Eight of the West Australian Football League's top players will be tested at the AFL National Draft Combine in Melbourne, starting today and concluding on Sunday, October 11. The players will undertake testing and interviews including fitness assessments, psychomotor testing, medical screening and skills tests. To attend the NAB AFL National Draft Combine, players must be nominated by at least five AFL clubs. Another 23 WAFL players will then be tested at the WA State Combine on Saturday, October 17 at HBF Arena, Joondalup. State Draft Combines will also be held in Melbourne and Adelaide for players nominated by up to four AFL clubs. Approximately 20% of AFL draftees over the last three years have come from the WAFL, which has one of the highest draft rates per-capita with a 10-year average of 14.27 AFL draftees per 1000 participants (2004-14) – above the industry average of 11.16. Read More ...

MATT Riggio pipped Ryan Davis to claim the Swan Medal as Swan Districts' fairest and best award on Friday night after career-best seasons from the 2010 premiership pair. Over 220 people attended the Swan Medal night for 2015 and past winners of the fairest and best were on hand including Adam Lange, Craig Callaghan and Garth Taylor to witness Riggio take home the award for the first time after 119 matches with the black-and-whites. Riggio and Davis played in the 2010 premiership for Swan Districts having both previously played in the AFL with North Melbourne and West Coast respectively, and now as veterans they were outstanding midfielders in 2015 and fought out the Swan Medal. Read More ...

SAM Menegola has experienced plenty of down times early in his football career but the second half of 2015 at Subiaco saw everything come together remarkably culminating in a premiership alongside one of his ex-East Fremantle teammates Scott Hancock. Menegola has always been a player with enormous talent and versatility to play virtually any position on the ground which is why he's spent four years on AFL lists with Hawthorn and Fremantle respectively. However, injuries meant he never got to see through a full season or settle into one position on the ground with him unable to break through for an AFL debut at either club before being delisted by Fremantle at the end of 2014. Read More ...

SHANE Yarran took another step towards a potential AFL future with a starring performance in Subiaco's second consecutive WAFL premiership while for Kyle Halligan, he was just glad to be part of it after missing out 12 months prior. Yarran has now played two seasons of WAFL football with the Lions and has two premiership medallions to show for it along with having represented Western Australia and winning this year's Bernie Naylor Medal as the league's leading goal kicker. Following an exciting first season in the WAFL in 2014 where he kicked 39 goals in 20 matches to help Subiaco to the premiership, Yarran took it to another level in 2015 and it all began by playing for the Indigenous All Stars in an AFL pre-season hit out against the West Coast Eagles. Read More ...

Over the next two weeks over 1200 players from 39 teams will participate in the annual WAFL 14’s/15’s Carnival. The carnival is conducted each year between the nine WAFL Clubs and the South West Academy of Sport. Both the 14s and 15s carnivals run in two divisions, with players participating according to birth-date. Read More ...

It's not everyday a footy fan walks away from a game with a brand new car. But for Subiaco supporter Penelope Riley that's exactly what happened when she was picked out of the fans who pre-purchased tickets to the WAFL Grand Final to win a car thanks to AHG. Read More ...

West Australian Jan Cooper was named the 2015 Football Woman of the Year at the Liptember Grand Final Comedy Debate at Crown Palladium in Melbourne on Thursday.   Cooper is the AFL’s National Manager of Female Football (WA) and has been synonymous with female football development across the nation. Prior to working with the AFL she was the WA Football Commission's Manager of Female Football. Read More ...

The 2015 reiwa.com Goal of the Year and AHG Mark of the Year were officially announced at the McDonald's WAFL Grand Final on Sunday, September 27. The reiwa.com Goal of the Year went to Subiaco's Shane Yarran for his mid-air soccer goal in Round 1 at Medibank Stadium, while the AHG Mark of the Year went to South Fremantle's Ben Saunders for his screamer in the Round 6 derby at Fremantle Oval. The reiwa.com prize cheque was presented by Hayden Groves from reiwa.com and accepted on behalf of Shane Yarran by Subiaco Football Club President Mark Lawrence at half time of the Grand Final. The AHG prize cheque was presented by AHG's Nicole Mahrino to Ben Saunders, also at half time. Read More ...

