The WAFL Match Review Panel has assessed the following incidents from Finals Week 1 of the WAFL League competition. 1. Jonathon MARSH (East Fremantle) was charged with striking Ryan LIM (Claremont) during the East Fremantle v Claremont Qualifying Final at New Choice Homes Park on Saturday, September 10. In summary, the above-mentioned has accepted a reprimand with an early guilty plea.    Based on the available evidence, the incident was assessed Read More ...

A former American basketball legend helped inspire Cam Jones win this season’s Montgomery Medal at the annual WANFLUA Awards night.  After launching his WAFL career in 2016, Jones was named Field Umpire of the year.  “I’m extremely honoured to win such a prestigious award.  Many current and former greats of WA umpiring have been recipients of this award and I feel privileged to be recognised in Read More ...

EAST Fremantle has moved to within one win of a first Grand Final appearance in 10 years by opening the WAFL finals with an impressive win over Claremont while Peel Thunder stayed alive and ended the season of South Fremantle. Following the closest home and away season in recent memory with all top four spots still to be determined coming into the final round and Read More ...

After finishing on top of the ladder, West Perth earned a week’s break before hosting their Semi-Final this Saturday, September 17, against East Fremantle. Thanks to a dominant final quarter, East Fremantle took home the win in the Qualifying Final against Claremont. Hope is not lost for Claremont as they get a second chance to keep their Premiership hope alive against Peel Thunder on Sunday, September 18. It was an unfortunate end Read More ...

The West Australian Football Commission (WAFC), West Australian Country Football League (WACFL) and the Great Northern Football League (GNFL) confirm it has investigated an incident from the Railways v Rover game on Saturday 3 September. This incident caused the safety and care of spectators to be compromised. The WAFC and WACFL has worked to ensure due sensitivity, justice and proportionate consequences were met. To ensure integrity Read More ...

FOLLOWING a remarkably tightly contested WAFL season with the five finals teams not confirmed until the very last match, the 2022 finals series gets underway with a bang this weekend with two match ups with four teams with premiership aspirations. It was the closest WAFL home and away season in recent memory throughout 2022 with the top four positions all capable of changing going into Read More ...

PEEL Thunder is back in the WAFL finals for the first time since winning back-to-back premierships and while they enter from fifth position, they do so on the back of plenty of momentum. It was a rough start to life in the WAFL for the Mandurah-based club from their entry in 1997 and it wasn’t until 2015 that they broke through to play finals for Read More ...

IT has been a season for South Fremantle where they haven’t quite reached top gear but have still been effective enough to book in a seventh consecutive finals appearance and the Bulldogs now can't be taken lightly. South Fremantle hadn’t played finals between 2012-15 after a tremendous run of success under dual premiership winning coach John Dimmer, but under Todd Curley, they have become a Read More ...

CLAREMONT will be hoping that 2022 is the year it can breakthrough for that elusive first premiership in a decade after the Tigers have given themselves another good chance from third position. It's been a case of so close yet so far for a number of seasons now for Claremont, but the Tigers have put themselves in another good position to give the premiership an Read More ...

The Freo Dockers Cup is in new hands after SEDA College claimed a resounding victory in this week’s Moore Division Grand Final at Victor George Kailis Oval in Cockburn.  Having moved up to Moore Division this year after taking out last year’s White Division, SEDA College played Governor Stirling SHS in the Grand Final.  Governor Stirling SHS was aiming for its fourth Moore Division Premiership Read More ...

IT is hard to imagine the most successful club in WAFL history turning into sentimental finals favourites.  But that’s exactly how many neutral football supporters regard East Fremantle in 2022 as the club attempts to win its first flag in 24 years.  The Sharks have 29 WAFL premierships and for decades were the most feared team in the competition, but since winning three Grand Finals Read More ...

WINNING one WAFL premiership is special but the prospect of claiming football’s ultimate prize nine years apart is driving three West Perth greats over the next month.  The Falcons wrapped up the minor premiership in all three grades, with the league win over Subiaco last week, setting the club up for their best tilt at a flag since in 2013.  Almost a decade ago, West Read More ...

Bunbury Catholic College has enjoyed dual success at the School Sport WA’s Senior High Schools’ Country Week.  More than 3,000 students from 46 competing schools took part in the event from Monday the 29th of August until Friday September 2.  The event made its return to Perth after a three-year hiatus because of the pandemic.  Supported by the West Australian Football Commission, the boys and Read More ...

EAST Fremantle has waited eight years to play finals, 10 to reach a Grand Final and 24 to celebrate a premiership, and the Sharks will be hoping to end all those droughts now over the next month. The Sharks are already guaranteed of playing finals for the first time since 2014 and it's been a tough eight years to deal with the fact that the Read More ...

WEST Perth has been a regular contender for another premiership since 2013 and this could be the Falcons' best chance to breakthrough having claimed top spot on the WAFL ladder for the first time since 1993. West Perth won the premiership back in 2013 with Bill Monaghan the coach but there's now only Mark Hutchings, Aaron Black and Shane Nelson left from that team that Read More ...