The WA Football community's deepest sympathies are with the family and friends of Garry Sidebottom following the news of his passing aged 64 after a battle with cancer. Sidebottom represented WA 15 times in State of Origin matches and was inducted into the WA Football Hall of Fame in 2011.  The powerful ruckman played 114 games with Swan Districts before playing 104 games in the VFL with St Kilda, Geelong and Fitzroy. Read More ...

The AFL advises the 2019 AFL Rio Tinto Footy Means Business program will be held in Perth from April 1-6. Currently in its ninth year, the 2019 AFL Rio Tinto Footy Means Business program brings together a squad of 50 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men, aged 18 to 24 years, from across the country to participate in the six-day camp. Read More ...

CLAREMONT took significant steps forward in 2018 and are expected to be right around the mark by many in the 2019 WAFL season with coach Darren Harris feeling comfortable with how their preparation and player retention has gone. Claremont finished the home and away season in fourth position last year to earn a home elimination final, which they went on to win against East Perth at Claremont Oval before having their season ended a week later in the first semi-final against West Perth. But to reach the second week of the finals showed significant growth for the Tigers under Harris and now the highly-regarded, successful and experienced coach is looking for some further steps forward in 2019. Read More ...

Fixtures have been finalised for the 2019 Optus WAFL Women’s Premiership season, with Round 1 to kick off on Sunday, May 5, featuring games at New Choice Homes Park, East Fremantle, and Steel Blue Oval, Bassendean.   The competition’s inaugural 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 Final as a double-header with the WAFL Preliminary Final on the 7 Network. Read More ...

The Optus WAFL pre-season kicked off on Saturday with five games taking place ahead of Round one on April 6.  The West Coast, West Perth, Claremont, Peel and Subiaco all recorded strong victories.  See scores below: WAFL LEAGUE PRESEASON RESULTS West Perth Football Club 14.9 93 d East Fremantle Football Club 5.6 36 Claremont Tigers 13.8 86 d Perth Football Club 9.10 64 Peel Thunder 11.12 78 d South Fremantle Football Club 5.8 38 West Coast Read More ...

The 2019 Nicky Winmar Carnival and Kirby Bentley Cup for Aboriginal boys and girls aged 13 to 17 will be held together for the first time at David Gray's Arena in Mandurah this Saturday, March 23. The Nicky Winmar Carnival for boys, which is in its 13th year, has been a great success engaging and showcasing talented Aboriginal football players, who travel from across Western Australia to participate. Read More ...

PEEL Thunder narrowly missed the finals in 2018 denying them the chance at a WAFL premiership hat-trick but coach Cam Shepherd is buoyant over their prospects in 2019. The Thunder won the premierships of 2016 and 2017 to create history and then had the chance to make even more in 2018. But Peel narrowly missed out on qualifying for the finals and Shepherd subsequently had an extra month of planning for the off-season than the previous years. The result has been the retention of much of Peel's solid core of Thunder players with them topped up by the recruitment of former Essendon AFL midfielder Jackson Merrett. Read More ...

A plethora of WA Umpires will take to the field this weekend for AFL & AFLW fixtures.  WA Umpires Dan Johanson (field), Jordan Russell (boundary) and Tiana Fry (goal) have all been appointed to the AFLW Preliminary Final between Adelaide and Geelong in Adelaide on Sunday.  Read More ...

This year’s State Carnival is in Townsville commencing 29th September to 5th October and the AFLMWA Board is calling for nominations for state coaches for the male and female teams travelling to Townsville. Read More ...

Western Australia is set for an exciting 2019 Season after a very successful inaugural Talent Testing and Education Day. Held at Aquinas College, approximately 400 players from across the nine WAFL clubs competed in athletic testing, including the vertical jump, running vertical jump, agility test, 20m sprint and the yo-yo test. Read More ...

St Kilda Football Club has added Jonathon Marsh to its playing list as part of the Supplemental Selection Period. The decision to enlist the 23-year-old defender came after the club opted to place draftee Jack Bytel on the long-term injury list as he recovers from back surgery.  Read More ...

There was plenty of highlights during the 2019 WA Football Hall of Fame with South Fremantle icon Stephen Michael being elevated to "legend" status in front of 300 guests at Frasers Restaurant.  Chris Judd, Dean Cox, John Loughride, JJ "Boss" Simons, Warren Ralph and Darren Glass were all inducted into the Hall of Fame on Tuesday night.  Check out some of the best moments below:  Read More ...

South Fremantle icon Stephen Michael was celebrated last night after being elevated to “legend” status in the WA Football Hall of Fame at Fraser's Restaurant.  The dual Sandover Medallist became just the 18th member of the illustrious cohort, joining the likes of Barry Cable, Polly Farmer and Graham Moss as WA Football immortals.  Read More ...

WITH East Fremantle looking for someone to lead them back to success and Bill Monaghan on the lookout for a new start, the two forces joined forces in the off-season and now the Sharks are looking to rise up the ladder in 2019 as a result. It has been lean pickings in recent years for East Fremantle with the Sharks narrowly avoiding the wooden spoon in 2017 but not being so lucky last year. They won just two games on the way to a last place finish leading to the resignation of coach Rob Wiley. It was time for a fresh outlook and voice for East Fremantle and when Monaghan came on the market having decided not to seek reappointment with West Perth, then he appeared the perfect man for the job. Read More ...

Six of Western Australia’s football greats will be inducted to the West Australian Football Hall of Fame at Fraser’s Reception Centre, Kings Park on Tuesday, March 12. One Hall of Fame member will also be elevated to ‘Legend’ status on the night, becoming the 18th Legend along with Haydn Bunton Snr, Haydn Bunton Jnr, Barry Cable, George Doig, Graham ‘Polly’ Farmer, Stan ‘Pops’ Heal, John Lenoard, Denis Marshall, Phil Matson, Merv McIntosh, Steve Marsh, George Moloney, Graham Moss, Jack Sheedy, John Todd, WJ ‘Nipper’ Truscott and Bill Walker.      Read More ...