DARREN Rumble's remarkable WAFL career at Subiaco came to an end in Sunday's Grand Final win as he celebrated a sixth premiership while another man in just his ninth league match got to taste his first after a long apprenticeship. Rumble has made the decision to retire after winning his sixth premiership medal from seven grand finals and 229 matches with Subiaco while there were plenty of multiple and first-time premiership winners in between him and nine-game 22-year-old Craig Hoskins. Captain Kyal Horsley became a dual premiership skipper and three-time premiership player while Wayde Twomey won his third WAFL flag, but his second with Subiaco after being part of the 2010 premiership at Swan Districts. Read More ...

WA umpire Jeff Dalgleish will umpire his first AFL Grand Final this weekend when the West Coast Eagles play Hawthorn. Dalgliesh, who commenced with the WAFL in 2003 and has umpired 232 league games including 113 AFL games, will  join WA boundary umpire Nathan Doig and former WA umpire Brett Rosebury to umpire the AFL Grand Final.  Doig will umpire his fourth Grand Final on the boundary, while Rosebury will umpire his seventh Grand Final . WAFL Umpire Manager Darryl Sinclair said he had been very fortunate to have worked with Dalgliesh and congratulated him on being selected for the AFL Grand Final. "We have shared the challenges, the lows, the highs that umpiring our great game brings," he said. Read More ...

Want to relive the best moments of the 2015 WAFL Grand Final? The result was a fresh and dominant Subiaco team proving too good for West Perth, taking home the 2015 Premiership cup with a 66 point win in front of a crowd of 13,094 at Domain Stadium.   Read More ...

SUBIACO is back-to-back WAFL premiers again having now won six premierships in the past 12 years after beating West Perth in the 2015 Grand Final by 66 points at Domain Stadium. Coming off the premiership in 2014, Subiaco was the dominant team right throughout the 2015 season ending the home and away campaign four games clear on top of the ladder, and then winning straight into the grand final with a victory over West Perth in the second semi-final. West Perth did win the 2013 premiership and had beaten Subiaco once during 2015 with the Falcons ending the season in second position and winning finals against Peel Thunder and East Perth either side of the second semi-final loss to qualify for the decider on Sunday. Read More ...

SOUTH Fremantle's reserves were the dominant team all season and didn’t trip up in the Grand Final at Domain Stadium on Sunday beating Swan Districts by 71 points for a second premiership in three years. South Fremantle lost just two games all season long in the reserves and had won its last eight straight matches coming into the grand final, but it was Swan Districts who handed the Bulldogs their last defeat back in Round 14. And Swans came into the grand final in good form following finals victories over West Perth and Subiaco, but come the decider it was a fresher and stronger South Fremantle line-up that was in control most of the contest despite the black-and-whites booting the first goal. Swan Districts did cut South Fremantle's lead to three points early in the second quarter, but Swans didn’t kick another goal from that point on with South Fremantle kicking the last seven goals of the game to end up winning 15.19 (109) to 5.8 (38). Read More ...

CLAREMONT'S standing as the best WAFL team in the REDiMED Colts has been further enhanced with the Tigers claiming their 14th premiership of the past 40 years with a 69-point grand final victory over Swan Districts at Domain Stadium. Claremont had never made a grand final in the colts until 1976, but that started a run of four straight premierships, and since then the Tigers have now won 14 in total and only missed the finals on four occasions with three of those flags coming in the last seven years. There was the added motivation entering this Sunday's grand final with the Tigers having lost last year's premiership decider to Swan Districts, and then both teams have been going neck and neck throughout this season. Read More ...

THE showcase day of any WAFL season is always Grand Final day at Domain Stadium and this Sunday it will be headlined by the premiers of the last two years, and the two best teams of 2015 Subiaco and West Perth doing battle for the premiership. The monster day of grand final action at Domain Stadium will begin at 8.40am with the two best colts teams of recent years Claremont and Swan Districts locking horns for the first premiership to be decided for 2015. Then in the reserves, a dominant South Fremantle takes on the team it last lost to Swan Districts with bounce down set for 11.20am. The main event will then see the reigning premiers Subiaco take on the premiers of 2013 West Perth in the league grand final for 2015 with bounce down to take place at 2.30pm. Read More ...