WESTERN Australia’s State U23 Women’s team departs this week for games against Queensland’s U23s on Friday night and Sunday morning. The first game will be held at Yeronga Oval, South Brisbane at 6.30pm on Friday, June 17 and the second at 11am at Metricon Stadium on Sunday, June 19. The team will be led by State Women’s Academy coach Martine Pearman, captain Courtney Ugle and a leadership group including Demi Okely, Tayla Bresland, Eliza Gelmi and Emily Bonser. An official jumper presentation for team members was held at Swan Districts Football Club on Tuesday, June 14 and attended by WAFC Commissioners Cheryl Edwardes and Grant Dorrington, as well as AFL club representatives Wade Spilcker from Fremantle and Deane Pieters from West Coast. Read More ...

Watch the full replay of the Western Australia v Tasmania state game clash held at Steel Blue Oval on Saturday June 11. WA ran off 134-point winners against Tasmania in its fourth striaght victory in interstate battles. Catch all the live action from the game in the video below and hear what Simpson Medallist Jye Bolton and WA State Coach Darren Davis after the game. WESTERN AUSTRALIA   Read More ...

WA football legends Maurice Rioli and Ray Sorrell have been recognised with induction into the Australian Football Hall of Fame. The pair were inducted last night during a gala event in Melbourne. 1959 Brownlow medallist Verdun Howell (St Kilda), SANFL star Paul Bagshaw (Sturt) Adelaide defender Ben Hart and Brisbane Lions midfielder Nigel Lappin were also inducted. WA and AFL Hall of Fame Legend Barry Cable was added to the Australian Football Hall of Fame selection panel after playing an important role advocating for greater national recognition of the history of WA Football prior to the introduction of the AFL competition. Read More ...

It is WA Sarcoma Awareness Week and football players from more than 197 teams across the West Perth, Subiaco and Claremont Districts will be wearing odd socks during matches this weekend, including the League clash at Claremont Showgrounds, to help raise much needed funds for Sarcoma research. Read More ...

The West Australian Football Commission is delighted by today’s announcement that Fremantle Football Club has received a licence to field a team in the 2017 AFL National Women’s League. WAFC Chief Executive Gavin Taylor said this was highly deserved recognition for the club’s commitment to female football in Western Australia and the quality of their submission to the AFL. “Our State has a proud history of female football, starting with the earliest known competitive women’s game in Australia being played in Perth in 1915,” he said. “One hundred years later, WA has almost 50,000 Female Participants (21.83% of WA Participation) and there is now a complete pathway for female footballers from all-girls Auskick centres right through to the elite National Women’s League. Read More ...

WESTERN Australia thumped Tasmania with a record 134-point state game victory at Steel Blue Oval on Saturday June 11 in which was the 23rd meeting between the two states and WA's fourth straight state game win.  The homeside's 134-point win was the biggest in history eclipsing the 122-point victory at North Hobart in 1964. Check out the top 10 highlights from the clash in the video below. Read More ...

DARCY Cameron, Tim Kelly, Luke Meadows and Jye Bolton all further enhanced their reputations in Saturday's WAFL state game victory over Tasmania and WA coach Darren Harris wouldn’t be surprised to see all four in the AFL in 2017. The WAFL state team defeated South Australia by 45 points last year and from that side Ryan Davis and Shane Yarran ended up being drafted into the AFL by the Gold Coast Suns and Fremantle Dockers respectively. Now from the WA side that scored a record 134-point victory over Tasmania there will be several players who will be in the mix to be drafted later in the year including Claremont's Cameron, South Fremantle's Kelly, West Perth's Meadows and Simpson Medallist Bolton. Read More ...

WESTERN Australia's state team in Saturday's record win over Tasmania had a good blend of youth and experience, and those who were multiple time WAFL representatives and debutants with coach Darren Harris delighted with how they all performed. WA beat Tasmania by a record 134 points with two players taking part in their fifth game representing the WAFL, two more playing for a fourth time, another six playing for a third time, six others making their second appearance then seven players making their state debut. South Fremantle's Ryan Cook and West Perth's Andrew Strijk were the two to make their fifth appearance with East Fremantle's Andrew Stephen and East Perth's Paul Johnson playing for a fourth time. Read More ...

