PORT ADELAIDE’s six new AFLW players have been given their jumper numbers for season 2025. 

All remaining players who were part of the squad last year have retained their guernsey numbers while Sydney recruit Ella Heads will slot into the number 12 guernsey. 

It’s the same number the defender wore in her 33 AFLW games with Sydney across the last three seasons. 

Check out the other new jumper numbers in the list below. 

3 Jasmine Evans 

Formerly worn with distinction by vice-captain Ange Foley, the number three guernsey has swapped hands since Foley’s retirement and has been taken on by Evans. The club’s second pick at last year’s inaugural AFLW National draft, Evans arrived from Central District where she was a SANFLW premiership player in 2023. A clever small forward, Evans would expect to kick more goals in the guernsey than Foley ever did; the veteran defender managed just four in her 33 games for Port Adelaide. 

7 Lily Paterson 

Port Adelaide’s top pick in the national draft at pick 19, Patterson has taken over the number seven guernsey, which had been vacant in 2024. Previously worn by Yasmin Duursma prior to her trade to Carlton, the number seven has a special place in Port Adelaide’s history as it was long worn by club legend Russell Ebert. A powerful and damaging midfielder, Paterson will hope to add to the list of accolades won by those wearing the iconic guernsey. 

12 Ella Heads 

Heads is very familiar with the number 12 guernsey, having worn it throughout her three seasons and 33 games with Sydney. The reliable and consistent defender has kept the number but changed colours this season, taking over the jumper from Hannah Ewings who was traded to Adelaide. Following the retirements of Ange Foley, Hannah Dunn and Maddy Keryk, Heads was identified as a defensive reinforcement who can play as a tall defender with an ability to distribute off half back. 

18 Jemma Charity 

No stranger to Port Adelaide, having progressed through the club’s Next Generation Academy alongside many of her new teammates and under the guidance of then academy coach now list manager Naomi Maidment, Charity will pull on the number 18 in 2025 after she rehabilitates from a knee injury. Charity takes on the guernsey from the now retired Olivia Levicki. Previously an Under 18 All-Australian, Charity is a classy midfielder/forward who will be one to watch for seasons to come.  

31 Chloe Gaunt 

Gaunt will take on the number 31 previously worn by another Queenslander Jo Miller. An athletic key forward who can also play in the ruck, Gaunt is fast and mobile and models her game on new teammate Matilda Scholz. A former Brisbane Lions Academy player, Gaunt placed inside the top ten in both the standing and running vertical leap tests at the National Draft Combine.  

32 Jasmine Sowden 

Drafted a day before her 18th birthday, Sowden landed at the club she grew up supporting, despite her roots in regional Victoria. A talented forward who can also gather plenty of the football in the midfield, the Warragul Industrials and Gippsland Power product takes on the number 32 guernsey from another Jasmine – Jasmine Simmons, who departed the club at the end of 2024. 

AFLW guernsey numbers 2025