The start of the next 14-team AFLW season will be brought forward from January to December 2021 to ensure the men's league doesn't overshadow the women's competition. The 2021-22 AFLW grand final will be staged in mid-March, taking place ahead of the start of the next men's season.<\/p>\n
AFL NEWS:<\/strong> Essendon legend Matthew Lloyd urges club to 'play hardball' with Jake Stringer on new deal<\/a><\/p>\n The AFL is aiming to have all clubs in the AFLW by the 2023-24 season and has given Hawthorn, Sydney, Essendon and Port Adelaide until July 9 to submit bids for 2022-23 licenses.<\/p>\n But after the AFL again barred Hawthorn's persistent push to blood an AFLW team next season, Kennett shredded the governing body.<\/p>\n "It's a disgrace," Kennett told The Age<\/em>.<\/p>\n "The AFL is charged to administer the code equally across all 18 of its clubs.<\/p>\n "Four clubs are being denied an opportunity in the AFL's fastest-growing market.<\/p>\n "We are now being told we need to re-apply.<\/p>\n "It is another example of where the AFL fail to make decisions and simply defer decision-making into the future."<\/p>\n The sixth season of the AFLW competition will host 10 rounds and three weeks of finals.<\/p>\n Kennett said he was venting on behalf of the club's female membership and "my ladies in the VFLW team".<\/p>\n He also said the Hawks, who first requested entry to the 2019 AFLW season, had been treated as a "second-class citizen".<\/p>\n "This decision flies in the face of good governance and common sense," Kennett said.<\/p>\n "We are being denied an opportunity for our women to compete and build.<\/p>\n "I have expressed that view in the strongest-possible terms to the AFL chairman (Richard Goyder) and to (chief executive) Gillon (McLachlan)."<\/p>\n For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/strong><\/em> clicking here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hawthorn president Jeff Kennett is considering taking legal action against the AFL after the Hawks were advised that another AFLW season would go ahead without […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70792"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70792"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70794,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70792\/revisions\/70794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n