Chasing 100 career AFLW goals
We’re in the tenth season of the AFLW and there’s a solid chance this is the season we see someone break the 100 career goals barrier.
The increase in scoring, as Joe talks about above, has lead to individual players kicking more goals.
There are four players who, if they maintain their current 2025 goals average for the rest of the season would hit 100 goals before finals.
We should place an asterisk on Jasmine Garner though, as she’s set to miss two to three weeks through injury so would need to pick up a couple of goals when she returns.
How did we get here?
There have been a total of 8 players who have held the careers goals record at some point, either jointly or by themselves. From Lauren Arnell sharing it for three minutes in game 1 of season 1, to Darcy Vescio holding it a combined three and a half years.
It is a seriously accomplished list. Darcy Vescio, Erin Phillips, Tayla Harris, and Jasmine Garner are among the most recognizable players in the competition’s history.
Kate Hore is a club captain, premiership player, and three-time All Australian. Danielle Ponter was a key part of Adelaide’s 2019 and 2022 premierships, while Jess Wuetschner is one of the most dangerous small forwards the league has seen.
Lauren Arnell isn’t notable as a goalkicker but is a premiership player, three-time all Australian, and the first AFLW player to go from playing in the league to coaching in it.
Here’s the progression of those eight players goalkicking tallies – goal by goal, minute by minute.
And an alternate way to look at it, each title reign so far.
If there was a favourite right now for who’s going to get to 100 goals first, Kate Hore seems like an easy choice. Whoever it is it will be a moment for the whole competition to celebrate.
