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This is a list of the West Australian Football League premiers, the premier state-based Australian rules football league in Western Australia, and includes premiers of the Western Australian Football Association (1885–1906), West Australian Football League (1907-1924), Western Australian Football League (1925-1927), Western Australian National Football League (1928–1979), West Australian ...
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.
With many of Western Australia's best players now competing in a team that represented Western Australia on a national scale, it was suddenly apparent that the WAFL was now a second-class competition. In 1990 the state league was renamed the Western Australian State Football League, but it had reverted to WAFL by 1991.
2.1 West Australian Football League. 3 Metropolitan / Country Level. Toggle Metropolitan / Country Level subsection. 3.1 Perth Football League. 3.2 Avon Football ...
Association Football (Soccer) in Western Australia Perth Glory's home ground NIB Stadium in March 2015 Governing body Football West First played 1896, Perth Registered players 117,248 (adult) 61,834 (child) Audience records Single match 56,371 In Western Australia (WA), soccer is the most participated code of football, though it is a distant second in overall interest behind Australian rules ...
The 1980s were Western Australia's most successful period, winning the Australian Championship three times. Western Australia won the historic first State of Origin game against Victoria in 1977 by 94 points. This game was a significant endorsement of the concept, as a Victorian team had defeated the West Australian team under the previous ...
It changed to Western Australian Amateur Football League (WAAFL) in 1971. In 2019, the league rebranded as the Perth Football League. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] University are the most successful club, with 20 A-grade premierships and 96 overall, as of the conclusion of the 2020 season.
The 2023 WAFL season was the 139th season of the various incarnations of the West Australian Football League (WAFL). The season commenced on 7 April and concluded with the Grand Final on 24 September. [2]