THINGS are now getting to the business end of the 2020 Optus WAFL Premiership Season with only three rounds remaining and all of a sudden Subiaco can't afford to drop another game setting up a tantalising Saturday match up against Perth to highlight Round 7. Perth last played in a WAFL final back in 1997. It has been a dreadful 23 years since with the Demons not only not taking part in a single finals series, but rarely remaining in contention for a spot late in the season and along the way collecting six wooden spoons. In that time, Subiaco has dominated the WAFL. The Lions have claimed 10 minor premierships since 1997, taken part in 13 Grand Finals and won premierships in 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2014, 2015, 2018 and 2019. Read More ...

The 2020 Optus WAFL Grand Final will be played at Fremantle Community Bank Oval on Sunday, October 4, seeing the competition’s main event returning to Fremantle for the first time in more than a century.  The WAFC sought Expressions of Interest from WAFL clubs to host the fixture, resulting in a competitive bidding process.  Two grounds, Leederville Oval and Fremantle Community Bank Oval, presented compelling Read More ...

The Western Australian Football Commission advises that its CEO, Mr Gavin Taylor, will be departing the role after the completion of the current football season to pursue a career opportunity on the East Coast. Mr Taylor has been appointed to take up the role as the Australian Managing Director for a major international corporation from January 2021.  Details of the new role will be announced Read More ...

WHAT a weekend it was in the Optus WAFL Premiership Season and with teams and individual players alike make significant statements, Round 6 could end up having a big say in the way things finish up in 2020. With plenty of standout performers across the four matches putting their hands up for spots in the Team of the Round and with the finals starting to take on a bit of a clearer shape, it proved to be a fascinating and defining weekend in the WAFL. Starting with the results and East Perth kept its finals chances alive and made the job of Subiaco that bit tougher by snapping a 12-game losing slide against the Lions with a 9.9 (63) to 7.12 (54) victory at Leederville Oval. Read More ...

The following games will be broadcast by TV, radio or livestreamed during Round 7 of the WAFL, Simply Energy Colts and WAFL Women's season on Saturday, August 29.               WAFL   Saturday, August 29   Fixture   Venue   TV   Radio   Livestream   12.05pm – P v S   MRP     7        2pm – PT Read More ...

The West Australian Football Commission, and its affiliate leagues and associations will come together on August 28th-30th to celebrate the 2020 NAIDOC Indigenous Round.  NAIDOC Week celebrations are held across Australia each July, this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic NAIDOC Week Celebrations have been rescheduled until the week of the 8-15th November 2020.  The West Australian Football Commission invites teams, officials, and communities to celebrate NAIDOC Week 2020 on the weekend of the 28-30th August 2020. NAIDOC week is not only celebrated in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities, other Australians from all walks of life are encouraged to participate in the week of celebrations. The week is a great opportunity to participate in a range of activities and to support your local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island community. The WAFC NAIDOC Round will this year follow a week after the AFL’s Sir Doug Nicholls Round (August 21- 23). This video has been produced by the AFL to promote the round, clubs and leagues are encouraged to use this video as promotions on their social media platforms SDNR TVC to aid promoting the weekend. The below points are some ideas on how your club can celebrate the WAFC NAIDOC Indigenous Round in your communities   1.    Display the National NAIDOC Poster or other Indigenous posters around your clubrooms/  2.    Make your own Indigenous trivia quiz. 3.    Research the traditional Indigenous owners of your area. 4.    Work with an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander artist to produce an artwork representing the theme. 5.    Visit local Indigenous sites of significance or interest. 6.    Learn the meanings of local or national Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander place names and words. 7.    Invite local Indigenous Elders to speak or give a Welcome to Country at your club.  8.    Invite an Indigenous sportsperson or artist to visit you and be a guest speaker. 9.    Invite Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander dancers to perform. 10.    Host a community BBQ or luncheon. 11.    Hold a flag raising ceremony. 12.    Organise a smoking ceremony. 13.    Aboriginal Players to Toss the Coin.  14.    Aboriginal Players to Captain the Game 15.    Wear your aboriginal football Guernsey Read More ...

