PEEL Thunder had been close to a win all season and never more so than in its loss to West Perth prior to its eventual win over South Fremantle, but now the Mandurah-based club has had three weeks to gear up for a strong second half of the season. Peel had been competitive in losses to East Perth, Swan Districts, East Fremantle, Claremont, Subiaco and Perth, but it was the defeat to West Perth at Arena Joondalup in Round 8 that left the Thunder at make or break point. Peel outplayed the reigning WAFL premiers all day long just about before losing on the last kick of the day from Anthony Tsalikis. The way the Thunder responded to that heartbreak was what coach Cam Shepherd was focused on and he couldn’t have been more delighted with Peel putting in its best performance in almost a year to break an 18-game winning streak with a commanding 24-point win over South Fremantle at Bendigo Bank Stadium. Read More ...

WAFL Manager Cameron Knapton's Round 10 wrap-up of the 2014 AAMI WAFL Premiership Season including match highlights, a summary of results, individual highlights, reports, tribunal results and Round 11 fixtures.   Read More ...

THE Youth Girls football competition has become a pivotal step in the pathway for female footballers following unprecedented growth to 19,326 female participants in WA last season. As the participation of Female Football significantly increases, the Youth Girl’s Competition (ages 13-18years) has closed the gap from NAB Auskick (ages 5-8 years), Junior Girls (ages 8-12 years), through to the WA Women’s Football League (aged 16 years and over). Read More ...

The West Australian Football League recorded its largest attendance for a single Round since 2011 with a total of 17,580 attending Carlton Draught Rivalry Round on the WA Day long weekend. This was a 21% increase on last year’s WA Day long weekend crowd of 14,480 and the largest since 18,138 attended WA Day long weekend games in 2011. Read More ...

THE West Coast Eagles State Amateur U23’s are set to take on the South Australian Amateur Football League this Saturday at the Kingsway Sporting Complex, Madeley. After eight weeks preparation, the West Coast Eagles State Amateur U23’s aim to keep the win on home soil after facing narrow defeat against SAAFL when they last played in WA in 2010. Having lost against the WA Country Football League last Friday at Anning Park, the West Coast Eagles State Amateur U23’s will be looking to win the focus game of the program. Unfortunately the bigger bodied WACFL side outplayed the team, defeating the West Coast Eagles State Amateur U23’s 9.5 (59) to 15.6 (96). This weekend will bring a different level of football again, with the South Australians looking to make their travel worthwhile and take bragging rights into the 2015 Australian Amateur Football Council Carnival held in Tasmania. Read More ...

ALMOST 15,000 fans attended the three WAFL fixtures on WA Day on the biggest day of the season with three terrific contests eventuating with East Fremantle, East Perth and Claremont all recording hard fought and important victories. A crowd of 6201 watched the Perth derby at Arena Joondalup with East Perth kicking the first three goals of the last quarter to set up a 10.9 (69) to 7.11 (53) victory over West Perth. Another strong turnout of 5854 then attended Fremantle Oval as East Fremantle held off South Fremantle to win 15.16 (106) to 13.13 (91). The third game on WA Day was at the Claremont Showgrounds with more than 2000 people watching as Claremont held on to beat Subiaco 13.9 (87) to 10.18 (78) in the upset of the afternoon. Read More ...

LUKE Blackwell has grown used to performing in a strong side at Claremont over the past four years and while that hasn’t been the case so far in 2014, he hopes the Tigers are on the right track to start getting competitive again. Claremont has been the dominant WAFL team of the past four years and in that period Blackwell has been a key component of the Tigers' success and become perhaps the most decorated player in the competition in the process. Having started his career with Swan Districts and then spending four years at Carlton for 23 AFL matches, Blackwell returned to the WAFL and joined Claremont in 2009. Read More ...

SWAN Districts won its eighth straight match to remain on top of the ladder coming from 37 points down to beat Perth by that same margin to open Round 10 WAFL action on Saturday at Lathlain Park. Perth dominated periods of both the first and second quarters with Mitch Morton on fire kicking five first half goals, but Swan Districts worked its way on top and kicked nine straight goals either side of three quarter-time to end up winning 18.15 (123) to 13.8 (86). The win means that Swans have now won eight straight games to remain clear on top of the WAFL ladder while Perth slips to a 3-6 record and face a big task to remain in the finals' hunt. Read More ...

JAMIE McNamara enjoyed his first chance to represent the WAFL in last week's State game in his first year back with East Fremantle but now he is determined to keep the Sharks in the finals hunt heading into Monday's Foundation Derby on WA Day at Fremantle Oval. McNamara was one of four East Fremantle players to represent the WAFL in last Saturday's 85-point State match win over the NEAFL in Sydney as he was rewarded for his tremendous form back with the Sharks after spending the last two seasons in the VFL with Williamstown. Now the Sharks head into the Foundation Derby against South Fremantle at Fremantle Oval on WA Day with a 4-4 record after an up and down opening to the season, and needing to win to stay right in touch with the top three teams, and the fourth-placed West Perth. Read More ...

BRENDAN Lee has had a big last seven days captaining the WAFL to a State game win and then leading East Perth to a Foxtel Cup victory, but his sole focus now is on trying to help the Royals snap a three-game losing run against West Perth. East Perth travels to Arena Joondalup this Monday for the traditional WA Day Derby against West Perth with the Royals having plenty of motivation against the Falcons on top of the fact that they are their most hated rivals. West Perth has beaten East Perth the last three times including by 100 points in Round 4 this year and by 49 points in last year's grand final with the Royals' only win in the last five meetings being a tremendous come from behind effort last WA Day at Medibank Stadium. Read More ...

THE WAFL returns this weekend after the break for the State game victory over the NEAFL with a standalone fixture on Saturday afternoon before three huge clashes on the WA Day public holiday on Monday. The match on Saturday takes place at Lathlain Park with Perth hosting the league-leading Swan Districts. Then on WA Day, South Fremantle takes on East Fremantle at Fremantle Oval, West Perth hosts East Perth at Arena Joondalup and Claremont battles Subiaco at the Claremont Showgrounds. Read More ...

Join the 2014 WAFL State Team on their journey to defeat the NEAFL in Sydney. Read More ...

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A WAFL premiership, VFL premiership, representing Western Australia, playing AFL football and being highly-respected by opponents and teammates alike are things that Matthew Spencer can now reflect fondly on after announcing his retirement on Thursday night. The 29-year-old began his career with Swan Districts and came through the WA State 16s and 18s system before being drafted to Geelong where he played two AFL matches in 2006, won the VFL team's best and fairest in 2005 and was also a member of the Cats' VFL premiership side of 2007. It was then back to Swan Districts in 2008 with his time with the black-and-whites culminating in the 2010 premiership in one of the most memorable grand finals of all time with Swans beating Claremont by a point. Read More ...

The West Coast Eagles State Amateur U23s will face their first test of the year on Friday night when they host the WA Country Football League at Anning Park, South Lake. Friday’s game will be the first of two West Coast Eagles State Amateur under 23’s games, with the second game being the Australian Amateur Football Championship match against the South Australian Amateur Football League under 23-team on June 7that Kingsway Sporting Complex, Madeley. Read More ...