The West Australian Football Commission is delighted with crowd numbers for the opening round of the 2023 season, a 52 per cent increase from Round 1 last year. Almost 15,000 supporters attended the 5 WAFL games over the Easter Weekend, making it the highest aggregate attendance for a non-WA Day round of WAFL footy since round 6, 2009 when 15,237 attended 4 games over the Read More ...

IT was quite the fascinating opening round of the 2023 WAFL season and as a result you could have easily selected two Teams of the Week for Round 1 given how many players delivered impressive performances. The 2023 WAFL season got underway on Good Friday beginning with a grand final rematch in front of a crowd of 3975 at Joondalup's Pentanet Stadium with Claremont defeating Read More ...

 The WAFL Match Review Panel has assessed the following incidents from Round 1 of the WAFL League competition. West Perth's Sam Rotham has accepted a reprimand with an early guilty plea after engaging in rough conduct with Claremont's Jye Bolton during the Round 1 match at Pentanet Stadium on Good Friday, April 7. Conduct - Careless Impact - Low Contact - Body Base Sanction - 1 match Early Guilty Plea Read More ...

YOU couldn’t have asked for more from the opening round of the 2023 WAFL season with three Good Friday thrillers to open proceedings with wins for Claremont, East Perth and Peel Thunder before strong Saturday wins for South Fremantle and Subiaco. If you could have an opening round with a tight grand final rematch, one-point thriller between two teams desperate to improve, a stunning Good Read More ...

Triple AFL Premiership player Bachar Houli has delivered his vision for the future of the foundation named in his honour. The West Australian Football Commission, in partnership with the Bachar Houli Foundation, hosted an Iftar Dinner in Perth this week to celebrate the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. The event at Optus Stadium brought together 150 people from across the Muslim community and football. As part Read More ...

A group of exceptional young athletes have been named as part of the 2023 Rio Tinto Indigenous Youth Football Scholarship Program. Eighteen recipients, two males and two females from nine WAFL clubs, have been awarded a $5000 Rio Tinto scholarship which can be put towards football, study or other practical needs to help make life a little easier during the season. The program has been Read More ...

THE highly anticipated 2023 WAFL season begins over Easter with three huge match ups on Good Friday and another two on Saturday topped off with Peter German leading his new-look Perth Demons into battle against the team he helped build into a powerhouse, Subiaco. There's tremendous excitement over the new WAFL season with all 10 teams legitimately coming into it expecting to be strongly competitive Read More ...

The West Australian Football Commission congratulates six West Australians taken in last night’s AFLW Draft. In a major endorsement of the WAFC Talent Pathway Program, four of the players will remain in WA while two will move interstate. WAFLW Premiership players Jasmin Stewart and Chloe Wrigley are heading to Port Adelaide and Carlton respectively. A former Docker, Stewart was part of Claremont’s WAFLW triumph last Read More ...

THERE is great excitement entering the 2023 WAFL season on a number of fronts with West Perth looking to go back-to-back, Claremont and East Fremantle trying to take that next step, and the rest all trying to make that leap to put themselves in the mix. On the back of a hugely successful 2022 season with such an even competition, high quality football and capped Read More ...

THERE were plenty of impressive performances from individuals throughout Round 4 of the 2023 WAFLW season once more on the weekend with spots in the Team of the Week hotly sought after. In the wins for South Fremantle, Claremont, West Perth and East Fremantle, plenty of players put their hands up for selection after starring roles in their teams winning. However, even in losses for Read More ...

SOME of Western Australia’s most talented young female players have the chance to impress AFLW recruiters when a WAFLW All Stars side plays the State 18s at the Cockburn ARC on Thursday night. Trent Cooper, Coaching Specialist - Talent Pathways at the West Australian Football Commission, has described the match as a great launching pad for 2023. “It’s multi-faceted in that we’re looking for a Read More ...

TWO of the newer WAFLW teams scored impressive wins over regular powerhouses in Round 4 of the 2023 season while the Grand Finalists from last year continued their strong starts to the new season. It was a weekend of statements to be made across the WAFLW competition leading into this coming weekend's break over Easter. In the end, it saw South Fremantle record a first Read More ...

GOING back more than 30 years and Darren Harris was there when he saw West Perth's culture change which has remained the key component of the club ever since, and he continues to maintain that's the most important aspect that makes the Falcons tick. Harris was at West Perth when Jeff Gieschen arrived as coach back in 1992 and that's when he began to see Read More ...

IN many ways it was remarkable what East Fremantle achieved in the 2022 WAFL season with everything they had working against them, but now the Sharks will be out to build on that with ending a significant premiership drought the ultimate goal. Not only did East Fremantle make a return to finals action in 2022, but the Sharks were only half a game off what Read More ...

CLAREMONT continues its quest for that elusive first premiership since 2012 and the Tigers will again be using the pain of going ever so close in 2022 once more to spur them on to try and achieve that ultimate in 2023. For each of the past five seasons now, Claremont has put itself in premiership contention playing finals in each of those five years, and Read More ...