East Perth Football Club has appointed former East Perth Captain and current West Coast Eagles development coach Luke Webster as League Coach for the 2017 season. Webster will replace 2016 League Coach Jaymie Graham, who has taken a senior coaching role at the Eagles. Webster played 107 games for the Royals between 2000 and 2010 including the 2001 Premiership. Read More ...

WAFL Field Umpire Nathan Williamson has been added to the AFL Umpire Panel following an outstanding 2016 season. Williamson, 22, won the WA National Football League Umpire Association’s (WANFLUA) Montgomery Medal as the best WAFL field umpire in 2016 and officiated in his first League Grand Final last month. He has spent that past two years as an AFL Rookie and umpired 78 WAFL League games after progressing from the Peel Football League, where he commenced umpiring juniors at age 12. He said that receiving a phone call from AFL National Development Manager of Umpiring Adam Davis informing him that he’d been added to the AFL’s Umpire Panel was a dream come true. Read More ...

MATT Riggio and Adam Faulkner were two outstanding performers in a difficult year for Swan Districts with the former taking out a second straight Swan Medal while the black-and-whites continue to make significant signings to improve quickly in 2017. Swan Districts' season might have been disappointing with just the two victories and a wooden spoon finish, but the performances of Riggio and Faulkner right throughout the year were a highlight. Therefore it was no surprise to see the pair finish up going neck and neck in the Swan Medal voting to determine the club's fairest and best winner for 2016. Read More ...

A total of 23 West Australian players were selected in the inaugural AFL Women’s Draft held on Wednesday, October 12 in Melbourne. They included Hayley Miller, pictured, at number four to Fremantle Football Club and another three West Australians in the Top 20. This was in addition to the eight West Australians selected as marquee players in July, five WA players recruited as priority signings last month and the signing of free agent Tarnica Golisano following today’s Draft, taking the total number of WA players listed in the AFL women’s competition to 37. WAFC Female Talent Manager Alison Moore congratulated all of the players selected and said it was a terrific outcome for women's football in Western Australia. “We are really proud of all of the players selected today. They are highly deserving of this exciting opportunity as a reward for all of their hard work and commitment,” she said. Read More ...

A total 145 female players will be drafted by the eight AFL Women's teams in the NAB AFL Women's Draft to be held in Melbourne, Wednesday October 12. Depending on their number of pre-signed players, each team will select between 15 and 19 players over the course of the Draft which will take place from 10am - 1pm (WST). Click here for live stream.  The first round will proceed as follows: Read More ...

Over the past two weeks over 1500 players from 50 teams participated in the annual WAFL Talent Carnival for Year 8, 9 and 10s. The carnival is conducted each year between the nine WAFL Clubs and the South West Academy of Sport. Teams in the Year 8 and Year 9 formats were run with two squads with the Year 10 group having one squad only. Games were played right across the metropolitan area with fixtures also scheduled in the South West. Read More ...

The AFL Grand Final is by far the biggest, most exciting event on the Australian Football Rules calendar. It’s a day where the country’s footy family comes together to witness the very best players of the competition battle it out for the Premiership Cup.   Thirteen-year-old West Perth junior umpire Jamie Wedgwood got the chance to experience the major clash in the flesh after he was awarded the 2016 WA Rookie Umpire of the Year award for his outstanding efforts and commitment to the sport.   “I never thought I would ever be involved in something so cool,” Wedgwood said. Read More ...

WA players impressed at the NAB AFL National Draft Combine in Melbourne from October 6 to 9, ranking in the top 10 for numerous skill, agility and endurance tests. Swan Districts player Griffin Logue featured prominently across the four days, finishing equal first in the beep test and running vertical jump (right foot), fourth in the standing vertical jump, fifth in the 3km time trial and seventh in the repeat sprint. East Perth's Sam Powell-Pepper showcased his talent as the only player to score a perfect 30 out of 30 in the goalkicking test, while also coming third in the agility test, sixth in the beep test and scoring 27 out of 30 in the clean hands test. Read More ...

