AFLW 2020: four new teams, a complex finals system and a familiar gripe | Kasey Symons

Gold Coast, Richmond, St Kilda and West Coast join a new-look competition that has evolved in some ways, but not in others

When the 2020 AFLW season begins on Friday night at Melbourne’s Princes Park, the fourth iteration of the competition will look considerably different. With four new teams – Gold Coast, Richmond, St Kilda and West Coast – as per the AFL’s expansion plan, 14 teams will dispute the now eight-round competition.

The quartet of debutants have had the advantage of preparing for their entry by watching the competition develop over the course of its three-year life, and they have held nothing back in luring top talent to their programs.

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