A new survey will investigate how COVID-19 has affected the health of country footballers unable to play this year, and compare it to those who have been able to play. The survey has been coordinated jointly between The WA Country Football League (WACFL) and researchers from The University of Western Australia. It was compiled by UWA Bachelor of Philosophy student Robbie Glyde. Around half of the WACFL clubs have been unable to play this year due to COVID-19 and scientists from UWA’s Young Lives Matter Foundation hope the survey will be able to offer insight into health and wellbeing outcomes for those people and demonstrate the importance of community sport in regional Western Australia. Read More ...

EVERY week of the 2020 Optus WAFL Premiership Season saw a Team of the Round selected and now based on those nine line-ups, the WAFL Team of the Year has been put together and it was, as always, a challenge still to narrow it down to 22 with three emergencies. It has now become an annual tradition for the WAFL to announce a Team of the Round each week during the home and away season including a Player of the Week.  But then in turn, those Teams of the Round are compiled to put together a Team of the Year at the end of each WAFL season, and while it might have been a shortened campaign due to COVID-19, 2020 is no different. Read More ...

Tickets are on-sale now for the WAFL Preliminary Final between South Fremantle and West Perth at 3.35pm this Sunday, September 27, at Fremantle Community Bank Oval. The winner of the fixture will go through to the Optus WAFL Grand Final to face Claremont at the same venue on Sunday, October 4.  Ticket prices  -    General Admission – Adult: $20 -    General Admission – Concession $15 Read More ...

Governor Stirling Senior High School have gone back-to-back in the Freo Dockers Cup Moore Division, defeating Mater Dei College by four points in a nail-biting Grand Final played at the Fremantle Football Club in Cockburn. In a repeat of the 2019 Grand Final, Mater Dei appeared to start the stronger of the two sides, before a goal prior to the half time siren saw Governor Stirling take a slender five-point lead into the main break.  Neither team managed to grab the ascendancy in the second half, as both sides showed their competitive streak, ensuring that it would go down to the wire.  A late goal to Governor Stirling saw them regain a lead that they managed to hold on to, prevailing 2.2.14 to Mater Dei’s 1.4.10. Read More ...

Darling Range Sports College have won the Simply Energy Cup Cable Division for the fourth time in seven years, defeating local rivals Governor Stirling Senior High School by 27 points in the Grand Final on Wednesday, 16th of September, at UWA Sports Park. Darling Range burst out of the blocks early, kicking five goals straight in no time, making full use of the strong breeze heading to the northern end.  They went into the half time break with a solid lead; 6.0.36 to 1.3.9.  Governor Stirling fought back manfully in the second half as their ball movement improved through the middle of the ground, managing to outscore their opponents for the half.  In the end though, an accurate Darling Range came out on top: 9.0.54 to 4.3.27. Read More ...

CLAREMONT is the first team through to the 2020 Optus WAFL Grand Final after a stunning win over South Fremantle on Sunday while West Perth ended the fairytale finals return of Perth in some wild Joondalup weather. The WAFL finals series for 2020 got underway on Sunday afternoon with the two semi finals and to say there was a different look to it without this century's dominant team Subiaco and with Perth there for the first time since 1997 would be a great understatement. Perth had captured the imagination of the West Australian football public after scoring the upset win over South Fremantle the previous Saturday night to book a spot in the finals in 1997. Read More ...

PEEL Thunder's remarkable journey from WAFL Women's wooden spooners to premiers in the space of 12 months is complete after they earned a hard fought Grand Final victory against Subiaco at Provident Financial Oval on Saturday afternoon. The Joondalup venue played host to the WAFLW Grand Final of 2020 featuring a Subiaco team who has finished on top of the ladder in both seasons of the competition and were trying to get rewarded while Peel was looking to keep its dramatic rise. The Thunder won just one game in 2019 to claim the wooden spoon and then they still had to win their final home and away season game in 2020 at home to Claremont to even make the finals. Read More ...

