THE WAFL is back to a full round of fixtures this weekend to coincide with NAIDOC Week and all 10 competing clubs will be wearing specially designed Indigenous jumpers to mark the occasion. NAIDOC Round in the WAFL has become one of the highlights of every season and not only with the contributions of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island people be celebrated this weekend, but Read More ...

The biggest ever derby in WAFLW history is set for Sunday at Fremantle Community Bank Oval with South Fremantle and East Fremantle doing battle for a place in the 2023 grand final. East Fremantle did have a bit of a head start in the WAFLW competition and had already won a premiership in 2019 before South Fremantle even joined in 2020, but all signs are Read More ...

  Eight winners from across Western Australia have won the NAIDOC Design Jumper Competition, thanks to WA Football’s NAIDOC Round Partner, Rio Tinto.  These eight winners will each have their winning NAIDOC design reproduced as one set of jumpers for the associated football club and one jumper for the artist to keep.  The competition invited Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander players within the Perth Metropolitan Read More ...

A travelling party of close to 20 participants and families from Albany Starkick team will be taking part in the inaugural Hand in Hand Crossing to highlight disability inclusion.  Ahead of the Fremantle Football Club’s Purple Hands Round more than 500 participants and families from Starkick Community Clubs, WA All Abilities Football Association and Fremantle Football Club will unite to cross Matagarup Bridge. Albany Starkick Read More ...

Perth Football Club will take on the name of ‘Boorloo Football Club’ in celebration of NAIDOC Week. The change of name is for the Football Club to honour the Whadjuk Noongar people, the traditional custodians of the Perth area, in which the club is named after. Boorloo player Sam Stubbs designed the club’s NAIDOC jumper, highlighting the journey of two of senior Indigenous teammates, Simon Read More ...

THERE were plenty of shining performances across the three games in the WAFL on Saturday afternoon in Round 12 with Claremont and Subiaco playing out a tight one, Peel Thunder overrunning South Fremantle, and East Fremantle setting some records against the West Coast Eagles. There might have only been three games in the last of the split rounds in the WAFL with East Perth, Perth, Read More ...

Western Australia’s U18s side will be looking to bounce back from Friday night’s loss to Victoria Country, when they take on Victoria Metro on Sunday.  The Black Swans lost by just two points to Vic Country in front of a home crowd at the WACA, but coach Ben Dyer impressed with his players’ efforts.  “We didn’t start the game well, but we were able to Read More ...

Bunbury Catholic College claimed victories in the boys' and girls' grand finals at the Senior High School Country Week for the second year in a row.  More than 2000 students from 32 competing schools took part in the event from Monday 26 June to Friday 30 June.  The Eagles Senior Schoolboys Cup – Walker Division was won by Bunbury Catholic College, who claimed a 17-point Read More ...

The West Australian Football Commission and the Fremantle Football Club will join forces this weekend to highlight disability inclusion. Ahead of the Fremantle Football Club’s Purple Hands Round, WA football will unite to cross Matagarup Bridge – Hand in Hand Crossing. More than 500 representatives from the community, government, and those working towards disability inclusion are expected at the event. Those attending will include players and Read More ...

The West Australian Football Commission is proud to celebrate NAIDOC Week and support this year’s theme ‘For Our Elders’. NAIDOC Week will see people celebrate the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People across Australia. ‘For Our Elders’ recognises that across every generation, Elders have played, and continue to play, an important role and hold a prominent place in our communities Read More ...

Nominations for the inaugural West Australian Football Facility Award is now open.  The newly created annual Award recognises best practice in community football facility development across the state.  The award aims to promote and celebrate the provision of well positioned, welcoming, accessible, fit for purpose football facilities that support our growing game’s strategic priorities.   Western Australia’s winning project will be nominated for the National Read More ...

IT was quite the eventful opening to the WAFLW final series for 2023 on Sunday with Claremont the first team into the grand final while there will now be a derby between South Fremantle and East Fremantle to decide their opponents. All four finals teams for the 2023 season deserved to come into the last three weeks of the season thinking that they were genuinely Read More ...

CLAREMONT held off a fast finishing Subiaco to move clear on top of the WAFL ladder after 12 rounds while East Fremantle had a remarkably huge win over the West Coast Eagles and Peel Thunder was too strong for South Fremantle on Saturday. There were three matches in Round 12 of the 2023 WAFL season and in the end, the wins for the Tigers, Thunder Read More ...

Darling Range Sports College claimed the 2023 Eagles Senior Schoolboys Cup after an unbeaten year. Darling Range beat Churchlands Senior High School by 13 points 3.5 (23) to 1.4 (10) on Wednesday at McGillivray Reserve in Mt Claremont. Brad Smith and Darren Rumble have been co-coaching Darling Range for the past two years and the victory capped off a stellar year. “I could see it meant Read More ...

CLAREMONT and Subiaco go to battle over top position in the WAFL on Saturday afternoon while also in Round 12 both South Fremantle and the West Coast Eagles will be trying to upset Peel Thunder and East Fremantle away from home. There are just the three games again in Round 12 of the 2023 WAFL season and each match will be fascinating in their own Read More ...