WITH the AFL Women's pre-season due to start early next month, clubs are getting closer to finalising their coaching panels.

All 10 clubs have had senior coaches in place for quite some time, but are now rounding out the teams that will support them.

Fremantle has signed former players Amy Lavell and Lisa Webb as assistant coaches for the 2019 season.

Lavell retired from the AFLW at the end of the 2018 season, but the star forward continued to play in the WAWFL and was a playing assistant with grand finalist Subiaco.

Webb has chosen to take a year away from playing after her strong debut 2018 season and will join Lavell in the coach's box. Webb's husband, Marc, is the senior development coach for the Dockers' AFL side. 

Lavell was voted best clubwoman in 2017 and Webb won the award this year. 

Craig Thomas, who worked on Michell Cowan's coaching panel, has been promoted to senior assistant coach, working alongside new senior coach Trent Cooper.

Matthew Clarke was locked in as Adelaide's senior coach in early June, with Andrew McLeod and Peter Caven continuing on the panel. The Crows added Narelle Smith and Tim Weatherald.

Smith, who played 130 games in the Adelaide Women's Footy League, has previously coached Glenelg in the SANFLW, the South Australia women's team and is a two-time premiership coach of Morphettville Park in the Adelaide Women's Footy League.

Weatherald will be the team's coach based in the Northern Territory, taking over from Andrew Hodges, who has chosen to focus on his role as the Northern Territory Thunder head coach.