Peel Thunder have completed a fairytale season to run out 15-point winners over Subiaco in the Optus WAFLW Grand Final.  A dominant second term set up the victory, with Peel going from last to Premiers in one-season under new coach Steve Markham. Subiaco couldn’t match the speed of a young and vibrant Peel side throughout the contest, with the wind playing havoc early in proceedings.   Read More ...

PERTH attempts to end another hoodoo against West Perth on Sunday in its first WAFL finals appearance in 23 years while South Fremantle and Claremont lock horns for a place in the 2020 Grand Final. The 2020 Optus WAFL Premiership Season couldn’t have possibly ended in a more dramatic and exciting way than by having East Perth just edge ahead of Subiaco in the race for fourth spot last Saturday afternoon before Perth completed its fairytale return to finals later that evening. The Demons have not played in a WAFL final since losing the 1997 preliminary final to South Fremantle at Subiaco Oval but they return to post-season action this Sunday afternoon. Read More ...

WITH the burden of ending Perth's finals drought now lifted, Demons coach Earl Spalding sees no reason why his group can't aim to go all the way over the next three weeks and end a wait more than double as long for the club. It has been the run of outs that has just naturally been accruing ever since 1997 with the Demons not playing finals football in the WAFL. Not only have Perth not played a final since losing the 1997 preliminary final to South Fremantle at Subiaco Oval by 37 points, but the reality is they have rarely even given themselves a chance to be in the hunt over the past 22 years. Read More ...

The WAFLW Grand Final and WAFL Semi-Finals Football Budget is available to download ahead of this weekend's finals fixtures. FIXTURES Featuring match previews, statistics, feature article, collectables, fixtures and team lists for League, Reserves, Colts and WAFLW, the new-look Football Budget is included for free with all Adult and Concession tickets at WAFL games. Additional copies can be purchased for $3 at the gate.  FOOTBALL BUDGET DOWNLOAD Read More ...

THE pathway to the 2020 Optus WAFL Women's Grand Final couldn’t have been more different for Subiaco and Peel Thunder, but in a year that has thrown up so many challenges, both teams wouldn’t have it any other way.  The 2020 WAFLW Grand Final takes place this Saturday afternoon at Joondalup's Provident Financial Oval.  A big day is planned for all those who can attend including the Youth Girls and Reserves Grand Finals to begin proceedings, but if you can't be there the Grand Final between the Lions and Thunder will be broadcast live on Channel 7 from 2.30pm. Read More ...

THE Barnden family has been synonymous with the Peel Thunder Football Club for more than 20 years and now star player Abby has the chance to be part of history on Saturday if she can lead her team to a WAFL Women's premiership. Wayne Barnden joined Peel Thunder for its second WAFL season in 1998 on the back of his 62-game playing career at East Fremantle prior to that and he went on to play another 76 matches with the Mandurah-based club. The Barnden family has remained closely linked with Peel ever since and Paula now works full-time at the club as sponsorship and marketing manager so to say the Thunder means a lot and is a big part in the lives of the Barnden family would be quite the understatement. Read More ...

SUBIACO has had to stew over last year's disappointing finals exit for a long time to try and get redemption in the 2020 Optus WAFL Women's Premiership Season and now the chance presents in Saturday's Grand Final. Subiaco had a tremendous home and away season in the first ever WAFL Women's campaign in 2019 to finish on top of the ladder and earn the inaugural minor premiership for the competition that was initially made up of the Lions, East Fremantle, Swan Districts, Claremont and Peel Thunder. The Lions put themselves in prime position to have a real crack at making history and winning the first ever WAFLW premiership by finishing in that first place, but it wasn’t to be. Read More ...

The Simply Energy WA State U18s squad has been announced ahead of two NAB AFL All-Stars Exhibition matches on October 10 and 17.   Given the NAB AFL U18 National Champions were cancelled for season 2020 due to COVID-19, each state is hosting its own set of fixtures to showcase talent before the 2020 AFL National Draft.   Players will be given a chance to Read More ...