IT is the biggest day of any WAFL home and away season and there's every reason to suggest the WA Day Derby between West Perth and East Perth at Joondalup Arena will tell us plenty about the Falcons and Royals. Joondalup Arena will play host to the WA Day Derby for 2018 with bounce down set for 1.10pm with the game to be broadcast live on Channel 7. Not only should it be a tremendous contest to watch, but also one with plenty on the line for both teams with West Perth entering Round 9 in third position with a 4-3 record while East Perth is 4-3 as well but in fifth spot courtesy of an inferior percentage. Read More ...

SOMEONE with less strength of character could have easily walked away from football several times with the hurdles put in his way, but as George Hampson approaches his 100th game his quality and hard work is paying off and he couldn’t be more thankful for East Fremantle embracing him. Hampson was always a supremely talented young footballer playing in the 14s and 15s development squads at Claremont. But two knee reconstructions when he was 16 and 18 while at Scarborough soon had him rethinking whether sticking with the game was actually worth it. But it was coaching as a 19-year-old at Scarborough and taking the under-17s team to a Grand Final that reinvigorated his love for the game and by the time he arrived at Subiaco, he was about to embark on a dream first four years. Read More ...

WITH Swan Districts looking to consolidate their top five spot and potentially rise up further and Perth trying to stay in the finals race altogether, Saturday's contest between at Steel Blue Oval should be a good one. Swans return to Steel Blue Oval for the first time since beating East Fremantle in Round 5 to host Perth in Saturday's Round 9 contest which will be broadcast live on 7mate from 2.50pm. Swan Districts comes into the game following an impressive 13-point victory last Saturday against East Perth at Leederville Oval which was their first game in three weeks following the State game break and their own Round 8 WAFL bye. Read More ...

CLAREMONT and Peel Thunder come into their Round 9 WAFL clash both sitting two games and percentage outside the top five making it a potentially season-defining contest for both. The Tigers and both come into Saturday's Round 9 contest at Claremont Oval with 2-5 records to be in sixth and seventh positions respectively and are only separated by 4.03 percentage points so they could hardly be closer. With just two wins from seven games and with the top five teams all currently having at least four wins coming into Round 9, that only makes Saturday's clash at Claremont Oval all the more significant. Read More ...

WESTERN Australia commences its AFL and AFL Women’s State 18s National Championship campaign this long weekend, June 2-4.   WA’s Mundella AFL Women’s State 18s will host Queensland in a double header on Saturday, June 2 and Monday, June 4.   WA’s State 18s travel to Adelaide today for their first game of the AFL National Championships against South Australia on Sunday, June 3.   Read More ...

THE WA Day long weekend is regularly the biggest home and away round on the WAFL calendar and 2018 will be no different with two matches beginning proceedings on Saturday afternoon before the two traditional derbies on Monday. WA Day, previously Foundation Day, has long provided for some of the most remarkable contests and biggest crowds through history particularly with the Fremantle and Perth Derbies, and that tradition continues in 2018. The round gets underway starting on Saturday afternoon at Claremont Oval with Claremont playing host to Peel Thunder.  Read More ...

A new talent program to provide greater development opportunities for players and coaches in the South West region is being launched by the West Australian Football Commission in partnership with the South West Academy of Sport.   The program launch will be hosted at Leschenault sporting complex on Thursday, May 31 with the support of Harvey-Brunswick-Leschenault Junior Football Club. Training sessions will then take place on Tuesday nights at Capel Oval for the remainder of the 2018 season structured in line with the WAFL Colts and WA talent development program. Read More ...

This WA Day long-weekend we celebrate everything that makes our State great, including the spirit, culture and heritage of our great game. Four massive WA Football League clashes are set to take place over the long weekend and there are heaps of fun activities and competitions planned at every game with a range of great prizes up for grabs. Don't forget to cheer on the Movie Masters Little Leaguers who play at half-time Read More ...

Four massive WAFL clashes are set to take place over the WA Day long weekend with a range of fun activities and events planned for all fans at each game, as part of the WA Day celebrations. WA Day is about celebrating everything WA; the spirit, culture and heritage of our great state. The rich history of football in the WA community stretches back to 1885 and today it is the most popular sporting code in the state with more than 330,100 active participants. Read More ...

WA football champions Bernie Naylor and Mel Whinnen have been inducted into the Australian Football Hall Of Fame at a function hosted by the AFL on Tuesday night in Melbourne. Bernie Naylor was a champion player for South Fremantle. The fast leading full-forward kicked over 1000 goals in nine seasons of league football, and more than 100 goals in a season five times. Naylor’s football career began in 1941, but he missed the next four seasons when the competition was suspended due to World War II. He served as a signal man in Darwin and New Guinea, where he practised his goal kicking between palm trees. Read More ...

IT was the most competitive round of the 2018 WAFL season on Saturday and as a result there were comfortably 40 players who had genuine claims to be in the TABtouch Team of Round 8. It was a tremendous Saturday afternoon of action in the WAFL for Round 8 with East Fremantle and Claremont pulling off some significant upsets, Swan Districts securing their spot in the top five and Subiaco holding off a determined Perth. The action got underway at Leederville Oval with Swan Districts defeating East Perth 13.8 (86) to 11.7 (73). Read More ...

PERTH and Swan Districts both won their Round 8 WAFL Colts encounters on Saturday to move clear on top of the ladder with South Fremantle and Peel Thunder also victorious. The Round 8 WAFL colts action saw Swan Districts come from behind to beat East Perth impressively 11.5 (71) to 6.4 (40) at Leederville Oval. South Fremantle also finished strongly to defeat Claremont 8.6 (54) to 3.11 (29) at Fremantle Community Bank Oval while Peel Thunder downed East Fremantle 8.11 (59) to 5.9 (39) at East Fremantle Oval and Perth beat Subiaco 6.9 (45) to 5.9 (39) at Lathlain Park. Read More ...

GEORGE Hampson has been the barometer at East Fremantle since arriving from Subiaco in 2015 and on Saturday he just wasn’t going to let the Sharks' losing run continue as he put in a performance that made him a lock to be the M & J Chickens Player of Round 8. There were plenty of other standout performers too in some difficult conditions in Round 8 of the WAFL. Subiaco made it seven straight wins with Chris Phelan and captain Kyal Horsley outstanding. Read More ...

There will be no League cases heard at the WAFL Tribunal from Round 8 after all Match Review Panel offers were accepted. Nicholas Kommer, East Fremantle, accepted a $50 financial sanction for rough conduct on Ben Howlett, Peel Thunder, during the first quarter of the League match between East Fremantle and Peel Thunder on Saturday 26th May at East Fremantle Oval. Read More ...

Sixteen Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men aged 18 to 24 years will represent Western Australia in a curtain-raiser match to the Dreamtime at the G clash between Essendon and Richmond on Saturday night. The match is part of the 2018 AFL Rio Tinto Footy Means Business program which acts as a fantastic platform for young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men to showcase their talents on the footy field and develop leadership skills to become positive role models. Read More ...