Young players from diverse backgrounds representing the Fremantle Dockers and West Coast Eagles Next Generation Academies showcased their football talent in front of representatives from the two AFL clubs and all nine WA Football League (WAFL) clubs in Multicultural matches held at East Fremantle Oval on Saturday, 10 December. The players from many different backgrounds including Sudan, Papua New Guinea, Trinidad, India, Chile and Myanmar got the chance to hear from AFL Multicultural Ambassador Nic Naitanui from the West Coast Eagles and Fremantle Dockers’ Lachie Neale. Read More ...

Swan Districts Football Club is seeking a new Chief Executive Officer to drive the club through a period of unprecedented change and facilities redevelopment. The position has become available after Tom Bottrell called time on his successful five-year career for Swan Districts to take up the recently vacated CEO position with South Fremantle Football Club. Swans CEO returns to his roots Swan Districts have advertisied the position for a successful Read More ...

The AFL has announced the remaining dates and locations for the 2017 Australia Post AFL Community Camps, which see Fremantle Football Club and West Coast Eagles visit both metropolitan and regional communities. The Dockers have already undertaken part one of their community camps with nine players visiting Broome recently, and the remainder of the club’s squad set to visit fans across Perth over March 14 and 16. Read More ...

The Western Australian Football Commission (WAFC) has announced changes to the rules and regulations governing the WA Football League (WAFL) competition to further strengthen the integrity, competitiveness and governance of the competition for season 2017. The changes are the result of extensive consultation and research involving WAFL Club representatives, the Australian Football League (AFL), including both West Coast Eagles and Fremantle Dockers, the South Australian Read More ...

Ten players will represent Western Australia in the Rio Tinto AFL Flying Boomerangs program in China this week as part of a cultural awareness and leadership development camp. Leading the Boomerangs squad of 25 participants is WA’s Jermaine Davis, the first Western Australian to coach the national team since its formation 10 years ago. The Rio Tinto AFL Flying Boomerangs program is a personal development and leadership program for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young boys aged 14-15 years of age. Read More ...

Players from diverse backgrounds got the chance to showcase their football skills in the inaugural All Nations Cup on November 25, following months of intensive training. Male participants between the ages of 13 and 17 from districts in the Metro Central area took part in the round robin tournament under the watchful eyes of academy recruiters at Ashfield Reserve, Bassendean. Read More ...

More than 20 students from Coodanup College in Mandurah will take part in a three-week umpiring course this month to further develop their goal, field and boundary umpiring skills. It will be the second time some of these students from years 7 to 10 will get the opportunity to learn from WA Football Commission (WAFC) Umpiring Development Manager and AFL Umpire Dean Margetts, after the first clinic of its kind was held last year. Read More ...

Swan Districts Football Club Chief Executive Officer Tom Bottrell has called time on his successful five-year career for the Swans to take up the recently vacated CEO position with South Fremantle Football Club. It comes after South Fremantle Chief Executive Officer Stuart Kemp announced his resignation last week. South Fremantle CEO calls time Swan Districts Football Club President Peter Hodyl said the club is completely understanding of his move to the Bulldogs. “While it Read More ...

After eight strong years at the helm of WA’s oldest football club, West Perth Football Club’s Brett Raponi has stepped down from his role as Club President. Raponi becomes the fourth-longest serving president in the club’s history after deciding not to stand for re-election at the upcoming poll. Raponi said he would remain a member of the club he has supported since he was young. Read More ...

East Fremantle Football Club legend and WA Football Hall of Fame inductee Alan Preen passed away aged 81 on Sunday, November 27. Preen will be long remembered for his elite skills which saw him represent Western Australia on 15 occasions, finish runner-up in the 1958 Sandover Medal and twice win East Fremantle's fairest and best award. He was named in the Sharks' Team of the Century in 1997 and inducted in the WA Football Hall of Fame in 2009. Read More ...

Claremont player Francis Watson has been added to the final position on the West Coast Eagles list after he was recruited today as a category B rookie through the recently-formed next generation academy system. The 21-year-old Tigers defender follows East Perth player Tarir Bayok, an explosive midfielder of Sudanese heritage, as a rookie to be listed with West Coast under the new AFL academy system. Watson, 21, played 10 league games for the Tigers in 2016 and averaged 14.4 disposals playing mostly as a rebounding defender. Read More ...

THE West Australian Football Commission congratulates the five WAFL players added to AFL Rookie lists during today’s AFL Rookie Draft. They include #11 Cameron Zurhaar (East Fremantle), #12 Thomas Gorter (East Perth), #21 Luke Strnadica (East Fremantle), #43 Matthew Taylor (Perth) and Category B Rookie Tarir Bayok (East Perth) – the first player selected from West Coast’s new Next Generation Academy. This takes the total number of WA players drafted in 2016 to 15, including 10 in the NAB AFL National Draft on Friday, November 25. WAFC CEO Gavin Taylor congratulated all of WA’s draftees and said to have 15 players from the WAFL competition added to AFL lists was a positive result for WA Football. “To see all of these players receive an opportunity at an AFL club is terrific. Everyone who has played a role in helping them achieve this goal should be very proud, especially their WAFL clubs, junior clubs and schools” he said. Read More ...

SOUTH Fremantle Football Club Chief Executive Officer Stuart Kemp has called time on his successful career for the Bulldogs, leaving the organisation in great shape as it targets continuous improvement in the future.  After four years in the WAFL with South, Kemp has been a driving force to the resurgence of the club in many areas. With the Bulldogs now turning a regular profit and  winning the coveted Rodriguez Shield for the most amount of wins across all grades by a WAFL club in 2016, he feels it’s the perfect time to move on. Kemp emphasised the club had been very good to him, but it was the right time for someone else to steer the ship. "My main goal was to make us stronger in our pillars of the business in a tough environment and turn around our on-field performance, which has been achieved," Kemp said.  Read More ...

THE West Australian Football Commission (WAFC) congratulates the 10 WAFL players selected in the 2016 NAB AFL National Draft in Sydney tonight, including two top 10 selections and four in the first round. First round selections included pick #6 Sam Petrevski-Seton (Claremont), #8 Griffin Logue (Swan Districts), #18 Sam Powell-Pepper (East Perth) and #19 Tim English (South Fremantle).  WAFC CEO Gavin Taylor congratulated all the players selected and paid tribute to everyone involved in their development. “This is a fantastic achievement not only for the players selected tonight, but for everyone who has been part of their football journey. Clubs, coaches, teammates, volunteers and family members all play an important role in helping a player reach their potential and they should also be recognised,” he said. Read More ...

51 WA coaches undertook an intensive two-day course to excel to the highest coaching qualification at State level and hear from a number of expert coaches. The course was held at Edith Cowan University Joondalup last weekend on November 19 and 20.   Read More ...