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Level 2 Coaching Courses

Tuesday, November 9, 2021 - 12:08 PM
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 ...


WAFL Fairest and Best Winners 2021

Thursday, October 28, 2021 - 12:21 PM - by Chris Pike
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 ...


WAFL Women's Reserves competition retained for 2022 

Thursday, October 28, 2021 - 10:16 AM
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 ...


2021 WAFC Commissioner Election - Endorsed Candidates

Friday, October 22, 2021 - 12:07 PM
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 ...


AFL Draft Combine: WA Results

Monday, October 18, 2021 - 1:03 PM
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 ...


Grand Final | The Subiaco Premiership 22

Tuesday, October 5, 2021 - 1:20 PM - by Chris Pike
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 ...


Colts Grand Final | Who Stood Out

Tuesday, October 5, 2021 - 11:54 AM - by Charlie McCormack
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 ...


Match Report – Lions overpower Bulldogs in Grand Final

Saturday, October 2, 2021 - 5:55 PM - by Chris Pike
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 ...


Match Report – Swans win colts premiership in thriller

Saturday, October 2, 2021 - 2:38 PM - by Chris Pike
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 ...


Match Report – Perth reserves end Demons drought

Saturday, October 2, 2021 - 11:54 AM - by Chris Pike
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 ...


Grand Final Preview – Subiaco v South Fremantle

Friday, October 1, 2021 - 11:48 AM - by Chris Pike
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 ...


Simply Energy Colts Grand Final Preview – Claremont v Swan Districts

Friday, October 1, 2021 - 10:57 AM - by Chris Pike
SWAN Districts and Claremont resurrect their fascinating WAFL Colts rivalry when they lock horns in Saturday's Simply Energy Grand Final at Optus Stadium. Swans and the Tigers played in two fascinating Grand Final battles at colts level back in 2014 and 2015 where they won a premiership each against the other, and now they clash with another flag on the line this Saturday. Swan Districts Read More ...


Reserves Grand Final Preview – Perth v Subiaco

Friday, October 1, 2021 - 10:54 AM - by Chris Pike
PERTH won its way straight to the reserves Grand Final for 2021 impressively but Subiaco come into the game off the high of a stirring preliminary final fightback to set up a terrific contest for Optus Stadium. The reserves Grand Final will open the day at Optus Stadium on Saturday and will feature Perth taking on Subiaco. That's a Demons team that features a pair Read More ...


Player Focus | South Fremantle's Jake Florenca

Thursday, September 30, 2021 - 9:11 PM - by Chris Pike
HE had become a key South Fremantle midfielder by the 2019 Grand Final and then was the heartbreaking story to miss the premiership of 2020 but now Jake Florenca could provide a fairytale story for the Bulldogs on Saturday. Florenca began his South Fremantle career knowing of his family ties to the club but he had to wait patiently for a regular spot in the Read More ...


Coach Focus | Subiaco's Beau Wardman

Thursday, September 30, 2021 - 8:00 PM - by Chris Pike
SUBIACO couldn’t have bounced back more emphatically from a down year in 2020 to be the 2021 minor premiers, win straight into another Grand Final and coach Beau Wardman hopes they can just keep that going for one more game on Saturday. Subiaco has been quite the powerhouse not only in recent years but for virtually this whole century and when the Lions run out Read More ...