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The W-League is the top-division women's soccer league in Australia, run by Football Federation Australia (FFA). The W-League was established in 2008 and was composed of eight teams of which seven had an affiliation with an A-League clubs. The eighth team was a new entity based in Canberra. The league is currently contested by nine teams. The competition is known as the Westfield W-League through a sponsorship arrangement with the Westfield Group.
Seasons typically run from November to February and include a 12-round regular season and an end-of-season finals series playoff tournament involving the highest-placed teams, culminating in a grand final match. The winner of the regular season tournament is dubbed 'premier' and the winner of the grand final is 'champion'. Since the league's inaugural season, a total of four clubs have been crowned W-League Premiers and four clubs have been crowned W-League Champions.
From 2012 to 2014, the W-League champion team qualified into an international competition, the International Women's Club Championship.
Melbourne City are both the current premiers and champions, having gone through their inaugural season undefeated.
This is a disambiguation page W-League may refer to any of the following.
- USL W-League - a former North American women’s association football league.
- W-League (Australia) - an Australian women’s association football league.
- Women's Japan Basketball League - a Japanese women's basketball league.