THINGS really tightened up in the inaugural WAFL Women's Optus Premiership Season on Saturday with Claremont and Swan Districts winning impressively to join Subiaco and East Fremantle on two victories so far in 2019. Both Round 4 matches in the 2019 Optus WAFLW Premiership Season took place on Saturday for the first time this campaign with each match playing as the lead-in to the WAFL contest at the corresponding venue. That saw the action begin on Saturday morning at Claremont Oval and it was Claremont recording its second win of the season, and handing Subiaco its first defeat, with the Tigers prevailing 5.1 (31) to 3.6 (24). Read More ...

SOUTH Fremantle and West Perth both won on Saturday in Round 7 of the WAFL thanks to kicking the last goal of the game to take the lead while Subiaco bounced back, East Fremantle made it consecutive wins and Swan Districts returned to the winner's list. It was a full day of fascinating WAFL action on Saturday afternoon in Round 7 of the 2019 Optus Premiership Season. South Fremantle was coming off the high of beating Subiaco but it took until the last kick of the game to big man Zac Strom for them to get on top of East Perth, with the Bulldogs winning 15.13 (103) to 16.6 (102) at Fremantle Community Bank Oval. Read More ...

BOTH matches in Round 4 of the Optus WAFL Women's Premiership Season takes place on Saturday this weekend and with East Fremantle having the bye, it's a chance for the other four teams to make a statement. East Fremantle has the bye in Round 4 of the WAFLW competition on the back of winning two of their first three matches of the season following their premiership triumph at league level in last year's WA Women's Football League. The two WAFLW Round 4 matches will then take place on Saturday this weekend with both matches played as curtain-raisers to the WAFL action later that day. Read More ...

ROUND 7 of the 2019 Optus WAFL Premiership Season sees all five matches take place on Saturday afternoon with Subiaco trying to respond to a loss for the first time in over two years while South Fremantle tries to keep winning and East Fremantle attempts to make it consecutive wins. There are five matches in Round 7 of the WAFL and all have plenty of reasons to be fascinated by in a full round of Saturday fixtures ahead of the WA Day long weekend. Four of the five matches on Saturday all begin at 2.15pm with Swan Districts and the West Coast Eagles battling at Steel Blue Oval in a contest between two teams desperate for a win. Read More ...

The West Australian Football Commission encourages clubs to be creative with Night Football and create a fun atmosphere for families and participants. This includes having music playing, family activations, canteen specials that all enhance the experience and create a fun, positive and welcoming game environment. Read More ...

Round Four of the Optus WAFLW Season sees Peel Thunder travel to Steel Blue Oval to take on Swan Districts in a bumper clash on Saturday.  Peel are still chasing their first win for season 2019, while Swans remain 1-1 heading into the fixture. Catch all the action below on the Live Stream.  Read More ...

HER attitude to having both knees reconstructed robbing her of playing in AFLW with the Fremantle Dockers was so inspirational that Emily Bonser has no doubt she's now a better person and footballer ahead of her debut with Claremont this Saturday in WAFLW. Bonser's life couldn’t have been going any better at the start of 2016. She was drafted to Fremantle and was about to make her AFLW debut while her studies to being a physical education teacher were going well, as was her work as a personal trainer. So to say the news that she would require a reconstruction to both knees and that her right and left anterior cruciate ligaments had ruptured hit her like a ton of bricks. Read More ...

For the first time in 26 years, the AFL will be conducting a mid-season AFL Draft. The draft will occur after round 10 of the AFL season (Round 7 of the WAFL competition). In the past the WAFL has proven to be an excellent hunting ground for AFL recruiters with the likes of Nathan Broad, Tim Kelly, Matthew Parker and Liam Ryan all being drafted onto an AFL list after playing for their WAFL club. Below are each of the WAFL clubs’ best prospects for the mid-season AFL Draft. Read More ...

Round Seven of the WAFL starts this Saturday with five bumper fixtures on show around Perth.  Check out the best of the action & find out what is available for the kids. Read More ...

ROUND 6 in the Simply Energy Colts competition saw wins for Claremont, Swan Districts, Subiaco and West Perth on Saturday morning. The 2019 season resumed on Saturday following the week's break and produced some fascinating results and some young talent continuing to shine at the same time. All four games took place on Saturday morning starting at Claremont Oval with Claremont defeating Peel Thunder 10.8 (68) to 8.8 (56). Read More ...

IT was quite the exciting Round 6 of the WAFL on return from the State Game break with Subiaco and Perth's winning runs coming to an end, South Fremantle making a statement and East Fremantle winning for the first time in nearly 12 months. On top of the fascinating results that saw Subiaco lose for the first time since the 2017 Grand Final and Perth for the first time in 2019 while East Fremantle snapped a 15-game losing run, there were plenty of standout individual performances too. Whether it was South Fremantle defenders Noah Strom and Jason Maskos or Claremont's Anton Hamp, or Subiaco's Kyal Horsley in a losing effort, Claremont's dual Sandover Medallist Jye Bolton, East Fremantle's Nick Kommer putting his team on his back or Shane Nelson doing the same for West Perth, there were plenty of brilliant performances across Round 6. Read More ...

Emmett Brickland, from Western Australia’s Claremont District NAB AFL Auskick Centre, became the envy of all Auskickers  when he was announced as the eighth weekly nominee for the 2019 NAB AFL Auskicker of the Year competition. The NAB AFL Auskicker of the Year competition calls for 2019 registered and truly awesome participants of the NAB AFL Auskick program to enter for the chance to become one of 22 weekly nominees. Weekly nominees are announced during the Seven Network’s Friday night match broadcast, with Emmett being announced during the Round Eight 2019 Toyota AFL Premiership Season match between Sydney Swans and Essendon. Read More ...

Football participants across Western Australia are urged to nominate volunteers for the 2019 WA Football Volunteer of the Year Awards.   Nominations for the 2019 awards open today, Monday, May 20 to coincide with the beginning of National Volunteer Week and recognise the hard work and commitment of WA’s football volunteers. Read More ...

IT was Round 3 in the 2019 Optus WAFL Women's Premiership Season on Sunday with East Fremantle stamping its authority with a big win over Swan Districts while Claremont won a thriller over Peel Thunder. With Subiaco sitting out with the bye in Round 3 of the WAFLW season having won its opening two matches against Swan Districts and East Fremantle, it was a chance for the other four teams to make an early statement in the competition. Both matches took place on Sunday afternoon with Claremont and Peel Thunder playing out the thriller at Claremont Oval. In the end, the Tigers just managed to prevail 5.5 (35) to 5.2 (32) over the Thunder on home soil. It wasn’t quite as close at East Fremantle's New Choice Homes Park with last year's WA Women's Football League premiers, East Fremantle, proving too strong for Swan Districts winning 10.8 (68) to 1.1 (7). Read More ...

IT was a remarkable day of Round 6 WAFL action on Saturday with East Fremantle snapping its 15-game losing run, South Fremantle ending Subiaco's winning streak, West Perth finishing Perth's undefeated start and a win for Claremont on the back of East Perth's Thursday victory. Round 6 of the WAFL began on Thursday night with the league recommencing following the general bye for the 2019 KIA State Game, which saw the WAFL narrowly lose to the SANFL in a tremendous contest last Sunday at Optus Stadium. Thursday night's contest took place at Leederville Oval featuring the first clash between East Perth and West Coast following the partnership between the Royals and Eagles coming to an end following last season. Read More ...