The West Australian Football Commission and WA Football Media Guild hosted the annual WA Football Media Awards at Domain Stadium last night, Tuesday November 10, to recognise the season’s high achievers both on and off the field. This included awards for online, print, radio and television media, WAFL and AFL players and coaches, as well as special awards for outstanding service. The award winners for the night were: Read More ...

With Female Football growing by 44% in 2015 to now include over 284,000 players Australia wide, and the new AFL women's National competition scheduled to begin in 2017, it is  truly an exciting time to be involved in female football.   WA's elite younger players were recently given the opportunity to work with the West Australian Institute of Sport at the Developing Champions course. They were all excited to meet and hear from Kate Bobridge and Jaime Roberts, an elite level Perth kayaker about her sporting journey aimed at the Olympics. Jaime had the girls enthralled with her practical advice, and impressive work ethic, outlining the requirements and hardships experienced to be an elite athlete and her willingness to share fun stories about her journey. Read More ...

Karratha based umpire James Foster-Reed was one of two lucky winners of the AFL Umpire experience in October, which included participating in the AFL Grand Final parade and umpiring in grid games at half time at the MCG. James said it was an amazing experience he would never forget. "I still couldn't believe it was real," he said.  Read More ...

THE South Fremantle Football Club wishes to announce that Frankston VFL captain Shane Hockey has signed a two-year deal to join the Bulldogs from the 2016 WAFL season with several other key players also re-signing. Hockey arrives at South Fremantle with a reputation as a tremendous leader as well as a tough and prolific midfielder after over 100 games in the VFL with Frankston including the 2015 season as skipper. He joins the Bulldogs on a two-year contract and is one of several new player signings that the South Fremantle Football Club will announce in coming weeks heading into Todd Curley's second season in charge as coach looking to return to the finals in 2016 after a four-year absence. Read More ...

23 of our top WAFL players were put through a battery of fitness, physical and psychomotor tests at the AFL State Draft Combine at HBF Arena on Saturday, October 17. Player endurance, power, accuracy and reaction time were extensively assessed under the watchful eyes of AFL clubs looking for the next champion player. Hear from some of our top AFL draft prospects in the video below. Read More ...

THE South Fremantle Football Club has appointed former dual reserves premiership player Mark Foster to the newly created role as head coach of the South Fremantle Development Academy. Foster returns to South Fremantle after a career that saw him play four league matches and in the 2004 and 2009 reserves premiership teams to fill the new position that sees his responsibilities stretch across the Warriors, colts and in coaching the coaches of the entire development group. In conjunction with the WA Football Commission, the South Fremantle Football Club interviewed a number of quality candidates for the role who were put through a rigorous process to find the right person for the newly created position. Read More ...

CHRIS Phelan's outstanding and consistent performances for Subiaco have been rewarded with the dual premiership midfielder claiming the Outridge Medal as the Lions' fairest and best for the 2015 WAFL season. Phelan was a constant and consistently strong ball-winner in the midfield all season long for Subiaco and he was acknowledged on Friday night by claiming his first Outridge Medal just weeks after winning a second premiership medal. Subiaco's tremendous recruiting was also on show in their fairest and best voting with centreman Leigh Kitchin finishing runner-up to Phelan in fairest and best voting. Read More ...

A GROUP of 23 top WAFL players were put through their paces when the AFL State Draft Combine was held at HBF Arena on Saturday, October 17. There were some impressive individual performances, including a record-equalling leap from Claremont's Shane McAdam, 20, who matched Nic Naitanui's 102cm running vertical jump record from 2008. McAdam also finished with a 2.89 second result in the 20m sprint. Read More ...

The West Australian Football Commission will be delivering TOP Club sessions across the Perth Metro Area during the month of November and are inviting clubs to get involved in this great program. Express your interest TOP Club is a new dynamic Club Development tool that works within the Quality Club Framework to help clubs take the next step in their growth, development and management. The TOP Club Tool assists clubs to; Build Club Culture Review their current management systems and processes Start the planning process for the clubs operations and ability Read More ...

East Perth has appointed West Coast development coach Jaymie Graham as its league coach after Brian Dawson decided not to seek reappointment for the 2016 season. Dawson has coached the league team to three consecutive seasons of finals action and will remain involved at East Perth while maintaining his busy schedule as a full-time Professor in Exercise Physiology and Biochemistry at the School of Sport Science, Exercise and Health at the University of Western Australia. Graham, a former Eagles player and St Kilda development coach, joined the West Coast coaching staff in 2014 after spending two years working under Scott Watters at St Kilda. Read More ...

Seven-year-old Hunter Wills from Mundaring was one of the lucky 22 Auskickers from across the country who made the trip to Melbourne for an unforgettable three-day 2015 Toyota AFL Grand Final experience. Hunter, Kalgoorlie-Boulder Auskicker Zachary Openshaw and Benny Tognala from Sorrento-Duncraig Junior Football Club were the envy of all their friends after playing footy on the hallowed turf of the MCG in front of one hundred thousand fans and presenting Premiership Read More ...

THE West Australian Football Commission has recorded the largest participation growth in Australia for the core areas of Auskick and Club Football following the official release of AFL census figures today. WA’s Auskick numbers grew by 22.7% to almost 40,000 participants, while Club Football increased by 4% to 62,536. The next closest was South Australia with 3% growth in both of these fundamental segments. Total football participation for 2015 in WA was 224,842, which equates to 9% overall growth in direct comparison to 2014 AFL census data, taking into account the reclassification of some segments this year. Read More ...

JACOB Ballard has capped a rollercoaster run of events that included his AFL debut and delisting by Fremantle by winning Peel Thunder's Tuckey Medal as the fairest and best player for the 2015 WAFL season. Ballard has now put together two tremendous seasons continuing to develop as a tough and consistent midfielder who knocks up winning the ball. After coming runner-up to captain Brendon Jones in the Tuckey Medal voting in 2014, he went up another level in 2015 to win the fairest and best award. Read More ...

BROCK O'Brien cemented himself as one of the most valuable players in the WAFL in 2015 whether in attack or running off half-back, and that has been acknowledged with the left-footer winning the Lynn Medal as East Fremantle's fairest and best winner. The 2015 season might not have turned out as the Sharks hoped coming off last year's preliminary final appearance with a run of 12 straight matches up until the final round, including Brad Dodd replacing Steve Malaxos as coach, meaning it wasn’t the campaign they were hoping for. However, the one great shining light was the performance of Brock O'Brien first as a an attacking half-back in the first half of the season where his ability to find plenty of the ball, and to kick with great depth and precision setting up East Fremantle from the back half. Read More ...

WAFL players impressed at the NAB AFL National Draft Combine in Melbourne over the weekend, including Josh Schoenfeld from Peel Thunder who set a new combine record for the 3km time trial and also recorded the top beep test result for 2015. Schoenfeld finished the 3km time trial in 9min. 15sec to beat the record of 9.18 set last year by Sydney Swans draftee Jack Hiscox. Schoenfeld also ran 16.2 in the beep test, the second-best ever recorded behind Hawthorn’s Billy Hartung (16.6 in 2013). East Fremantle Football Club's Jordan Snadden also impressed with top place for 2015 in the Relative Vertical Jump test with a leap of 75cm, 4cm higher than the next best. He also placed sixth overall in the 30m repeat sprints. Read More ...