JYE Bolton was honoured to win the Simpson Medal after his scintillating display in Saturday's 134-point state game win over Tasmania but his focus is on trying to achieve success at Claremont still this year before he even thinks about what 2017 might hold. Bolton is in his first season at Claremont in the WAFL after crossing from VFL club Werribee and his form with the Tigers demanded selection in the WA state side to play Tasmania at Steel Blue Oval on Saturday. The 24-year-old delivered a remarkable performance in WA's record win finishing with 46 possessions, 12 marks, seven clearances and two goals to make him the standout choice to win the Simpson Medal as best on ground. Read More ...

WESTERN Australia coach Darren Harris was proud of how seriously the players took their responsibility to represent the WAFL and WA in Saturday's record state match win over Tasmania ahead of an expected clash in Melbourne with Victoria next year. WA won a fourth straight state match beating Tasmania by a record 134 points at Steel Blue Oval on Saturday on the back of victories against the VFL, NEAFL and SANFL the past three years. Harris coached WA for a second straight season with the West Perth premiership captain and coach tremendously impressed with the attitude of all the players who represented the WAFL to come away with the dominant victory. Read More ...

WAFooty TV looks at the success of the Night Fields program which was established last year by the WA Football Commission at a number of metropolitan and regional locations across the state. The Night Fields Program uses football as a vehicle to reconnect with disengaged and at-risk youth by providing a free-of-charge structured match event, which takes place every second Friday night. Due to its recent success the program expanded to the Read More ...

WESTERN Australia wasn’t able to continue its winning start to the 2016 NAB AFL 18s Championships going down to South Australia on Sunday at AAMI Stadium, but it wasn’t without some impressive performances and a strong finish. WA was coming off a tremendous start to its campaign for 2016 last Sunday with a 61-point win over Victoria Country at Domain Stadium before heading to Adelaide's AAMI Stadium this Sunday to take on South Australia. It was the Croweaters, though, who kicked the opening four goals of the game and 12 of the first 15 to end up winning 12.10 (82) to 6.9 (45). Read More ...

WESTERN Australia has romped to a record-setting 134-point state game victory over Tasmania at Steel Blue Oval giving the WAFL team a fourth straight victory in interstate battles. The game was the 23rd meeting between the two states with WA having now won 18 of those but Saturday's 134-point win was the biggest in history eclipsing the 122-point triumph at North Hobart in 1964. It is also a fourth straight state game win for WA following victories over the VFL, NEAFL and SANFL the previous three years. Read More ...

WESTERN Australia hosts Tasmania at Steel Blue Oval on Saturday in the 2016 State Match looking for a fourth straight victory in interstate contests. The WAFL representative side takes on the best of the Tasmanian State League at the Bassendean venue on Saturday looking for a fourth successive victory following wins over the VFL, NEAFL and SANFL the past three years. The WA team will again be coached by Darren Harris and captained by East Perth ruckman Paul Johnson who were both in the same roles in last year's 45-point win over South Australia. East Fremantle defender Andrew Stephen and South Fremantle skipper Ryan Cook are the vice-captains. Read More ...

VERY few players have the combined abilities to win the hard contested ball, lay crunching tackles, be a clearance machine and then break the lines, but that all sums up Tim Kelly with the young South Fremantle star to make his state debut for the WAFL on Saturday. Kelly is one of five players from the league-leading South Fremantle picked in the final 23 for Western Australia to play in the 2016 state match against Tasmania at Steel Blue Oval on Saturday. Of the five Bulldogs players selected, it is Kelly the only one set to make his state debut with captain Ryan Cook to play for WA for a fifth time, Ashton Hams a third and then it will be the second time for both Marlion Pickett and Ben Saunders. Read More ...