AFLW injury news: Round ten

Updates on Belloni, MacLachlan and Gay.

Grace Belloni will unfortunately miss the remainder of the 2025 AFLW Season. Belloni experienced symptoms during mid-week training and scans have since confirmed a stress fracture in her lower leg (tibia).

Since Friday night’s match Maddison Gay has presented with pain in her left knee. Gay is undergoing further assessment and opinions to investigate the issue and if it is linked to her recent ACL sprain. 
 
Maggie MacLachlan is likely to have a small stint on the sidelines after straining her right calf in Round 9 vs. Western Bulldogs. 

Quad

Test

Morcom suffered a quad strain against North Melbourne in Round seven.

Calf

2-3 weeks

Maggie MacLachlan is likely to have a small stint on the sidelines after straining her right calf in Round 9 vs. Western Bulldogs.

ACL strain

TBC

Since Friday night’s match Maddison Gay has presented with pain in her left knee. Gay is undergoing further assessment and opinions to investigate the issue and if it is linked to her recent ACL sprain.

Leg

Season

Grace Belloni will unfortunately miss the remainder of the 2025 AFLW Season. Belloni experienced symptoms during mid-week training and scans have since confirmed a stress fracture in her lower leg (tibia).

Syndesmosis

Season

Jess Verbrugge will miss the remainder of the 2025 AFLW Season after scans confirmed a syndesmosis injury.

ACL

Season

Brooke Walker will miss the remainder of the 2025 AFLW Season after rupturing her ACL during the Round 4 match against Geelong.

PCL injury

Season

Van De Heuvel will miss the remainder of the 2025 AFLW Season after suffering a PCL injury to her left knee in the Round 2.

ACL

Season

Gough is recovering from an ACL rupture and will miss the season.

ACL

Season

Radford is recovering from an ACL rupture and will miss the season.

Injury: Quad

Est. Return: Test

21. Maggie MacLachlan

Maggie MacLachlan is likely to have a small stint on the sidelines after straining her right calf in Round 9 vs. Western Bulldogs.

Injury: Calf

Est. Return: 2-3 weeks

6. Maddison Gay

Since Friday night’s match Maddison Gay has presented with pain in her left knee. Gay is undergoing further assessment and opinions to investigate the issue and if it is linked to her recent ACL sprain.

Injury: ACL strain

Est. Return: TBC

7. Grace Belloni

Grace Belloni will unfortunately miss the remainder of the 2025 AFLW Season. Belloni experienced symptoms during mid-week training and scans have since confirmed a stress fracture in her lower leg (tibia).

Injury: Leg

Est. Return: Season

29. Jess Verbrugge

Jess Verbrugge will miss the remainder of the 2025 AFLW Season after scans confirmed a syndesmosis injury.

Injury: Syndesmosis

Est. Return: Season

9. Brooke Walker

Brooke Walker will miss the remainder of the 2025 AFLW Season after rupturing her ACL during the Round 4 match against Geelong.

Injury: ACL

Est. Return: Season

27. Sophie Van De Heuvel

Van De Heuvel will miss the remainder of the 2025 AFLW Season after suffering a PCL injury to her left knee in the Round 2.

Injury: PCL injury

Est. Return: Season

1. Emily Gough

Gough is recovering from an ACL rupture and will miss the season.

Injury: ACL

Est. Return: Season

Injury: ACL

Est. Return: Season