North Melbourne have broken through for their maiden AFLW premiership and completed an undefeated season with a 30-point win over the Brisbane Lions in the historic night grand final.

Brisbane coach Craig Starcevich says the Lions will be driven by closing the gap on North Melbourne next season as he praised the premiers for playing “the best footy I’ve ever seen”.

North Melbourne and Brisbane are again the last teams standing and are braced for another epic AFLW grand final encounter. Follow the action in our live blog.

Garner overwhelmed attempted tagger Jade Ellenger. O’Loughlin’s speed overawed Brisbane’s defence. And captain Emma Kearney was back running at full tilt after a cautious return from a hamstring injury in the preliminary final.

For the second straight year we have a North Melbourne and Brisbane AFLW grand final and again it is almost impossible to separate the two.

Well, we made it, folks! It is the last week of November and the AFLW grand final is here. It is completely normal to feel a wave of déjà vu considering last year when we had the same match up at the same ground,

The Brisbane Lions AFLW side will head to IKON Park for this Saturday’s 2024 NAB AFLW Grand Final unchanged.

North Melbourne have stormed to their first AFLW premiership with a dominant 30-point win over Brisbane in Saturday night’s grand final. The Kangaroos exploded out of the blocks with the first three goals in the first quarter and defended brilliantly to keep the Lions to just one goal in the 6.3 (39) to 1.3 (9) victory.