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The East Perth Football Club, nicknamed the Royals, is an Australian rules football club based in Leederville, Western Australia, current playing in the West Australian Football League (WAFL) and WAFL Women's (WAFLW). Formed in 1902 as the Union Football Club, the club entered the WAFL in 1906, changing its name to East Perth.
Hosted one match between Perth and Subiaco in 2006. Katanning: N/A: 1: N/A: Hosted one match between Claremont and East Perth in 2000. Mukinbudin: Mukinbudin Football Oval: 1: N/A: Hosted one match between West Perth and Perth in 2006. Northampton: Northampton Community Oval: 1: East Fremantle: Hosted the Seroja Cup between East Fremantle and ...
The West Australian Football League (WAFL / ˈ w ɒ f ə l / "waffle" or "W-A-F-L") is an Australian rules football league based in Perth, in Western Australia.The league currently consists of ten teams, which play each other in a 20-round season usually lasting from April to September, with the top five teams playing off in a finals series, culminating in a Grand Final.
And by 1906 there were eight teams — being West Perth, East Perth, East Fremantle, South Fremantle, North Fremantle, Subiaco, Perth and Midland Junction. In 1908 the WAFA was renamed the West Australian Football League (WAFL). West Australia sent a team to the 1908 Melbourne Carnival, over half of the team was from the goldfields league. [10]
The 2024 WAFL season is the 140th season of the various incarnations of the West Australian Football League (WAFL). The season commenced on the 28th of March 2024. [ 1 ] Peel Thunder won their third premiership, beating the minor premiers East Perth in the Grand Final.
East Perth 12.11 (83) Fremantle Oval (crowd: 2670) Saturday, 12 July Peel Thunder 12.8 (80) def. by East Fremantle 22.11 (143) Rushton Park (crowd: 1351) Bye Swan Districts: In an all-day thriller South Fremantle and East Perth played the second and last WASFL/WAFL/Westar Rules draw of the 1990s.
Note: The score of 41.30 (276) by East Perth against South Fremantle in 1944 was in an under-19 competition due to the loss of players to serve in World War II, and is excluded in some sources. The score of 40.18 (258) by South Fremantle against West Perth in 1981 is the record in WAFL senior competition.
East Fremantle Football Club vacated the ground in 1950, moving to new premises, located at Moss Street in East Fremantle. In 1954 the oval was used for a ceremonial parade as part of Queen Elizabeth II's first visit to Fremantle. The Cycling Track and Cricket Pitch were removed in the 1960s due to the increasing demands of WAFL football.