EAST Fremantle is the first team into the WAFL Grand Final for 2023 after beating Peel Thunder on Saturday before Subiaco set up a preliminary final against them by overpowering Claremont on Sunday. It was semi-final weekend in the WAFL with the last four teams left in the competition for 2023 all in action after Claremont was able to eliminate East Perth in the elimination final Read More ...

MAKING sure their players are versatile has been a focus of Claremont with the Tigers hunting that elusive WAFL premiership in 2023 and nobody has embodied that more than Callan England who has produced the best season of his career. England might have started his WAFL league career at East Perth purely through the alignment with West Coast at the time, but he is a Read More ...

SUBIACO on-baller Liam Hickmott might like to let his football do the talking and it's doing plenty of that with the premiership winning midfielder making the WAFL Team of the Year for a second straight season as he prepares for Sunday's first semi-final. Hickmott, along with younger brother Wil, spent his teenage years growing up in Perth with their father, Adrian, moving West Coast to Read More ...

The West Australian Football Commission takes great pleasure in announcing and congratulating Darrell Panizza for being awarded Life Membership. The WAFC Life Membership award is WA Football’s highest honour and serves to recognise those individuals that have made an outstanding contribution to football. Panizza’s extraordinary contribution to football in WA extends not just to Perth but in Albany and the Great Southern, where he is Read More ...

BY Saturday evening one of East Fremantle or Peel Thunder will be the first team into the WAFL Grand Final for 2023 before Subiaco and Claremont fight to keep their seasons alive on Sunday. It's semi-final weekend in the WAFL with the four teams left in the competition for 2023 all in action starting with a Grand Final spot on the line in Saturday's second Read More ...

JACK Sears is still only 21 years of age but already has racked up 59 games with Peel Thunder and his ability to play a variety of roles has made him invaluable, but it was a match winning performance up forward on Saturday that is going to be tough to top. Sears made his league debut with the Thunder back in 2020 when he was Read More ...

EAST Fremantle captain Matthew Jupp is confident his team won't let any distractions interrupt his team's quest to win a first premiership since 1998 with the chance to book in a Grand Final spot on Saturday afternoon. The Sharks earned the week off to start the WAFL finals series by claiming a first minor premiership since 1998 by finishing the 2023 home and away season Read More ...

The WA Football Commission is excited to confirm the appointment of Marc Webb as the new U18s State Coach.    The former Fremantle and Western Bulldogs assistant coach returns for his second stint in charge of the program. Webb coached the State 18s previously in 2021, leading the team to three wins against South Australia, including in the curtain raiser on AFL Grand Final day at Read More ...

  The AFL has today released the names of 8 WA players invited to attend the 2023 AFLW Draft Combine.   The 2023 AFLW Draft Combine will showcase the country’s most talented draft-age female footballers and will again be held across multiple locations across Australia throughout September and October. Coaching Specialist – Talent Pathways at the West Australian Football Commission, Trent Cooper, believes the Read More ...

THE WAFL Team of the Year for 2023 has been announced with players from nine clubs represented and it ranges from a West Perth great being named for a ninth time, a Claremont champion for an eighth and then eight players making it for the first time. It's a varied mix in the WAFL Team of the Year for 2023 with eight players making the Read More ...

Grant Dorrington OAM, BEM had a playing and coaching career spanning 15 years with East Perth, which saw him awarded Life Membership at the club in 1990. In 1985 Dorrington coached the WA State 18s team to victory in the National Championships and was named the All-Australian coach. His success continued, being named the inaugural recipient of the JJ Leonard Award for WA Coach of the Read More ...

REGARDED as a pioneer of Australian Rules Football for females, Jan Cooper OAM will become the first woman to be inducted into the West Australian Football Hall of Fame this month. Unable to play football growing up because competitions for females didn’t exist, Cooper eventually turned her attention to working in administration. Cooper was appointed Female Football Development Manager at the WA Football Commission. As Read More ...

THE WAFL finals began with a bang this weekend at Leederville Oval with two terrific contests which ultimately saw Claremont end the season of East Perth and Peel Thunder beat Subiaco to move to within one win of a Grand Final berth. Leederville Oval became the home of the WAFL universe on the weekend with both co-tenants Subiaco and East Perth earning the rights to Read More ...

AT three quarter-time last week East Perth looked on track to book in a home qualifying final and while the Royals are still at Leederville Oval this Sunday, it's hosting Claremont in an elimination final with Stan Wright just one of a host of teammates playing finals for the first time. East Perth is playing its first WAFL finals series since 2018 and while finishing Read More ...

DESPITE finishing in fifth position, there's no shortage of self-belief at Claremont that the elusive first premiership in 11 years is possible and with somebody like Bailey Rogers back in Sandover Medal winning form, you wouldn’t write them off. For 14 of the 20 weeks during the home and away season, Claremont sat inside a top three position which would have guaranteed the Tigers a Read More ...