As the 2016 Junior Football season comes to a close, three of the state’s top Year 12 teams will play off to win the West Australian Football Commission (WAFC) State Championship title.  The Year 12 Premiership team from each of the Northern, Central and Fremantle Conferences have been invited to participate in the third annual WAFC State Championships to be held at ATOM on Saturday, September 24. Read More ...

West Perth district volunteer Dave Burton has been recognised for his significant contribution to the development of women’s and junior football after he was awarded The Sunday Times WA Football Volunteer of the Year at the WAFL Sandover Medal Count on Monday, September 19. Burton was one of 17 regional and district finalists chosen from more than 1500 nominees and has received a trip for two to the AFL Grand Final. Read More ...

CLAREMONT'S Jye Bolton has capped a remarkable first WAFL season with the Tigers on-baller adding the Sandover Medal to his Simpson Medal in a vote count that featured all the expected favourites on Monday night. The Sandover Medal count for 2016 was held at Perth Convention Exhibition Centre and while Peel Thunder's Matt de Boer, Perth's Clint Jones, East Fremantle's Liam Anthony, West Perth's Shane Nelson and Subiaco's Chris Phelan all went close, it was Bolton who took out the award. It was a thrilling vote count with Ashton Hams racing out to an early lead with 25 votes after 10 rounds despite being ineligible. He was runner-up to Perth's Aidan Tropiano last year but he didn’t add to his 25 votes the rest of the count. Read More ...

PROLIFIC ball winners Clint Jones and Jye Bolton might appear warm favourites heading into the 2016 Sandover Medal count but that doesn't mean players from Subiaco, Peel Thunder and West Perth in particular don't have a real chance. West Australian football's most prestigious individual award will be presented at Perth Convention Exhibition Centre this Monday night with a live broadcast of the count live on 91.3 SportFM. While Perth's Jones and Claremont's Bolton had remarkable seasons leading their teams in the midfield during 2016 to head into the count as deserved favourites, by no means are one of them guaranteed of winning. Read More ...

PEEL Thunder has won its way through to the 2016 WAFL Grand Final booking in a meeting with Subiaco after a 39-point preliminary final win over South Fremantle at Fremantle Community Bank Oval on Sunday. Peel was coming off the first two finals victories in the club's history over East Perth by 49 points and West Perth by 60, but South Fremantle had finished second spot on the ladder and had also beaten West Perth by 52 points before a second semi-final loss last week to Subiaco. It was Peel who made the fast start with three goals inside the first 11 minutes of the game. When the Thunder then kicked five goals to nil in the second quarter and the first two goals of the third, the contest was all but over. Read More ...

  Kids aged 15 years and under will receive free entry to the 2016 WAFL McDonald’s Grand Final on Sunday, September 25 at Domain Stadium. Admission prices have also been retained from 2015 for Adults, Concession, WAFL Club members, Fremantle Dockers and West Coast Eagles members.   The McDonald’s WAFL Grand Final between Subiaco and Peel Thunder will be played at 2.30pm on Sunday, after the Reserves Grand Final between East Perth and Claremont (11.20am) and Redimed Colts Grand Final between Claremont and East Perth at 8.40am. Tickets entitle fans access to all three Grand Finals. Read More ...

THE 2016 AHG WAFL Finals Series goes into overdrive at Fremantle Community Bank Oval on Sunday with South Fremantle and Peel Thunder doing battle for the right to take on Subiaco in the Grand Final. Fremantle Community Bank Oval will play host to the WAFL preliminary final for 2016 with South Fremantle taking on Peel Thunder with bounce down set for 2.40pm and a spot in the Grand Final next Sunday against Subiaco at Domain Stadium on the line. The league contest won't be the only one at Fremantle Community Bank Oval on Sunday though. The day begins at 9am with the colts preliminary final between Perth and East Perth with the winner to take on Claremont in next week's Grand Final. Then in the reserves preliminary final, Claremont takes on East Fremantle for the right to face East Perth in the Grand Final. Read More ...