Swan Districts player Brayden Noble has accepted a two match sanction from the WAFL Match Review Panel after being cited for rough conduct on Jordan Bollineau (Peel Thunder) during the WAFL League game at Steel Blue Oval on Saturday, August 22. Based on the available evidence, the incident was assessed as careless conduct, high impact and high contact.  Under the table of penalties the offence was classified as Read More ...

Brett Claudius was passionate about using footy as a tool to share knowledge, spread awareness, and practice good health and wellbeing to the Indigenous people of the Kimberley. Brett worked tirelessly, to build strong relationships with remote communities that engaged and encouraged their people to better themselves every day. He got kids excited and moving, and gave them something to love in footy. In his memory, his nieces Holly and Zoe started the Brett Read More ...

A host of great individual and team performances characterised round six of the Simply Energy WAFL Colts competition. This round saw Swan Districts (10.12.72) defeating Peel Thunder (8.8.56); Subiaco (14.8.92) beating East Perth (10.7.67); Claremont (11.10.76) winning against Perth (4.12.36); and East Fremantle (12.6.78) overcoming West Perth (8.7.55). South Fremantle was the club that had the bye this weekend. Read below to see the results Read More ...

THE penultimate round in the 2020 Optus WAFL Women's Premiership Season saw the battle for a finals position heat up even further if that was possible with wins for Swan Districts, Claremont and East Fremantle. The only thing guaranteed coming into Round 6 of the 2020 WAFLW season was that Subiaco was guaranteed of a second straight minor premiership and new team on the block South Fremantle wouldn’t be able to find away to avoid the wooden spoon. The other four teams were in a battle over the remaining three positions in the top four with two rounds to go but to stay alive in the hunt, reigning premiers East Fremantle had to hand Subiaco its first loss of the season, and the Sharks managed to achieve that goal. Read More ...

IT was the most hotly contested round of the Optus WAFL Premiership Season so far with all games up for grabs during the fourth quarter but in the end Perth and West Perth went closer to securing a finals spot and Subiaco's hopes of a third straight premiership took a big hit. With South Fremantle sitting out the weekend's action with the bye having gone through the opening five rounds of the 2020 WAFL season undefeated and with far and away the best percentage, the other eight teams all did battle on Saturday with four fascinating contests. By the time the four matches were all over, the season had been broken wide open in ways many wouldn’t have predicted with West Perth and Perth greatly enhancing their finals prospects while Claremont was left as the team most vulnerable inside the top four. Read More ...

ROUND 6 in the 2020 Optus WAFL Women's Premiership Season marks the penultimate weekend of the home and away campaign with the race on in earnest to lock away a finals position. Coming into the final two rounds of the 2020 Optus WAFLW season, there remains a race on between four teams to lock away second, third and fourth positions on the ladder and a finals berth. That means that every game being played from now on will have a say in who ends up playing finals and that includes those involving a Subiaco team who has all but locked in a second straight minor premiership and South Fremantle who remain winless in their inaugural WAFLW season. Read More ...

WE could receive plenty of answers to how the 2020 Optus WAFL Premiership Season will pan out in Round 6 on Saturday with Subiaco attempting to apply pressure to the loser of Claremont's clash with Perth while one of Swan Districts and Peel Thunder will get their first wins. Round 6 of the 2020 WAFL season sees the league-leading undefeated South Fremantle sit out with the bye meaning there are chances for other teams inside the top four to cement their spots, but with two of them playing one another, the pressure will go on one of them. Plenty of the attention on Saturday afternoon during Round 6 will be on Claremont's contest with Perth at Claremont's Revo Fitness Stadium with the Tigers coming into the game at 4-1 while the Demons are 3-1. Read More ...

The West Australian Football Commission has released its Strategic Facilities Plan to guide football and sports industry facility development over the next 10 years. The WAFC Strategic Facilities Plan provides an integrated and strategic approach to the future planning and provision of football infrastructure across all metropolitan and country regions.  The plan is delivered in two parts and provides a 10-year road map for prioritising stakeholder investment into facility development projects to address the immediate and long term needs of football, government and community stakeholders. Read More ...

The West Australian Football Commission can confirm that AFL-listed players being released from their AFL contracts prior to the end of the season are not eligible to play in the WAFL competition in 2020 under WAFL Rules and Regulations.   The National Transfer Application Period (Rule 1.4.1) was extended in 2020 from June 30 to July 31 to provide eligible players with the opportunity to Read More ...