From change rooms, to board rooms, sport fields to dance halls, sport happens somewhere – it is inherently spatial. While Australian geographers continue to make significant social and cultural impacts through a focus on spatiality, one area which has yet to be fully developed is the geography of sport. The work that has been undertaken on sport in rural communities, surfing (Waitt, 2008) and sport events (Waitt, 2003) has been hugely influential. Yet despite these contributions there is still considerable work to be done. Sport is an arena where geographers can, I argue, make broader, and importantly, bolder contributions. In fact, I contend, a concern with spatiality gives geographers a unique and critical insight into sport and its manifestation across scales from that of the global to the local. Much has been written about sport in the national Australian imaginary (Cashman, 2002). As Rowe notes, ‘Australia is a nation that is renowned for its attachment to sport…it is officially described as a sporting nation in its institutional and cultural – especially media – apparatus’ (2016, p. 3). At the same time masculine norms of sport culture, representation and management often go unquestioned. Women entering previously male dominated spaces contend with various structural and cultural barriers to entry and despite the increasing visibility of women in sport there remain a range of policies and practices (from the grassroots to professional levels of sport) that keep women out. Sport is one area of social life where learning to ‘lose’ is valued, however at present the concept of ‘sportsmanship’ remains gendered masculine. Issues of mental and physical wellbeing and social exclusion are also entangled in notions of ‘sport’. Sport is used in schools, clubs, at local, national and international sites, as a tool for development, for ‘empowerment’, and for social inclusion and integration. Yet research in this area is often gender blind. This lecture will focus on two current examples, the inaugural AFL Women’s season, and the forthcoming 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games to examine the ways ‘space’ is being made for women in sport. Drawing on interviews with women who play sport at grassroots and elite levels, together with ethnographic data, I will examine how these spaces are co-constitutive of practices and forms of subjectivity. I will demonstrate that who it is possible to be – ‘healthy’, ‘strong’, ‘butch’, ‘tough, ‘sexy’, ‘hot’, ‘winner’, ‘loser’— is dependent on the spaces that support various practices and identities. Moreover, I will explore how the interconnections between spatiality and subjectivity in the arena of sport are also inflected by relations of class, ability, race and sexuality. In this way I will outline an agenda for a geography of sport in Australia – one that attends to gender, and indeed, bodies and affect (Pavlidis and Fullagar, 2014). Sport is central to our Australian cultural imaginary – our climate and geography, the allocation of public funding and facilities. In pursuing an agenda for a geography of sport in Australia key questions of identity and belonging can be opened up and new frontiers explored.