Video highlights follow from the 2015 Calrton Draught WAFL State Team's 45-point win over the SANFL and the WA State 18s' thrilling one-point win over South Australia in the opening game of the National Championhsips.   Both games were played at Lathlain Park on Saturday, May 23. WA's State 18s will next play Vic Country on Sunday, May 31 at Medibank Stadium. The Carlton Draught WAFL State side is next due to play Tasmania in 2016.  Read More ...

An exhibition to celebrate 100 years of women’s football is now showing at the State Library of Western Australia. Bounce Down: Women's Australian Rules Football Centenary, is open every day until July 31, 2015 in the Ground Floor Gallery at the State Library in the Perth Cultural Centre, Northbridge.   The free exhibition explores the 100 year history of women’s Australian Rules football in Western Australia and beyond.   Read More ...

RYAN Davis has been among the most damaging players in the WAFL for several years as a hard-tackling, skilful and goalkicking half-forward since settling into that role and the Swan Districts premiership player was a clear choice for the Simpson Medal in Saturday's State game. Davis kicked five goals in the WAFL's 45-point win over the SANFL at Lathlain Park on Saturday to go along with 25 possessions, 10 inside-50 entries and eight marks and following the game, was awarded the Simpson Medal after being judged Western Australia's best player. Despite still being only 25 years of age, Davis has now played 123 WAFL matches with Swan Districts and did play 14 AFL games with the West Coast Eagles way back in 2008 and 2009, but that was when he was considered a running defender. However, since 2012 Davis has settled into a role playing mostly as a forward with stints in the midfield and his work rate has gone through the roof becoming a ferocious tackler who then constantly sends his team into attack, kicks goal and has been a match-winner a host of times. Read More ...

HIS phone would ring off the hook the second he declared an interest in coaching again, but Darren Harris just revelled in the experience of guiding the WAFL to a State game win over the SANFL both to help the players achieve what they did and to work with some of his favourite people again. Harris has made it clear that since returning to Perth from Carlton at the end of 2012 that he doesn’t have the time to coach a team in his own right given his work with Leading Teams, but he has again proven that he still has what it takes. Having originally joining West Perth in the early 1990s and going on to be a premiership captain in 1995 and then returning to be a premiership coach in 2003, Harris became a premiership assistant coach in the AFL with West Coast and then spent time as a development coach Carlton. Since 2012 he has worked with the innovative Leading Teams program, but was honoured to be asked to coach the WAFL State team this year and did a tremendous job in the lead up and on game day as WA scored the 45-point victory over South Australia at Lathlain Park on Saturday. Read More ...

WESTERN Australia has recorded a third successive State match victory and second straight at home over South Australia following an impressive and exciting 45-point victory at Lathlain Park on Saturday. The WAFL State side went into the 2015 State match with a team full of running power sent out to take advantage of the wide expanses of Lathlain Park, and that plan worked a treat in the eventual 18.13 (121) to 11.10 (76) victory over the SANFL. WA got off to a flying start kicking the first three goals, but then South Australia hit back with the next five either side of quarter-time to threaten to blow the game open. Read More ...

WESTERN Australia have opened the 2015 NAB AFL under-18 Championships in style with a thrilling one-point victory over South Australia at Lathlain Park on Saturday. WA kicked the opening three goals of the game and while South Australia only pulled ahead briefly by a point in the last quarter, the Black Swans held sway for much of the contest and held on in the finish for a thrilling 11.7 (73) to 9.18 (72) victory to open the 2015 Championships. There were a host of impressive performances from WA players as well with Marshall Jones the star up forward kicking four goals from 10 possessions and five marks. Read More ...

The 2015 Carlton Draught WAFL state game against the SANFL at Lathlain Park will be broadcast via live stream on the WAFL website from 2.10pm on Saturday, May 23. The live stream will be hosted by WAFL commentator Glenn Mitchell and South Australian commentator Phil Aspinall, with expert comments from 188-game WAFL player and former Subiaco leading goal kicker Rod Willett. CLICK HERE to watch the live stream from 2.10pm, Saturday 23 May CLICK HERE for live stats from the game from 2.15pm, Saturday 23 May.  Read More ...

