The West Coast Eagles have celebrated their first WA Blind AFL premiership after beating cross town rivals the Fremantle Dockers by 29-points in Saturday’s clash at Mineral Resources Park. The injury-hit Eagles entered the match having lost the inaugural season of WA Blind AFL. Despite missing some of their best players, the Eagles were brilliant all day, with a six-goal blitz by Caitlin Hannen-Williams helping Read More ...

ULTIMATELY to miss out on playing finals for the second straight season was a disappointing result for Swan Districts, but that can't get in the way of the fact that there were many more positives than negatives to come out of the campaign. Swan Districts might have ended up narrowly missing finals, but along the way in 2022 they were able to beat West Perth, Read More ...

SUBIACO found itself in unfamiliar territory in 2022 by not reaching finals and never really in contention to make it either following a remarkable run of consistent success and dominance of the WAFL. The Lions won the premiership in 2021 to make it five flags in the past eight years and nine since 2003 while making 14 Grand Finals since 2002, but the 2022 season Read More ...

EAST Perth started the 2022 season on fire with the hope of returning to finals action but lost the last six matches with the Royals another team undergoing great change heading towards 2023. Triple premiership winning co-captain Jeremy Barnard was entering his fourth season coaching the Royals and attempting to take them to the finals for the first time. That started well enough with first Read More ...

THE 2022 season wasn’t what anyone at Perth hoped and a lot of that can be put down to a horror injury run, but it marks the beginning of a new era under one of this century's most successful and well-respected coaches. Perth had high hopes of putting itself back in the finals hunt in 2022 on the back of some strong recruiting and with Read More ...

 WA duo Steely Green and Darcy Jones have come under notice from AFL Talent Ambassador Kevin Sheehan ahead of this month’s 2022 NAB AFL Draft.  Sheehan has released his top prospects in the small forwards, defenders, and midfielders’ group, all of whom took part in the 2022 NAB AFL Draft Combine or 2022 NAB AFL State Draft Combine.  “South Fremantle’s Steely Green has been one Read More ...

IT was a rough season on a number of fronts again in the WAFL for the West Coast Eagles, but it wasn’t without some positives and continued development of emerging players. With West Coast struggling through injury and COVID at AFL level early in the season, that filtered down to the WAFL side and the start to 2022 was especially challenging losing the opening nine Read More ...

The Fremantle Dockers have the chance to win back-to-back Premierships in WA’s AFL Blind Grand Final against the West Coast Eagles on Saturday. In the second season of AFL Blind, the Dockers, and their cross-town rivals the West Coast Eagles have each won two games each in highly competitive matches. Benjamin Moncrieff, All Abilities Coordinator at the WA All Abilities Football Association, has been delighted Read More ...

TO highlight what a quality WAFL season we had in 2022 all you have to do is look at the fact that Shane Nelson, Mitch Peirce, Jye Bolton, Milan Murdock, Lloyd Meek, Haiden Schloithe, Jesse Turner, Stefan Giro, Hamish Brayshaw, Corey Byrne and Harry Creasey are the fairest and best winners. Every club has now held its season-end awards for the 2022 WAFL Premiership Season Read More ...

WA has enjoyed a superb start to the 2022 Toyota AFL National Inclusion Carnival being played in South Australia. The West were highly competitive on the opening day of action and currently sit fourth on the table with four wins, two losses and a draw. One of the side’s defeats came against the powerful Vic Metro combination. Standout performances for WA were produced by David Read More ...

History Making WA Wheelchair Team Named for National Championships The WA Wheelchair Football Team will create history when it participates for the first time at this month’s 2022 Toyota Wheelchair AFL National Championships in Melbourne. The seven-member side is aiming to gain experience on the national stage, and the announcement of the team comes part way through Season 22 of the WA Wheelchair Football League. Read More ...

WA Umpiring Trio Awarded Roles During AFLW Finals WA boundary umpires Jaco Jansen van Rensburg and Lleyton Jose have been named to officiate in today’s AFLW Qualifying Final between Melbourne and Adelaide at Ikon Park in Melbourne. The pair joins fellow West Australian Gabby Simmonds on a list of 16 umpires for week one of the finals. Simmonds has been named an Emergency Field Umpire Read More ...

The West Australian Football Commission is pleased to announce its partnership with HITIQ to investigate concussions in WAFL and Community football in 2023. The partnership aims to review protocols for surveillance, recording and management of concussions in a bid to improve player health and wellbeing.  The program, which involves 780 female and male players across senior and junior football competitions will see players using HITIQ’s Read More ...

Injuries have restricted talented WA teenagers Sam Gilbey and Jed Hagan heading into this month’s NAB AFL Draft.  But the local players proved their value during a strong 2022 season and have been assessed by AFL Talent Ambassador Kevin Sheehan, whose given his verdict on the top medium defenders before Draft Day.  Gilbey, who hails from Claremont, has overcome a tough year to emerge as Read More ...

Two exciting WA teenagers have drawn high praise from AFL Talent Manager Kevin Sheehan ahead of the 2022 NAB AFL Draft next month.  Claremont’s Harry Cole and Subiaco’s Tyrell Dewar both took part in this month’s NAB AFL Draft Combine in Melbourne.  Sheehan delivered his assessment of Cole, an 18-year-old who excelled in the 2022 NAB AFL National Championships U18 Boys.  “Harry is a medium Read More ...