The AFL Women’s Competition Committee has made a recommendation for the controversial conference system be implemented again in the 2020 season.
Conferences were introduced to the league in 2019 and proved troublesome, with Geelong playing in a preliminary final despite finishing with the lowest percentage in the competition.
Although the committee has made a recommendation, it does not mean the conference system is set in stone.
The AFL executive will make the final call on whether to accept the recommendation.
Head of Women’s Football Nicole Livingstone says the committee was united in its stance on the conference system.
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"There was an agreement with every member of the Competition Committee (of) overwhelming support of conferences," Livingstone told reporters.
"We need to figure out from a machinations point of view how we set those conferences and what the timing of the competition is for next year."
Livingstone cited excitement, keeping clubs alive at the end of the season and the window of time as reasons for keeping the conference system in place.
The Competition Committee will meet again in July to work on the “timing and setting of conference structures” in addition to working out a potential entry point for Essendon, Hawthorn, Port Adelaide and Sydney.