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 ...

WESTERN Australia coach Darren Harris couldn’t be happier with the preparation for Saturday's state match against Tasmania and with the blend of youth and experienced players he has in his final team. The WAFL representative side will take on the best of the Tasmania State League at Bassendean's Steel Blue Oval on Saturday. Harris, a West Perth premiership captain and coach, is coaching the WA team for a second straight year after being in charge of the side that beat the SANFL by 45 points last year at Lathlain Park. Read More ...

The 2016 Carlton Draught WAFL State game will be played this Saturday, June 11 at Steel Blue Oval, Bassendean. Entry to the game, which starts at 2.15pm, is FREE. A curtain-raiser between the WA State 16s and a Swan Districts Indigenous All-Stars team will be played at 11.40am. Read More ...

IAN Callinan is back for the second straight year trying to defeat the WAFL in this year's state game this time playing for Tasmania while coach Brett Geappen will be hoping some help from his brother can help them get a victory against the odds. Callinan represented the SANFL last year with the WAFL winning by 45 points at Lathlain Park with Western Australia backing up the wins over the NEAFL in Sydney and VFL in Northam the previous two years with a third straight state game victory. The former Adelaide Crows rover has made the move to Tasmania this year and is now part of the state side for the clash at Steel Blue Oval on Saturday. Read More ...

WHEN Jye Bolton was told playing in the WAFL would suit him not even he could have imagined just how true it would turn out to be and now the Claremont midfielder is set to represent Western Australia in Saturday's state match against Tasmania. Bolton had spent several years with Collingwood and then Werribee playing strong football in the VFL, but when that league's version of Tigers teamed up on a larger basis with the AFL's North Melbourne in 2016 he didn’t think that was something he wanted to be part of. So he liked what he was told about the way the game was played in the WAFL where running was a key on the larger grounds, but choosing a club became the next quandary and he couldn't have been happier with the choice to join Claremont. Read More ...