Fremantle Dockers inaugural player Ebony Antonio has announced her retirement from AFLW. The club confirmed the news at its best and fairest awards on Thursday night, where Antonio was also inducted as a life member.
Antonio missed the 2025 season due to pregnancy, welcoming son Bowie with wife and fellow inaugural Docker Kara last month. She played 70 games for the Dockers, the fifth-most in club history.
Her retirement leaves Kiara Bowers and former captain Hayley Miller as the only active players from Fremantle's inaugural AFLW squad. Antonio began her football career as a running half-back, winning the club's best and fairest award and All Australian selection in 2018.
She later moved to the forward line, finishing as the Dockers' leading goal-kicker in the competition's seventh season. In 2022, she made history by sharing the AFLW western derby winner with Bowers after a three-goal performance.
Fremantle's head of AFLW Claire Heffernan praised Antonio as a role model and leader. "Her legacy will live on through the players she has influenced and the culture she helped build," Heffernan said.
