Women's Australian Rules Football
Women's Australian Football (also known as Women's Aussie Rules, Women's footy, Women's AFL or in areas where it is popular, simply football) is an ball sport based on Australian rules football and played only by women.
Although it is a contact sport, women's Australian Football is sometimes played with modified laws for women from the men's game. Less brutal on the body than Women's American football, Women's rugby league or women's rugby union, it offers more physicality than Women's soccer and requires both hand and foot co-ordination. It is a fast-paced team sport and is played by women of different shapes and sizes.
Women's Australian rules is played in many countries around the world, though senior international competition is currently limited to the five countries which debuted in the 2011 Australian Football International Cup - Australia, United States, Canada, Ireland and Papua New Guinea. Other nations where the sport is played at senior level include England, New Zealand, Italy and Japan while junior or school competitions are held in Australia, Papua New Guinea, Argentina, Canada, USA, South Africa, Tonga and Samoa.
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