North Melbourne won the premiership, defeating Brisbane by 30 points in the 2024 AFL Women's Grand Final.

Adelaide's Ebony Marinoff won the AFL Women's best and fairest award as the league's best and fairest player, while Geelong's Aishling Moloney and Brisbane's Taylor Smith tied for the AFL Women's leading goalkicker award as the league's leading goalkickers.

[2] Clubs had offered voluntary training during the off-season, with some allowing select players to play in state league competitions for additional exposure.

[8] The season began on 30 August with a match between Sydney and Collingwood,[9] and will conclude on 30 November with the 2024 AFL Women's Grand Final.

[14] In August, the AFL announced that a new "smart footy" ball-tracking technology would be introduced for the upcoming season at all venues, in which a chip is embedded in the football and tracked by sensors around the field; the system, which had been trialled for 18 months (including at Victorian Football League (VFL) and VFL Women's (VFLW) level), would be used to assist with reviewing scores, including alerting officials when the football crosses the goal line, hits the goal post or is touched mid-shot.