ALL of a sudden after the delayed start to the Optus WAFL Premiership Season, we are warming up for Round 2 this Saturday with four big match ups while Subiaco takes the break to stew over a rare first up loss. The 2020 WAFL season might have suffered a delayed start, but it's amazing how quickly things begin to feel back to normal once we have had a full round of action on a Saturday, and now have another four matches to look forward to this Saturday. Each game has high stakes too and plenty of fascination surrounding them after what we saw in the opening round including East Perth making its first appearance of 2020. Read More ...

The Round 2 Football Budget is available to download ahead of this weekend's 2020 Optus WAFL Premiership Season fixtures. FIXTURES Featuring match previews, statistics, feature article, collectables, fixtures and team lists for League, Reserves, Colts and WAFLW, the new-look Football Budget is included for free with all Adult and Concession tickets at WAFL games. Additional copies can be purchased for $3 at the gate.  FOOTBALL BUDGET DOWNLOAD Read More ...

The following games will be broadcast by TV, radio or livestreamed during Round 2 of the WAFL, Simply Energy Colts and WAFL Women's season on Saturday July 25 and Sunday, July 26. Read More ...

STARTING a season in mid-July might be something new for the WAFL, but it proved worth the wait with a fascinating opening round of the 2020 Optus Premiership Season which included a host of starring performances from players young and old alike. COVID-19 has had a significant impact on just about every aspect of life right around the world and the WAFL competition is no different.  The anticipated April start date for the 2020 season ended up happening in mid-July, but the action is now underway and there were four matches with intrigue surrounding each of them for different reasons. Read More ...

The opening round of the 2020 Simply Energy WAFL Colts season started with a bang, as there were great individual and team performances alike. The opening round saw South Fremantle defeat East Fremantle 10.6.66 to 8.11.59; Claremont winning over Subiaco 9.11.65 to 7.10.52; West Perth beating Swan Districts 10.11.71 to 3.6.24; and Perth overcoming Peel Thunder 10.16.76 to 10.11.71. East Perth were the team who Read More ...

The Coolbinia Bombers Junior Football Club launched the 2020 Junior Football Season under lights at Coolbinia Reserve on Thursday, 16th of July. Coolbinia Junior Football Club President Rob Geersen said that following a recent upgrade of lighting towers the club now had the capability to host youth and girls fixtures under lights for the first time. "Playing our first youth game of Female Football under lights at Coolbinia is an exciting culmination of a vision that began 15 years ago," he said. Read More ...

THE WAFL Women's competition also resumed on the weekend after the forced delay to the 2020 Optus Premiership Season and for the first time ever there was a Fremantle Derby with a big win for East Fremantle while Swan Districts and Subiaco also celebrated victories. It's a new-look WAFLW competition for 2020 as well with the introduction of South Fremantle as the sixth club to the league when the Bulldogs were granted a full license a year earlier than originally anticipated. The delayed start to the season thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic then created a tremendous sense of excitement over the opening of a season that will now consist of seven rounds before a three-week finals campaign. Read More ...

THE WAFL returned with a bang on Saturday after the delayed start to the 2020 Optus Premiership Season with four exciting matches which saw a thumping derby win for South Fremantle, and hard fought victories for Claremont, West Perth and Peel Thunder. COVID-19 might have delayed the start of the 2020 WAFL season, but that only built the excitement for football's return on Saturday and not even some cold and wet weather was going to deter the spectators from turning out in droves given it was the first WAFL action since September last year. They were treated to some cracking contests as well starting in Mandurah at David Grays Arena with Perth eventually shaking off Peel Thunder with four goals to three in the final quarter to prevail 10.10 (70) to 9.6 (60). Read More ...

The Optus WAFLW Live Stream is back in 2020!! One game each week will be live streamed on the WAFL Facebook & Youtube accounts, as well as be accessible on the website.  Our first feature game sees South Fremantle face East Fremantle at Fremantle Community Bank Oval on Sunday at 2.00pm. This historic occasion will make the first ever Fremantle Derby in the WAFLW.  WATCH Read More ...

THE excitement surrounding the return of football in Western Australia this weekend continues with the commencement of 2020 WAFLW Premiership Season with three big clashes across Saturday and Sunday. To coincide with the return of AFL football in Perth this weekend for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic shut things down and with the beginning of the WAFL season, the WAFL Women's competition also gets underway this weekend. It gets underway on Saturday from midday at Mandurah's David Grays Arena with Peel Thunder hosting Swan Districts.  Read More ...

Congratulations to our new Burley footy owners! Check out the winners below... Entry winner one: I look forward to being out and about Us younger kids we cheer and we shout! While my big brothers get to train and play  I watch them and hope they kick a ball my way! Maybe if I had my own BURLEY They will let me join in ....SURELY???? Read More ...

ABSENCE can make the heart grow fonder and it's fair to say the delayed start to the 2020 Optus WAFL Premiership Season has built the excitement to fever pitch for four massive contests in Round 1 across the four venues this Saturday. There is so much to look forward in Round 1 of the 2020 WAFL season but really it is just exciting to have action back on the field for the players, coaching and staff to be involved in, and indeed for the fans to be able to turn out in droves once more to attend the games. In the end, what the 2020 season will look like is that it will feature nine teams playing over nine rounds in the home and away season.  Read More ...

IT'S hard to imagine there have been too many more consistent and reliable defenders in the rich history of Swan Districts than Alex Howard, but the fact that he grew up dreaming of playing for Swans and that it means so much to his family suggests life membership trumps that. By the time Howard got into his early teenage years, he started to follow Swan Districts closely thanks to those special colts teams given the likes of Tony Notte, Michael Walters, Nic Naitanui, Chris Yarran, David Ellard and Alex Rance were all friends with his older brother. What that did, though, was create a lifetime love of the Swan Districts Football Club for Howard. He might have arrived at Steel Blue Oval or all the other WAFL grounds for the colts, but he would stay with his father until the league game. Read More ...

WHILE Haiden Schloithe is rightfully tremendously proud ahead of earning life membership at South Fremantle by playing his 150th game to open the WAFL season on Saturday, it's that ultimate desire for a premiership driving him on more than anything. From the moment Schloithe made the move up to play colts football at South Fremantle from Katanning, he appeared destined for great things going on to play in a premiership with the Bulldogs in 2011 and ultimately being rookie-listed by the Fremantle Dockers. He made his league debut at the Bulldogs in 2011 as well and virtually ever since, has gone on to become one of the most damaging and decorated in the WAFL this century. Read More ...

West Australian umpires have celebrated key achievements in recent weeks, with major milestones celebrated and others receiving an opportunity to progress to the next level. Hunter added to AFL panel WAFL goal umpire Sam Hunter was recently offered an AFL contract for season 2020 after waving the flags in more than 150 WAFL games, including five League Grand Finals. Hunter, who joined the WAFL panel Read More ...