The Landmark Championships remains the keynote event on the country football calendar year. With the best country footballers representing their respective country leagues in Perth for 3 days of high calibre football, for some it will mean an opportunity to be destined for a WAFL and in some cases an AFL career. With this years’ Landmark carnival commencing, many country umpires are looking for a Read More ...

EAST Fremantle is through to the 2013 Foxtel Cup grand final after beating a North Melbourne-boosted Werribee in torrential rain and incredibly wet conditions at Patersons Stadium on Tuesday night. After the Sharks won their opening Foxtel Cup clash against Norwood on another wet night at AAMI Stadium back on May 21, the rain that poured down in Perth on Tuesday was amazing to see. Read More ...

The best country footballers from around the State will descend on Perth for the 2013 Landmark Country Football Championships tomorrow, Thursday, July 11. Teams will feature former AFL and WAFL talent including Callum Chambers and Brent LeCras (Central Midlands Coastal), Leith Teakle and Calib Mourish (Great Northern), Chris Billings and Tim Noakes (South West) and Scott Siekierka (Avon). Former Collingwood and Perth player Leon Davis Read More ...

LAST night’s Foxtel Cup match at Patersons Stadium saw East Fremantle and Werribee fight it out in approximately 52mm of heavy rainfall. Almost one third of the average rainfall for July fell in just two hours, pouring over 1 million litres of water into Patersons Stadium. The stadium playing surface absorbed most of the water. The Fremantle Dockers change rooms were also submerged but have Read More ...

SWAN Districts made a statement to the rest of the WAFL that it still deserves to be considered a contender in 2013 with a huge win over Perth in Round 16 while East Fremantle stayed alive, and Claremont and West Perth held on to win thrillers. Swan Districts replaced Perth in fourth position with a 24.12 (156) to 10.7 (67) win over the Demons at Read More ...

THE WAFL's top-two teams Claremont and West Perth escaped with tight wins over the league's bottom two sides in Saturday's Round 16 action while Swan Districts took Perth's fourth position and East Fremantle stayed alive in the finals race. The four matches were all played on Saturday afternoon with Claremont holding on to beat South Fremantle 13.16 (94) to 14.6 (90) at Fremantle Oval while Read More ...

THE WAFL celebrates its annual NAIDOC Week in Round 16 action this weekend with four crucial matches on Saturday afternoon with all clubs wearing specially designed jumpers to commemorate the occasion. All four matches will be played at 2.05pm on Saturday afternoon with Swan Districts hosting Perth at Bassendean's Steel Blue Oval, Subiaco facing East Fremantle at Leederville's Medibank Stadium, South Fremantle taking on Claremont Read More ...

BRETT Hodge has been able to turn himself into one of the best ball-winning midfielders in the WAFL after being perhaps the competition's best run-with player and he is a key reason why Perth is currently sitting in fourth position and appears set for a first finals appearance since 1997. Hodge made his league debut with the Demons in 2010 and immediately showed the ability Read More ...

LUKE Tedesco has shown himself to be a natural leader and general for West Perth across half-back ever since cementing his spot in the league side and now he reaches his 100-game milestone this Saturday against Peel Thunder at Mandurah's Bendigo Bank Stadium. Quite simply, Tedesco has got to where he is as a vice-captain of the West Perth Football Club and now a 100-game Read More ...

WESTERN Australia's State 18s finished with a hard-fought loss to South Australia at Etihad Stadium in the final round of the NAB National 18s Championships. SA 11.9 (75) defeated WA 10.5 (65). After being hit hard by injury in the first three games of the Championships, including a broken collarbone to captain Dom Sheed, WA was forced to fly in an additional player for the Read More ...

AFL Women’s Round showcased WA’s female football from grassroots through to the elite level last weekend. The celebrations kicked off with The Mount Lawley Hawks and South Fremantle Youth Girls teams (13-17 year olds) playing in a curtain-raiser to the West Coast Eagles v Essendon AFL game. Mt Lawley had some great passages of play and moved the ball well but South Fremantle proved too Read More ...

THE WAFL's top-four teams all won in Round 15 action to further consolidate their positions and open up a larger gap on the chasing pack. Three of the matches were thrillers with Claremont beating East Fremantle 15.8 (98) to 13.17 (95) in Kununurra, Perth downing South Fremantle 16.17 (113) to 16.7 (103) at Fremantle Oval and West Perth prevailing over Swan Districts 11.16 (82) to Read More ...

Western Australia’s State 16s squads have been finalised for the 2013 NAB AFL National 16s Championships at Blacktown, NSW from July 6-13. WA is aiming for back-to-back titles in Division 1 and 3 of the championships after claiming both in 2012 when the state was represented for the first time across two divisions. The Division 1 side will be led by experienced development coach John Read More ...

The best country footballers from around the State will descend on Perth for the 2013 Landmark Country Football Championships on Thursday, July 11. The Championships will be played at various WAFL grounds over three days and include three senior divisions and a Colts competition. Qualifying games will be played on Thursday and Friday, followed by finals on Saturday. CLICK HERE FOR FIXTURES - 2013 Landmark Read More ...

WEST AUSTRALIAN skipper Dom Sheed finished the day with a broken collarbone, but Cameron McCarthy stepped up to deliver the game-winning goal against Vic Country in round four of the NAB AFL Under-18 Championships. McCarthy's goal came from a soaring pack mark, in between a nest of Country defenders, with just 30 seconds left on the clock, as he steered his side to a thrilling three-point Read More ...