season in 2017 ...
The AFLW Pride Round has since been established by the AFLW, [9] [10] supported by all 18 clubs in the women's league; [11] however as of November 2023 the men's league had no plans to introduce a Pride Round in the men's game. [12] [13] Ball was invited to lead the 18th Pride March Victoria alongside his teammates from the Yarra Glen Football ...
The 2023 AFL Women's season was the eighth season of the AFL Women's (AFLW) competition, the highest-level senior women's Australian rules football competition in Australia. The season featured 18 clubs and ran from 1 September to 3 December, comprising a ten-round home-and-away season followed by a four-week finals series featuring the top ...
Matthew Lloyd (Victoria) – immense pride – you feel like you walk a bit taller when you pull on the Big V. [57] Stephen O'Reilly (Western Australia) – State of Origin football is the pinnacle for AFL players. [58] Andrew McKay (South Australia) – I never dreamt of playing VFL/AFL as a child, but I always dreamt of playing for my state. [59]
The 2024 AFL Women's season was the ninth season of the AFL Women's (AFLW) competition, the highest-level senior women's Australian rules football competition in Australia. . The season featured 18 clubs and ran from 30 August to 30 November, comprising an eleven-match home-and-away season over ten weeks, followed by a four-week finals series featuring the top eight clu