In April 2019, Conti was traded to Richmond for the first selection in the 2019 AFL Women's draft and began playing for the club's VFL Women's team the following month.
Conti went on to win the club's VFLW best and fairest award and finish second in voting for the Lambert–Pearce Medal, despite only playing seven games.
By December, it became known that Conti could miss up to the first five games of Richmond's inaugural season in the AFLW due to the 2020 WNBL Finals clashing with the opening rounds of the 2020 AFL Women's season; however, in January 2020, Conti announced that she had requested to be released from her Melbourne Boomers contract to focus fully on playing in Richmond's inaugural AFLW season.

Leading into the 2020 season, womens.afl journalist Sarah Black named Conti at no.
13 on her list of the top 30 players in the AFLW.
She made her Richmond debut in the club's inaugural game against Carlton at Ikon Park, and was named among Richmond's best players.
Conti was named among Richmond's best players in all six matches, averaging a career-high 19.8 disposals per game, and was selected in womens.afl's Team of the Week in round 4; in the round 4 match, Conti recorded five tackles and a career-high 28 disposals in the loss to Geelong.
She went on to be selected in the initial 40-woman squad for the 2020 AFL Women's All-Australian team.
Conti was also selected in the AFL Players Association's inaugural AFL Women's 22under22 team, having earlier been selected in the retrospective 2017–2019 team, and won the inaugural Richmond best and fairest award.
In April 2019, Conti was traded to Richmond for the first selection in the 2019 AFL Women's draft and began playing for the club's VFL Women's team the following month. Conti went on to win the club's VFLW best and fairest award and finish second in voting for the Lambert–Pearce Medal, despite only playing seven games. By December, it became known that Conti could miss up to the first five games of Richmond's inaugural season in the AFLW due to the 2020 WNBL Finals clashing with the opening rounds of the 2020 AFL Women's season; however, in January 2020, Conti announced that she had requested to be released from her Melbourne Boomers contract to focus fully on playing in Richmond's inaugural AFLW season.
Leading into the 2020 season, womens.afl journalist Sarah Black named Conti at no. 13 on her list of the top 30 players in the AFLW. She made her Richmond debut in the club's inaugural game against Carlton at Ikon Park, and was named among Richmond's best players. Conti was named among Richmond's best players in all six matches, averaging a career-high 19.8 disposals per game, and was selected in womens.afl's Team of the Week in round 4; in the round 4 match, Conti recorded five tackles and a career-high 28 disposals in the loss to Geelong. She went on to be selected in the initial 40-woman squad for the 2020 AFL Women's All-Australian team. Conti was also selected in the AFL Players Association's inaugural AFL Women's 22under22 team, having earlier been selected in the retrospective 2017–2019 team, and won the inaugural Richmond best and fairest award.
Monique Conti