The Australian Ultimate League (AUL) have announced that gender will prove no barrier for Australian athletes in the newest elite level competition to be launched in May.

The competition will bring together some of the finest sporting talents in the country to compete in Ultimate Frisbee.

As co-founder of the AUL and Australian Ultimate representative player, Cat Phillips is keen to demonstrate the sport which is designed to shatter gender stereotypes and show that men and women could complement each other on the sporting field.

"We want to highlight that men and women bring different things to the field that work very well together and create a good product to watch," she said.

"The end product will be exciting and athletic and unique."

Phillips is also an AFLW pioneer, plying her trade with the Melbourne Demons since 2017.

"It was definitely very special being part of the first Melbourne team, we all got given a ring with the number that we were recruited to the team," she said.

"We have all got that ring forever."

The AUL has announced a similar draft to AFLW, with athletes from all codes of sport invited to try out for Australia's fastest rising sport.

Over 35,000 players registered for Ultimate Frisbee in 2016, a 33 per cent rise on 2015, which led to the national competition expanding to include under-22 and under-18 divisions.

Phillips said the AUL presented a golden chance to share the values of Ultimate Frisbee - a sport that officiates itself and includes mixed team at most major tournaments - with the Australian sporting public.

"We want to be upholding the values that Ultimate players really care about, including gender equity," she said.

The AUL will include all-star teams from every Australian state and territory except the Northern Territory and Tasmania. Two marquee players have been selected for each state as well as eight core players. The remaining four places will be made available through the draft.

The league will run over the weekend of August 18-19 in Melbourne with the top two teams to play in Sydney for the AUL Cup.

Brendan Ashcroft and Matt Hill combined with Phillips to form the league, with Hill saying the AUL was the next evolution of the sport.

"I think we’ve lacked a professional product to promote to the non-ultimate community. The AUL will be something that we can use to do that; to give school kids heroes to look up to and aspire to be," he said.