Adelaide star Erin Phillips has paid an emotional tribute to her father Greg, after comfortably winning her second best and fairest honour at the AFLW awards night.

Key points: Phillips polled 19 out of a possible 21 votes, with five best-afield performances

Phillips polled 19 out of a possible 21 votes, with five best-afield performances She was also appointed captain of the All-Australian team for the first time

She was also appointed captain of the All-Australian team for the first time She will see how she recovers from knee surgery before deciding whether to play next season

Two days after the Crows won the premiership, the Adelaide co-captain was also named skipper of the All-Australian team for the first time.

Accepting her award last night, Phillips thanked her mother and father Greg Phillips, who was an eight-time premiership player with Port Adelaide.

"My dad obviously played footy and when I was born people felt sorry for him because he didn't have a son to play footy some day and carry the Phillips name.

"So dad I know you're watching and mum, I hope I've made you proud and we can stick it up those people who said that to you."

Reflecting on the moment at a press conference this morning, she said the way the AFLW had broken down gender barriers in the sport was "pretty special".

Phillips claimed her second AFLW best and fairest award. ( AAP: Hamish Blair )

"How good now that we have this competition where daughters can follow in fathers' footsteps, and then one day daughters or sons can follow in their mums' footsteps," she said.

Phillips attended last night's awards function in Melbourne after rupturing the anterior cruciate ligament in her left knee during the grand final win over Carlton.

She was best afield in Sunday's clash at Adelaide Oval, which attracted a record crowd of more than 53,000.

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Phillips will undergo surgery for a knee reconstruction next week and said she would wait to see how she recovered before deciding whether to continue her AFLW career.

"It's not a decision I really need to make right now — we're still a while away from round one of next year," she said.

"I'll be 34 next month and I think the bigger picture is figuring out how to chase three kids soon, but look, I'll rehab, I'll do everything I can.

"If I get back up and play, great. If not, I'll be pretty bloody happy to finish on that note."

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She said it was "quite strange" to hear discussion about the league's best and fairest medal and a grandstand at the Adelaide Oval being named after her.

"It makes you feel a bit old," she said.

Asked about the idea — endorsed by AFLW head Nicole Livingstone this morning — of her name being bestowed on the riverbank stand at the Adelaide Oval, Phillips said: "If that did happen that would be really special, but not something I kind of lose sleep on or think about."

While accepting the award last night, Phillips confirmed she had turned down interviewing for a head coaching job in the United States with the WNBA's Dallas Wings because it would have meant missing out on a third AFLW season.

Phillips, a former professional basketball player who was the Wings' assistant coach for the 2018 season, said she wanted to continue to take part in both the WNBA and the AFLW for as long as possible.

"There is going to come a point where I'm going to have to decide which country and what to do," she said.

Erin Phillips remains comfortably the best player in AFLW. ( AAP: Hamish Blair )

Phillips was the overwhelming favourite to win the best and fairest award and she had an unbeatable lead with two of the seven rounds of votes still to be counted.

She polled 19 out of a possible 21 votes, with five best-afield performances.

While Phillips also made the 2017 All-Australian team, this is the first time she has captained the honorary team.

On Monday, the 33-year-old Australian Rules and basketball star comfortably won the AFL Players Association award for the second time.

But she was not among the three players who have made all three AFLW All-Australian teams.

That honour went to Crows co-captain Chelsea Randall, last year's AFLW best and fairest winner Emma Kearney (North Melbourne) and Melbourne's Karen Paxman.

Randall was also named vice-captain of the All-Australian line-up.

Erin Phillips had the medal sewn up after just five rounds. ( AAP: Hamish Blair )

The team of 21 featured 16 on-field positions and five interchange.

Adelaide had five players in the team and expansion team North Melbourne had four representatives.

Carlton's Maddie Prespakis, the number three draft pick last October, won the Rising Star award and also made the All-Australian team.k

GWS were the only team not represented in the All-Australian lineup.

AFLW 2019 All Australian team

B: Ash Brazill (Collingwood), Meg McDonald (Geelong Cats)

HB: Jess Duffin (Kangaroos), Chelsea Randall (Adelaide Crows), Kerryn Harrington (Carlton)

C: Emma Kearney (Kangaroos), Kiara Bowers (Fremantle), Karen Paxman (Melbourne)

HF: Erin Phillips (Adelaide Crows), Jasmine Garner (Kangaroos), Monique Conti (Western Bulldogs)

F: Gemma Houghton (Fremantle), Stevie Lee Thompson (Adelaide Crows)

Foll: Lauren Pearce (Melbourne), Ebony Marinoff (Adelaide Crows), Madison Prespakis (Carlton)

I: Emma King (Kangaroos), Gabbie Pound (Carlton), Ally Anderson (Brisbane Lions), Anne Hatchard (Adelaide Crows), Dana Hooker (Fremantle).

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