WESTERN Australia and South Australia are two proud football states, the WAFL and SANFL are strong state league competitions and now they do battle in Saturday's State game at Lathlain Park with plenty on the line. The day will begin at Lathlain Park with the opening game of 2015 NAB AFL National 18s Championships with Western Australia to play South Australia. That match will bounce-down at 11.20am and the WAFL v SANFL State match begins at 2.15pm. On top of the pride that goes into representing your state and coming out victorious, and also to put your respective competition up in lights as potentially the best in the country outside the AFL, history is yet to be able to separate WA and South in State battles. WA has played South Australia 92 times in State matches with each winning 46 times apiece meaning the winner on Saturday at Lathlain Park will move ahead of the ledger. Read More ...

ASHTON Hams had to wait a long time to represent the WAFL for the first time and now he's hoping his second experience in the WA jumper turns out just as well this Saturday against the SANFL at Lathlain Park. Hams had already played 123 WAFL matches, won a Simpson Medal, played in two premierships and 39 games in the WAFL with the West Coast Eagles by the time he got to make his debut State game appearance last year. He certainly made the most of it with a best on ground performance in the win over the NEAFL in Sydney and now the 28-year-old is looking forward to his second time in the Black Swans jumper this Saturday at Lathlain Park against the SANFL. Read More ...

The WAFL v SANFL State Game at Lathlain Park kicks off at 2.15pm on Saturday May 23 at Lathlain Park and with the record tied at 46 wins each from 92 encounters between the two States, it promises to be a huge contest between to football powerhouses. The game will be broadcast via live stream on the WAFL website, hosted by WAFL commentator Glenn Mitchell and South Australian commentator Phil Aspinall, with expert comments from former Subiaco leading goal kicker Rod Willett. Read More ...

The West Australian Football League State Academy has announced its third player intake and leadership group, with a talented squad of 42 players now available for selection in this year’s NAB AFL National Championships. The National Championships commence tomorrow (Saturday, May 23) when Western Australia plays South Australia at 11.20am at Lathlain Park as a curtain-raiser to the WAFL v SANFL state game. TEAMS: WA v SA Read More ...

SOUTH Australian football legend Graham Cornes feels a great affinity with Western Australia in their combined disdain for Victorian football, but that doesn’t mean he isn’t out to prove the SANFL's superiority in Saturday's State match against the WAFL on a massive weekend for his family. Cornes has been inducted into both the Australian and South Australian Football Hall of Fames, and the fact that he is coaching the SANFL team into Saturday's State game with the WAFL at Lathlain Park illustrates how seriously it is being taken. On top of everything Cornes achieved in his 369-game playing career with Glenelg, North Melbourne and South Adelaide, and in 284 matches as coach of South Adelaide, Glenelg and the Adelaide Crows, representing South Australia as a player and coach has always meant the world to him. Read More ...

HE IS a WAFL premiership captain and coach, AFL premiership assistant coach and an innovator in the Leading Teams program, but being in charge of Western Australia against South Australia in Saturday's State game has whetted Darren Harris' coaching appetite again. Harris arrived at West Perth in the early 1990s and went on to become a premiership captain in 1995, then coached the Falcons to the flag in 2003 and was a premiership assistant coach with West Coast in 2006 before spending time as a development coach with Carlton. He has now been back in Perth for a couple of years working with the Leading Teams program and that hasn’t allowed him too much time to consider a return to full-time coaching despite several WAFL clubs having made serious approaches to him. Read More ...

TEAMS have been announced for the WAFL v SANFL Carlton Draught state clash at Lathlain park this Saturday. Both states have named teams of 24 for the game including emergencies. The WAFL's sqaud has been cut from 27, with 2014 State captain Brendan Lee (East Perth) withdrawing due to injury concerns last night and talented pair Leroy Jetta (Peel) and Chris Keunen (West Perth) both unlucky to miss out on selection. Read More ...

Australian Football in WA Schools continues to be the State’s number one participation sport. With double digit growth expected again in 2015 the WAFC in partnership with the West Coast Eagles are looking forward to a bumper year of school football programs The WA Football Commission is delighted to have the West Coast Eagles and BHP Billiton committed to primary school programs the ‘Eagles Cup’ and ‘Eagles Faction Footy along with ‘Eagles Schoolboys Cup’ in Secondary schools for season 2015. Read More ...