Chelsea Randall

Biography

AFC Debut Game: Round 1 v GWS Giants, 2017

Chelsea Randall signed with the AFLW Crows as a marquee player in July 2016 and moved to Adelaide from Western Australia before the club had a coach or squad.

By the time Randall retired almost 10 years later, she was a triple-premiership player, five-time All-Australian and one of the defining players of the AFLW’s first decade.

Randall was already one of the best female footballers in the country before she joined Adelaide to prepare for the new AFLW competition. She was a three-time All-Australian and two-time WAWFL best-and-fairest for Swan Districts and also had won the AFL’s prestigious Jill Lindsay Scholarship in 2016 for her football development work in the Pilbara region.

Randall was named co-captain of the inaugural Crows squad with former basketball star Erin Phillips, played in the first game, helped guide the Club to the first AFLW premiership and was named in the 2017 All-Australian team.

In 2018, she picked up a string of awards, including the Crows Club Champion medal, tied for the AFL Coaches Association AFLW Champion Player of the Year Award, and was named captain of the All-Australian side. Randall became a three-time AFLW All-Australian in 2019 as she co-captained the Crows to their second Premiership. She missed the 2020 campaign after tearing her ACL in the first pre-season training session and instead took on an assistant coaching role.

Randall returned from the injury in 2021 and became sole captain of the side, leading Adelaide to its third premiership in Season Six, 2022.

She won the first AFLW Showdown Medal in Adelaide’s first clash with Port Adelaide in season seven of 2022, when she earned another All-Australian blazer.

Randall was runner-up to Club Champion Ebony Marinoff in 2024 and became a five-time AFLW All-Australian. But the six-time AFLW Most Courageous Player was restricted to six games in 2025 after suffering a concussion. She was preparing to play on in 2026 but retired due to issues related to concussion, ending a decorated career of 80 AFLW games for the Crows.

“To play for the Crows was an opportunity I still pinch myself about,” Randall said. “I’m grateful for the friendships, the premierships, the games won, the games lost, and all those little moments in between. I’m also so grateful to the AFLW competition as a whole, and proud to have played a part in its growth.”