WA’s young aspiring female footballers have received a huge boost with the AFL re-admitting the State into this season’s NAB AFLW Draft Championships.  The AFL was forced to leave WA out of the Championships last month as uncertainty continued over the border.   With the State Government’s decision to lift travel restrictions from 3rd March 2022, WA is part of the re-worked schedule.  WA will now Read More ...

Two-time Peel Premiership coach Cam Shepherd will lead the WAFL State team in 2022.  Shepherd has been appointed head coach after a successful nine-year career with Peel Thunder.  “I am honoured to be appointed State Coach and I cannot wait to get down to work.  I have always been proud of the standard of the WAFL, and it is going to be exciting to put Read More ...

WHAT another fascinating weekend of action it was in Round 2 of the 2022 WAFLW season with East Fremantle opening its campaign with a win, Peel Thunder remaining undefeated and Claremont making another big statement. Following the opening round of the new season where Peel Thunder, Claremont and South Fremantle came away victorious, the stage was set for some statements to be made in Round Read More ...

Every Australian woman, man, girl and boy who registers to play, coach, umpire, volunteer or administer community football has the opportunity to share in more than $370,000 prizes as part of an AFL push to get people back to their local clubs and NAB AFL Auskick centres across the country. As part of the AFL’s $50 million investment to support community football, the AFL has Read More ...

SUBIACO capped off a dominant 2021 WAFL season by winning the premiership to continue their remarkable run of success, but they have got some mixed news on the personnel front coming into 2022. By winning the premiership in 2021, the Lions have now won five flags in the last eight WAFL seasons, and nine since 2003 and their performance throughout last season was outstanding. They Read More ...

EAST Fremantle opened their 2022 WAFLW season up in perfect fashion with a first up win on Saturday to open Round 2 before Peel Thunder and Claremont both continued their undefeated starts two games in. East Fremantle made their first appearance of the 2022 WAFLW season on Saturday at home at New Choice Homes Park on Saturday following the opening round bye, and it was Read More ...

One of the state’s most popular tourist destinations is hoping to provide a destination club for aspiring footballers.  The Dunsborough Sharks will field a Colts, Reserves and Women’s team in the SWFL this season after being voted in last October to become the eleventh club in the competition.  Dunsborough President Mark Delane says a dream has turned into reality.   “We put forward our submission two Read More ...

FOLLOWING a tremendous and historic opening round of the 2022 WAFLW season, this weekend looks equally as fascinating with two winners from Round 1 locking horns, two other teams attempting to get their first wins and finally a tantalising Subiaco-Claremont match up. The 2022 WAFLW season started with a bang last weekend with the competition featuring seven teams now for the first time following the Read More ...

Sam Birmingham has been re-elected as President of the Perth Football League and will serve a third term, overseeing and further developing the League for another three years. Birmingham described his re-election as an honour to have been endorsed by the members to continue serving clubs as the League’s President. “I look forward to further developing the League and capitalising on all the opportunities which we Read More ...

The Mt Lawley Inglewood JFC, known as the Roos, have been an integral piece of the East Perth Football Club’s local zone for decades.  In 2022, The Roos have undergone the biggest change of its 50-year history. As well as moving into brand new clubrooms in a new location, the Roos have revamped every element of the club.   The completion of the Roos’ new pavilion, built by Read More ...

The inaugural WA Blind AFL season begins this weekend with vision-impaired players representing their favourite local AFL club. The West Coast Eagles and the Fremantle Dockers will play each other four times over the next month at the Cockburn Arc, culminating in a Super Saturday Finals Day on Saturday March 26. Blind AFL is like a traditional game of football, with a slight adaptation to Read More ...

WAFLW Round 1 is in the books and what a way it was to open up the 2022 season with a win on the siren for Peel Thunder, historic victory for South Fremantle and Claremont making quite the statement. The 2022 WAFLW season got underway with the three Round 1 matches with the first coming on Saturday night in Mandurah with Peel Thunder hosting Subiaco. Read More ...

THE 2022 WAFLW season got off to a cracking start across the weekend with South Fremantle winning its first ever match, Claremont making quite the statement and Peel Thunder beating Subiaco in a thriller. The season couldn’t have possibly got off to a more tantalising start with reigning premiers Peel Thunder unfurling their premiership flag, and beginning their assault on a third straight triumph at Read More ...

ROUND 1 of the 2022 WAFLW season is upon us and it starts with a bang with Peel Thunder unfurling their premiership flag on Saturday night before South Fremantle and West Perth chase their first ever wins and then the Dhara Kerr Cup goes on the line. The WAFLW competition has expanded to seven teams now for the 2022 season with West Perth the latest Read More ...

The WAFLW season kicks off this weekend and can be viewed in style through a new streaming platform – Streamer, launching Friday. In partnership with The West Australian, the newly launched Streamer platform will be accessible for Round 1 of the WAFLW, starting Saturday night with Peel taking on Subiaco.  All WAFLW League games will be streamed each week on the platform (streamer.com.au), providing supporters with first-class access to Read More ...