Fixtures have been finalised for the 2020 Optus WAFL Women’s Premiership season, with Round 1 to kick off on Saturday, May 2, featuring games at New Choice Homes Park (East Fremantle) and David Grays Arena (Mandurah).     The competition’s second season will see the five WAFLW teams play each other three times across 15-rounds, with a three-week Finals Series culminating in a televised Grand Read More ...

The West Australian Football Commission has established a new Women in Football Advisory Committee to guide and support the growth and development of female football in Western Australia. Women’s football is experiencing an exciting period of growth, driven by the success of the AFLW and WAFLW, and a greater focus on female talent and community pathways. The number of female participants has more than tripled over the last six years to 109,647 and women and girls now account for a third of participants in WA. Read More ...

WA Football Hall of Fame Inductee Ian Miller has been honoured with Life Membership of the Australian Football League after the 2020 Annual General Meeting in March. A solid half-back flanker who moved to centre-half-forward with Perth in 1972 and became the first player to win a Sandover Medal playing from that key position. After a lengthy clearance wrangle, he enjoyed a four-year stint (1974-77) Read More ...

Season 2020 is upon us as the AFLW begins its fourth season under lights at Ikon Park on Friday night.  Not only does February signal the start for the best female footballers around the country, but also the elite contingent of umpires that take the field for the first time this decade. Western Australia will again have strong representation amongst field, boundary and goal umpires Read More ...

    The 2020 Marsh Community Series tickets go on sale on Thursday the 30th January.  The Marsh series is pre-season competition played in Febuary/March. Western Australia will host three games across two weekends, with one of them a derby at HBF Arena Details below:   Eagles vs. Essendon Date Thursday, February 27 Oval Mineral Resources Park (Lathlain) Bouncedown 4:40pm  Tickets Tickets here Plan Read More ...

The Perth Football Club is pleased to announce the appointment of Russell Clark, a former Perth player as its new General Manager. Russell Clark (51) is an accomplished Chief Executive with extensive experience in operations, marketing and financial management in both sporting and business industries. Over the past ten years he has spent five years as the Chief Executive Officer of Peel Thunder Football Club Read More ...

Perth has been announced as the host city for the largest AFL Carnival event in Australia – the 2020 AFL Masters National Carnival from September 26 to October 4 this year.  It will be the first time since 2003 that Western Australia hosts the event, which is expected to attract more than 1200 male and female players representing more than 35 teams from across Australia.  Read More ...

From September 1 to November 1, the 2020 Early Registration Campaign was in full swing.  The first 400 children registered won either a ball or a double pass to the movies. For clubs, they had the chance to win $5,000 cash, an AFL game day experience valued at $2,000 or one of three $1,000 Burley Vouchers. The prizes were given to the top 5 performing clubs which was measured by the amount of re-registrations measured against club members, meaning smaller clubs weren’t disadvantaged. The top performing club this year was Rockingham Junior Football Club, who re-registered 43% of their members. President, Michael Holland, said the success was a credit to the work their registrar had put in, emailing parents weekly reminders to register their kids.  Read More ...

Get your calendars out! These are the 9 games you simply can’t miss during the 2020 Optus WAFL season.  Round 1:  Perth v West Coast Eagles, Mineral Resources Park: Friday April 3  The 2020 Optus WAFL season is set to start with a bang seeing a Friday night blockbuster open the season. The battle of Mineral Resources Park sees Perth & West Coast face off Read More ...

The 2020 Optus WAFL Premiership Season will kick off under lights on Friday, April 3 in a blockbuster night match between Perth and West Coast at Mineral Resources Park.  The 20-round home-and-away season will be followed by a four-week finals series, with the WAFL Grand Final scheduled to be played on the weekend of September 19 & 20 at Optus Stadium.   CLICK HERE to view Read More ...

In a community more than 1700km north of Perth lies a WA Football heartland. A place where football takes precedence over everyday life.  Nookanbah sits on the Fitzroy River between Camballin and Fitzroy Crossing with a total population of around 600 people. The football oval covered in red dirt becomes a haven for children and adults to play, it’s a way of life.  Every weekend Read More ...

WAFC Life Members to be inducted SIX new West Australian Football Commission Life Members will be inducted at an official function on Monday, December 9 in recognition of their distinguished service to WA Football.  Induction to the WAFC Life Members’ Association is regarded as the WAFC’s highest level of recognition, distinct from life membership awarded by individual football clubs and associated bodies, and is awarded Read More ...

A total of 25 West Australians made their way onto an AFL list in 2019 culminating in a successful year for the WA Talent Pathways programs. Fourteen Sandgropers went in the National Draft, three went as Rookies, two were signed up as Category B Rookies, four were selected in the mid-season draft and two as SSP signings.  It culminates in 186 West Australians being drafted this decade. Read More ...

The West Australian Football Commission congratulates the 19 WAFL players added to AFL lists via the 2019 NAB AFL National and Rookie Drafts. This included 14 in the National Draft, three in the Rookie Draft and two as Category-B Rookies. This was in addition to the six players added to AFL lists since the 2018 AFL Draft as pre-season supplemental selections or in the AFL Mid-Season Draft. Read More ...

Western Australia produced three first round AFL draftees at the NAB AFL National Draft on Wednesday, November 27. East Fremantle’s Luke Jackson (pick 3 – Melbourne), Claremont’s Liam Henry (pick 9 – Carlton/Fremantle), and Subiaco’s Mitchell Georgiades (pick 18 – Port Adelaide) were all selected within the first round of the Draft. It now means that the Simply Energy Western Australia pathway has produced twenty-eight first round draftees this decade. Read More ...