A-League Women Grand Finalists Melbourne City FC and Wellington Phoenix have dominated the PFA’s A-League Women Team of the Season, following an exciting 2025/26 campaign that concludes in Melbourne this Saturday.
The squad – made up of 18 players and one coach – features four players from this season’s reigning Premiers City and six Wellington players, ahead of Saturday afternoon’s Grand Final at AAMI Park.
City defender Rebekah Stott received the most votes from her peers to earn the title of captain of the team, while Phoenix’s Head Coach Bev Priestman was voted by the players as the best manager of the competition in her inaugural season at the helm of the New Zealand outfit.
A-League Women Golden Boot winner Holly McNamara was also voted into the starting lineup alongside City teammate Leticia McKenna, while Aideen Keane earned a place each on the bench.
Meanwhile, Wellington centre-back Mackenzie Barry, midfielders Pia Vlok and Grace Jale and attacker Brooke Nunn were named in the starting lineup, and goalkeeper Victoria Esson and defender Marisa van der Meer were voted on the bench.
Perth Glory’s Teresa Morrissey was the players’ pick for goalkeeper, Brisbane Roar are represented by Aimee Medwin and Daisy Brown, Adelaide United by defender Ella Tonkin, and Central Coast Mariners by Isabel Gomez and Annalise Rasmussen, and Melbourne Victory by Claudia Bunge and Rhianna Pollicina.
About the PFA Team of the Season
The inaugural PFA A-League Team of the Season was announced in 2009 and has been revealed annually in the A-Leagues Finals Series. Based on peer recognition, selection in the PFA Team of the Season remains one of the highest accolades a professional footballer can receive in Australia.
At the end of each season, PFA members from the A-Leagues are asked to vote on their best XI. The composition of the team is based on the number of votes tallied for each player in each position, with the substitutes bench comprising those players who finished below those in the starting XI positions. The player with the most votes is determined the Team of the Season’s captain.