A focus on mental wellbeing at football clubs will see the 'Tackle Your Feelings' mental health training program rolled out across Western Australia this season. The 'Tackle Your Feelings' (TYF) program is being delivered to community football clubs and coaches across the country, with the support of the AFL Coaches’ Association (AFLCA), AFL Players’ Association (AFLPA) and the Zurich Foundation. The West Australian Football Commission is coordinating the delivery of the five-year program in Western Australia, which commences this week with WAFL club West Perth. WA TYF Ambassador and Fremantle AFLW captain Kara Antonio said that sharing the 'Tackle Your Feelings' message had close personal significance. Read More ...

Imagine riding your bike 420km in one day.  Not a relay, no stopping overnight, just 420km straight with two of your best mates.  That’s the challenge that Claremont teammates Ian Richardson and Declan Mounford tackled with their mate Liam Gribbon, all in the name of charity.  The trio set off from Perth and planned to finish Albany, seeing all money raised for the recent disastrous bushfires in Australia.  Read More ...

WAFL Clubs will ramp up their preperations for the 2020 Optus WAFL Season with a number of pre-season fixtures over the next month.  Each team will have official pre-season games on Saturday 21 March & Saturday 28 March, before Round 1 begins on Friday April 3. Read More ...

An Optus WAFL and WAFL Women’s double-header will be played at Hands Oval in Bunbury on Sunday, May 17. The fixture has been made possible thanks to a partnership between the WA Football Commission, Optus, the City of Bunbury, South West Football League, Swan Districts Football Club, the West Coast Eagles, and Peel Thunder. The WAFL game will be played between Swan Districts and West Coast and the WAFLW game between Swan Districts and Peel Thunder. Read More ...

The West Australian Football League’s independent arbitrator has today concluded that Perth Football Club player Cody Leggett is ineligible for transfer to East Fremantle Football Club and that he remains a contracted player at Perth Football Club for the 2020 season, following an arbitration hearing earlier this week. The basis of the decision was that the player's contract is valid and binding, and that the Read More ...

The Goldfields Football League supported by the City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder and Doubletree by Hilton has formed a unique partnership to cover the cost of registration for all Auskickers from Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Coolgardie and Kambalda. West Australian Football Commission Goldfields Regional Manager Gemma Harrison said this was an unprecedented event for the region. Read More ...

Fixtures have been finalised for the 2020 Optus WAFL Women’s Premiership season, with Round 1 to kick off on Saturday, May 2, featuring games at New Choice Homes Park (East Fremantle) and David Grays Arena (Mandurah).     The competition’s second season will see the five WAFLW teams play each other three times across 15-rounds, with a three-week Finals Series culminating in a televised Grand Read More ...

The West Australian Football Commission has established a new Women in Football Advisory Committee to guide and support the growth and development of female football in Western Australia. Women’s football is experiencing an exciting period of growth, driven by the success of the AFLW and WAFLW, and a greater focus on female talent and community pathways. The number of female participants has more than tripled over the last six years to 109,647 and women and girls now account for a third of participants in WA. Read More ...

WA Football Hall of Fame Inductee Ian Miller has been honoured with Life Membership of the Australian Football League after the 2020 Annual General Meeting in March. A solid half-back flanker who moved to centre-half-forward with Perth in 1972 and became the first player to win a Sandover Medal playing from that key position. After a lengthy clearance wrangle, he enjoyed a four-year stint (1974-77) Read More ...

Season 2020 is upon us as the AFLW begins its fourth season under lights at Ikon Park on Friday night.  Not only does February signal the start for the best female footballers around the country, but also the elite contingent of umpires that take the field for the first time this decade. Western Australia will again have strong representation amongst field, boundary and goal umpires Read More ...

    The 2020 Marsh Community Series tickets go on sale on Thursday the 30th January.  The Marsh series is pre-season competition played in Febuary/March. Western Australia will host three games across two weekends, with one of them a derby at HBF Arena Details below:   Eagles vs. Essendon Date Thursday, February 27 Oval Mineral Resources Park (Lathlain) Bouncedown 4:40pm  Tickets Tickets here Plan Read More ...

The Perth Football Club is pleased to announce the appointment of Russell Clark, a former Perth player as its new General Manager. Russell Clark (51) is an accomplished Chief Executive with extensive experience in operations, marketing and financial management in both sporting and business industries. Over the past ten years he has spent five years as the Chief Executive Officer of Peel Thunder Football Club Read More ...

Perth has been announced as the host city for the largest AFL Carnival event in Australia – the 2020 AFL Masters National Carnival from September 26 to October 4 this year.  It will be the first time since 2003 that Western Australia hosts the event, which is expected to attract more than 1200 male and female players representing more than 35 teams from across Australia.  Read More ...

From September 1 to November 1, the 2020 Early Registration Campaign was in full swing.  The first 400 children registered won either a ball or a double pass to the movies. For clubs, they had the chance to win $5,000 cash, an AFL game day experience valued at $2,000 or one of three $1,000 Burley Vouchers. The prizes were given to the top 5 performing clubs which was measured by the amount of re-registrations measured against club members, meaning smaller clubs weren’t disadvantaged. The top performing club this year was Rockingham Junior Football Club, who re-registered 43% of their members. President, Michael Holland, said the success was a credit to the work their registrar had put in, emailing parents weekly reminders to register their kids.  Read More ...

Get your calendars out! These are the 9 games you simply can’t miss during the 2020 Optus WAFL season.  Round 1:  Perth v West Coast Eagles, Mineral Resources Park: Friday April 3  The 2020 Optus WAFL season is set to start with a bang seeing a Friday night blockbuster open the season. The battle of Mineral Resources Park sees Perth & West Coast face off Read More ...