SWAN Districts could have had hardly had a worse 2016, but coach Greg Harding has welcomed back some local products and focused on working hard over summer to get things back on track in 2017. Swans had lost the likes of Ryan Davis, Tim Geappen and Nathan Broad going into 2016, and things really began to take a tough turn when Ryan Crowley departed to join Essendon and ruckman Nathan Blakely went down in the very first bounce of the season with a knee injury. Star recruit Murray Newman then lasted just one game and Jarrad Blight, Jake Nuich and Kirk Ugle were among a host of players who could never really get going throughout the season because of injury and health concerns. Read More ...

More than 250 Aboriginal girls aged 13 to 17 years sported their team guernsey and footy boots at Noranda’s Lightning Park on Friday, March 3 for this year’s Kirby Bentley Cup event. In its fourth year the nine-a-side round robin AFL tournament proved to be a great success, with team numbers growing from 14 in 2016 to 18 in 2017. East Perth was crowned the 2017 Premiers after defeating the Pilbara 3.5 (23) to 2.1 (13). Royals’ captain Mavis Lyndon was named Best on Ground. Read More ...

ROB Wiley learned plenty about his East Fremantle team in his first season in charge in 2016 and now he's looking for the Sharks to take the next step and improve on their consistency in 2017. Wiley returned to Western Australia from Carlton to coach East Fremantle last year. The Sharks started the season impressively including big wins over the two teams that finished in the top two positions on the ladder at the end of the home and away season, Subiaco and South Fremantle. That saw East Fremantle sit in a good spot with a 7-4 record after Round 12, but the Sharks lost seven of the last nine games from there to finish just one game and percentage out of the finals. And that was only due to an eight-goal Round 23 loss to East Perth. Read More ...

A new-look Mundella WA Women’s Football League season is set to kick off a huge 30th year in 2017 with nine clubs represented for the first time at League level and more attention than ever on the competition that produced 36 players for the inaugural AFL Women’s season. For the first time, Perth Angels, East Perth and last year’s Reserves premiers West Perth, will field League teams, seeing a WAWFL League side now aligned to every WAFL men’s team. For West Perth, this includes the complete integration of the Joondalup Women’s Football Club with West Perth Football Club. Joondalup Women’s Football Club President Dave Burton said the club had enjoyed a strong relationship with West Perth Football Club for many years. Read More ...

The West Australian Football Commission is encouraging all WA Football participants and their families, volunteers and officials to get behind the 'Let Kids be Kids' national campaign that addresses poor sideline behaviour, largely at junior sport events. Read More ...

Congratulations to the big winners of the 2017 WA Football League Raffle. First prize winner Carolyn Gordon from Carramar won a 2016 Holden Captiva LS 2.4L 7 Seater Automatic Wagon valued at $34,173. Gordon said she's still coming to terms with the fact she now has a brand new car sitting in her driveway. "I still can't believe it. It is a very generous prize," she said Gordon is a true Read More ...

Footy is coming to Mandurah on Saturday, March 4, with a Fremantle Dockers v Collingwood double-header at Rushton Park. Witness the action and be a part of the city's history with its first AFL Women's game being played at 10:35am. Gates are open from 10.00am. Read More ...

The West Australian Football Commission (WAFC) is celebrating after successfully hosting its largest ever event at Domain Stadium, with Adele captivating 65,000 fans in a stunning performance last night (Tuesday, February 28). Adele became the fastest and highest selling individual artist ever for a concert at Domain Stadium when tickets went on sale for the first stop of her inaugural Australian tour. WAFC Chief Executive Officer Gavin Taylor said the WAFC was thrilled to have hosted the first concert of Adele’s national tour and her first ever stadium performance. “It was an amazing event and such an exciting opportunity for West Australians to be the first in the world to see Adele perform inside a stadium,” he said. Read More ...

The West Australian Football Commission (WAFC) demonstrated its ability to maintain financial stability and build on cash reserves in 2016. This included recording a net profit of $1.032m and cash result of $617,000 to achieve the WAFC’s objective of building its cash reserve balance sheet. The cash result was outlined at tonight’s Annual General Meeting (Monday, February 27), along with the annual investment of more than $24 million into developing WA football. WAFC Chief Executive Officer Gavin Taylor said the outcome was achieved through sound financial management and a focus on building the WAFC’s balance sheet in a period of uncertainty surrounding football’s future economic model. Read More ...

The West Australian Football League has advised all clubs of an exclusion period for Round 1 pre-season games between 12.30pm and 3.30pm tomorrow (Saturday, February 25) under the WAFL Heat Policy.   Clubs were advised earlier in the week of the implementation of the WAFL Heat Policy for the coming weekend along with an outline of key areas of consideration given the impending conditions.   Read More ...

The West Australian Football Commission has confirmed that 2017 McDonald’s WAFL Premiership games will be played in Busselton and Esperance in partnership with the Department of Sport and Recreation and State Government’s Country Sports Enrichment Scheme (CSES).   Esperance will host the Round 17 League fixture between Subiaco and Claremont and Busselton will host the Round 18 League fixture between East Perth and South Fremantle.   The venues for each game remain subject to final ground assessments. Read More ...

THE West Perth Football Club wishes to announce that Jay van Berlo and Ashton Hill will be the respective captains of the Falcons WAFL and WAWFL teams for the 2017 season. West Perth has welcomed the Joondalup Falcons into the club for 2017 and beyond in an exciting new move for the Falcons will see the male senior, reserves and colts teams, and female senior, reserves and youth teams all come under the one banner for the same time. As preparations heat up ahead of the 2017 season, West Perth is pleased to announce the captains and leadership group of both senior outfits. Read More ...

The JLT Community Series Pre-Season AFL competition hits WA with a thrilling Western Derby clash between West Coast and Fremantle at Wonthella Oval in Geraldton on Saturday, February 25. The action gets underway at 3.40pm at Wonthella, with gates opening at 2.00pm. The clash has now sold out. No AFL or Club membership scans or general admission tickets will be available on match day. Only pre-purchased ticket holders will be admitted entry. The clash is one of many events taking place in Geraldton as part of the Geraldton Festival of Football. Read More ...

The next generation of AFL Women’s stars have plenty of opportunities to get involved in footy this season with the West Australian Football Commission hosting a number of exciting events and activities. In addition to targeted school clinics, girls aged Pre-Primary to Year 12 can take part in Free Come and Try Clinics held at locations across the wider Perth Metro in February and March. REGISTER NOW TO SECURE YOUR PLACE! Read More ...

EXCITEMENT is beginning to build ahead of the 2017 McDonald's WAFL Premiership Season that is now a month away and as always there has been plenty of movement between the nine clubs. The WAFL season for 2017 will begin on Saturday March 18 with East Fremantle hosting Claremont, East Perth taking on Peel Thunder, Swan Districts facing Perth and then South Fremantle battling Subiaco in a twilight fixture at Fremantle Community Bank Oval. Before that there will be three weeks of pre-season fixtures starting on Saturday February 25. That will see Peel play Perth at Bendigo Bank Stadium, Swan Districts face Subiaco at Steel Blue Oval, East Perth take on South Fremantle at Leederville Oval and West Perth host East Fremantle at HBF Arena. Read More ...