EAST Fremantle's first WAFL season under new coach Rob Wiley didn’t go to plan but Liam Anthony couldn’t have done more to try and get the Sharks back into the finals and was rewarded with the Lynn Medal on Friday night. Anthony took out East Fremantle's fairest and best award in a thrilling vote count with him claiming the Lynn Medal by receiving six votes in the final round to overtake the leader George Hampson who was absent due to a hamstring injury. Hampson's absence didn’t help East Fremantle's cause in attempting to beat East Perth but it was good news for Anthony who picked up 34 possessions in the game. That was enough for him to cap off a strong and consistent season with the Sharks to win his first Lynn Medal. Read More ...

CHRIS Phelan continued to build his reputation as an all-time great of the Subiaco Football Club adding a second fairest and best award to his collection by winning the Outridge Medal for 2016 on Friday night. Phelan became the first man since Dwayne Lamb in 1984-5 to claim back-to-back Outridge Medal awards when he was named Subiaco's fairest and best winner for a 2016 that saw the Lions make another WAFL Grand Final. Subiaco came into 2016 having won the last two WAFL premierships and the Lions were the standout team throughout the season again finishing as minor premiers. Read More ...

JYE Bolton's remarkable first season in the WAFL with Claremont has concluded with the star midfielder claiming the Tigers' fairest and best award to add to the Sandover and Simpson Medals he already received in 2016. Bolton claimed the EB Cook Medal as Claremont's fairest and best player for 2016 to cap an outstanding first season in the WAFL having crossed from Werribee in the VFL. But he wasn’t the only reason for Claremont to celebrate the season at the awards night on Friday with the Tigers' reserves and colts having both won premierships in 2016 with each team defeating East Perth in the Grand Finals at Domain Stadium almost a fortnight ago. Read More ...

SOUTH Fremantle recruit Shane Hockey capped a stunning first WAFL season with the Bulldogs by claiming the WJ Hughes Medal on Friday night just ahead of Marlion Pickett and Steve Verrier. South Fremantle's league, reserves and colts teams all played in the WAFL finals in 2016 leading the Bulldogs to claiming the Rodriguez Shield as the strongest performing club in the competition. That outstanding all-round season was celebrated on Friday night at Fremantle Community Bank Oval in the Griff John Function Centre with the presentation of the fairest and best awards for all three grades. Read More ...

The West Australian Football Commission has continued its commitment to ensuring WA’s talent pathway aspires to the highest possible standards with the appointment of former AFL Assistant Coaches Peter Sumich and Tony Micale to new roles with the Deppro WA State Academy. Sumich has been appointed as Coach Coordinator State 18s and Micale as Coach Coordinator State 16s. These new roles will include coaching WA’s respective sides at the NAB AFL National Championships, as well as the WAFL coaches linked to each age group. West Australian Football Commission Executive Manager Football Operations Jon Haines congratulated Sumich and Micale on their appointments and said both would offer a wealth of experience, knowledge and expertise to talent development in WA. Read More ...

Twelve players from Western Australia will put their bodies to the ultimate test when they take part in the four-day long 2016 NAB AFL Draft Combine this week. The 2016 NAB AFL Draft Combine will be conducted at Etihad Stadium in Melbourne from Thursday October 6 to Sunday October 9. The WA players among the 80 players invited after being nominated by at least five AFL clubs Read More ...

RECRUITING from interstate can be somewhat of a lottery for WAFL clubs but West Perth struck gold with Rohan Kerr who has delivered a tremendous consistent four years as a highly-skilled, prolific ball winning star. Kerr was drafted to Carlton from the Dandenong Stingrays in 2009 and spent three years at the Blues without breaking through for an AFL debut but when he was delisted it was a fresh start he was after. But even he couldn’t imagine that upon moving to Western Australia and join West Perth that by the time a new job meant playing WAFL football would become impossible four years later that he would be calling Perth home for the foreseeable future. Read More ...