The West Australian Football Commission thanks Marc Webb for his contribution to coaching across all levels of football in Western Australia, and  the  development of WA’s most talented young players as part of the Simply Energy State U19’s State Talent Program where he was head coach.   Webb departs after 12 months as the Head of Coaching and Coach of the Under 19s State program where he Read More ...

EAST Perth made a horror start to the 2021 season but once they settled into things the Royals showed enough to suggest the future can be bright under re-signed coach Jeremy Barnard. The Royals hadn’t made finals since 2018 and still haven’t, and still haven’t won a final since the first semi-final of 2015 but they do appear to be closer to fixing that after Read More ...

The West Coast Eagles will continue to field a stand-alone team in the WAFL competition after an agreement was reached between with the Club, West Australian Football Commission and WAFL clubs for season 2022.  West Coast will be retained as the 10th team in the competition, with the Eagles to host five home-and-away games at Mineral Resources Park next season. WAFC Chairman Hon Wayne Martin conceded Read More ...

On the back of the high of ending their finals drought in 2020, the season 2021 couldn’t have gone worse for Perth and at no point at all did they field anything close to what they would consider their best 22. The Demons became one of the stories of 2020 when they reached the finals for the first time since 1997 in remarkable fashion. The Read More ...

COACH ACCREDITATION (CoachAFL) The Coach.AFL online platform is designed as a central resource centre for coaches.  It will serve as a national membership database, enable coaches to manage their CoachAFL Membership (including accreditation, ongoing education and compliance) and provide access to a central Online Repository housing quality coaching resources and educational support. All Coaches must be a member of CoachAFL to be able to Coach at any Football Club at Read More ...

TO highlight what a quality WAFL season we had in 2021 all you have to do is look at the fact that Leigh Kitchin, Haiden Schloithe, Bailey Rogers, Aaron Black, Frank Anderson, Kyle Baskerville, Christian Ameduri, Tyrone Thorne, Corey Byrne and Kieran Hug are the fairest and best winners. Every club has now held its season-end awards for the 2021 Optus WAFL Premiership Season and Read More ...

The WAFL Women’s Reserves competition will go ahead in season 2022, in a modified format. After extensive consultation with all the stakeholders of women’s football, the WAFC Board has voted for the competition to remain in the WAFLW for next season and beyond. The WAFC acknowledges the challenges that many clubs face within their Reserves programs given the rapid growth of women’s football in WA, Read More ...

The West Australian Football Commission (WAFC) advises that the Nomination Committee, with representatives of the Community Football Advisory Council, Fremantle Football Club, WAFC, WAFL Council of Presidents and West Coast Eagles, met to consider the Expressions of Interest received for the upcoming Commissioner Elections and provided the WAFC Board a list of Recommended Candidates.  An impressive number of nominations from high quality candidates was received Read More ...

A number of draft hopefuls had their chance to shine yesterday at the NAB AFL Draft Combine at Wesley College.  The 27 WA athletes were put through their paces via agility, jumping and sprinting tests, with many AFL clubs interested onlookers.  An afternoon at the track saw players partake in a 2km time trial at the WA Athletics Track, with East Fremantle midfielder Corey Warner Read More ...

SUBIACO'S remarkable run of success continued in Saturday's 2021 WAFL Grand Final when the Lions beat South Fremantle by 44 points in a win full of merit as reward for their professionalism, dedication and disciplined approach. It is a strange society where success is more often frowned upon and tried to be brought down and criticised with attempts to stop it continuing rather than celebrated Read More ...

THE history of players starring in a WAFL Colts Grand Final to go on to have standout AFL and WAFL careers is endless, and there were no shortage of players putting up their lights in Saturday's 2021 edition at Optus Stadium. With the chance to impress AFL recruiters watching live at Optus Stadium or on Channel 7 on Saturday afternoon, the best of the young Read More ...

SUBIACO has added another premiership to its amazing run of recent success putting together a dominant second half showing to overcome South Fremantle at Optus Stadium in the 2021 Grand Final. The final scoreline of a 13.7 (85) to 5.11 (41) victory to Subiaco in front of 29,879 fans at Optus Stadium on Saturday a week after the AFL Grand Final was at the same Read More ...

SWAN Districts has cashed in a dominant season in the Simply Energy Colts by delivering a terrific fourth quarter to defeat Claremont by eight points in Saturday's Grand Final at Optus Stadium. Swans had been the standout team this Colts season winning 15 of 16 games during the home and away season to claim the minor premiership with a four-game gap on the second placed Read More ...

THE longest WAFL premiership drought is over with Perth holding on in a thrilling Reserves Grand Final over Subiaco on Saturday to give the Demons a first premiership in any grade this century. The pickings have been slim this century for the Demons with the club's last premiership being the colts triumph of 1999 with the reserves having not won a flag since 1996 and Read More ...

DON'T expect a goal feast as two defensive beasts lock horns in Saturday's WAFL Grand Final but with Subiaco looking for a fifth premiership in eight years and South Fremantle to go back-to-back, it should be quite the battle. Subiaco and South Fremantle have regularly occupied the top two positions dating back to 2016, and it's again the case in 2021 with the minor premiership Read More ...