As the countdown to the new WAFL year fast approaches, captains, coaches and umpires have given their take on what to expect at this week’s season launch. East Fremantle heads into 2024 as reigning premiers and there are nine clubs who have the Sharks in their sights. The defending champions haven’t won back-to-back flags since 1945-46 and this year the club will return to its Read More ...

With the aim of becoming the innovators of the WAFL competition, West Perth will begin its season under lights at Pentanet Stadium this evening. In a re-match of the 2022 Grand Final against Claremont, the Falcons will begin a new era under Jason Salecic, who takes over as coach from Darren Harris. While other clubs and venues have experimented with night footy, West Perth’s upgraded Read More ...

WA has named a 26-player squad to take part in next month’s Under 16s National Championships in Victoria and South Australia. Western Australia will face the Gold Coast on April 7 in Melbourne, followed by a showdown with South Australia in Adelaide on April 14. Since the first squad intake was announced earlier this month, the players have been put through four weeks of training Read More ...

The West Australian Football Commission has locked in a groundbreaking partnership with Activ Foundation, delivering a major boost for community football in WA. The collaboration with Activ marks a significant step forward in promoting inclusivity and accessibility within the sport across the state. Activ, a leading organisation dedicated to improving the lives of people living with disability, bring expertise and lived experience to the table, Read More ...

WEST Perth and Claremont kept their undefeated starts to the WAFLW season going with wins on Saturday while East Fremantle won a heart stopper over Swan Districts and Subiaco got back to winning. A month into the WAFLW season for 2024 and the action has been fascinating with the Round 4 results leaving West Perth and Claremont as the two undefeated sides while East Perth Read More ...

ROUND 4 of the WAFLW season is split across the weekend with West Perth and Claremont looking to remain undefeated, East Perth with the challenge ahead and Swan Districts attempting to make it three consecutive victories. Three of the four Round 4 WAFLW match ups take place across Saturday afternoon with East Fremantle taking on Swan Districts, West Perth playing South Fremantle and East Perth Read More ...

West Perth is on target to reach the finals for the first time in the WAFLW competition having opened the season with a stunning start to the year. In their third season, the Falcons sit on top of the table with three wins a whopping percentage of 382, well ahead of the only other unbeaten side Claremont. West Perth entered the WAFL in 2022 and Read More ...

VERITY Simmons did have at least one familiar face out on the field when she made her WAFLW debut for Subiaco last Sunday as the former West Coast Fever premiership winner begins her foray into a new sport. Simmons put together quite the decorated netball career with 140 of her 159 games either in the ANZ Championship or Suncorp Super Netball at the West Coast Read More ...

The West Australian Football Commission today accepted to adopt new return to play protocols in the concussion guidelines for the WAFL and WAFLW in line with the AFL and all community football across Western Australia. Across the WAFL and WAFLW competitions, a minimum 21-day return to play protocol will be introduced for the 2024 season. The new return to play protocols is in line with Read More ...

The WA All Abilities Football Association has combined with Starkick to stage an inclusion football carnival and sundowner in Bunbury and Albany. More than 100 people attended the events over two days with South West community members, disability organisations and staff from local schools part of the initiative. The carnival and sundowner were an opportunity to hear about the great work Starkick and WA All Read More ...

SOUTH Fremantle opened its account with a win on Saturday to open Round 3 of the WAFLW season while Claremont won the grand final rematch and there were strong victories for West Perth and Swan Districts. Round 3 of the 2024 WAFLW season got underway on Saturday at Mandurah's Lane Group Stadium featuring two teams looking for a first win of the campaign. It was South Read More ...

THE 2024 WAFLW season further heats up in Round 3 including the first clash between Claremont and East Fremantle since last year's dramatic grand final while West Coast Fever premiership winner Verity Simmons debuts for Subiaco. There are four matches in Round 3 of the WAFLW season beginning on Saturday afternoon at Lane Group Stadium with Peel Thunder playing host to South Fremantle. The other Read More ...

She may have been recognised as the best player in the WAFLW last season, but Jayme Harken would swap personal achievements for team success in 2024. The Claremont star polled 24 votes last year, the most votes polled by an individual player since the start of the WAFLW competition in 2019. “Winning the Dhara Kerr Medal last season was a huge honour and it confirmed Read More ...

DESPITE retiring from the AFLW at the end of the 2023 season, Emma Humphries has loved life in Western Australia so much she has decided to stay despite coming from Tasmania and her partner living in Brisbane. Humphries decided to remain in WA after two AFLW seasons at the West Coast Eagles despite announcing her retirement from the top level having also previously played at Read More ...

A groundbreaking Female Umpiring Academy titled “Umpire Your Way” has been launched by the Hon. Sue Ellery MLC Minister for Finance; Commerce; Women's Interests in a bid to improve the connection of WAFL, Country, Senior Community and Junior Community Female umpires across WA. The project, supported by the Department of Communities, follows a report titled “Girls and Women in Australian Football Umpiring” which highlights the Read More ...