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KEY DATES

• Priority Signing Period (PSP): 1 March (9am) – 8 March (2pm)
• Sign and Trade Period: 10 March (9am) – 20 March (3pm)

Priority Signing Period

The Priority Signing Period (PSP) will allow the four AFLW Season Seven expansion clubs – Essendon, Hawthorn, Port Adelaide and the Sydney Swans – to sign ‘PSP players’ without a trade. 

‘PSP players’ are those who have completed three or more AFLW seasons.

The number of PSP players a club can lose is capped and based on their finishing position post-finals in Season Seven. The Saints ended Season Seven in thirteenth position, therefore will lose no more than one player.

The AFLW List committee will determine any relevant compensation for clubs at the conclusion of the PSP.

Compensation will include draft picks to be used in the AFLW Draft leading into Season Nine of the AFLW. Any compensation will not be permitted to be traded in the Sign and Trade Period.

Sign and Trade Period

The sign and trade period will open at Friday 10 March at 9am and close at Monday 20 March at 3pm.

Clubs will pay players the pay rates from the existing CBA, with any potential changes applied retrospectively according to the ongoing CBA negotiations.

Clubs will not have to make a minimum number of list changes in the sign and trade period.

Further information regarding detailed timelines will be forthcoming.