GERALD Ugle has already made history in his first season as captain at Peel Thunder ahead of Sunday's preliminary final and as much as the Fremantle-listed players are receiving attention, he couldn’t be more proud of their locals. Ugle made the decision to join Peel in 2015 after one season back in the WAFL with his original club Perth after time in the AFL with the GWS Giants. Almost two full years later it's a move that could hardly have worked out better. After an outstanding individual season in 2015 that saw Peel make finals for the first time ever before losing the qualifying final to West Perth and first semi-final to East Perth, Ugle was named captain for 2016 despite only turning 23 during the year. Read More ...

JOSH Pullman is a rare breed of Bulldog in 2016 who has already experienced a WAFL Grand Final and the forward turned defender is hoping to get another crack at that elusive premiership by helping South Fremantle to a win in Sunday's preliminary final against Peel Thunder. Pullman is just one of three South Fremantle players who will play in Sunday's preliminary final against Peel Thunder at Fremantle Community Bank Oval who has previously experienced a WAFL Grand Final before. That was back in 2008 when Pullman graduated from being a colts premiership captain at Swan Districts to cementing a spot at centre half-forward in the league side at Swans who made it all the way to the Grand Final before losing to Subiaco. Read More ...

THE West Australian Football League will honour the 2016 McDonald’s WAFL Premiership Season’s fairest and best player when the Sandover Medal is presented in the Bellevue Ballroom at Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre (PCEC) on Monday night, September 19. The Sandover Medal, which has been awarded each season since 1921, will be presented by Ian Sandover, great grandson of the original donor of the medal, Mr Alfred Sandover. The vote count will take place from 7pm to approximately 10pm. The count will broadcast live by Sport FM 91.3fm and updates posted on WAFL social media accounts. Twitter: @WAFLOfficial Instagram: @WAFLOfficial Facebook: WAFL #Sandover16 Read More ...

Check out the WA Football stall at this year’s IGA Perth Royal Show for everything football, including AFL giveaways, footy skill activities, competitions, and live TV streaming of the WAFL and AFL Grand Final. Located only a short walk from the main entry at Gate 1, make your way down the Yellow Brick Road to the WA Football hub and don’t forget to enter your details for a chance to win a signed guernsey by AFL superstars Nic Naitanui or Nat Fyfe. Read More ...

The AHG WAFL Preliminary Final clash between South Fremantle and Peel Thunder takes place at Fremantle Community Bank Oval this Sunday at 2.40pm. With a spot in the WAFL Grand Final on the line, each team will give it their all in what is expected to be a thrilling contest at Fremantle. Read More ...

RORY O'Brien could only dream of finals during his first 92 games with Peel Thunder and hope for them upon his return in 2016, but ahead of Sunday's preliminary final he is pinching himself over how his return to his original club has panned out. O'Brien grew up in Mandurah wanting to play with Peel Thunder and got his wish making a league debut in 2005 going on to play 92 games either side of a stint in the SANFL with North Adelaide in 2008. He won two fairest and best awards with the Thunder but there was nothing resembling team success on the horizon when he decided to leave for East Fremantle in 2011. Read More ...

SUBIACO veteran Wayde Twomey is now a 150-game WAFL player and isn’t sure what 2017 holds for him just yet aside from getting married, but what is on his mind is becoming part of history part of a hat-trick of premierships with the Lions. Twomey was again a key contributor in Subiaco's second semi-final win over South Fremantle at Medibank Stadium on Sunday that puts the Lions into a third straight grand final, and a 10th in the past 14 WAFL seasons. That is a remarkable record and the Lions already have one premiership hat-trick to their credit this century between 2006 and 2008. They are one win away from another if they can win next Sunday's Grand Final against either South Fremantle or Peel Thunder at Domain Stadium. Read More ...

South Fremantle player Josh Pullman and Peel Thunder player Rory O’Brien fronted the media at Fremantle Community Bank Oval on Thursday, September 15 ahead of the Preliminary Final clash on Sunday, September 18. Hear from both players in the video below.  #WAFLFinals16 #WeAreFinals Read More ...