fielding a WAFL team since 2019, with the arrangement between Peel and Fremantle remaining in place as of 2022. In South Australia, Adelaide announced its intention to establish a stand-alone reserves team, but maintained that it would not enter it in the SANFL without full support from all SANFL clubs. However, with the reversal of Norwood's publicly stated opposition to AFL stand-alone involvement, the SANFL gained the constitutionally required two-thirds majority support in August 2013: despite failing to obtain the support of either South Adelaide or Central District, Adelaide has fielded a reserves side in the SANFL senior level since 2014 (except 2020). Port Adelaide's situation remained unresolved at the time, since it wanted to operate the Port Adelaide Magpies SANFL team as its host club in the SANFL seniors. This desire had led to an impasse, as the South Australian Football Commission required that Port Adelaide shut down its Under-18s and Under-16s teams and surrender its SANFL recruiting zones, thereby severing its connection with the community, in order to continue with this arrangement, which the club was highly reluctant to do. Subsequently, a compromise deal was made with the SANFL: in exchange for the club shutting down its Under-18s and Under-16s teams and surrendering its SANFL recruiting zones, they could continue the arrangement, with the club being granted permission to field an academy team in the SANFL Reserves competition. At the end of the 2018 SANFL season, Port Adelaide withdrew from the Reserves competition, with Port Adelaide and the SANFL mutally agreeing to shut down the academy team. Other notes In 2020, AFL-listed players were not permitted to compete in state-level football in any capacity due to the requirements of the quarantine bubbles set up to complete the 2020 AFL season amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, all of the affiliations in this page were suspended during the season. AFL Women's reserves arrangements In 2017 the AFL Women's (AFLW) competition was launched, with semi-professional female footballers gaining the opportunity to compete in a national league. Initially, eight AFL clubs were granted a license to compete in the league, which increased to 10 teams in 2019, and to 14 teams in 2021: with , , and receiving AFLW licenses in 2022, all clubs now field an AFLW team. For 2021 and 2022, most female state leagues and local competitions were aligned with the length of the AFLW season: this